Staff in the Department of History

Dr George Bodie

George is a historian of contemporary Germany and the global Cold War

Dr Isabell Dahms

Isabell researches medical, philosophical and grassroots histories of sex, gender and sexuality.

Professor Peter Doyle

Peter Doyle is a military historian with a special interest in the British experience of war

Dr Hannah Elias

Specialising in histories of race, faith and culture in Modern Britain.

Dr Ariel Hessayon

Reader in early modern history

Dr Kesewa John

Kesewa is a bilingual (French/English) Black feminist historian curious about stories which defy borders

Dr Alexandra Lee

Alexandra is a medieval historian who focuses on the intersection between epidemic disease and popular religion.

Dr Máire MacNeill

Dr John Rees

John is researching his second book on the English Revolution of the 1640s, following The Leveller Revolution (Verso, 20

Dr Tarangini Sriraman

Tarangini's research interests lie at the intersection of social and medical history across the 19th and 20th centuries.

Dr Anastasia Stouraiti

Anastasia is a cultural historian, researching the history of Venice and its Mediterranean empire

Dr Erica Wald

Erica's research intersects the fields of social, colonial, medical and military history, with a focus on South Asia.

Prof Alexander Watson

Alexander is a prize-winning historian of 19th- and 20th-century East-Central Europe, focusing on war and extremism