People
Academic Staff
- Professor Susan Carruthers
US and international history, with expertise in the media and war, cold war culture, and colonial counterinsurgency, spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Dr Camillia Cowling
Slavery and abolition in the Americas and Atlantic World, and specifically Brazil and Cuba - Dr Rosie Doyle
Latin American history; the history of human rights in Mexico - Professor Rebecca Earle
Colonial and 19th century Spanish American history, and the global history of food - Dr Roger Fagge
Modern US social and cultural history - Professor David Lambert
Caribbean and Atlantic histories; British imperialism, exploration and cartography in the 'long' 19th century; counterfactual histories; histories of Whiteness; historical geography - Professor Tim Lockley
Colonial and antebellum North America, especially slavery and the South -
Dr Lydia Plath
19th and 20th century US South, slavery, racial violence, and their representation in American film
Centres and Networks: Comparative American Studies; History of Violence Network - Professor Benjamin Smith
Modern Mexican history, particularly post-revolutionary state formation; religion and popular conservatism - Professor J.E. Smyth
19th and 20th-century US history; American cinema