Historians at the CES

Dr Michael Berkowitz
Modern Jewish identity formation and political self-representations, 1881-1948; art, politics, and culture; perceptions of social deviance among Jewry from early modern times to the present; Jews and German culture; ties between charity and nationalism; and modes of understanding and misunderstanding the Holocaust.

Professor David D'Avray
Franciscan and Dominican preaching, especially marriage preaching, attitudes to kingship and death, royal annulments and papal dispensations, instrumental ethics in the middle ages, and ‘longue durée’ structures of papal history, from the 4th to the 17th centuries.

Dr John Dickie
Representations of the Italian south, Italian nationalism and national identities, the cultural history of liberal Italy, and cultural and critical theory.

Dr John Foot
Modern Italian history, urban history, the history of Milan, immigration in the twentieth century, cultural and social history, Italian politics, the Resistance, micro and oral historical approaches.

Professor Mary Fulbrook
Social generations in twentieth-century Germany, the social history of the GDR; historical theory; and comparative European history.

Dr Rebecca Haynes
Modern Central and South-East European history; Romanian-German political relations; the 20th-century East European political right..

Dr Mark Hewitson
German history and history of art, politics, and social thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Dr Mary Hilson
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Swedish and Nordic history, in particular comparative and trans-national history and historiography, and in social history and popular politics.

Dr Benjamin Kaplan
History of the Netherlands in the 16th-18th centuries, the history of religious toleration and conflict, the Reformation, and the religious history of early modern Europe generally

Dr Egbert Klautke
Political, social, cultural, and intellectual history of twentieth-century Germany.

Dr Axel Körner
Social, political and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth century Europe in transnational and comparative perspective, with special emphasis on Italy, France, Germany and the Habsburg Empire.

Dr Robert Lumley
Modern Italian history and cultural studies, the Italian press, social movements, cinema, and heritage,experimental art and cinema in Italy.

Dr Susan Morrissey
Modern Russian History, in particular the social identity and dynamics of political and cultural change in early twentieth-century Russia.

Dr Sophie Page
The history of medieval religion, natural philosophy, and cosmology with special interests in medieval magic and the cultural history of animals.

Dr Bernhard Rieger
European history in the nineteenth and twentieth century in comparative and transnational perspectives

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