EMECC Members
Current Members
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DirectorDr Charles WaltonResearch interests include Old Regime, Enlightenment and Revolutionary France, with emphases on democratization, rights, liberalism and economic justice. Director of the Eighteenth Century Centre 2019-Present. |
Centre CoordinatorMichelle NorteyResponsible for the day-to-day operations of the centre, including financial administration and assisting in the organisation of events, conferences, seminars and other meetings. |
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Professor Maxine BergGlobal trade and material culture in the early modern world; Economic and social history in 18th and early 19th century Britain and Europe; Intellectual history |
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Dr Jonathan DaviesHistory of the Italian states c.1300-c.1600; history of the elites; history of ritual; history of violence; history of universities |
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Dr Aysu Dincer HadjianastasisSocial and economic history of the Eastern Mediterranean in the late Middle Ages; History of the crusades and the crusader states; History of Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus; History of Venice; Social and economic history of early medieval England; England and Scotland in the fifteenth century |
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Professor Rebecca Earle |
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Professor Mark KnightsPolitical culture of early modern Britain; the role of print; interaction of politics, literature and ideas |
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Professor Beat KüminEnglish and Central European social history, c.1450-c.1650; the history of inns and taverns; parish communities in the Age of the Reformation |
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Professor David LambertCaribbean and Atlantic histories; British imperialism, exploration and cartography in the 'long' 19th century; counterfactual histories; histories of Whiteness; historical geography |
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Professor Tim LockleyColonial North America; southern history; slavery; Native Americans |
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Dr Naomi PullinResearch interests include religious and gender history in the early modern British Atlantic, with particular interests in the early Quaker community; the roles of women in Protestant dissent; and sociability, friendship and enmity in the 17th and 18th centuries. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow for the project 'Female Foes: Conflict, Dispute and Identity in the Early Modern British Atlantic'. |
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Professor Peter MarshallReligious and cultural history of early modern England, especially the Reformation and its impact |
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Dr Rosa SalzbergItalian Renaissance history; early print culture; migration history |
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Dr Claudia SteinMedicine 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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Dr Luca MolàEarly modern Italian history; silk industry; patenting innovation, sumptuary legislation |
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Dr Michael BycroftLeverhulme Early Career Fellow for the project "Jewellers, Travellers and the Science of Gems in France, 1630-1830" |
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Dr Sarah Richardson18th and 19th century British political history, middle-class women and political culture; electoral politics; history and computing |
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Professor Penny Roberts16th century French history, especially the Wars of Religion |
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Professor Mark PhilpDirector of Research for the History Dept,. Research interests cover political theory and political sociology; political corruption and issues relating to standards in public life; history of political thought and British history at the time of the French Revolution. |
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Dr Guido van MeersbergenLeverhulme Early Career Fellow for the project "Cross-Cultural Diplomacy Compared: European Diplomats in South Asia (1600-1750)" |
Associate Staff
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Dr Marjolein SchepersVrije Universiteit Brussel & IAS Fernandes Fellow 2020-21 |
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Honarary Fellow Helen CliffordHonarary Fellow |
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Emeritus Reader Henry CohnThe German Peasants War 1524-26; Political and social history of the Holy Roman Empire 1350-1600 |
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Honorary Professor Margot Finn19th century British social and cultural history of gender, consumption and law |
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Honorary Professor Mark Greengrass16th-17th century France; French Wars of Religion |
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Emeritus Professor Gad HeumanCaribbean history during slavery and after emancipation |
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Associate Fellow Steve HindleSocial, cultural and economic history of England, 1500-1800, especially the social order, poverty and popular protest |
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Emeritus Professor Anthony McFarlaneSpanish American colonial history, especially in Colombia; colonian rebellions and wars of independence in Spanish America; comparative history of the Americas |
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Associate Fellow Angela McShaneSocial and cultural history of early modern history; the material culture of popular politics and the everyday in early modern England |
Research Staff |
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Dr Callie WilkinsonLeverhulme Early Career Fellow for the project 'Scandals, state secrets, and the dissemination of information about the East India Company'. |
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Dr Guillemette CrouzetGuillemette Crouzet started a Marie Curie Sklodowska Individual Research Fellowship in April 2019 in the History Department at the University of Warwick, where she previously held a British Academy/Newton International Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is an historian of the British empire, the Middle East and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
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Dr Lucy UnderwoodLeverhulme Early Career Fellow for the project "Imagining Englands: Confessionalisation, Catholicism and National Identity after the English Reformation" |
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