Staff in the Department of History
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Staff list
Dr Justin Bengry
j.bengry (@gold.ac.uk)
Justin is a cultural historian of sexualities and the queer past focusing on twentieth-century Britain.
Dr George Bodie
g.bodie (@gold.ac.uk)
George is a historian of contemporary Germany and the global Cold War
Dr Isabell Dahms
i.dahms (@gold.ac.uk)
Isabell researches medical, philosophical and grassroots histories of sex, gender and sexuality.
Prof Dejan Djokić
d.djokic (@gold.ac.uk)
Dejan researches political, social and cultural history of the Balkans and global history of the Cold War.
Dr Hannah Elias
h.elias (@gold.ac.uk)
Cultural historian of the twentieth century researching Black British histories, religion, media and public history.
Dr Christienna Fryar
c.fryar (@gold.ac.uk)
Christienna is a historian of modern Britain, the British Empire, and the modern Caribbean.
Prof Richard Grayson
r.grayson (@gold.ac.uk)
Richard’s research interests are in Irish history and the First World War, and the role of remembrance in society.
Dr Ariel Hessayon
a.hessayon (@gold.ac.uk)
Reader in early modern history
Dr Alexandra Lee
a.lee (@gold.ac.uk)
Alexandra is a medieval historian who focuses on the intersection between epidemic disease and popular religion.
Dr Máire MacNeill
M.MacNeill (@gold.ac.uk)
Dr John Price
j.price (@gold.ac.uk)
John is a social and cultural historian who takes a ‘People’s History’ approach to modern London and Britain.
Dr John Rees
jrees012 (@gold.ac.uk)
John is researching his second book on the English Revolution of the 1640s, following The Leveller Revolution (Verso, 20
Dr Tarangini Sriraman
Tarangini.sriraman (@gold.ac.uk)
Tarangini's research interests lie at the intersection of social and medical history across the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dr Anastasia Stouraiti
a.stouraiti (@gold.ac.uk)
Anastasia is a cultural historian of early modernity, researching the history of Venice and its Mediterranean empire
Dr Erica Wald
e.wald (@gold.ac.uk)
Erica’s research intersects the fields of imperial, social and medical history, with a focus on colonial India.
Prof Alexander Watson
a.watson (@gold.ac.uk)
Alexander’s current research looks at conflict and identity in East-Central Europe and the concept of total war.
Dr Kathryn Woods
K.Woods (@gold.ac.uk)
My research interests are in the history of the body, early modern medicine, history of the student experience.
Dr Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
r.yoeli-tlalim (@gold.ac.uk)
Ronit's research has focussed on the transmission of medical ideas along the Silk-Roads, including Tibetan medicines.
Dr Nada Zečević
n.zecevic (@gold.ac.uk)
A historian of Southeastern Europe, focusing on migration, communication and exchange of the region’s historic societi
Professor Emerita Sally Alexander
s.alexander (@gold.ac.uk)
Sally is working on the history of psychoanalysis in Britain, the history of feminism and social movements.
Professor Emeritus Damien Keown
d.keown (@gold.ac.uk)
Damien specialises in Buddhist ethics with particular reference to medicine and biotechnology.
Emeritus Professor David Killingray
d.killingray (@gold.ac.uk)
David's interests are in nineteenth and twentieth century African and Caribbean history, and English local history.