Department of History

Our academic staff

Academic members of staff

Lecturer, Department of History
Research interests: Medieval and Early Modern Martyrdom; Perceptions of the Middle Ages in the Early Modern Period; Early Modern Historical Writing; Demonic Possession and Exorcism; Early Modern Colchester; Film and History; English Reformation;
Reader, Department of History
Research interests: British history since 1939; impact of war and conflict on the home front; The cold war and nuclear conflict; Citizenship in Britain
Reader, Department of History
Research interests: Political cultures and policy; Public history; Archives and archiving
Professor, Department of History
Research interests: Consumerism and consumer movements; Popular politics and popular protest; Working-class culture and autobiography
Professor, Department of History
Research interests: New World slavery; The transatlantic slave trade; Africans in the Americas; Transnational mercantile networks and connections; Maritime history; Testimony, autobiography, and narrative in African and Atlantic history; Global and transnational approaches to history
Professor, Department of History
Research interests: the history of race and class; peasant/agrarian history labour history; comparative history; history of Southern Africa; history of imperialism; the slave trade
Professor, Department of History
Research interests: History of gender; History of psychology and psychoanalysis; History of subjectivity; History of war and trauma; Historiography and historical theory
Professor, Department of History
Research interests: I am a social and cultural historian of modern warfare
Head of Department - Senior Lecturer (R), Department of History
Research interests: US foreign policy since c1860; Public opinion and foreign policy; Anglo-American relations
Professor, Department of History
Research interests: History of slavery and post-emancipation societies; Agrarian and peasant history; Political history of Nineteenth and twentieth century Brazil; Latin American popular culture; Capoeira - combat games and martial arts in the Black Atlantic
Deputy Dean of Partnerships (Europe) & Senior Lecturer, Department of History
Research interests: German history, especially social and cultural history of Weimar and Nazi Germany; European cultural and urban history; police history
Professor, Department of History
Research interests: The social and cultural history of early modern Germany.; Gender in early modern Germany.; Witchcraft, magic and witch-trials, especially in early modern Europe.; Remembering and commemorating early modern witch-trials.
Senior Lecturer, Department of History
Research interests: Russian and Soviet History in the late 19th and 20th Century; History of Ukraine; War, Violence, and Revolution in 19th and 20th Century Europe
Faculty Dean Postgraduate (Humanities) - Senior Lecturer (R), Department of History
Research interests: Britain and France, ca 1600-1800; Digital History; Medicine and Science; Supernatural; Body; Gender History; Food
Reader, Department of History
Research interests: Race and Ethnicity in East Asia; Social History of Drugs; Visual History, Southeast and East Asia; Social and Political History of Modern China; History of Public Health and Medicine in 20th century China; Food and Foodways; Global Environmental History; History of Religion in Modern East Asia; Global Public Health

Emeritus Professors

Emeritus Professor, Department of History
Research interests: Political and cultural history of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico and Spain
Emeritus Professor, Department of History
Research interests: mainly British history but with international comparisons; quantitative aspects of medical and demographic history; the history of information/communications; the history of surveillance and identification; the development of the modern British state
Emeritus Professor, Department of History
Research interests: Historical, Communications and Cultural Studies after 1500; he is particularly interested in supervising those interested in the history of representations, emotion, humour and cross-cultural relations; hospitality and immigrant and foreign language communities; translation and language learning; the cultural history of loss and the relationship between any of the following material culture, spatial aspects of memory, communications networks, the past in relation to social media and the language of space
Emeritus Professor, Department of History
Research interests: the history of Bergen-Belsen; questions of German collective memory and identity in the twentieth century; the Second World War and forced migration in Europe; continuity and discontinuity in twentieth-century German history; questions of regionalism, regional development and the construction of regional and national identities (esp. in rural regions); the history of the Roma and Sinti in twentieth-century Europe; the history of antiziganism in the post-Second World War period; Holocaust; Genocides; Forced Migrations in the twentieth century; Roma in twentieth-century Europe; Individual Memories, Group Memories, and Collective Memory in post-Second World War Germany; Continuity and change in twentieth-century German history; Germany and her neighbours in the twentieth century
Emeritus Professor, Department of History
Research interests: Early modern British history (political, social, religious, cultural, economic); Early modern political culture that seek to integrate social or cultural history with political history