Oscar Broughton

Oscar Broughton is a Teaching Fellow working at SOAS University of London.

In 2022, he completed his Ph.D. about the history of Guild Socialism at the Graduate School for Global Intellectual History at Humboldt Universität and the Freie Universität Berlin. He holds an MA in Global History from Humboldt Universität and the Freie Universität Berlin and a BA in Intellectual History from the University of Sussex.

He has particular regional interests in Britain, Brazil, and Germany and is an expert in subjects related to histories of socialism, nationalism, capitalism, animal commodification, and knowledge transfers. Currently, he is working on two research projects. The first is about the history of the Brazilian beef industry during the twentieth century and the roles played by forms of scientific and culinary knowledge toward the construction of national identity and the development of vast global meat markets that are central to the growth of Brazilian capitalism.

The second project is about the history of British Marxist historians during the twentieth century. This project engages with how these historians drew on different forms of knowledge to produce divergent ideas about capitalism, why the context of Britain and the Cold War influenced their work, and the different patterns of reception that characterised the global circulation of their ideas.

Previously he was an associate member of the Centre for Memory, Narrative, and Histories, at the University of Brighton and a visiting researcher at the German Historical Institute London.