{{Short description|British historian}} {{Use British English|date=December 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox academic | name = Jo Fox | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Joanne Clare Fox | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | education = | alma_mater = University of Kent (BA, PhD) | occupation = Historian, academic administrator | discipline = History | sub_discipline = History of film, history of propaganda | known_for = | predecessor = | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = FRHistS, FRSA | website = | workplaces = Durham University, University of London, Newcastle University }}
'''Joanne Clare Fox''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRHistS}} {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSA}} is a British historian specialising in the history of film and propaganda in twentieth-century Europe.
==Education== Joanne Clare Fox<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/person/professor-joanne-clare-fox|title=Professor Joanne Clare Fox - Higher Education Academy|author=|date=|website=www.heacademy.ac.uk|accessdate=2 February 2018}}</ref> graduated with BA and PhD degrees in history from the University of Kent.<ref name="IHR announces new Director"/><ref name="sas.ac.uk">{{cite web|url=https://www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/durham-historian-jo-fox-named-new-director-institute-historical-research|title=Durham historian Jo Fox named new director of the Institute of Historical Research - School of Advanced Study|author=|date=12 July 2017|website=www.sas.ac.uk|accessdate=2 February 2018|archive-date=3 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203005838/https://www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/durham-historian-jo-fox-named-new-director-institute-historical-research|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Career== Before becoming a university lecturer, Fox intended to use her historical training to work in heritage, but changed her mind after a student at Kent told her, "you have been an inspiration to all of us! You should be teaching!"<ref name=NTFS>{{cite web|title=Guidelines for personal profiles and photographs for successful nominees |url=http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/ntfs/individual/NTFS_Individual_2011_Successful_Nominees_Profile_Guidelines.doc |work=National Teaching Fellowship Scheme |publisher=The Higher Education Academy |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928121803/http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/ntfs/individual/NTFS_Individual_2011_Successful_Nominees_Profile_Guidelines.doc |archivedate= 28 September 2011 |format=.doc |year=2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Fox entered academia as a lecturer at Durham University in 1999, later becoming professor of modern history, and the first female professor in Durham's history department, in 2010 and then the first female head of the history department in 2016.<ref name="history.ac.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.history.ac.uk/about/jo-fox|title=Professor Jo Fox - Institute of Historical Research|author=|date=|website=www.history.ac.uk|accessdate=2 February 2018|archive-date=3 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203005818/http://www.history.ac.uk/about/jo-fox|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="sas.ac.uk"/><ref name=Newcastle/>
In 2007, Fox was appointed a National Teaching Fellow. She is also a member of the Council for the International Association of Media and History and is on the editorial board of their academic journal, ''The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television''. She is the honorary director of communications for the Royal Historical Society.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Government of the Society|url=http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/council.php|publisher=Royal Historical Society|accessdate=13 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113125729/http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/council.php|archive-date=13 January 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> Elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), she is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).<ref name="history.ac.uk"/>
Her interest in using new learning technologies influenced others within Durham University, and in other institutions.<ref name=NTFS/> Notably, she contributed a case study to the National Blackboard Conference,<ref>[https://community.dur.ac.uk/lt.team/conference/?page_id=91 www.dur.ac.uk]</ref> chaired by Lord Dearing.<ref name=NTFS/>
Fox's most significant published work is ''Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II'' (2007), in which she compares the use of cinema in propaganda in Britain and Germany in the Second World War.
