Academic Staff
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.
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.
Dr Doreen Kembabazi (Adyeeri)
Nineteenth and twentieth-century East Africa, ethnicity, nationalism, slavery, gender, women, reproductivity, sexuality, dress and fashion, urbanization.
Dr Sophie Mann
Co-DirectorMedicine, science and religion in early modern England; the history of the body; the history of anatomy.
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.
Dr James Poskett
Global history of science and technology, early modern to present; material culture of science; history of anthropology and race; history of the mind; history of scientific instruments
Dr Katayoun Shafiee
History of the Islamic World; politics of oil in the Middle East, specifically Iran; infrastructures; environment; science and technology studies
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.
Dr Thomas Simpson
Environmental history; history of science; history of cartography; history of climate; history of South Asia; imperial and colonial history
Dr Elise Smith
Co-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.
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.
Professor Mathew Thomson
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British history; history of social policy; psychology and eugenics
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.