Find a research supervisor in religious history

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

Dr Thomas Brodie

Dr Thomas Brodie

Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History

  • Modern German and European History
  • History of Religion
  • History of War

Dr Isabelle Carter

Dr Isabelle Carter

Assistant Professor in Modern British History

I am an oral historian of modern Britain, with particular interests in the lived experience of place-based and welfare inequalities in the late twentieth century. 

 

 

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.

Professor Elaine Fulton

Professor Elaine Fulton

Professor of History Education
Director of Education, College of Arts and Law

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

Dr David Gange

Dr David Gange

Senior Lecturer in History

Cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain.

Dr Noah Millstone

Dr Noah Millstone

Senior Lecturer

My primary research interests are in the history of politics, religion, and the book in early modern Britain and Europe, especially but not exclusively c1598-1660.

Dr La Shonda Mims

Dr La Shonda Mims

Assistant Professor of Race and Ethnicity in the United States

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.

Dr Imogen Peck

Dr Imogen Peck

Assistant Professor in British History
Director, Centre for Midlands History and Cultures

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 ...

Professor Joy Porter

Professor Joy Porter

Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University of Birmingham 125th Anniversary Chair
Principal Investigator, Treatied Spaces Research Group

Joy Porter is University of Birmingham 125th 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 ...

Professor William Purkis

Professor William Purkis

Professor of Medieval History
Head of School of History and Cultures

Medieval religious cultures (c.1000–c.1300), crusading, pilgrimage and monasticism.

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 Katharine Sykes

Dr Katharine Sykes

Associate Professor in Early Medieval History

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

Dr Jonathan Willis

Dr Jonathan Willis

Associate Professor in Early Modern History

The English reformation, history and theology of late-medieval and early modern Europe.

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.

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