Our academic 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

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

Research Officer., Department of History

Senior Research Officer., Department of History

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