apl. Prof. Dr. John Carter Wood

Born in 1970 in La Grange, Illinois, USA. 1988-2001: studied Modern European History with a concentration on Great Britain at Northern Illinois University (BA 1992) and the University of Maryland, College Park (MA 1994, PhD 2001). 1992-1994: MA Fellowship, University of Maryland, College Park. 1994–1997: teaching assistant, University of Maryland, College Park. 2001: visiting lecturer, University of Maryland, College Park. 2005-2011: research fellow in Criminal Justice History at The Open University (Milton Keynes, UK), Department of History and International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR).
John C. Wood has been a researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz since 2011, between 2012 and 2017 as primary investigator in the DFG-funded project Christian notions of the social order in Great Britain in reaction to the European Crises of the 1930s and 1940s. After completing this project he began researching Christian perspectives on the technological challenges of modernity and their social consequences between the 1940s and the 1960s. In 2019, John C. Wood took up the post of academic coordinator for the project NFDI4Memory, which is aimed at developing a digital research infrastructure. He has been Managing Director of the NFDI4Memory project since March 2023.
In December 2023, John Wood was appointed adjunct professor at Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) by the President of the JGU.

• Cultural criticism and technology in the modern age
• History of Christian intellectuals and ideas in the 20th century
• European history of crime and justice in the modern era (including violent crime, police and court proceedings and their representation in the media)

• (Hg.) Christian Modernities in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland (London: Routledge, 2023), https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003357919
• This is your hour: Christian Intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe, 1937–1949 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526132536/; Rezension: https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-28719
• (Hg.) Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe. Conflict, Community, and the Social Order (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz: Beihefte 111), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2016, Open Access https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666101496
• The Most Remarkable Woman In England: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials of Beatrice Pace (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012), Rezension: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/26/most-remarkable-woman-john-carter-wood-review
• Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-century England: The Shadow of Our Refinement (London: Routledge, 2004), https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203391181