Departmental officers
- sabine.clarke@york.ac.uk
- V/N/203
Research interests:
Empire; history of science; medicine and technology; modern Britain; expertise
Dr Hugo Service
Senior Lecturer in Modern History
Employability and Careers Officer
Discipline: Modern history
- hugo.service@york.ac.uk
- V/N/205
Research interests:
Modern Poland and East-Central Europe; Modern Germany; Minorities (ethnic, national, cultural); Forced Migration
Professor Helen Cowie
Professor of Early Modern History
Deputy Head of Department
Chair of Graduate School Board (Taught)
Postgraduate Graduate Assessment Officer
Discipline: Early modern history
Research interests:
Animal history; cultural history; Spanish Empire; history of science
Dr Catriona Kennedy
Senior Lecturer in Modern History
Recruitment and Admissions Tutor
Discipline: Modern history
- catriona.kennedy@york.ac.uk
- K/376A
Research interests:
Britain and Ireland
Dr Shaul Mitelpunkt
Examinations Officer
Senior Lecturer in Modern History
Discipline: Modern history
- shaul.mitelpunkt@york.ac.uk
- V/A/225
Research interests:
The United States and Middle East
Dr Eliza Hartrich
Lecturer in Late Medieval History
Deputy Chair of the Board of Studies
Discipline: Medieval history
- eliza.hartrich@york.ac.uk
- V/A/223
Dr Hannah Jeans
Lecturer in Early Modern History
Undergraduate Recruitment and Admissions Deputy Tutor
Discipline: Early modern history
- hannah.jeans@york.ac.uk
- V/A/224A
Research interests:
Gender history; history of print; early modern Britain; history of reading
Dr Sophie Weeks
Lecturer in Early Modern History
Exceptional Circumstances Chair
Discipline: Early modern history
- sophie.weeks@york.ac.uk
- V/A/218
Research interests:
Britain and Ireland
Dr Jonathan Howlett
Chair of the Board of Studies
Discipline: Modern history
- jon.howlett@york.ac.uk
- V/A/203A
Research interests:
Chinese history; decolonisation; history of colonialism; social history
Dr Purba Hossain
Deputy Chair of the Board of Studies
- purba.hossain@york.ac.uk
- V/A/226
Research interests:
Deputy Chair of the Board of Studies
Dr Jessica Richardson
International Officer, Year Abroad and Visiting Students
Disability Officer
Chair of the Exceptional Circumstances Committee
Languages for All Coordinator
Research interests:
- Materiality and the agency of matter
- Temporality
- Magic, the supernatural and the miraculous image (image/relic)
- Image, ritual space and the performance of script
- The reception, reworking and display of ‘medieval’ art, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century
Professor Stuart Carroll
Exceptional Circumstances Officer
Professor of Early Modern History
Dr Victoria Hoyle
Director of IPUP
Senior Lecturer in Public History
- victoria.hoyle@york.ac.uk
- V/N/116
Dr Alex Medcalf
Teaching and Assessments Chair
Employability and Careers Officer
Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine
- alexander.medcalf@york.ac.uk
- V/A/210
Dr Joseph Mujere
Recruitment and Admissions Deputy Tutor
Lecturer in Modern Africa
Professor John Schofield
Director of Studies, Cultural Heritage Management
Director of CModS