Professors, Senior Lecturers and Lecturers
Professor Sabine Lee
Head of School of History and Cultures
British-German relations since 1945, European integration, international relations, the cold war, children and war
Professor Matt Houlbrook
Head of Department of History
Cultural history of modern Britain, histories of gender, sexuality and selfhood
Dr Arezou Azad
Medieval Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran: cities, religious practices, social diversity and historiography
Dr Laura Beers
Political history, politics and the mass media, politics and gender, international politics between the two world wars
Dr Jakub Benes
Modern east central Europe, workers’ and peasants’ movements, war and society
Dr Jonathan Boff
Military history of the two world wars, British strategy from Gladstone to Churchill, morale and combat motivation
Dr Thomas Brodie
Modern German and European History, History of Religion, History of War
Dr Chris Callow
History and archaeology of early medieval western Europe, the Vikings and medieval Iceland and Scandinavia
Dr Courtney J. Campbell
Latin America, Brazilian cultural and social history, race and representation, gender and representation, transnational consumer culture, popular culture movements, movement and migration.
Dr Nathan Cardon
19th and early 20th century United States history, race and empire in foreign and domestic space
Dr Michell Chresfield
20th Century U.S. History, African American History, Gender and Sexuality, Racial and Ethnic Relations in the U.S.
Dr Lorenzo Costaguta
Intellectual history, Race, ethnicity and radicalism in late nineteenth and early twenty centuries
Professor Nicholas Crowson
Contemporary British history, especially homelessness
Professor Richard Cust
Political and cultural history of late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England
Dr Tom Cutterham
Power, politics, and ideas in Revolutionary America; commerce and finance in the Atlantic world
Dr Malcolm Dick
History of the West Midlands region after 1700, history of ethnic minorities and anti-slavery
Dr Andrew Duncan
Education and the military in late 19th and 20th century Britain
Dr Matthew Francis
Political historian of twentieth century Britain, conceptual history, political ideologies and ideological change
Professor Elaine Fulton
Early-modern European religion and politics, especially relating to the Habsburg Empire
Dr David Gange
Cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain
Air Commodore (Retd) Peter Gray
Contemporary and historical air power
Dr Julian Greaves
The British economy in the 20th century
Dr Armin Grünbacher
German post-war social, economic and political history
Dr Jonathan E Gumz
Modern Central and Eastern Europe, modern international history, global insurgency and counterinsurgency
Dr Tara Hamling
Visual and material culture of early modern Britain, post-Reformation religious and cultural practices
Professor Karen Harvey
The long eighteenth century, with particular interests in gender, the body, material culture and public history
Dr Steve Hewitt
Security and intelligence, counter-terrorism, anti-Americanism, Canadian history and politics
Dr Simon Jackson
Colonial, international and global history of the modern Middle East and the Mediterranean in the twentieth century
Dr Simone Laqua-O'Donnell
Early modern German history, gender and reformation; the history of modern missions, children and childhood
Dr Noah Millstone
Political, religious, intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe.
Dr Christopher Markiewicz
Intellectual and political history of the Ottoman Empire between 14th and 17th centuries.
Dr Chris Moores
Modern British history, political and social activism, civil liberties and human rights
Dr Steve Morewood
Political, strategic and economic history of the 19th and 20th century East Mediterranean region
Dr Mo Moulton
Political and social history of 20th century Britain, Ireland, and empire
Dr Miriam Müller
Social and economic history of later medieval England
Dr Steffen Prauser
War studies
Dr James Pugh
Social, cultural and military history of the two World Wars, including a focus on drug culture, consumption and control.
Dr William Purkis
Medieval religious cultures (c.1000–c.1300), crusading, pilgrimage and monasticism
Dr Sadiah Qureshi
Cultural and social historian of race, science and empire in the modern world
Dr Arfon Rees
History of Russia and the Soviet Union, political movements, party-state institutions, policy making and political ideas
Dr Klaus Richter
Modern history of East Central Europe and the Baltics, history of nationalism, statehood and war and occupation
Professor Corey Ross
Global environmental history and modern European social and cultural history
Dr Jens Röhrkasten
Medieval legal history and comparative history of religious order
Dr Lucie Ryzova
Social and cultural historian of modern Egypt, Egyptian popular culture and vernacular modernity
Professor Gavin Schaffer
Race and immigration history, race and the media, racial violence, modern Jewish history, history of television
Dr Manu Sehgal
Asian history
Dr Margaret Small
Early modern history with a focus on European exploration and colonisation in the sixteenth century
Dr Kate Smith
Eighteenth-century Britain and empire, material cultures, production, consumption, skill, the senses and the emotions
Professor Naomi Standen
Pre-modern China, comparative, world and global history, borders, cross-cultural interaction, politics and society
Dr Katharine Sykes
Early and central middle ages, gender and sexuality, religious communities, and families.
Dr Zoë Thomas
Modern Britain with particular specialism in women’s history and social and cultural history
Dr Frank Uekoetter
Environmental issues, both historical and current
Dr Rob Waters
History of race and multiculture in twentieth-century Britain
Professor Chris Wickham
Medieval history, 400-1250, especially Italy and comparative history
Dr Jonathan Willis
The English reformation, history and theology of late-medieval and early modern Europe
Dr Daniel Whittingham
Conduct of war, British military history, military thought and strategy
Dr Simon Yarrow
Religion and society in the early and central middle ages, religious and political culture, gender and identity
Dr Shirley Ye
Modern China, environmental history, cities, science and technology, frontier and transnational history, gender
Emeriti staff
Professor Peter Jones
Emeritus Professor of French History
Professor Hugh McLeod
Emeritus Professor of Church History
Professor Adrian Randall
Emeritus Professor of English Social History
Emeritus Professor Robert Swanson
Emeritus Professor of Medieval History
Research, Teaching and Honorary Fellows
Ilya Afanasyev
BRIHC Research Fellow
Kate Ballantyne
Teaching Fellow in US History
Dr Steven Bassett
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Dr Richard Bell
Research Associate
Dr Pavlina Bobic
CENDARI Research Fellow
David Brown
Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Caterina Bruschi
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Dr Matt Cole
Teaching Fellow
George Demidowicz
Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Adam Dighton
Teaching Fellow in the History of Warfare
Professor Christopher Dyer
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Cathryn Enis
Research Fellow
Dr Marta Filipová
Research Fellow
Nikolas Funke
BRIHC Research Fellow
Luke Harris
Honorary Research Fellow
Dr John Hunt
Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Susan Kelly
Senior Research Fellow
Sarah Kenny
Teaching Fellow in Modern British History
Rhoads Murphey
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Dr Stefka Richie
Honorary Research Fellow
Historians in other Schools and Departments
African Studies and Anthropology
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology (CAHA)
School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies
School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music
School of Health and Population Studies