Research group leader: Dr Manuel Barcia Paz

Deputy research group leader: Dr Gregorio Alonso

The purpose of the SMLC History Research Group is to foster research into the broad discipline of History as represented in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. It hosts regular internal seminars to discuss the individual and collective research projects of its members and, in the academic year 2011-2012, will establish a public seminar programme of interest to the School and to audiences across the Faculty and beyond. The research interests in the History Group cover a diverse range of subject areas from African slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic World, to the history of antiracism in France from the 1930s to the present day, to Contemporary Sino-Japanese relations.

Gregorio Alonso, SPLAS, Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe and Spain; cultural and religious modern European history; social and protest movements; theories of secularization and democratization; nationalism and modernization; collective and individual processes of identification

Manuel Barcia Paz, SPLAS, African slavery and slave trade in the Atlantic World; forms of slave resistance in the Americas (particularly the Spanish Caribbean and Brazil); contemporary Latin American history

Ian Caldwell, EAST, The history of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, before AD 1900; the history of Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia

Richard Cleminson, SPLAS, History of sexuality in Spain and Portugal; Spanish Cultural Studies; contemporary Spanish history; history of labour movements

Ingo Cornils, GRASS, Political, utopian and fantastic thought, esp. in Romanticism, German Student Movement, Science Fiction; the works of Kurd Lasswitz, Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann and Uwe Timm

Alison Fell, FRENCH, Gender history; the history and culture of the First World War; women's C19th and C20th history and women's writing

Paul Garner, SPLAS, Latin American Political, Social, Economic and Cultural History

James House, FRENCH, Algerian War of Independence; history of antiracism in France from the 1930s to the present day; history of Algerian migrations to France since 1919; history of colonial racism in France; colonial governance in Algeria and France; history of shantytowns in Algeria and France

David Pattinson, EAST, social and cultural history of China; social networks in C17 and late imperial China; cultural meanings given to bees and related insects in pre-modern Chinese culture

Caroline Rose, EAST, Contemporary Sino-Japanese relations; Japan's foreign policy; nationalism in China and Japan; Japan and China in the Asia Pacific; reconciliation between China and Japan in the 21st Century; citizenship and history education in China and Japan

Paul Rowe, FRENCH, Nineteenth-century cultural and intellectual history, especially Franco-German cultural transfers, including literary translation; the press; the Saint-Simonians; nineteenth-century encyclopaedias

Ingrid Sharp, GRASS, History of the German Women's movement; gender relations in German history; women activists and cultural demobilisation in Germany and elsewhere

Angel Smith, SPLAS, Modern Spanish history; labour and the left; nationalism and national identities; the Spanish authoritarian Right.

Jonathan Sutton, GRASS, Russian literature of the 20th century; Russian thought and religion in Russia; the encounter between orthodox Christianity and Islam