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Academic staff
| Name | Title | Research Interests | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Astbury, Leah | Lecturer in History of Health | Early modern; history of medicine; gender history | leah.astbury@bristol.ac.uk |
| Austin, Kenneth | Associate Professor in Early Modern History | Early modern cultural, intellectual and religious history, esp. Renaissance and Reformation. | kenneth.austin@bristol.ac.uk |
| Banerjee, Sreenanti | Senior Research Associate |
Global social and political thought; Gender, sexuality, law and justice; Feminism, culture and rights; Postcolonial and Subaltern Studies; Modern Indian historiography; Michel Foucault, Reproductive Justice and Ethnonationalist Politics. |
ez23683@bristol.ac.uk |
| Bates, Victoria | Associate Professor in Modern Medical History | Medical history; sensory studies; gender history; material culture | victoria.bates@bristol.ac.uk |
| Bickers, Robert | Professor of History | Modern China; British colonial, imperial and maritime history; global history; mobility; creative history | robert.bickers@bristol.ac.uk |
| Biglari, Mattin | Lecturer in Asian and Middle Eastern Environmental History | Global environmental history; energy history/humanities; science and technology; bodies and health; decolonisation and development; global labour history; racial capitalism; subaltern studies | qp23397@bristol.ac.uk |
| Carey, Hilary | Professor of Imperial and Religious History | hilary.carey@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Cervantes, Fernando | Reader in History | f.cervantes@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Charnock, Hannah | Senior Lecturer in British History | Twentieth-century Britain, gender, sexuality, youth culture, relationships | hannah.charnock@bristol.ac.uk |
| Cole, Tim | Professor of Social History | Holocaust, Memory and Public History, Digital Humanities, Historical Landscapes and Environmental History | tim.cole@bristol.ac.uk |
| Costaguta, Lorenzo | Senior Lecturer in U.S. History | Ideas of race and ethnicity, labour history and radicalism, history of the global left, anti-colonialism | lorenzo.costaguta@bristol.ac.uk |
| Donkin, Lucy | Senior Lecturer in History and History of Art | Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean; material and visual culture; space and place; religion; environment | Lucy.Donkin@bristol.ac.uk |
| Dudley, Marianna | Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities | Environmental history and humanities; energy, water, militaries, landscapes | M.Dudley@bristol.ac.uk |
| Edwards, Amy | Senior Lecturer in Modern British History | Contemporary British history; cultures of business; enterprise and finance; consumer society; Thatcherism; free-market liberalism. | amy.edwards@bristol.ac.uk |
| Flack, Andy | Associate Professor of Environmental and Sensory History | Environmental history; animal history; senses and emotions; science and technology; night/nocturnal | andrew.flack@bristol.ac.uk |
| Fleetwood-Smith, Rebecka | Senior Research Associate | rebecka.fleetwood-smith@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Freeman, James | Senior Lecturer in Political History and Digital Humanities | james.freeman@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Hailwood, Mark | Associate Professor in Early Modern History | Social history/history of everyday life, England, 1500-1700, especially histories of working, drinking, and literacy | m.hailwood@bristol.ac.uk |
| Hamilton, Peter | Senior Lecturer in Modern East Asian History | peter.hamilton@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Hanna, Erika | Associate Professor in Modern History | Ireland, urban history, cities, infrastructure, visual culture | erika.hanna@bristol.ac.uk |
| Harkes, Rachael | Postdoctoral Research Associate | rachael.harkes@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Hitchmough, Sam | Associate Professor | American Indian History (particularly post-1944), the Red Power movement; American Indian cultural resistance; U.S. | samuel.hitchmough@bristol.ac.uk |
| Holdenried, Anke | Senior Lecturer in Medieval History | a.holdenried@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Howard, Sarah | Senior Research Associate | sarah.howard@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Howkins, Adrian | Reader in Environmental History | Environmental History, National Parks, Polar Regions, Antarctica, Religion and Environment | adrian.howkins@bristol.ac.uk |
| Hutton, Ronald | Professor of History | Early Modern British History, Paganism,Witchcraft, Magic | r.hutton@bristol.ac.uk |
| Huxford, Grace | Associate Professor in Modern History | Social history; war and conflict; Britain and Europe after 1945; oral history and life writing | grace.huxford@bristol.ac.uk |
| Jones, Evan | Associate Professor in Economic History | Bristol, maritime history, smuggling, trade, everyday life, 1400-1700 | evan.jones@bristol.ac.uk |
