Emeritus, Honorary and Visiting Staff
Information about visiting staff.
Professor Kathy Burk
Kathleen Burk is Professor Emerita of Modern and Contemporary History. Her general field is international history, concentrating especially on politics, diplomacy and finance. Kathleen specialises in the twentieth century, although publishes on earlier periods as well. Her primary area of research is Anglo-American relations, on which she has published three books and a number of articles, but she has also written on the history of merchant banks, and on international history generally. Furthermore Kathleen writes on wine and its history, on which she has published a book and a number of articles.
Professor Stephen Conway
Stephen Conway was head of department 2012-15, before which he had served as chair of the board of examiners, departmental tutor, and admissions tutor. His research is focused on eighteenth-century Britain and its connections with the wider world. His major publications include The British Isles and the War of American Independence; War, State and Society in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland; Britain, Ireland, and Continental Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Similarities, Connections, Identities; Britannia’s Auxiliaries: Continental Europeans and the British Empire, 1740-1800. He was interviewed on George III for Lucy Worsley’s British Monarchs (BBC); interviewed on poachers and their punishment for Julian Fellowes’ programme on Great Houses (ITV). Stephen is a reviews editor for the English Historical Review; AHRC Peer Review Panel member, Internation Assessor of the Irish Research Council, External Assessor for Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Professor Michael Crawford, FBA
Michael Crawford works on ancient economic and monetary history, the history of ancient Italy, Roman law, and the history of Roman law in the Middle Ages, as well as on the Renaissance, where his interests lie in the beginnings of archaeology and epigraphy as sciences.
Among Michael’s publications are Roman Republican Coinage (1974), the coin descriptions from which have been reproduced in the openly accessible on-line catalogue of the Roman Republican coins in the British Museum; and Roman Statutes (1996), a corpus of legislation passed through the assemblies of the Roman people; it is out-of-print, and he hopes in the near future to publish a second edition with a supplement. Michael served as Director of the Projet Volterra, “Law, Empire and after, AD 193-1076”, and, with John North, the Festus project, intended to produce a new edition of his lexicon, the incompletely preserved contents of which are central to our knowledge of Roman Republican institutions. Both were AHRC-funded projects.
Professor Wendy Davies, OBE, FBA
Wendy Davies has been retired since 2007, but until then taught medieval European history at UCL. Much of her research activity has been in collaboration with others, some of the best-known results being the Bucknell charter group’s The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval Europe (1986), Property and Power in Early Medieval Europe (1995), and The Languages of Gift (2010), all edited with Paul Fouracre, as well as The Inscriptions of Early Medieval Brittany (2000), written with James Graham-Campbell, John Koch and others. Wendy has written books and papers on Welsh, Breton, Irish, Scottish and Spanish social and economic history and have also done much archaeological fieldwork. She remains active in research and her current projects focus on northern Spain and Portugal.
Professor Davies has been elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.
Professor David d’Avray, FBA
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David d’Avray has been emeritus since 2019, but until then taught medieval history and broader aspects of History at UCL. He is now Supernumerary Fellow at Jesus College Oxford. He has studied medieval preaching and mass communications, attitudes to death and kingship in memorial sermons, marriage and symbolism, medieval religious rationalities and the general sociology of rationality, papacy, monarchy, and marriage; the first papal laws, their social origins and their medieval reception; and papal documents c.400 C.E. to c. 1600 C.E. He is currently working on a series of studies attempting to explain papal history from late Antiquity to the Counter Reformation.
Professor David French
David French’s interests centre on British military history, especially since the late-nineteenth century. He has co-edited, with Dr Huw Bennett of the University of Aberystwyth, an edition of the Kenya papers of General Sir George Erskine. It was published by the Army Records Society in the autumn of 2013. David is currently preparing a book analysing the British counter-insurgency campaign in Cyprus in the second half of the 1950s, Britain, Cyprus and EOKA, 1955-59.
