Academic staff
We bring together academics from across the University. As an interdisciplinary student you will take modules offered by various departments, enabling you to
engage with specialists in a broad range of subjects.
All of our staff maintain long-standing research interests on a wide range of topics, including American history, law, literature, film, politics, and sociology. Research
projects currently being pursued include American politics and the electorate, cinematic images of the American Pacific, politics and land rights of the native
Innu of Labrador in Canada, civil rights and African American history, and American crime fiction.
- Dr Owen Robinson, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, Director of American (US) Studies
- Professor Robin Blackburn, Department of Sociology
- Dr Alan Cardew, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Dr Eamonn Carrabine, Department of Sociology
- Dr Jeffrey Geiger, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Dr Michaela Giebelhausen, School of Philosophy and Art History
- Dr John Haynes, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Professor David McKay, Department of Government
- Dr Ewa Morawska, Department of Sociology
- Dr Danielle Mortimer, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Professor Peter L Patrick, Department of Language and Linguistics
- Professor Colin Samson, Department of Sociology
- Dr Thomas Scotto, Department of Government
- Dr Jackie Turton, Department of Sociology
- Dr Fiona Venn, Department of History
You will study with internationally recognized experts in European politics, economics, law, societies, history, literature, film, philosophy and art who are accessible
and dedicated to undergraduate teaching.
- Dr Caspar Pearson, lecturer in the School of Philosophy and Art History, Director of European Studies
- Professor Ian Colbeck, School of Biological Sciences
- Dr Ann-Christine Frandsen, Essex Business School
- Gladis Garcia-Soza, Department of Language and Linguistics, Spanish specialist
- Dr Carlos Gigoux, Department of Sociology
- Corinne Girard, Department of Language and Linguistics, French specialist
- Dr John Haynes, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Bob Jobbins, School of Philosophy and Art History
- Peter Luther, Department of Law
- Claudia Nehmzow, Department of Language and Linguistics, German specialist
- Dr Beatriz de Paiva, Department of Language and Linguistics, Portuguese specialist
- Ignazia Posadinu, Department of Language and Linguistics, Italian specialist
- Dr Alison Rowlands, Department of History
- Dr Natasha Ruiz-Gómez, School of Philosophy and Art History
- Dr Yasemin Soysal, Department of Sociology
- Dr Tony Swift, Department of History
- Penny Woollard, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Dr Neil Younger, Department of History
We bring together language experts, lecturers and researchers from across the humanities and social sciences. You will study with internationally recognised
experts in Latin American history, literature, and art who are accessible and dedicated to undergraduate teaching.
- Joanne Harwood, Director of Latin American Studies,
and Director of Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA)
- Professor Dawn Ades, School of Philosophy and Art History
- Professor Robin Blackburn, Department of Sociology
- Professor Steffen Böhm, Essex Business School
- Dr Andrew Canessa, Department of Sociology
- Dr John Cant, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Dr Sarah Demelo, Essex Collection of Art from Latin America
- Professor Valerie Fraser, School of Philosophy and Art History
- Professor Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Gladis Garcia-Soza, Department of Language and Linguistics
- Professor Brian Hammett, Department of History
- Dr Jane Hindley, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities
- Professor Peter Hulme, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Dr Todd Landman, Department of Government
- Marco Larizza, Department of Government
- Dr Cynthia Machado Campos, School of Philosophy and Art History
- Professor Sabine Michalowski, Department of Law
- Dr Sandra Moog, Department of Sociology
- Dr Beatriz de Paiva, Department of Language and Linguistics
- Professor Peter Patrick, Department of Language and Linguistics
- Professor Jules Pretty, Deputy-Vice-Chancellor, School of Biological Sciences
- Dr Matthias Röhrig Assuncão, Department of History
- Dr Clara Sandoval, Department of Law
- Teresa Torres, Department of Language and Linguistics
You will study with internationally recognised experts in literature, film, history of art, history, politics and sociology.
- Professor Colin Samson, Department of Sociology, Director of Liberal Arts
- Dr Michael Bailey, Department of Sociology
- Professor Ted Benton, Department of Sociology
- Professor Steffen Boehm, Essex Business School
- Dr James Canton, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Dr Alan Cardew, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Dr Shohini Chaudhuri, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Professor Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Dr Carlos Gigoux, Department of Sociology
- Dr Laila Haidarali, Department of History
- Dr Jane Hindley, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities
- Dr Karen Hulme, Department of Law
- Professor Roderick Main, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies
- Dr Linsey McGoey, Department of Sociology
- Dr Sandra Moog, Department of Sociology
- Dr Sean Nixon, Department of Sociology
- Dr Susan Oliver, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Dr Jak Peake, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Professor Jules Pretty, Deputy-Vice-Chancellor, School of Biological Sciences