Academic Staff
![Claire Shaw](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/ghccpeople/members/claire_shaw_-_full_size.jpg?maxWidth=174)
Dr Claire Shaw
Centre Co-Director
Specialisms: Modern Russian history, disability history, identity, marginality, history of technology
![Anna Ross](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/research/centres/ehrc/people/fullsizeoutput_155a.jpeg?maxWidth=173&maxHeight=230)
Dr Anna Ross
Centre Co-Director
Specialisms: Modern European history, political history, state-building, empire, and sovereignty, with specific reference to Germany and Spain
![Christoph Mick](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/research/centres/ehrc/people/cm.jpg?maxWidth=176&maxHeight=220)
Professor Christoph Mick
Former Centre Director (2018-21)
Specialisms: Modern German and Eastern European history, especially Poland, Russia, Ukraine; history of science and technology, memorial culture and nation building.
![Mark Philp](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/research/centres/ehrc/people/mark_philp.jpg?maxWidth=175&maxHeight=210)
Professor Mark Philp
Former Centre Director (2014-2018)
Specialisms: 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.
![Jonathan Davies](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/staff_index/jdavies/jd_pratolino.jpg?maxWidth=300)
Dr Jonathan Davies
Specialisms: Early modern European history, especially violence; the Italian states between 1350 and 1600, especially Tuscany
![Anna Hajkova](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/staff_index/hajkova/_g1a8368.jpg?maxWidth=300)
Dr Anna Hájková
Specialisms: The history of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and modern Central and Eastern Europe; the history of genocide; the history of gender; nationalities; history of everyday life in general
![Pierre Purseigle](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/staff_index/purseigle/purseigle_work_small.jpeg?maxWidth=333)
Dr Pierre Purseigle
Specialisms: The comparative history of the First World War and especially on the experience of the French, British, and – to a lesser extent – Belgian populations, wartime mobilization, the experience of refugees, and pictorial humour
![Colin Storer](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/staff_index/storer/0130770cc2969861a4a4e35de381e97f8d641f45a5_00001.jpg?maxWidth=150&maxHeight=199)
Dr Colin Storer
Specialisms: Anglo-German relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the Weimar Republic; European Cultural History in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (especially popular/genre fiction, modernism, and media history)