Find a research supervisor in global history

Staff in the Department of History who supervise PhD/MA by Research in the area of global history.

Dr Shahmima Akhtar

Dr Shahmima Akhtar

Assistant Professor of Black and Asian British History

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 ...

Dr Courtney J. Campbell

Dr Courtney J. Campbell

Associate Professor in Latin American History
Joint Director of the University of Birmingham Brazil Institute

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

Dr Nathan Cardon

Dr Nathan Cardon

Associate Professor in United States History

19th and early 20th century United States history,  race and empire in foreign and domestic space

Dr Ferenc Csirkés

Dr Ferenc Csirkés

Assistant Professor in the History of the Pre-modern Islamicate World

Dr Csirkés’s research interests include Iranian history, Ottoman history, Ottoman Turkish literature, Persian literature, cultural history, Central Asian history, and Central Asian literature.

Dr Tom Cutterham

Dr Tom Cutterham

Associate Professor of United States History

Power, politics, and ideas in Revolutionary America; commerce and finance in the Atlantic world.

Dr David Gange

Dr David Gange

Senior Lecturer in History

Cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain.

Dr Simon Jackson

Dr Simon Jackson

Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History


French Colonial, international and global history of the modern Middle East and the Mediterranean in the twentieth century; history of commodities and natural resources; history of international development.

Professor Sabine Lee

Professor Sabine Lee

Professor in Modern History

British-German relations since 1945, European integration, international relations, the cold war, children and war.

Professor Mo Moulton

Professor Mo Moulton

Professor of Modern British and Irish History

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

Dr John Munro

Dr John Munro

Lecturer in United States History
Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of North America

Twentieth-century United States and the world

Dr Lucie Ryzova

Dr Lucie Ryzova

Senior Lecturer in Middle East History

Social and cultural historian of modern Egypt, Egyptian popular culture and vernacular modernity.

Dr Manu Sehgal

Lecturer in South Asian History

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

Dr Simon Yarrow

Dr Simon Yarrow

Senior Lecturer in Medieval History

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

Dr Shirley Ye

Dr Shirley Ye

Lecturer in Asian History

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

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