In 2018, Fox was appointed director of the Institute of Historical Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London (the institutes's first female director).<ref name="IHR announces new Director">{{Cite web|url=https://blog.history.ac.uk/2017/07/ihr-announces-new-director/|title=IHR announces new Director|last=|first=|date=12 July 2017|website=IHR|access-date=2 February 2018}}</ref> She then became dean of the School of Advanced Study and the University of London's pro vice chancellor for research and public engagement in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-11|title=Historian Professor Jo Fox appointed as the next dean of University of London's School of Advanced Study|url=https://www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/historian-professor-jo-fox-appointed-next-dean-university-london%E2%80%99s-school-advanced|access-date=2022-03-02|website=School of Advanced Study|language=en|archive-date=27 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127093242/https://www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/historian-professor-jo-fox-appointed-next-dean-university-london%E2%80%99s-school-advanced|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Newcastle/>
In 2025, Fox moved to Newcastle University as pro-vice-chancellor for humanities and social sciences.<ref name=Newcastle>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncl.ac.uk/executive/about/executive-staff/jo-fox/|title=Jo Fox|website=Newcastle University|access-date=27 February 2026}}</ref>
==Media appearances== Fox appeared as an expert for some episodes of the 2010 CBC Television documentary, ''Love, Hate & Propaganda''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Love, Hate and Propaganda: Experts|url=http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/lovehatepropaganda/experts.html|publisher=CBC|accessdate=13 May 2011}}</ref> She appeared as an expert on the BBC Radio 4 programme ''Making History'' in March 2011 to discuss satire and anti-fascist propaganda,<ref>{{cite web|title=Factsheet - Making History: Tuesday 1st March 2011|url=https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/making-history/factsheetwk092011.pdf|publisher=BBC|access-date=13 May 2011}}</ref> and on ''The One Show'' in May 2011 to discuss public and media reactions to Rudolf Hess's 1941 parachute landing.
==Published works== ===Monographs=== *''Filming Women in the Third Reich'' Oxford; New York : Berg, 2000. {{ISBN|978-1-85973-396-7}} <ref>In 569 libraries according to [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45261499 WorldCat]</ref> **Review, ''German Quarterly'' . German Quarterly, Winter, 2003, vol. 76, no. 1, p. 121-122. **Review, '' Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'' Oct 2001 v21 i4 p417 **Review, ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'' Oct 2005 v25 i4 p647(7) **Review, '' CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries July–August 2001'' v38 i11-12 p1968(1) **Review, ''Times Higher Education Supplement'' 2 March 2001 i1476 p30(1) *''Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II'' ) Oxford; New York : Berg, 2007. {{ISBN|978-1-85973-891-7}} <ref>In 238 libraries according to [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228784361 WorldCat]</ref> **Review, '' American Historical Review'' April 2008 v113 i2 p567(2) **Review, ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'' March 2008 v28 i1 p80(3) **Review, ''CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries'' Oct 2007 v45 i2 p288(2)
===Other works=== *'"Heavy hands and light touches": approaches to the study of cinematic culture in the Third Reich', ''History Compass'' 1 (2003) *'Resistance and the Third Reich', ''Journal of Contemporary History'' 39 (2004) *'Winston Churchill and the "men of destiny": reflections on leadership and the role of the Prime Minister in the British wartime feature films', in Richard Toye & Julie Gottlieb (eds.), ''Making Reputations: Power, Persuasion and the Individual in Modern British Politics'' (2005) *'"The mediator": images of radio in wartime feature film in Britain and Germany', in Mark Connelly & David Welch (eds.), ''War and the Media. Reportage and Propaganda 1900-2003'' (2005) *'John Grierson, his "documentary boys" and the British Ministry of Information, 1939-1942', ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'' 25 (2005) *'Millions Like Us? Accented Language and the "Ordinary" in British Films of the Second World War', ''Journal of British Studies'' 45 (2006) *'German cinema and the United Kingdom, 1933-45', in Roel Vande Winkel & David Welch (eds.), ''Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of the Third Reich Cinema'' (2007) *'A thin stream issuing through closed lock gates' : German cinema and the United Kingdom, 1933-45 in Winkel, Roel Vande, and David Welch. ''Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema.'' Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. *'"Everyday Heroines": Heroic motherhood in Nazi film - Mutterliebe (1939) and Annelie (1941)', ''Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques'' 35 (2009) *"Jana F. Bruns. Nazi Cinema's New Women".''The American Historical Review'' 115, no. 4: 1240-.(2010) *'Propaganda and the Flight of Rudolf Hess, 1941-45', ''Journal of Modern History'' 83 (2011)
{{s-start}} {{succession box | title = Director,<br/>Institute of Historical Research | years = 2018–2020 | before = Professor Lawrence Goldman | after = Professor Claire Langhamer }} {{succession box | title = Dean,<br />SAS, University of London | years = 2020–2025 | before = Professor Rick Rylance | after = Professor Claire Gorrara }} {{s-end}}
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