Professor Catherine Hall, FBA
Catherine Hall’s research focuses on re-thinking the relation between Britain and its empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is particularly interested in the ways in which empire impacted upon metropolitan life, how the empire was lived ‘at home’, and how English identities, both masculine and feminine, were constituted in relation to the multiple ‘others’ of the empire. Civilising Subjects looks at the process of mutual constitution, both of colonizer and colonized, in England and Jamaica in the period between the 1830s and the 1860s. Catherine’s recent book, Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain (2012), focuses on the significance of the Macaulays, father and son, in defining the parameters of nation and empire in the early nineteenth century.
Catherine was Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded project Legacies of British Slave Ownership (2004-12), and of the new ESRC/AHRC funded project ‘The Structure and Significance of British-Caribbean Slave-Ownership, 1763-1833’ (2013-16). She is now Chair Emerita of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership.
Dr Negley Harte
Negley Harte is an Emeritus Senior Lecturer in the department. He is interested in three main areas of British history: the origins of industrialisation; textile production and consumption (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries); and the history of higher education.
Professor Julian Hoppit FBA
Julian joined UCL in 1987 as a lecturer and went on to become the Astor Professor of British History. Initially, his research was as an economic historian, exploring business enterprise in eighteenth-century England. He then wrote a general survey of English history from the Glorious Revolution of 1688-9 to 1727. More recently he has focused on the relationship between politics and the economy in Britain between 1660 and 1800.
Professor Amélie Kuhrt FBA
Amélie Kuhrt’s areas of expertise lie in the social, cultural and political history of the ancient Middle East (c.3000-100 BC), especially the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian and Seleucid empires.
Professor John North
John North, former Head of the History Department, retired in 2003. Since then, he, amongst other things, produced a third edition of The World of UCL, (2004) and was heavily involved in the AHRC-funded Festus Lexicon project.
Professor Emeritus John North passed away on the 18 May 2025.
Professor Eleanor Robson, FBA
Eleanor Robson is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History. She was Head of Department in 2018-2023 and directed the AHRC- and philanthropically-funded Nahrein Network from 2017 to 2025. She was voluntary Chair of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (2012-17) and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2022. Eleanor’s research has three main focal points: the social and political contexts of knowledge production in the cuneiform culture of ancient Iraq, five to two thousand years ago; the construction of knowledge about ancient Iraq in Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East over the past two centuries; and the use of open, standards-based online resources for democratising access to knowledge about the ancient Middle East. In retirement, she is slowly writing a history of the little-known Oxford-Field Museum Expedition to the archaeological site of Kish in southern Iraq (1923-1933) and its long-term repercussions.
Professor Fred Rosen
Fred Rosen, former Director and General Editor of the Bentham Project, retired in 2003. He continues to contribute to the Bentham Project who can provide contact details.
Dr Helga Satzinger
Helga Satzinger retired in 2017 from her position as Reader in the History of Twentieth Century Biomedicine. She continues to research the history of genetics, the history of brain research, and science and gender studies. The latter includes the history of women in biomedical science and medicine, biomedical science and its effects on the human gender order, and the gendered nature of scientific knowledge itself. She has also worked on current developments in reproductive medicine and was a member of the ethics committee of the Berlin chamber of physicians. Another field of expertise, which derives from past work in the development field, is with issues of women and health in South Asia and East Africa.
Professor Nicholas Tyacke
Nicholas Tyacke’s work focuses upon the political, religious and intellectual histories of early modern Britain, particularly with reference to Parliament, the Church of England, nonconformity, and Oxford and Cambridge universities.
