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Over 45 staff work in our Department, with research and teaching spanning 1,600 years of history from across the world.

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Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History

Discipline: Early modern history

Research interests:

Asia, Middle East and Africa

Professor of Modern History

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Caribbean history; post-colonial history; race and ethnicity; social history

Professor of Modern History

Admissions and Recruitment Tutor (Undergraduate)

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Japan; China; global history; medievalism

Professor of Modern History

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Political Culture; Consumerism; modern Britain

Professor of Early Modern History

Discipline: Early modern history

Research interests:

Early Modern Europe; Violence; Emotions; Civil Society

Student Services Administrator

Senior Lecturer in Modern History

Chair of the Graduate School Board (Research Students)

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Empire; history of science; medicine and technology; modern Britain; expertise

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Economic history; environmental history; history of Hong Kong; history of Britain

Reader in Early Modern History

Discipline: Early modern history

Research interests:

Britain and Ireland, The Americas

Professor of Early Modern History

Discipline: Early modern history

Research interests:

Animal history; cultural history; Spanish Empire; history of science

Reader in Modern History

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Europe

Daphne Jackson Trust Fellow

Research interests:

History of nineteenth and twentieth century medicine, including: patient case records, medical data, patients and practitioners, medical women, asylums and mental healthcare, welfare, death and dying.

Professor of Early Modern History

Chair of the Departmental Research Committee

Discipline: Early modern history

Research interests:

Europe

Lecturer in Medieval History

Discipline: Medieval history

Research interests:

Economic history; medieval Central Asia; Imperial China; history of the Silk Roads

Professor of the History of Christianity

Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture

Research interests:

Church history; pilgrimage and sacred space; public engagement with the heritage of churches and cathedrals; social and community roles of churches today

Teaching Data and Student Administrator

Lecturer in Medieval History

Discipline: Medieval history

Research interests:

Europe

Head of Technical Design

Research interests:

Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture

Associate Lecturer in Public History

Discipline: Early modern history

Research interests:

Public History; Religious history; social history; Transatlantic history

Professor of Medieval History

Discipline: Medieval history

Research interests:

Europe

Research Fellow and Head of Heritage Partnerships

Research interests:

Parish church history; late mediaeval/early modern stained glass; parish libraries; Jewish history in York and northern England

Lecturer in Late Medieval History

Discipline: Medieval history

Senior Lecturer in Modern History

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Europe

Service Coordination Manager

Lecturer in the History of the United States of America

Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Colonial History

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Chinese history; decolonisation; history of colonialism; social history

Lecturer in Public History

Discipline: Public history

Research interests:

History of childhood; Archives and records; Participatory approaches; Memory studies

Administrative Manager

Lecturer in Early Modern History

Research interests:

Gender history; history of print; early modern Britain; history of reading

Teaching Fellow and Research Associate

Discipline: Early modern history

Professor of Early Modern History

Discipline: Early modern history

Research interests:

Britain and Ireland

Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval History

Discipline: Medieval history

Research interests:

Britain and Ireland

Senior Lecturer in Modern History

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Britain and Ireland

Dr Mao Li

Visiting Scholar

Student Experience Manager

Lecturer in the History of Modern America

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Modern United States; slavery and abolition in the Atlantic World; Native American history

Outreach, Funding and Events Manager

Senior Lecturer in Modern History

Chair of the Teaching & Assessment Committee

Undergraduate Programmes Leader

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Decolonisation; Afro-Asian history; East Africa; transnational history

Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine

International Officer

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Britain and Ireland, Asia, Middle East and Africa

Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research interests:

A Healthy Approach to Grief: The Emotional, Material, and Sensory History of Grief and Loss in Late-Georgian Britain, c. 1760-1830

Senior Lecturer in Modern History

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

The United States and Middle East

Lecturer in Modern Africa

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

African history, social and environmental history, migration and belonging, oral history

Senior Lecturer in Medieval History

Chair of the Board of Studies

Discipline: Medieval history

Research interests:

Pre-modern Islamic world; Middle East

Lecturer in Early Modern History

Discipline: Early modern history

Research interests:

Cultural history; religious history; sound and music; gender, mobility and multilingualism

Senior Lecturer in Modern History

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Europe, The Americas

Lecturer in the History of Latin America

Professor of Modern History

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Modern Britain; history of social science; welfare states

Reader in Modern History

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Britain and Ireland

Reception and Office Administrator

Assessment Manager and Disability Administrator

Senior Lecturer in Medieval History

Undergraduate Examinations Officer

Discipline: Medieval history

Research interests:

Europe

Senior Lecturer in the History of the Middle East

Senior Lecturer in Modern History

Exceptional Circumstances Chair

Employability and Careers Officer

Teaching and Assessment Chair

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Modern Poland and East-Central Europe; Modern Germany; Minorities (ethnic, national, cultural); Forced Migration

Lecturer in Eighteenth Century and Public History

Discipline: Early modern history

Research interests:

Public History; Gender and social history; material culture and clothing; consumption

Head of Department

Professor in Early Modern History

Discipline: Early modern history

Research interests:

Britain and Ireland

Professor of Medieval History

Discipline: Medieval history

Research interests:

French and English cultural history; political history; gender; chivalry and aristocracies

Lecturer

Discipline: Medieval history

Research interests:

Social, cultural and gender history of early medieval Europe.

Lecturer in Early Modern History

Discipline: Early modern history

Lecturer in Medieval History

Discipline: Medieval history

Research interests:

Britain and Ireland, Europe

Senior Lecturer in Medieval History

Discipline: Medieval history

Research interests:

Britain and Ireland

Lecturer in Early Modern History

Discipline: Early modern history

Research interests:

Britain and Ireland

Senior Lecturer in the History of Britain and the World

Discipline: Modern history

Research interests:

Modern Britain; Black British history; urban history; cultural history

Lecturer in Late Medieval History

Discipline: Medieval history

Research interests:

Gender and sexuality; animal history; medieval Europe; social history