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