Find a research supervisor in gender, sexuality and race

I am a historian of race, migration and empire. My first book Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, Race and Nation, c. 1850-1970 (forthcoming) traces multiple constructions of Irish identity in national and international displays as Ireland moved from a colonial to an independent, globally-connected state. As a cultural history of Irish identity, the book considers exhibitions as a formative ...

Brazilian history, Latin American historyU.S.-Latin American relations, race and gender in the Americas

Early-modern Catholic reform, early-modern politics, man and environment in early-modern Europe

Visual and material culture of early modern Britain, post-Reformation religious and cultural practices.

• The social and cultural history of eighteenth-century Britain 
• The body, gender and sexuality
• Letters and letter-writing

• Cultural history of modern Britain
• Histories of gender
• Sexuality and selfhood

I am a historian of race, gender and sexuality in the United States, specifically the US South. My interdisciplinary research interests include fields in queer, urban, religious and women’s studies.

Political and social history of 20th century Britain, Ireland, and empire.

I am a historian of memory and communities, with research expertise in local and family history, the social history of archives, and the mental afterlife of conflict. I am especially interested in the ways memory and the representation of the past shapes individual and collective identities, with a particular emphasis on the experiences of non-elite men and women. My first book, Recollection ...

Joy Porter is University of Birmingham 125^th Anniversary Chair, Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History and Principal Investigator of the Treatied Spaces Research Group(treatiedspaces.com), an interdisciplinary, internationally collaborative entity dedicated to addressing Indigenous environmental, political, and historical concerns. Her current major project is a multi-partner attempt ...

Modern and contemporary history of South Asia and the political and social history of the British Empire.

Eighteenth-century Britain and empire, material cultures, production, consumption, skill, the senses and the emotions.

Early and central middle ages, gender and sexuality, religious communities and families.

Religion and society in the early and central middle ages, religious and political culture, gender and identity.

Modern China, environmental history, cities, science and technology, frontier and transnational history, gender.