History

The following members of staff are currently undertaking research in the area of medieval history:

• Professor Frances Andrews: late medieval Europe, in particular Italy; ecclesiastical and religious history.
• Dr Michael Brown: political society of Scotland c.1250–c.1500 and the relationships between the various communities of the British Isles during the same period.
• Dr Ana del Campo: medieval Christian religion and its practice; history of women in the Middle Ages; historiography.
• Dr Rory Cox: late medieval intellectual history; military history and just war doctrine; medieval assassination.
• Dr Justine Firnhaber-Baker: medieval France (1150–1450); political and legal history; revolts and rebellions; archives.
• Dr Timothy Greenwood: medieval Byzantium and the Near East (6th to 11th centuries) with particular interest in the Caucasus and Sasanian Persia.
• Professor John Hudson: medieval legal history; medieval historical writing; political and social history of 9th to 13th centuries England and France; 19th-century writings on legal and constitutional history of England.
• Professor Caroline Humfress: Roman law and legal history (Classical, Postclassical, Medieval); modern legal theory; law and anthropology; religious, cultural and political history c.285–c.600 AD; history of ideas.
• Dr Dimitris Kastritsis: the political, cultural, and intellectual history of the early and classical Ottoman Empire, Byzantium, and the larger Islamic world, particularly in the late Middle Ages.
• Professor Simon MacLean: early medieval Europe (8th to 11th centuries), in particular the political, social and cultural history of the Carolingian Empire and its successor kingdoms; the Vikings; kingship and queenship.
• Dr Christine McGladdery: the relationship between crown and nobility in the 15th century.
• Dr James Palmer: Early Medieval Europe (sixth to ninth centuries), in particular the cultural and political history of the Merovingian and Carolingian kingdoms; Anglo-Saxon England; ‘Barbarians’ and Vikings; Saints’ cults and hagiography; Apocalypticism.
• Dr Andrew Peacock: Middle Eastern and Islamic history and culture, c. 750–1650; Arabic and Persian historiography and manuscripts; history of the Indian Ocean region.
• Dr Angus Stewart: the eastern Mediterranean world in the age of the Crusades, with a particular interest in diplomatic, cultural and military encounters – especially relating to the Mamluks, the Mongols and the Armenians.
• Dr Alex Woolf: the late antique west (c.350–650); sub-Roman Britain; Anglo-Saxon England (particularly before 900); Dark Age economics; Celtic history to 1175; Scandinavian history from the Iron Age to c.1250.

The following members of staff are currently undertaking research in early modern history:

• Dr Emma Hart: early America; British Atlantic World; urban history in Britain and America 1660–1850; economic and social history in early modern Britain and America; material culture and the history of consumer society.
• Dr Bridget Heal: European (especially German) religious and social history c.1450–1700, in particular the visual culture of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and women’s history.
• Professor Robert Houston: comparison of regional social relations from 1600 to 1850; contributory weddings in Britain from 1500 to 1850; office of coroner in Scotland.
• Professor Colin Kidd: early modern and modern intellectual history (broadly defined, including literature, anthropology, law and church history); constitutional theory; modern Scottish history; racial, national and ethnic identities.
• Professor Roger Mason: political thought and culture in late mediaeval and early modern Scotland and Britain; Renaissance and Reformation Studies.
• Dr Matthew McLean: scholarly culture of the late Renaissance and early Reformation era.
• Dr Emily Michelson: early modern Europe, with particular emphasis on Renaissance and 16th-century Italy, the history of the book, and Italian religious culture in the Reformation period.
• Professor Steve Murdoch: Scottish and British relations with Scandinavia and northern Europe 1560–1750; Scottish maritime history; European contacts with Asia c.1500–1750.
• Dr Andrew Peacock: Middle Eastern and Islamic history and culture, from 750 to 1650; Arabic and Persian historiography and manuscripts; history of the Indian Ocean region.
• Professor Andrew Pettegree: Reformation history; the history of communication – especially the history of the book.
• Dr Jacqueline Rose: early modern British political, religious, and intellectual history – in particular kingship, counsel, religious identity, and toleration, c.1500–1700.
• Dr Guy Rowlands: 17th and 18th-century European history – particular interest in military, naval and financial history, French history, and European international relations.
• Dr Bernhard Struck: European history from the mid-18th century onward; German lands in relation to France and Poland.
• Professor Richard Whatmore: early modern and modern intellectual history (including politics, international relations, political economy and religion); theories of empire; democracy and war; enlightenment and revolution; small states and failed states; relations between Britain and Europe.

