Our academic staff

Dr Matthew Burch

Research interests: Matt works on issues at the intersection of phenomenology; action theory; and research in the cognitive and social sciences.

Dr Lorna Finlayson

Professor Fabian Freyenhagen

Research interests: Theory, history and practice of autonomy; Frankfurt School (especially Adorno); Ethics (particularly critique of Kant's and Kantian ethics); Political Philosophy

Dr Steven Gormley

Research interests: Research Interests

Dr Marie Guillot

Research interests: Philosophy of mind; philosophy of language; epistemology; philosophy of psychology; Speech acts

Professor Beatrice Han-Pile

Research interests: Agency, medio-passivity and the theological virtues; Foucault and XXth century philosophy, in particular phenomenology

Dr Fiona Hughes

Research interests: Phenomenology (French and German)

Professor Wayne Martin

Research interests: Philosophy of Psychiatry; Phenomenology (esp Hume, Husserl, Heidegger, Th Lipps, L&oslashgstrup); Kant and post-Kantian idealism (esp Fichte); The history and philosophy of logic; Philosophy and painting; Self-Consciousness; Autonomy and the Regulation of Care; Political Philosophy; Will, Agency and Contract

Professor Timo Jütten

Research interests: Critical Social Theory (Adorno, Habermas, Honneth); The moral status of Capitalism and Markets; Philosophy; Feminism (especially sexual objectification, prostitution, pornography); Philosophical foundations of human rights (the relationship between human dignity and human rights, mental capacity and human rights, human rights and Big Data)

Professor Irene McMullin

Research interests: Existentialism; Phenomenology; Ethics

Dr Joerg Schaub

Research interests: Social and Political Philosophy (focus on contemporary theories and 19th century German authors); Frankfurt School and Contemporary Critical Theory; Aesthetics

Dr Ellisif Wasmuth

Research interests: Ancient Philosophy, with particular focus on Plato; ancient conceptions of the self and self-knowledge; Socratic ethics; the Platonic dialogueAlcibiades I.;

Dr Daniel Watts

Research interests: Kierkegaard; Wittgenstein; The theory of judgement; Medical Humanities; Existentialism and phenomenology; Moral and political philosophy and; Philosophy of religion

Dr Alix Green

Reader, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Political cultures and policy; Public history; Archives and archiving

Professor Tracey Loughran

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: History of gender; History of psychology and psychoanalysis; History of subjectivity; History of war and trauma; Historiography and historical theory

Professor Lucy Noakes

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: I am a social and cultural historian of modern warfare

Dr Thomas Freeman

Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

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;

Dr Nadine Rossol

Deputy Dean of Partnerships (Europe) & Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: German history, especially social and cultural history of Weimar and Nazi Germany; European cultural and urban history; police history

Dr Matthew Grant

Reader, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: British history since 1939; impact of war and conflict on the home front; The cold war and nuclear conflict; Citizenship in Britain

Professor Alison Rowlands

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

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.

Professor Peter Gurney

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Consumerism and consumer movements; Popular politics and popular protest; Working-class culture and autobiography

Dr Lisa Smith

Faculty Dean Postgraduate (Humanities) - Senior Lecturer (R), School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Britain and France, ca 1600-1800; Digital History; Medicine and Science; Supernatural; Body; Gender History; Food

Professor Sean Kelley

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

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

Dr Xun Zhou

Reader, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

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

Professor Jeremy Krikler

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

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

Dr Felix Schnell

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

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

Professor Matthias Röhrig Assunção

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

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

Professor Diana Bullen Presciutti

Research interests: visual hagiography; charitable institutions (hospitals, confraternities); visual culture of social problems; late medieval and Renaissance Italian visual culture (1300-1600); reception theory; visual culture of the mendicant orders; gender and sexuality; medical humanities

Dr Matt Lodder

Research interests: tattooing and body modification in their historical and theoretical contexts; lowbrow, outsider, countercultural, kitsch and erotic art & visual culture; the visual and cultural contexts of sex and sadomasochism, including pornography; internet and digital art; methodologies of art historical and visual culture study

Dr Lisa Blackmore

Research interests: Modernity in Latin America; Visual culture; Space and politics; Memory politics; Human-nature relations; Water, hydraulics, liquid ecologies in the arts; Environmental aesthetics; Photography; Digital culture; Contemporary visual production in Latin America; VENEZUELA RESEARCH NETWORK. With Dr. Penélope Plaza (University of Reading), Dr. Rebecca Jarman (University of Leeds).

Dr Gavin Grindon

Research interests: modern and contemporary art history; art and politics; activist-art; institutional critique and its futures; visual and material cultures of social movements and of social control; aesthetics and affect in social movements; curatorial studies; intersections of curating, critique and political organising

Dr Natasha Ruiz-Gomez

Research interests: Art and science/medicine; Auguste Rodin's oeuvre; Nineteenth-century French sculpture; Architecture and urban planning in nineteenth-century Paris; Auguste Rodin and science; Jean-Martin Charcot and art; Objectivity and medical imagery; Medical portraiture; Nineteenth-century medical photography; Theories of degeneration and genius

Dr Michael Tymkiw

Research interests: Spectatorship; Histories of modernism; Exhibition design and curation; The relationship between art and politics; The use of digital technologies in museums and galleries; Intersections between pre-modern and modern art

Dr Joerg Schaub

Research interests: Social and Political Philosophy (focus on contemporary theories and 19th century German authors); Frankfurt School and Contemporary Critical Theory; Aesthetics

Dr Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco

Research interests: Disaster Heritage; Community Resilience; Heritage and Sense of Place; Digital Replicas of Heritage; Virtual Museums; Digital Heritage; Immersive environments for Heritage and Museums; The Heritage of Natural Catastrophes; Affect, Cognition and Perception in Digital Heritage Studies; Video Ethnography for Heritage Studies

Dr William Carruthers

Dr Lisa Blackmore

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Modernity in Latin America; Visual culture; Space and politics; Memory politics; Human-nature relations; Water, hydraulics, liquid ecologies in the arts; Environmental aesthetics; Photography; Digital culture; Contemporary visual production in Latin America; VENEZUELA RESEARCH NETWORK. With Dr. Penélope Plaza (University of Reading), Dr. Rebecca Jarman (University of Leeds).

Dr Matthew Burch

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Matt works on issues at the intersection of phenomenology; action theory; and research in the cognitive and social sciences.

Dr Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Disaster Heritage; Community Resilience; Heritage and Sense of Place; Digital Replicas of Heritage; Virtual Museums; Digital Heritage; Immersive environments for Heritage and Museums; The Heritage of Natural Catastrophes; Affect, Cognition and Perception in Digital Heritage Studies; Video Ethnography for Heritage Studies

Professor Sean Kelley

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

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 Matthias Röhrig Assunção

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

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

Professor Tracey Loughran

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: History of gender; History of psychology and psychoanalysis; History of subjectivity; History of war and trauma; Historiography and historical theory

Dr Xun Zhou

Reader, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

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