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  Sarah Barber

  Largely focusing on the seventeenth century, but stretching from 1500 to the present, my research concerns are with the nature of community, its formation and incorporation within or exclusion from community; with the nature of historical knowledge, and the role of the historian. This has been applied to the fields of British and Irish, Scandinavian, Dutch and Spanish European communities; those of the Eastern seaboard of the Americas; and to the exploration of non-traditional source materials to recover historical knowledge.
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  Mercedes Camino

  Cross-cultural voyages of exploration, Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Literature and Culture (especially women writers), Early Modern Colonialism, History of Cartography, Spanish and European Film and Media Studies, Memory Studies.
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  Christopher Donaldson

  Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, esp. Romantic Poetry, Fiction, and Drama; the English Lake District; Literary Geography; Literary Tourism; Literary History; History of the Book; Poetry & Poetics. Recent Conference Papers and Presentations'Down the Duddon: Wordsworth and His Literary Pilgrims', Northeast Forum in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (7 Dec. 2012) 'Mapping "Wordsworthshire": Martineau and the Literary Geography of the Lakes', Modern Language Association 2012 Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA (5-8 Jan. 2012) 'Independence, Nativity, and Seclusion: A Reading of Wordsworth's "To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth"', North American Society for the Study of Romanticism 2011 Annual Meeting, Park City, UT (11-14 Aug. 2011) 'Locality, Loco-description, and the Eighteenth-Century Sonnet', American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2011 Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (16-19 Mar. 2011)
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  Patrick Hagopian

  The Vietnam War; U.S. Military Justice and Constitutional Law; War and Commemoration; The Representation of the History of Race and Slavery in Museums and Commemorative Sites; International Law and War Crimes; Oral History; Memory; Military Veterans and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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  Timothy Hickman

  Tim Hickman is a cultural historian whose research is in the literary and visual culture of the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  He is interested particularly in the social and political outcomes of cotrasting constructions of 'modernity' between 1870 and 1920.  An important element of that culture was the formulation of the concept of (drug) addiction and the medico-legal policies formulated to remedy the condition.  This latter interest has led to further publications that examine drug laws and drug culture in more recent American society.  All of his work demonstrates a special interest in the construction of race, class and gender difference in the United States.  
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  Andrew Jotischky

  My interests are centred on medieval religious beliefs, traditions and practices, and on religious institutions. I write about medieval monasticism, including mendicant orders; the Crusades and the Crusader States; interactions between Latin and Greek Orthodox Christendom; pilgrimage; food and diet in the Middle Ages.   
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  Aristotle Kallis

  My main research interests are situated in three main fields: the study of extremism, with particular emphasis on interwar fascism (generic concept and comparison of case-studies) and the contemporary extreme/populist right. I am particularly interested in the ideological foundations of extremist discourses, the dynamics and patterns of their diffusion, as well as their ?mainstreaming' effect (namely, effect on ?mainstream' political parties and social attitudes);the forces behind the facilitation and radicalisation of mass violence in a comparative, global context;totalitarian regimes, modernism, and the urban environment, with the main focus on Fascist Rome but also interests in the study of interwar Berlin and Moscow. 
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  Paolo Palladino

  I am interested in developing a better understanding of modern, embodied existence and in working to this end at the intersection of history, philosophy and sociology. My preferred archives are contemporary medical and agricultural practices, and Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze, thinkers who sit uneasily at the same disciplinary intersection, are my principal interlocutors.
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  Corinna Peniston-Bird

  Corinna Peniston-Bird's work on oral testimonies is centred on the relationship between memories and cultural representations. She is currently working on gendered commemoration, with a particular focus on British war memorials. Her interest in untraditional source materials has recently been reflected in a jointly edited collection with Dr Sarah Barber entitled History Beyond the Text: A Guide to the Use of Non-Traditional Sources by Historians (London: Routledge, 2008) which introduces research students to methodologies and theories of how to engage with sources ranging from the visual (photographs, film) to the oral (personal testimony), to the material.
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  Derek Sayer

  I was originally trained in sociology (PhD Durham 1975), and wrote a number of books on classical social theory (e.g. Marx's Method, 1978; The Violence of Abstraction, 1986; Capitalism and Modernity, 1990) and state formation (The Great Arch, with Philip Corrigan, 1985).  Latterly I have used modern Czech history, and especially the modern history of the city of Prague, as a laboratory in which to explore the many-sidedness of "the modern condition," focusing in particular on cultural history, including architecture, music, and the visual arts (The Coasts of Bohemia, 1998; Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century, 2013). 
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  James Taylor

  My work explores the social, political, and legal dimensions of economic change in Britain since the 1700s, focusing on the rise of big business in the nineteenth century. I have published on subjects ranging from the early history of corporate governance and the regulation and punishment of commercial fraud, to the history of financial reporting and literary representations of commerce.
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  John Welshman

  John Welshman's research interests are at the interface of contemporary history, social policy, and public health. His current work falls into five main areas: · the use of autobiographical material in the writing of history; 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; and the history of care in the community since 1948, especially for people with learning disabilities.
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  Angus Winchester

  My research falls under two headings: landscape history, particularly of upland areas; and local and regional identity in northern England, especially Cumbria. Much of my recent work has been on the history of resource management on common land and, in particular, the role of manor courts.  Current projects include building a corpus of manorial byelaws from northern England and directing the Victoria County History of Cumbria project.

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