| Jones, Sarah | Senior Lecturer in History of Sexuality and Gender | Gender and sexuality; science and medicine; nineteenth- and twentieth-century print culture; pedagogical research into learning and teaching History in Higher Education | sarah.jones@bristol.ac.uk |
| King, Amy | Senior Lecturer in Modern European History | Fascism; neo-fascism; memory studies; political violence; modern Italy. | amy.king@bristol.ac.uk |
| Kong, Vivian | Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese History | History of modern Hong Kong; migration and identities; global history; marginality and marginal subjects; Chinese diasporas and Chineseness | vivian.kong@bristol.ac.uk |
| Koole, Simeon | Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and History | Nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperial Britain; sensory studies; gender and sexuality studies; history and philosophy of science; disability studies; urban history | simeon.koole@bristol.ac.uk |
| Lewis, Su Lin | Professor of Global and Asian History | Twentieth-century Southeast Asian and Global/International History; cities; gender; decolonisation; transnational activism | sulin.lewis@bristol.ac.uk |
| Mawdsley, Stephen | Senior Lecturer in Modern American History | Twentieth-century American medicine and public health; disability activism; African American race relations and civil rights | stephen.mawdsley@bristol.ac.uk |
| Mckenzie, Zakiya | Senior Research Associate | zm15729@bristol.ac.uk | |
| McLellan, Josie | Professor of History | Public and community history, modern European history, history of gender and sexuality | josie.mclellan@bristol.ac.uk |
| McLoughlin, Keith | Lecturer in Modern British History | Technology; defence; politics; transport; social democracy | keith.mcloughlin@bristol.ac.uk |
| Moody, Jessica |
Associate Professor in Public History
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jessica.moody@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Mukherjee, Sumita | Professor of Modern History | Nineteenth and twentieth-century South Asia; British Empire and Britain; migration; gender; transnationalism | sumita.mukherjee@bristol.ac.uk |
| Nasar, Saima | Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa and its Diasporas | Race, Immigration, Empire, Gender | saima.nasar@bristol.ac.uk |
| Ncube, Glen | Lecturer in Modern African History | glen.ncube@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Pang, Allan | Research Associate |
Transnational Chinese history; Hong Kong history; Southeast Asian history; history education; popular culture; decolonisation |
allan.pang@bristol.ac.uk |
| Parsons, Simon | Lecturer in Medieval History | simon.thomas.parsons@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Perry, Jamie | Lecturer in Liberal Arts and History | Twentieth-century Britain; internationalism; humanitarianism; history of political ideas; activism; Britain and the world | jamie.perry@bristol.ac.uk |
| Phipps, Catherine |
Senior Research Associate
|
ka23004@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Pohl, Benjamin | Professor of Medieval History | Manuscript studies, palaeography, codicology, history of the book, European history | benjamin.pohl@bristol.ac.uk |
| Pooley, Will |
Associate Professor in Modern History
|
France (eighteenth to twentieth century), crime, witchcraft and the occult, folklore, creative histories | william.pooley@bristol.ac.uk |
| Potter, Simon | Professor of Modern History | History of the mass media since the early nineteenth century, including the press and the BBC; history of Britain and the British Empire since c. 1815 | Simon.Potter@bristol.ac.uk |
| Powell, Martyn | Professor of History | Ireland, Britain and the US, 1700-1850; politics; associational life and sociability; print culture; violence and popular protest | martyn.powell@bristol.ac.uk |
| Rebisz, Bethany | Lecturer in Colonial and Decolonial History | Gender, African social histories, humanitarianism, development, colonial violence | bethany.rebisz@bristol.ac.uk |
| Reeks, John | Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History | English Post-Reformation; Early-Stuart History; English Civil Wars; Early Modern England; Religion and Politics. | john.reeks@bristol.ac.uk |
| Ryan, Liam | Lecturer in Modern History | wr14953@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Shah, Zahra |
Lecturer in Early Modern History
|
Early Modern; Islam; Persianate world; East India Company; South Asia; Literary cultures | zahra.shah@bristol.ac.uk |
| Sheldon, Richard | Senior Lecturer in Social and Economic History | Enlightenment; protest; history of economic ideas; famines and famine relief | r.sheldon@bristol.ac.uk |
| Skinner, Kate | Professor of African History | African history (colonial, postcolonial), gender, law, political mobilisation, education and literacy | kate.skinner@bristol.ac.uk |