The following members of staff are currently undertaking research into modern history:

• Professor Ali Ansari: history and historiography of modern Iran; ideology, myth and nationalism; social and intellectual history; Iran and the West.
• Dr Riccardo Bavaj: 20th-century German history, with particular interest in intellectual, conceptual and spatial history, and with particular emphases on radicalism, liberalism, modernity and ‘the West’.
• Dr John Clark: 19th and 20th-century British and Canadian history, including history of environment, science, and medicine (with particular interests in history of natural history, pollution, and environmentalism).
• Dr Sarah Easterby-Smith: 18th-century science, society and culture.
• Dr Kate Ferris: modern European history, with a focus on Italy and Spain from the late-19th to the mid-20th century, the history of everyday life and the ‘lived experience’ of dictatorship.
• Professor Conan Fischer: history of Europe during the earlier 20th century; inter-war era; Nazism and German Communism; Weiman Germany and Franco-German relations during the inter-war period.
• Dr Aileen Fyfe: British cultural history in the late 18th and 19th centuries, with particular emphases on science and technology, religion, the book trade and children’s literature.
• Dr Tomasz Kamusella: the politics of language; cultures, politics and societies in modern central and eastern Europe; Europe’s Roma (‘Gypsies’); ethnic cleansing and genocide.
• Dr Chandrika Kaul: British imperialism and print culture in the 19th and 20th centuries; modern South Asia, especially Indian history and politics; British media and popular culture including contemporary media; globalisation and transnational communications.
• Professor Colin Kidd: early modern and modern intellectual history (broadly defined, including literature, anthropology, law and church history); constitutional theory; modern Scottish history; racial, national and ethnic identities
• Dr Konrad Lawson: modern east Asian history (Japan, China, Taiwan, and the Korean peninsula); decolonisation in East and Southeast Asia; transitional justice, human rights, and international humanitarian law; aftermaths of modern war.
• Dr Gillian Mitchell: post-1945 popular music in the United States, Britain and Canada.
• Professor Frank Lorenz Müller: European history from 1815 to the Second World War; political and cultural history of Germany and Britain; nationalism, liberalism, imperialism, militarism, foreign policy, biography and the role of monarchy throughout the 19th century.
• Dr Frances Nethercott: Russian 19th and 20th-century intellectual history with a particular focus on the dynamics of ‘cultural transfer’ across France, Germany and Russia; Russian historiography from the late 18th century to the present.
• Dr James Nott: 20th-century British social and cultural history; popular culture and leisure (music and dance halls); history of mass media (cinema, radio, gramophone); the British Film Industry; the BBC; class and culture; interwar Britain; Second World War home front.
• Dr Malcolm Petrie: political history of Scotland and Britain in the 20th century; political thought and the development of popular politics; Scottish nationalism and unionism; the Labour Party and the radical tradition; Communism and Fascism in inter-war Britain.
• Dr Bernhard Struck: European history in comparative and translational perspective since later 18th century; history of travel, networks, cartography and science; representation of space and borderlands.
• Dr Stephen Tyre: European (especially French) colonialism in the late 19^th and 20^th centuries; decolonisation; post-colonial Europe; 20th-century French history.
• Professor Richard Whatmore: early modern and modern intellectual history (including politics, international relations, political economy and religion); theories of empire, democracy and war; enlightenment, revolution and the idea of Europe.
• Dr Akhila Yechury: south Asian studies; comparative and global history in the 19th and 20th centuries; imperialism; the French in India.

The following members of staff are currently undertaking research into Middle Eastern studies:

• Professor Ali Ansari: history and historiography of modern Iran; ideology, myth and nationalism; social and intellectual history; Iran and the West.
• Dr Timothy Greenwood: mediaeval Byzantium and the Near East (6th to 11th centuries) with particular interest in the Caucasus and Sasanian Persia.
• Dr Dimitris Kastritsis: the political, cultural, and intellectual history of the early and classical Ottoman Empire, Byzantium, and the larger Islamic world, particularly in the late Middle Ages.
• Dr Andrew Peacock: Middle Eastern and Islamic history and culture from 750 to 1650; Arabic and Persian historiography and manuscripts; history of the Indian Ocean region.
• Dr Angus Stewart: the eastern Mediterranean world in the age of the Crusades, with a particular interest in diplomatic, cultural and military encounters – especially relating to the Mamluks, the Mongols and the Armenians.
• Dr Stephen Tyre: European (especially French) colonialism in the late 19th and 20th centuries; decolonisation; post-colonial Europe; 20th-century French history.

The following members of staff are currently undertaking research into Scottish History:

• Dr Michael Brown: political society of Scotland c.1250–c.1500 and the relationships between the various communities of the British Isles during the same period.
• Professor Colin Kidd: early modern and modern intellectual history (broadly defined, including literature, anthropology, law and church history); constitutional theory; modern Scottish history; racial, national and ethnic identities.
• Dr Christine McGladdery: the relationship between crown and nobility in the 15th century.
• Professor Roger Mason: political thought and culture in late mediaeval and early modern Scotland and Britain; Renaissance and Reformation Studies.
• Professor Steve Murdoch: Scottish and British relations with Scandinavia and northern Europe 1560–1750; Scottish maritime history; European contacts with Asia 1500–1750.
• Dr Malcolm Petrie: political history of Scotland and Britain in the 20th century; political thought and the development of popular politics; Scottish nationalism and unionism; the Labour Party and the radical tradition; Communism and Fascism in inter-war Britain.
• Dr Alex Woolf: the late antique west (c.350–650); sub-Roman Britain; Anglo-Saxon England (particularly before 900); Dark Age economics; Celtic history to 1175; Scandinavian history from the Iron Age to 1250.