Over 45 staff work in our Department, with research and teaching spanning 1,600 years of history from across the world.
Find contact details and explore who does what.
Our people
Dr Lucia Akard
Associate Lecturer in Medieval British History (c.1300-c.1500)
Discipline: Medieval history
- lucia.akard@york.ac.uk
- V/N/216
- henrice.altink@york.ac.uk
- V/N/138
Research interests:
Caribbean history; post-colonial history; race and ethnicity; social history
- lawrence.black@york.ac.uk
- V/A/213
Research interests:
Political Culture; Consumerism; modern Britain
Research interests:
Early Modern Europe; Violence; Emotions; Civil Society
Dr Sabine Clarke
Senior Lecturer in Modern History
Chair of the Graduate School Board (Research Students)
Discipline: Modern history
- sabine.clarke@york.ac.uk
- V/203
Research interests:
Empire; history of science; medicine and technology; modern Britain; expertise
- david.clayton@york.ac.uk
- V/210
Research interests:
Economic history; environmental history; history of Hong Kong; history of Britain
- helen.cowie@york.ac.uk
- V/N/204
Research interests:
Animal history; cultural history; Spanish Empire; history of science
Professor Simon Ditchfield
Professor of Early Modern History
Chair of the Departmental Research Committee
Discipline: Early modern history
Research interests:
Europe
Professor Colin Divall
Professor Emeritus in History
- dilnoza.duturaeva@york.ac.uk
- K/275D
Research interests:
Economic history; medieval Central Asia; Imperial China; history of the Silk Roads
Patrick Gibbs
Head of Technical Design
Research interests:
Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture
- sarah.k.hall@york.ac.uk
- V/117
Research interests:
Public History; Religious history; social history; Transatlantic history
Dr Louise Hampson
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
- eliza.hartrich@york.ac.uk
- V/A/223
Dr Aaron Hiltner
Lecturer in the History of the United States of America
- aaron.hiltner@york.ac.uk
- V/N/115
- purba.hossain@york.ac.uk
- V/A/226
- jon.howlett@york.ac.uk
- V/A/203A
Research interests:
Chinese history; decolonisation; history of colonialism; social history
Research interests:
History of childhood; Archives and records; Participatory approaches; Memory studies
- hannah.jeans@york.ac.uk
- V/A/224A
Research interests:
Gender history; history of print; early modern Britain; history of reading
Dr Catriona Kennedy
Reader of Modern History
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Discipline: Modern history
- catriona.kennedy@york.ac.uk
- K/376A
Research interests:
Britain and Ireland
- stephanie.mawson@york.ac.uk
- V/A/212
Dr Gerard McCann
Senior Lecturer in Modern History
Chair of the Teaching & Assessment Committee
Undergraduate Programmes Leader
Discipline: Modern history
- gerard.mccann@york.ac.uk
- V/A/222
Research interests:
Decolonisation; Afro-Asian history; East Africa; transnational history
- alexander.medcalf@york.ac.uk
- V/A/210
Research interests:
Britain and Ireland, Asia, Middle East and Africa
Dr Shaul Mitelpunkt
Senior Lecturer in Modern History
Examinations Officer
Discipline: Modern history
- shaul.mitelpunkt@york.ac.uk
- V/A/225
Research interests:
The United States and Middle East
- joseph.mujere@york.ac.uk
- V/N/217
Research interests:
African history, social and environmental history, migration and belonging, oral history
Dr Harry Munt
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History
Chair of the Board of Studies
Discipline: Medieval history
- harry.munt@york.ac.uk
- V/A/208A
Research interests:
Pre-modern Islamic world; Middle East
- emilie.murphy@york.ac.uk
- V/114
Research interests:
Cultural history; religious history; sound and music; gender, mobility and multilingualism
Dr Ana Maria Otero-Cleves
Lecturer in the History of Latin America
- anamaria.otero-cleves@york.ac.uk
- V/N/118
- chris.renwick@york.ac.uk
- V/A/209
Research interests:
Modern Britain; history of social science; welfare states
Dr Lucy Sackville
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History
Undergraduate Examinations Officer
Discipline: Medieval history
- lucy.sackville@york.ac.uk
- V/A/211
Research interests:
Europe
Dr Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
Senior Lecturer in the History of the Middle East
- eskandar.sadeghi@york.ac.uk
- V/N/109
Dr Hugo Service
Senior Lecturer in Modern History
Employability and Careers Officer
Teaching and Assessment Chair
Discipline: Modern history
- hugo.service@york.ac.uk
- V/205
Research interests:
Modern Poland and East-Central Europe; Modern Germany; Minorities (ethnic, national, cultural); Forced Migration
Dr Elizabeth Spencer
Lecturer in Eighteenth Century and Public History
Discipline: Early modern history
- elizabeth.spencer@york.ac.uk
- V/A/224B
Research interests:
Public History; Gender and social history; material culture and clothing; consumption
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- craig.taylor@york.ac.uk
- K/G82
Research interests:
French and English cultural history; political history; gender; chivalry and aristocracies
- will.tullett@york.ac.uk
- V/A/206A
- sam.wetherell@york.ac.uk
- V/A/219
Research interests:
Modern Britain; Black British history; urban history; cultural history
