Bethan Johnson

Bethan Johnson

Bethan Johnson is a Cambridge Trust-funded PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, where her doctoral research examines the intellectual underpinnings of violent sub-state nationalisms in the Cold War West. She holds a master's degree from the University of Cambridge in modern British history, with a dissertation exploring the codification of cultural nationalism in 19th-century Wales, as well as bachelor's degrees in history, Jewish studies and English from Vassar College.

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