Academic Staff
![Roberta Bivins](roberta_bivins.jpg)
Professor Roberta Bivins
Director of the Centre and 2023-24 Coordinator, MA in the History of Medicine
Specialisms: Medicine, ethnicity and immigration in the 20th century; domestic medical technologies; post-war medical research and healthcare delivery patterns in the UK and USA.
![Jamie Banks](jamie_banks.jpg)
Dr Jamie Banks
Specialisms: History of drugs in the British Empire and post-colonial Britain. My current research explores the histories of cannabis, race, and mental illness in post-war Britain, with a specific interest in the social and health inequalities experienced by Black communities in the 1980s and 1990s.
Dr Doreen Kembabazi
Specialisms: 19th/20th Century East Africa, Ethnicity, Nationalism, Slavery, Gender, Women, Reproductivity, Sexuality, Dress and fashion, Urbanization.
![Hilary Marland](hilary_marland.jpg)
Professor Hilary Marland
Specialisms: History of psychiatry; migration and mental illness; the health of adolescent girls; household medicine; midwifery and childbirth; medical practice in the nineteenth century.
![Claire Shaw](claire_shaw.jpg)
Dr Claire Shaw
Specialisms: History of Russia and the Soviet Union; the formation of Soviet identity; the history of disability and marginality; contemporary Russian fashion and Soviet public space.
![Elise Smith](elise_smith.jpg)
Dr Elise Smith
On Study Leave 2023-24
2024-25 Coordinator, MA in the History of Medicine
Specialisms: The history of medicine in Britain and the British Empire during the modern period.
![Claudia Stein](claudia_stein.jpg)
Dr Claudia Stein
On Study Leave 2023-24
Specialisms: Medicine and science in early modern Germany (1500-1800); enlightenment science and medicine, strategies of biopower (1800-today); visual culture and medicine (1500-today); the history of epistemology.
![Mathew Thomson](mathew_thomson.jpg)
Professor Mathew Thomson
Specialisms: 19th and 20th century British history; history of social policy; psychology and eugenics.
![Anna Toropova](anna_toropova.jpg)
Dr Anna Toropova
Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow
Joining September 2024
Specialisms: The cultural and medical history of Russia and the Soviet Union; cinema and the transformation of the human subject; intersections between medical knowledge, cinematic technology, and psycho-physiological reforging in the early Soviet period