Academic Staff
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- Biswas, Somak
Dr Somak Biswas
History of race, sexuality, and migration, health (inc. HIV/AIDS) with a focus on twentieth-century Britain, the British Empire and South Asia.
- Bivins, Roberta
Professor Roberta Bivins
Medicine, ethnicity and immigration in the twentieth century; domestic medical technologies; post-war medical research and healthcare delivery patterns in the UK and USA.
- Bycroft, Michael
Dr Michael Bycroft
Early modern science, technology and medicine; materials and their use in the sciences; methodology of the history of science; science and state-formation in early modern France.
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- Dincer Hadjianastasis, Aysu
Dr Aysu Dincer Hadjianastasis
Aromatics, medicine, and trade in late medieval and early modern Europe and Mediterranean.
- Dyt, Kathryn
Dr Kathryn Dyt
History of Vietnam in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; environmental and decolonial histories; colonial archives and modern disciplinary categories; anthropology and phenomenology; more-than-human worlds.
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- Kembabazi, Doreen (Adyeeri)
Dr Doreen Kembabazi (Adyeeri)
Nineteenth and twentieth-century East Africa, ethnicity, nationalism, slavery, gender, women, reproductivity, sexuality, dress and fashion, urbanization.
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- Mann, Sophie
Dr Sophie Mann
Medicine, science and religion in early modern England; the history of the body; the history of anatomy.- Marland, Hilary
Emeritus Professor Hilary Marland
History of psychiatry; health in prisons; migration and mental illness; the health of adolescent girls; household medicine; midwifery and childbirth; medical practice in the nineteenth century.
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- Petit, Caroline
Professor Caroline Petit
History of ancient Greek and Roman medicine; medical manuscripts and early printed books; transmission and reception of ancient medical texts; environmental history, medicine and rhetoric.
- Poskett, James
Dr James Poskett
Global history of science and technology, medieval to present; material culture of science; history of anthropology and race; history of the mind; history of scientific instruments
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- Shafiee, Katayoun
Dr Katayoun Shafiee
History of the Islamic World; politics of oil in the Middle East, specifically Iran; infrastructures; environment; science and technology studies
- Shaw, Claire
Dr Claire Shaw
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.
- Simpson, Thomas
Dr Thomas Simpson
Environmental history; history of science; history of cartography; history of climate; history of South Asia; imperial and colonial history
- Smith, Elise
Dr Elise Smith
Director
History of medicine and the life sciences in Britain and the British Empire since 1800, with a particular emphasis on the history of anthropology and scientific racism, military medicine, metrology, and representations of the health sciences in popular culture.
- Stein, Claudia
Dr Claudia Stein
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.
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- Taylor, Steven
Dr Steven Taylor
Histories of health, childhood, food, migration, and everyday life in modern Europe and North America.- Thomson, Mathew
Professor Mathew Thomson
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British history; history of social policy; history of psychology and eugenics; history of the NHS.
- Toropova, Anna
Dr Anna Toropova
History of the psy-disciplines; cultural and medical history of Russia and the Soviet Union; cinema, science and medicine; history of the emotions; history of hypnosis and the unconscious mind; Soviet cinema and spectatorship.