- Christine King
Christine Elizabeth King is a British
historian and university administrator. She is currently Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive ofStaffordshire University .cite web|url = http://www.staffs.ac.uk/university/vcbiog/index.php|title = Vice Chancellor's Biography|accessdate = 2007-07-11|publisher = Staffordshire University]Professor King has published extensively on the Third Reich and is considered an expert on Nazi Germany. [cite web|url = http://www.cwn.org.uk/politics/government/detr/press-releases/9812/981214-detr-rda-members.htm
title = Regional Development Agencies - Board Members Announced|accessdate = 2007-07-11|date = 1998-12-14|publisher = CWN] She was formerly head of the School of Historicaland Critical Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Lancashire Polytechnic. In 1990 she was appointed Assistant Director of Staffordshire Polytechnic,cite web|url = http://www.ecu.ac.uk/downloads/TTGC%20Booklet%20First%2015%20years.pdf|title = Through the glass ceiling: the first 15 years ... into 21st century|accessdate = 2007-07-11|author = Angela Crum Ewing|coauthors = updated by Diana Woodward and Angela Glasner|year = 1999|month = December|format = PDF|publisher = Equality Challenge Unit|pages = p.1] which became Staffordshire University in 1992.King was named a CBE in the 2007 New Year's Honours list, for services to
higher education . She is a Fellow of theRoyal Historical Society and a Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire. Other positions held include:* Through the Glass Ceiling, Chair (1990 to 1993) [cite web|url = http://www.glassceiling.org.uk/About.html|title = Through the Glass Ceiling: About|accessdate = 2007-07-11]
*West Midlands Higher Education Association , Chair
* Wedgwood Museum, trusteeelected publications
* "Strategies for Survival: An Examination of the History of Five Christian Sects in Germany 1933-45" in "Journal of Contemporary History" Vol. 14, No. 2 (April 1979), pp. 211-233
* "The Nazi state and the new religions: five case studies in non-conformity", 1982, Edwin Mellen Press
* "Through the Glass Ceiling: Effective Senior Management Development for Women", 1993, Tudor Business Publishing (ISBN 1872807550)
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