His major research focus, which will hopefully result in a book, is on the relationships between colonial settlement and the environment in the different areas of the British empire from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
Dr Andrew Wear
Andrew Wear is Emeritus Reader in History. He was formerly a member of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCl. His research interests are in early modern medicine and more recently in colonial settlement and the environment. He is joint author of The Western Medical Tradition, author of Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680, editor of Medicine in Society and co-editor of The Medical Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century and The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century all published by Cambridge University Press as well as having produced other edited books and writings on early modern medicine. He continues to write on early modern medicine as, for instance, his ’ Popular Medicine and the New Science in England: Cross Roads or Merging Lanes?’in Kaspar von Greyerz et al (eds) Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Geschichte des Wissens im Dialog. Schauplaetze der Forschung ( V&R Unipress, Goettingen, 2013) pp. 61-83, an article in press in the Lancet on early modern plague in England and a chapter with Erin Sullivan on the ‘Material Body’ for a book on the material culture in early modern Europe.
Dr Riet van Bremen
Riet’s research is broadly concerned with the social, political and cultural history of the Hellenistic world, with a particular emphasis on the history and geography of Asia Minor (modern Turkey).
Professor Megan Vaughan, FBA
Megan Vaughan is Professor Emerita of African History & Health at UCL. She served as Professor of African History & Health from 2015 to 2024 and as Deputy Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies from 2017 to 2024. Before joining UCL, she was Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Commonwealth Studies at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society.
Her interdisciplinary research has explored the history of medicine and psychiatry in Africa, famine and food systems, gender, slavery in the Indian Ocean world, and the social and environmental history of disease. She previously held a major AHRC award on death and death practices in eastern and southern Africa, and later led a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award examining the historical rise of chronic disease in sub-Saharan Africa. This collaborative project brought together historians, anthropologists, public health researchers and African partner institutions in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa to investigate epidemiological change. Vaughan began her career at the University of Malawi and has remained committed to long-term collaboration with African scholars and institutions.
Information for Visiting Researchers
Affiliates Academic Scheme
This scheme is intended for academics from overseas who wish to spend a period at UCL, normally of not less than four weeks and not more than one calendar year, pursuing their own research either individually or in association with members of staff of UCL in related fields of interest.
Please note that there are fees and expenses associated with the Affiliate Academic scheme. These are linked to the amount charged to UK/EU research students (£5,210.00 for 2019-2020). Fees for visits of less than a calendar year are normally charged on a pro rata basis. A Head of Department can recommend that additional research expenses may additionally be charged.
Honorary Researchers
An honorary position at UCL is a prestigious award given in recognition of the extremely valuable contribution to teaching and research made by people who are not employed by UCL. If you have previously had a working relationship with UCL, or are currently associated with a UCL department or project, you may be eligible to become an Honorary staff member. Honorary staff are given a title and access to UCL IT services and the UCL Library.
Non-Stipendiary Visiting Research Fellows at the Institute of Advanced Studies
There are opportunities to join UCL as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies. Applications from post-doctoral, mid-career and senior scholars are all welcome.
Benefits include desk space, membership of the IAS community and Common Ground, access to UCL resources including the library, full participation in IAS events (e.g. seminars, workshops and conferences) and a framework in which you can present your research and participate in a research community.
Honorary Staff
Dr Tim Gibbs
Professor Axel Körner
Professor Wendy Davies
Professor David D’Avray
Professor Amelie Kuhrt
Dr Maureen Jurkowski
Dr Helga Satzinger
Professor John North
Professor Bernhard Rieger
Dr Nicholas Draper
Dr Aaron Graham
Dr Victoria Dawson
Mr Michael Facius
Professor David French
Mr David Morgan
Dr Nicholas Milner
Professor Bernhard Fuehrer
Dr Paul Collins
Dr Saad Eskander
Dr Anwar Anaid
Dr Amani Suleiman
Professor Charles Burnett
Dr Joan Redmond
Dr Alexander Millington
Professor Michael Crawford
Dr Nicholas Tyacke
Dr Andrew Wear
Dr Negley Harte
Professor Catherine Hall
Dr Simon Corcoran
Dr Nigel Ramsay
Dr Gaye Sculthorpe
Dr Rozhen Mohammed-Amin
Dr Jaafar Jotheri
Dr Antonino Pittà
Professor Giorgio Piras