Summary of Staff Research Interests

Barber, Sarah
Caribbean, seventeenth-century, Barbados, Surinam, Carolina, Antigua, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahamas, Montserrat, Nevis, St Christopher, Leeward Islands, Windward Islands, colonialism, prejudice, radicalism, Englishness, folk, identity, material-culture, art, music

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Camino, Mercedes
Cross-cultural voyages of exploration, Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Culture, Early Modern Colonialism, History of Cartography, the Spanish Civil War and its Aftermath, Spanish and European Film and Media Studies

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Clarke, Nicola
Medieval historiography, Muslim-Christian relations, and the social and cultural history of the medieval Islamic west (al-Andalus and the Maghrib).

Cooper, David
David's work focuses on critical literary geographies: the ways in which creative writers (primarily poets) think geographically; and the ways in which contemporary theoretical thinking on space, place and landscape can inform critical practices. His work on literary geographies is situated in three, frequently intersecting, fields of interest: post-war/contemporary British and Irish poetry; Romantic landscape aesthetics and spatial practices; and the use of digital technologies (particularly GIS) to map out topographical texts. To date, much of his work has used the multi-layered cultural history of the Lake District as a ground on which to test out theoretical ideas and interdisciplinary approaches.

Hagopian, Patrick
His research interests are in American memory: the representation of the past in museums and public monuments, popular expressions of the past in oral histories, and the intersection between individual memory and communal representations of the past.

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Hayward, Paul Antony
Dr Hayward's research interests cover the writing of history, the cult of saints and political practice in medieval Europe with reference to Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England, but also with a particular interest in the English reception of materials transmitted from the Continent and especially Germany.

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Kallis, Aristotle
fascism, totalitarianism, political violence, ethnic conflict, genocide, nationalism, propaganda, urban history, Italian history and politics, German history, extremism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia

Palladino, Paolo
I am interesed primarily in the changing organisation of bio-political governmentality.

Peniston-Bird, Corinna
A cultural and oral historian, Corinna Peniston-Bird's main academic interests lie in gender identities in Britain, and national identities in Central Europe, specifically Austria, with a particular focus on the first half of the twentieth century.

Pumfrey, Stephen
Stephen Pumfrey's research interests lie in the history of Renaissance and early modern science and medicine. He is especially concerned with post-positivist understandings of the emergence of "new philosophy" in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. His current projects in this area investigate the importance of patronage in England, and the work of the transitional philosopher William Gilbert. More generally, he explores the role of early modern science in the construction of modernity. He is also pioneering research using corpus linguistics in early modern texts.

Sayer, Derek
Cultural theory, especially French poststructuralism. The history and sociology of "modernity." Modern Czech history. Visual culture, especially modern art, architecture, and photography. Historical memory.

Strachan, John
Dr Strachan's research has focused on the cultural history of modern France and the French overseas empire. He has published on the history of regionalism, education, medicine, food and drink, and on different forms and representations of national and colonial identity. More recently, his work explores the theory and the writing of history in comparative context, with a particular focus on empire and decolonisation. He is currently writing a book on the European settlers in North Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Tadmor, Naomi
I am interestd in social relations and in their cultural and textual representations, with particular reference to the history of the family, language and texts, and religious culture. My recent work has focused on the ways in which concepts of social description were coined in the English Bible, and their broader intellectual and social resonance in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Welshman, John
John Welshman's research interests are at the interface of contemporary history, social policy, and public health. He was a member of the Wellcome Trust's History of Medicine Funding Committee (2006-09), and his current work falls into four main areas: · the history of the debate over transmitted deprivation in the period 1972-82, and its links with current policy on child poverty and social exclusion · the history of the concepts of unemployability and worklessness · the history of tuberculosis, medical examination, and migration, in both the UK and Australia · the history of care in the community since 1948, especially for people with learning disabilities.

Winchester, Angus
landscape and environmental history, particularly of upland Britain; local and regional identity in northern England, especially Cumbria; manorial courts.

Yeandle, Peter
I am currently employed as RA on the AHRC-sponsored project 'The Cultural Politics of English Pantomime, 1837-1901'. The project undertakes a wide-ranging study of Victorian pantomime in England, looking at pantomime as a rich vein of cultural history and topical commentary about British society and politics in the Victorian period. I also work on contested notions of identity and citizenship as they have been debated with regards to education and race-relation policies since the mid-Victorian period