Academic Staff

Directory of the department's academic staff.

Academic staff, A - Z

A - G

Dr Alessandro de Arcangelis (Teaching Fellow) - Modern Europe; intellectural, conceptual and cultural history

Dr Valentina Arena (Reader) - Ancient Rome; history of ideas, political thought

Dr Penelope Barrett (Teaching Fellow) - Chinese history; medicine, food and the body

Dr William A. Booth (Teaching Fellow) - Western Hemisphere lefts in the modern period

Dr Paola Ceccarelli (Associate Professor) - Classical Greece

Dr Jon Chandler (Teaching Fellow) - Eighteenth-century Atlantic World; impact of war on politics, society, and economy

Dr Lily Chang (Lecturer) - late imperial and modern China; legal history

Dr Michael Collins (Associate Professor) - 20th-century British and imperial; the end of Empire

Professor Stephen Conway (Professor) - 18th-century British and imperial; Britain and the wider world

Dr Emily Corran (Lecturer) - Medieval Europe

Dr Joseph Cozens (Teaching Fellow) - Military and popular protest in Britain from the mid-eighteenth century onwards; social history

Dr Jane Dinwoodie (Lecturer) - Nineteenth-Century US and Indigenous American History; Indian (non-)removal in the American South

Dr Michael Facius (Teaching Fellow) - early modern and modern cultural history of Japan in its regional, transnational and global contexts

Professor Margot Finn (Professor) - Britain since 1750; colonial and imperial

Dr Mark R. Frost (Associate Professor) - Public History, imperial history, modern Asian history

Dr Amber Gartrell (Teaching Fellow) - Ancient Roman history from the mid-Republic to early empire, Roman religion

Dr Marie-Pierre Gelin (Teaching Fellow) - the ecclesiastical and monastic history of England in the period 1000 - 1250, with particular focus on visual culture

Dr Tim Gibbs (Lecturer) - 20th-century southern Africa; activism, state formation

Dr Alex Goodall (Senior Lecturer) - 20th-century USA; American power and political repression

Dr Angus Gowland (Reader) - early modern Europe; intellectual history

Dr Lucia Patrizio Gunning (Teaching Fellow) - cultural heritage, with a particular focus on the history of collecting for European museums

H - N

Dr Yağmur Heffron (Lecturer) - ancient Anatolia; religious and material history

Professor Julian Hoppit (Professor) - 18th century Britain; political economy

Dr Chloe Ireton (Lecturer) - early modern Caribbean and Latin America; race, history of ideas

Dr Rebecca Jennings (Lecturer) - modern Britain; gender and sexuality

Professor Heather Jones (Professor) - modern Britain and Europe; war studies especially WW1

Professor Ben Kaplan (Professor) - early modern Europe, especially Holland and Belgium; religion

Professor Axel Körner (Professor) - 18th - 20th century Europe; transnational history, cultural history

Dr Jagjeet Lally (Lecturer) - early modern and modern India; culture and commerce

Dr Patrick Lantschner (Lecturer) - medieval Europe and the Islamic world; comparative history

Dr Elaine Leong (Lecturer) - medical and scientific knowledge transfer and production

Dr Vivienne Lo (Senior Lecturer) - early and medieval China; history of medicine

Professor Nicola Miller (Professor) - modern Latin America; intellectual history, trans/nationalism

Dr Marigold Norbye (Teaching Fellow) - manuscript studies and palaeography

O - T

Dr Sophie Page (Senior Lecturer) - medieval Europe; magic and astronomy

Professor Jason Peacey (Professor) - early modern Britain; people, politics, press

Dr Thomas Rath (Lecturer) - modern Latin America, especially Mexico; state- and nation-building

Professor Eleanor Robson (Professor) - ancient Middle East, especially Iraq; culture and heritage

Dr Benedetta Rossi (Associate Professor) - history and anthropology of Africa

Dr John Sabapathy (Associate Professor) - 12th-, 13th-, 14th-century Europe; comparative history; the Anthropocene

Dr Benet Salway (Senior Lecturer) - ancient Rome; epigraphy, law, travel and geography

Professor Peter Schröder (Professor) - early modern Europe; politics, intellectual history

Dr Will Selinger (Lecturer) - 18th- and 19th-century Europe; political thought, democracy

Dr Antonio Sennis (Senior Lecturer) - early medieval Europe

Dr David Sim (Associate Professor) - 19th-century USA; politics, imperialism, culture

Dr Julietta Steinhauer (Senior Teaching Fellow) - religion, religious minorities and migration in the Aegean during the Hellenistic period

Dr Iain Stewart (Lecturer) - modern Europe; French history, liberal thought

Professor Melvyn Stokes (Professor) - 20th-century USA; film history

Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (Lecturer) - 20th-century Britain; class and gender

Dr Ali Coskun Tuncer (Associate Professor) - Europe since 1600; economic history

U - Z

Dr Riet van Bremen (Senior Lecturer) - ancient Greece and Asia Minor

Professor Hans van Wees (Professor) - ancient Greece; society, economy, warfare

Dr Keren Weitzberg (Teaching Fellow) - nationalism in Kenya and Somalia; the history of Muslim societies in East Africa; and the colonial and postcolonial history of Kenya