Dr Lucy Thompson
Fellowship Type
Subject
Geography
Department
Geography
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Degrees
MA in Geography, MPhil in Geographical Research, PhD in Geography (University of Cambridge)
Research Interests
Lucy is a cultural, historical, and political geographer interested in dance, creative practices, mobilities, and embodiment. Her doctoral research examined the cultural and historical geographies of dance, investigating the first geographical inquiry into the overlooked circum-Atlantic histories of tap dance. Overall, her PhD theorised dancing bodies in a rhythmic, embodied, and ‘more-than-representational’ art form, while investigating how dancing bodies are entangled with power, intersectional inequalities, and corporeal resistance, inseparable from their circum-Atlantic geographies. Methodologically, she is interested in exploring more creative, embodied, participatory, and digital methods within, and beyond, archives.
During her Isaac Newton Trust Fellowship, Lucy will work on developing her PhD into a monograph, alongside continuing her research into the renowned, but now largely forgotten, ‘first’ named tap dancer in the mid-nineteenth century – William Henry Lane (‘Master Juba’). She will also be pursuing a new interdisciplinary research project on rhythm, politics, and resistance.
During her Isaac Newton Trust Fellowship, Lucy will work on developing her PhD into a monograph, alongside continuing her research into the renowned, but now largely forgotten, ‘first’ named tap dancer in the mid-nineteenth century – William Henry Lane (‘Master Juba’). She will also be pursuing a new interdisciplinary research project on rhythm, politics, and resistance.
Teaching Interests
Lucy has taught across many Human Geography papers in the Department of Geography. At Part IA, this includes ‘Cultural Geography’, ‘Historical Geographies of Globalisation’, ‘Geopolitics and Political Geography’, ‘Geography’s Shapes’, and ‘Sustainable Development’. At Part IB, she is offering a lecture series for ‘Citizenship’, alongside qualitative research methods teaching. At Part II, she has supervised for ‘Political Appetites’ and undergraduate dissertations (within cultural, historical, and political geography).
She has also been heavily involved in Access & Outreach teaching across the University of Cambridge. Over the past year, she worked in the Outreach Team at Corpus Christi College, teaching Geography sessions to Sixth Form students over a 6-month programme, alongside designing, organising, and teaching on a brand-new postgraduate outreach programme – Experience Postgraduate Digital Humanities (co-organised with Cambridge Digital Humanities and funded by the Isaac Newton Trust).
She has also been heavily involved in Access & Outreach teaching across the University of Cambridge. Over the past year, she worked in the Outreach Team at Corpus Christi College, teaching Geography sessions to Sixth Form students over a 6-month programme, alongside designing, organising, and teaching on a brand-new postgraduate outreach programme – Experience Postgraduate Digital Humanities (co-organised with Cambridge Digital Humanities and funded by the Isaac Newton Trust).
Other Interests
Undergraduate Outreach and Admissions, Postgraduate Widening Participation, Theatre (including choreography and directing)