Staff in the School of Historical Studies
STUDENT SUPPORT STAFF
If you have a query about studying with us, our research activities or require further information, please contact faculty staff.
Head of School
ACADEMIC STAFF
- Dr Fred Anscombe
- Professor Jennifer Baird
- Dr Suzannah Biernoff - on leave Autumn 2023
- Dr Sean Brady - on leave Spring 2024
- Dr Esther Breithoff
- Dr Dorigen Caldwell - on leave Spring 2024
- Dr Jasmine Calver
- Professor Fiona Candlin - on leave 2023-25
- Dr Sophia Connell - on leave Spring 2024
- Dr Emily Cousens
- Professor Patrizia Di Bello - on leave Spring 2023-24
- Professor Matthew Davies
- Professor Catharine Edwards - on leave Autumn 2023
- Professor David Feldman
- Dr Kate Franklin
- Dr Benjamin Gray
- Dr Alex Grzankowski
- Dr Keith Hossack
- Professor Matthew Innes
- Dr Julia Laite - on leave for the academic year 2023-24
- Professor Hallvard Lillehammer
- Professor Julia Lovell - on leave for 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26
- Dr Carmen Mangion - on leave Autumn 2023-24
- Dr. Robert Maniura
- Dr Sarah Marks
- Dr Lesley McFadyen
- Professor Robert Northcott - on leave Summer 2024
- Dr Zoë Opačić
- Dr Sarah Patterson
- Dr Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra - on leave until February 2024
- Dr Jessica Reinisch
- Dr Tim Reynolds - on leave for 2023-24
- Dr Elly Robson
- Professor Jan Rueger - on leave for 2023-24
- Dr Hilary Sapire - on leave Autumn 2023
- Professor Chandak Sengoopta - on leave Spring 2023
- Dr Florian Steinberger
- Professor Julian Swann
- Dr Sarah Thomas
- Dr Luke Uglow
- Professor Frank Trentmann
- Dr Joseph Viscomi
- Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann - on leave for 2023-24
- Dr Brodie Waddell
- Dr Amanda Zhang
RESEARCH FELLOWS
- Dr David Bannister
- Dr Ruth Beecher
- Dr Allison Deutsch
- Dr Eliana Hadjisavvas
- Dr Sasha Hepburn – on leave 2023-4
- Dr Lenny Hodges
- Dr Sarah Howard
- Dr Becka Hudson
- Dr Simon Huxtable
- Dr Rhian Keyse
- Dr Matthew Leonard
- Dr William Pimlott
TEACHING AND SCHOLARSHIP STAFF
- Dr Charlotte Ashby
- Dr Clare Vernon
- Dr Tom Wilkinson
- Dr Stuart Brookes
- Dr Steph Bowry
- Michael Berlin
Visiting and affiliated academics
- Dr Hugh Lawson-Tancred
- Dr Simon May: Simon May's interests lie in ethics, philosophy of the emotions, questions of identity and belonging, and German nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought, especially the work of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. He is also a devotee of the aphoristic form. He is editor of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality: A Critical Guide and co-editor of Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy. Outside academic philosophy, he has written op-ed articles for newspapers such as The Washington Post and the Financial Times. Email Simon May
- Dr Christian Onof: Christian Onof’s first degree and PhD are in Mathematics and Engineering; he has an MA and a PhD in Philosophy from Birkbeck College and University College London respectively. His main research interests are in the Philosophy of Kant, the Hard Problem of Consciousness, Free Will and Existentialism. He has published in the Philosophical Review, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Kant Studien, Kantian Review, Kant Yearbook. He is co-founder of the journal Episteme and Area Editor for 18th and 19th Century German Philosophy at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Visit Christian Onof's website
- Anthony Savile
- Professor John Skorupski: John Skorupski is Professor Emeritus of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. His current interests are in moral and political philosophy, meta-ethics and epistemology, and the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy. He is working on a book with the provisional title Late Modern Ethics 1800–1975.
- Dr Gudrun Von Tevenar
- Dr Steph Marston
- Professor Barry C. Smith: Professor Barry C. Smith is Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, before which he was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Birkbeck. He is a philosopher of language and mind, and his current research is on the multisensory nature of perceptual experience, focusing on taste, smell and flavour. His latest collaborative research has been focused on Covid-19 and smell loss. Barry has written theoretical and experimental papers, publishing in Nature, Food Quality and Preference, Chemical Senses and Flavour. In 2007, he edited Questions of Taste: the philosophy of wine (OUP). Barry is a frequent broadcaster, whose contributions have frequently appeared on BBC, in The World of Fine Wine, and in Prospect Magazine. He regularly collaborates with chefs and artists and consults widely for the food and drinks industry in the UK and internationally. As recently noted in the Springer Handbook of Eating and Drinking, Barry Smith's 'interdisciplinary and inter-sectorial research collaborations address factors that impact the experience of eating, our health, and wellbeing. Eating, including the provision of food and the consumption of food, is the biggest industry in the world, and a major contributor to our health, and to our enjoyment. Email Barry C. Smith.
- Dr Raamy Majeed: Raamy Majeed is a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland. Prior to this, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge (as a member of Tim Crane's Templeton Foundation project, 'New Directions in the Study of Mind'). He has also worked as a lecturer at the University of Otago, Lehigh University and the Open University. His primary research interests are in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. He is also interested in aesthetics, metaphysics and philosophy of race.