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Dr Kelly Hignett

Senior Lecturer

Dr Kelly Hignett joined the School of Humanities and Social Sciences as Lecturer in History in 2012. Kelly's research relates to crime, social deviance and dissent in the modern central and east European region and the former USSR, particularly the study of more organised forms of criminality; crime, deviance, underground movements/sub-cultures and life "on the margins" in communist regimes; the evolution of the relationship between state and society and experiences of "the everyday" under communism.

Kelly's PhD drew on a combination of archival research and oral testimony to research the evolution of criminal networks in East Central Europe from the 1970s to the early post-communist period. She has previously published articles in several peer-review journals and edited collections and has presented a number of research papers both in the UK and internationally. Kelly is currently writing her first book, about organised crime in the East European region.

Kelly writes an online blog entitled The View East and tweets @thevieweast and @kellyhignett.

Current Teaching

Kelly currently teaches on modules at all levels of the undergraduate History degree including: The Emergence of Modern Europe, Twentieth Century Europe (Level 4), Totalitarianism: State Ideology and Mass Politics in the Twentieth Century (Level 5), Communist Eastern Europe 1945-1989, Crime and Punishment in Modern Russia (Level 6) She also contributes to the MA Social History, teaching the option Organised Crime in the Modern World: Global Criminal Cultures.

Research Interests

Kelly's more recent research has focused on exploring rising levels of drug abuse and the development of domestic drug markets in late socialist east central Europe. She is currently developing a major new research project, drawing on the accounts of female political prisoners to explore gendered experiences of terror and repression in communist Czechoslovakia.

She is also interested in the historical analysis of crime and criminal underworlds on a more broadly comparative and transnational basis and on the history of east European borderlands, in connection with crime but also in relation to broader issues of nationalism, state-building and identity construction in modern Europe.

0113 81 23367
K.L.Hignett@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Portland Building, 211, City Campus

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Ask Me About

Crime
Europe
History

Selected Outputs

Hignett KL (2012) Biznesmen, Uchodzca, Morderca, Szpieg’, Nowa Europa Wshodnia. Nowa Europa Wschodnia, 3 (4), pp. 25-37.

https://www.empik.com/nowa-europa-wschodnia-3-4-2012-hignett-kelly-gromadzki-grzegorz-kardas-szymon-poplawski-kazimierz-maczka-marcin-borkowicz-jace,p1268283147,ebooki-i-mp3-p
Hignett KL (2012) The Wild Wild East. New Eastern Europe, 4 pp. 77-85.

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=425234
Hignett KL (2011) Crime in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe. Law Crime & History, 1 (1),

http://www.pbs.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/journal/vol.1%20issue1%202011/Hignett%20Profile.pdf
Hignett KL (2010) The Changing Face of Organised Crime in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe. Debatte Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 18 (1), pp. 71-88.

https://doi.org/10.1080/09651561003732520
Hignett KL (2008) Co-option or Criminalisation? The State, Border Communities and Crime in Early Modern Europe. Global Crime, 9 (1), pp. 35-51.

https://doi.org/10.1080/17440570701862736

Hignett KL (2015) 'We Had to Become Criminals to Survive Under Communism!' Testimonies of Petty Criminality and Everyday Morality in Late Socialist Central Europe. In: Ilic M; Leinarte D ed. The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present: Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies. Routledge,
Hignett KL (2011) Transnational Organised Crime and the Global Village. In: Allum F; Gilmour S ed. Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime. Routledge, pp. 281-293.
Hignett KL (2007) Organised Crime in East Central Europe: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. In: Global Crime Today: The Changing Face of Organised Crime.. Routledge, pp. 70-83.

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