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Academic & Teaching staff

Holger Afflerbach, Professor of Central European History

+44 (0) 113 34 36457

German, Italian and Austrian history 19th / 20th centuries; History of International Relations; Military history of the First and Second World Wars; Naval and Atlantic History View full profile

Peter Anderson, Lecturer in Twentieth Century European History

Twentieth century Spanish history; the Spanish Civil War; the Francoist repression; humanitarianism and the Spanish Civil War. View full profile

Alex Bamji, Lecturer in Early Modern History

+44 (0)113 34 33602

Early modern Italy; cultural, religious and urban history; history of medicine. View full profile

Julia Barrow, Director of the Institute of Medieval Studies

Medieval ecclesiastical history 8th-13th century (particularly England); clergy; bishops and episcopal administration; charters; forged charters; historical writing. View full profile

Robert D. Black, Professor of Renaissance History

The Italian Renaissance; Florentine history; 15th-century Italian historiography; Renaissance education. View full profile

Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Chair in the History of Business and Society

(0044)-0113-34-33613

History of capitalism; history of innovation; consumer culture in comparative perspective; history of design, fashion, colour, and retailing. View full profile

Emma Cavell, Lecturer in Medieval History & Tutor for Women Students

+44 (0)113 34 33585

Lecturer in Medieval History & Tutor for Women Students View full profile

Malcolm Chase, Professor of Social History

+44 (0)113 34 33183

Radical and labour movements in Britain (late 18th & 19th century); Agrarianism and land reform (late 18th to 20th century); The history of environmentalism (mid-20th century); View full profile

Kate Dossett, Senior Lecturer in American History; Director of Taught Postgraduate Studies

+44 (0)113 34 33288

Women's and Gender History; U.S. History; African American Cultural History; The Harlem Renaissance; Black Theatre. View full profile

Shane Doyle, Senior Lecturer in Modern African History

+44 (0)113 34 33655

Modern African History; Imperial History; Demographic History; Medical History; Environmental History View full profile

Matthew Frank, Associate Professor in International History

+44 (0)113 34 34470

20th Century European History, esp. Central and Eastern Europe; Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War; Politics of forced migration: ethnic cleansing and population transfers; View full profile

William Gould, Senior Lecturer in Modern Indian History

0113 343 3612

Modern Indian History; Hindu nationalism, the Congress in north India, corruption/anti-corruption and the state in India, 'Criminal/Denotified Tribes' View full profile

Simon Hall, Senior Lecturer in American History

+44 (0)113 34 33596

History of the United States; the American South; the civil rights movement; post-1945 social and political history View full profile

Raphael Hallett, Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History

+44 (0)113 34 33588

Early Modern Intellectual and Cultural History; The Scientific Revolution; Religious Competition and Co-operation in Europe 1500-1750; Critical Theory and Historiography; Shakespeare View full profile

James Harris, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History

+44 (0)113 34 33591

Modern Russian History; The Stalinist political system; Interwar Europe; Anti-liberal ideas View full profile

Robert Hornsby, Teaching Fellow in Russian History

+44(0)113 34 30229

Post-Stalin USSR; post-war Europe; political protest and methods of social control. View full profile

Will Jackson, Lecturer in Imperial History

0113 343 8546

British Empire, Kenya Colony. Social history of distressed white settlers and the wider cultural history of settler society View full profile

Emilia Jamroziak, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History

+44 (0)113 34 33592

Medieval British religious and social history 12-15 th c. (particularly the North and Scotland); Central Europe; Cistercian order, frontiers and borders in medieval Europe View full profile

Laura King, Research Fellow

0113 3430272

Arts Engaged Research Fellow with interests in the history of fatherhood, gender and the family in twentieth-century Britain View full profile

Christoph Laucht, Lecturer in 20th Century British History

+44 (0)113 34 34476

20th Century British History; the history of the nuclear age; the transnational history of the Cold War; film and history View full profile

Kevin Linch, Principal Teaching Fellow

+44 (0)113 34 33584

War, society, and culture in Britain 1688-1840; Britain’s armed forces; conflicts in the long eighteenth century, especially the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars View full profile

Graham Loud, Professor of Medieval History; Head of School

+44 (0)113 34 33601

The Normans in southern Italy (and more generally south Italian history 10-13th century, especially social and ecclesiastical); papal history and Italian ecclesiastical history,10th-13th centuries; View full profile

Andrea Major, Lecturer in Wider World History

+44 (0)113 34 31829

Colonial encounter between Britain and India; East India Company rule c. 1757-1857; sati (widow-burning), slavery, child marriage and age of consent, missionary activity and missionary writing View full profile

Iona McCleery, Lecturer in Medieval History

+44 (0)113 3434500

Medieval Iberian History; history of medieval medicine; healing miracles; medieval food and eating View full profile

Jessica Meyer, Wellcome Trust Fellow in the History of Medicine

0113 343 4194

Masculinity and Medical Care in Britain during the First World War View full profile

Alan V. Murray, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Studies; Programme Director, MA in Medieval Studies and Editorial Director, International Medieval Bibliography

+44 (0)113 3433617

The Crusades and the Latin East, Medieval Warfare, Tournaments and Chivalry, The Medieval Baltic Region History and Literature of MMedieval Germany View full profile

Guy Perry, Lecturer in Medieval History & Director of MA in Medieval History

+44 (0)113 34 38543

Lecturer in Medieval History & Director of MA in Medieval History View full profile

Stephan Petzold, Lecturer in Modern European History

+44 (0)113 34 35698

20th-century European history, post-1933 German history, historiographical controversies, European memory of WWII, Cold War culture and scholarship View full profile

Mark B. Smith, Lecturer in Modern History

+44 (0)113 34 38400

The history of imperial Russia and the Soviet Union (1800s-1980s); The origins and development of welfare states since the 19th century; Transnational links between East and West in Cold War Europe View full profile

Edward Spiers, Professor of Strategic Studies; Faculty of Arts Pro-Dean for Research

+44 (0)113 34 33581

Army and society in the 19th and 20th centuries; Contemporary strategic thought; Chemical and biological warfare View full profile

Martin Thornton, Senior Lecturer in International History and Politics

+44 (0)113 34 33600

North America and foreign policy in the 20th century; Imperial and Colonial History as related to Canada and Great Britain. View full profile

Steven W. Tolliday, Professor of Economic and Social History

+44 (0)113 34 34474

20th century Japanese economic history; Economic and social history of Britain and Europe since 1945; Business history; Labour history View full profile

Rachel E. Utley, Lecturer in International History

+44 (0)113 34 36456

French and European Security; French external relations and military interventions during the Fifth Republic; Peace operations: peacekeeping View full profile

Geoffrey Waddington, Senior Lecturer in International History

+44 (0)113 34 33605

International history between the wars; German foreign policy 1933-1945; Axis diplomacy in World War Two View full profile

Richard C. Whiting, Professor of Modern British History, Head of School

+44 (0)113 34 33618

19th and 20th century British history; Labour history; urban history View full profile

Ian Wood, Professor of Early Medieval History

+44 (0)113 34 33594

Late Roman culture; Barbarian kingdoms of the Dark Ages: Anglo-Saxon sculpture: Northumbrian monasticism: eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century historiography of the Barbarian Invasions. View full profile