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Profiles of Lecturers

Here you will find profiles of Cambridge University lecturers. They come from a variety of backgrounds within the UK and abroad. One of the great joys of being at Cambridge, or any university, reading History is that people are brought together by their talent, their love of history and their desire to pursue it further. Here lecturers talk about how they came to specialise in their fields, and about being a professional historian.

Click on a lecturer to visit their profile:

PhotoDr. Carolina Armenteros
College: Wolfson
Field: The history of social, political and moral thought in Western Europe from the Enlightenment to World War I.

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Dr. John Bew
College: Peterhouse
Field: The political and intellectual history of the British Isles

PhotoDr. Caroline Burt
College: Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall)
Field: Medieval British and European political and social history, specifically the reign of Edward (1272-1307).
PhotoDr. Alison Carrol 
College: Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall)
Field: The political history of modern France. I am especially interested in the history of the left (particularly the Socialists) and in issues of identity and ‘Frenchness’.
PhotoDr. Joya Chatterji
College: Trinity College
Field: The history of modern South Asia: in particular the partition of 1947, its causes and consequences, refugees, borders, minorities and migration within and from the Indian subcontinent.
PhotoDr. Lucy Delap
College: St Catharine's College
Field: Late Nineteenth and Twentieth century British history, and the transatlantic exchanges between Britain, Canada and the United States. I mainly look at social, media and cultural history, and the history of ideas.
PhotoDr. Isabel DiVanna
College: Wolfson College
Field: Intellectual History, specifically the history of historiography in nineteenth century France and the intellectual exchanges between France and Brazil between 1850 and 1900.
PhotoProf. Richard Evans
College: Gonville and Caius
Field: German history, especially social and cultural history, since the mid-nineteenth century.
PhotoDr. Elizabeth Foyster
College: Clare College
Field: History of the family and gender (masculinity and femininity) in England from the seventeenth century through to the mid-nineteenth century
PhotoDr. Ben Griffin
College: Girton College
Field: Nineteenth century British history, particularly political history, gender history, the history of masculinity and the history of feminism.

PhotoDr. Elisabeth Van Houts
College: Pembroke College
Field: The history of England and Normandy 900-1200, the writing of history in the Middle Ages, Gender (men and women) in the Middle Ages.

PhotoDr. Barbara Koenczoel
College: Pembroke College
Field: 20th century German History, special focus on History of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) – East Germany before Germany was unified late in the twentieth century, the politics of memory, political myths and rituals.
PhotoDr. Mary Laven
College: Jesus College
Field: Early modern religious and cultural history; the history of the Counter-Reformation; the Jesuit mission to China; gender; the body; sociability (how people talked, gossiped, ate, drank, played, and hung out together).
PhotoMr. Scott Mandelbrote
College: Peterhouse
Field: Early modern intellectual history, particularly the history of scholarship and the history of science
PhotoDr. Peter Mandler
College: Gonville and Caius College
Field: I work on British history over the last 200 years – most aspects, but with a special interest in ideas about 'Englishness' – what do people think is peculiar to or unusual about England and its people?
PhotoProf. Rosamond McKitterick
College: Sidney Sussex College
Field: Early medieval Europe
PhotoProf. John Morrill
College: Selywn College
Field: Early Modern History, especially British and Irish History 1500-1700
PhotoProf. Robin Osborne
College: King's College
Field: Greek History and Archaeology
PhotoDr.Richard Rex
College: Queens’ College
Field: The English Reformation, especially the reign of Henry VIII. More generally, I have interests in Tudor and European Reformation history.
PhotoDr. Andrea Ruddick
College: Pembroke College
Field: Late medieval British political and cultural history, especially English national identity.
PhotoDr. Magnus Ryan
College: Peterhouse
Field: History of political ideas in the medieval period and law and politics in medieval Europe
PhotoDr. Richard Serjeantson
College: Trinity College
Field: I am principally interested in the period that historians tend to call ‘early modern’ – that is, the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
PhotoDr. David Smith
College: Selwyn College
Field: My field is British political and constitutional history during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

PhotoDr. Alan Strathern
College: Churchill College
Field: The history of Sri Lanka; the comparative history of religious encounters in the early modern world.

PhotoDr. Andrew Thompson
College: Queens' College
Field: Eighteenth-century British and European history
PhotoProf. Robert Tombs
College: St John’s College
Field: My main area of research has been nineteenth-century French political history in a broad sense, and especially popular political culture.
PhotoDr. Carl Watkins
College: Magdalene College
Field: Medieval Religious History
PhotoDr. Felicia Yap
College: Wolfson College
Field: The Japanese occupation of East and South East Asia and the history of the British Empire 
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