| Skinner, Rob | Associate Professor in Modern History | robert.skinner@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Smith, Brendan | Professor of Medieval History | Migration, Colonialism, Frontiers, Finance, Ireland, Digital Humanities | brendan.smith@bristol.ac.uk |
| Stone, Richard | Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History | Early Modern History, Environmental History, Economic and Social History, Legacies of Slavery | richard.stone@bristol.ac.uk |
| Thompson, James | Professor of Modern British History | Intellectual history; political culture; visual and material cultures; numeracy; 'big data' | james.thompson@bristol.ac.uk |
| Velasco Berenguer, Gonzalo | Lecturer in Early Modern History | Early modern global history 1492-1815, Spanish Monarchy, Philippines, Latin America, Catholicism | gonzalo.velascoberenguer@bristol.ac.uk |
| Wainright, Darius | Lecturer in Modern History | darius.wainwright@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Wallace, Shaun | Senior Lecturer in United States History | Modern United States (1790-1865); U.S. social and cultural history; African American history; slavery and antislavery; print culture | shaun.wallace@bristol.ac.uk |
| Wei, Ian | Associate Professor in the History of Intellectual Culture | ian.p.wei@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Would, Alice | Lecturer in Imperial and Environmental History | Environmental history, embodied and sensory approaches, animals and the British Empire | alice.would@bristol.ac.uk |
| Yep, Ray | Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Hong Kong History | rekmy@bristol.ac.uk |
Honorary staff
| Name | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Baker, Leonard | Honorary Research Fellow | leonard.baker@bristol.ac.uk |
| Booker, Daniel | Honorary Research Associate | daniel.booker@bristol.ac.uk |
| Boyd, James | Honorary Research Associate | james.boyd@bristol.ac.uk |
| Caddick, Barbara | Honorary Senior Research Associate | barbara.Caddick@bristol.ac.uk |
| Cohen, Sue | Honorary Research Associate | sue.cohen@bristol.ac.uk |
| Condon, Margaret | Honorary Research Associate | hixmc@bristol.ac.uk |
| Dresser, Madge | Honorary Professor | madge.dresser@bristol.ac.uk |
| Eickelmann, Christine | Honorary Research Associate | c.e.eickelmann@bristol.ac.uk |
| Fedorowich, Kent | Honorary Senior Research Fellow | ef16681@bristol.ac.uk |
| Feerick, Mary | Honorary Research Associate | kz18873@bristol.ac.uk |
| Francescutti, Kristina | Honorary Research Associate | wu23977@bristol.ac.uk |
| Furst, Juliane | Honorary Senior Research Fellow | juliane.furst@bristol.ac.uk |
| Gryta, Janek | Honorary Research Associate | janek.gryta@bristol.ac.uk |
| Haines, Daniel | Honorary Research Associate Professor | daniel.haines@bristol.ac.uk |
| Henry, Lorna | Honorary Research Associate | lorna.henry@bristol.ac.uk |
| Hillier, Andrew | Honorary Research Associate | ah12387@bristol.ac.uk |
| Hodgson, Victoria | Honorary Research Fellow | v.a.hodgson@bristol.ac.uk |
| Hutchen, Jude | Honorary Research Associate | lz20442@bristol.ac.uk |
| Jobson, Adrian | Honorary Research Fellow | nu20622@bristol.ac.uk |
| Honorary Research Fellow | thomas.larkin@bristol.ac.uk | |
|
Lyons, John |
Honorary Associate Professor | w.j.lyons@bristol.ac.uk |
| Masterson, Margery | Honorary Research Associate | Margery.Masterson@bristol.ac.uk |
| Pritchard, Robert | Honorary Research Associate | lc18874@bristol.ac.uk |
| Watts, James | Honorary Research Associate | james.watts@bristol.ac.uk |
| Whitston, Kevin | Honorary Research Fellow | kevin.whitston@bristol.ac.uk |
Emeritus staff
| Name | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Alford, Bernard | Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History | b.alford@bristol.ac.uk |
| Clay, Christopher | Emeritus Professor of Economic History | Christopher.Clay@bristol.ac.uk |
| Coates, Peter | Emeritus Professor of American and Environmental History | p.a.coates@bristol.ac.uk |
| Doyle, William | Emeritus Professor of History | william.doyle@bristol.ac.uk |
| MacLeod, Christine | Emeritus Professor of History | c.macleod@bristol.ac.uk |
| Middleton, Roger | Emeritus Professor of the History of Political Economy | Roger.Middleton@bristol.ac.uk |
| Pemberton, Hugh | Emeritus Professor | mail@hughpemberton.org.uk |
| Tuck, John | Emeritus Professor of Medieval History | hijat@bristol.ac.uk |
Other Teaching Staff
Research Support Staff
| Name | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Akerman, Jessica |
Research Project Manager, |
jessica.akerman@bristol.ac.uk |
| Andrieu, Nicole |
Research Administrator, |
nicole.andrieu@bristol.ac.uk |
| Barlow, Samantha |
Centre Manager, Hong Kong History Centre
|
sam.barlow@bristol.ac.uk |
| Chung, Yiuwa | Senior Research Administrator, Hong Kong History Centre | yiuwa.chung@bristol.ac.uk |
| Freeman, Abi | Senior Research Administrator, Mariners:Religion, Race and Empire in British Ports, 1901-1914 |
abi.freeman@bristol.ac.uk |
| Parnall, Claire |
Project Coordinator, |
claire.parnall@bristol.ac.uk |