Our staff and students have a wide range of research interests in global and transnational history, which we approach from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Affiliated Staff (University of Edinburgh) Dr Talat Ahmed: Asia; culture and society; film (History, HCA)Professor Crispin Bates, South Asia; Indian Ocean; Subaltern History (History, HCA)Dr Felix Boecking: China; political economy; World War II (History, HCA)Professor Stephen Bowd: Global Renaissance (History, HCA)Professor Francesca Bray: East Asia; gender; agriculture; technology and society (Social Anthropology, SPS)Dr Esther Breitenbach: Scotland; British Empire; Civil Society (History, HCA)Professor Alex Bremner: British empire; history and theory of Victorian architecture and design culture (Architecture, ECA)Dr Emily Brownell: Africa; environmental history; urban history (History, HCA)Dr Mike Carr: Mediterranean; boundaries; merchants (History, HCA)Dr Rosi Carr: Global Scotland, settler colonialism, Enlightenment, violence, Pacific-Atlantic connections (History, HCA)Dr Emile Chabal: France; political ideas; global history of ideas (History, HCA)Dr Yashaswini Chandra, Arts and cultures of South Asia; animal history; women's studies (History of Art, ECA)Dr Roger Collins: Spain; early Middle Ages; comparative cultural and religious history of Eurasia, c. 550-850 (History, HCA)Professor Viccy Coltman, Material culture; dress history; art and identity (History of Art, ECA)Dr Kate Davison: Europe, Australia & transnational history; history of sexuality, gender, psychiatry, psy-sciences, emotions, memory & experience (History, HCA)Dr Kirsty Day: East-Central Europe; women's & gender history; history of religion (History, HCA)Professor Enda Delaney: Ireland; diaspora; transnational history; modernity in comparative context (History, HCA)Dr Jeremy Dell: West Africa; Islamic world; global history of the book (History, HCA)Dr Josh Doble: Eastern and southern Africa, animal histories, race and colonialism (History, HCA)Dr Kevin Donovan: Africa; economic and political anthropology; African history; science and technology studies (Centre of African Studies, SPS)Dr Jaime Forde, Latin America; medieval and early modern periods; materiality and temporality (History of Art, ECA)Professor Niels Gaul: Middle and later Byzantine empire; Cross-cultural approaches to Byzantine paideia and Tang/Song xue (Classics, HCA)Dr Sarah Goldsmith: Britain, Europe; travel and the Grand Tour; gender and the body (History, HCA)Professor Emma Hunter: Africa; history of political thought; print cultures (History, HCA)Professor Michelle Keown, Pacific colonial history; Indigenous Pacific literatures, languages and cultures; the legacies of nuclear testing in the Pacific; Indigenous Pacific navigation and voyaging; Pacific diasporas (English Literature, LLC)Dr Harshan Kumarasingham: Commonwealth politics and history (Politics, SPS)Dr Iona Macintyre, Spanish America, history of the book, gender studies, popular print forms, and transatlantic relations (LLC)Dr Stephen McDowall: China-Europe connections; material and visual culture (History, HCA)Dr Stephan Malinowski: Europe; violence; history of ideas (History, HCA)Dr Nik Matheou: Global Middle Ages; social & economic history of Afro-Eurasia 650-1500; Armenian & Caucasian Studies; long histories of capitalism; Mongol World-Empire (History, HCA)Dr Esther Mijers: Scotland; Dutch Republic; Atlantic history; formation of empires (History, HCA)Dr Alexander Murdoch: Early modern Scotland, emigration from Scotland in the eighteenth century (History, HCA)Dr Kalathmika Natarajan: South Asia; critical diplomatic history; empire; caste; indenture; Partition (History, HCA)Dr Terri Ochiagha, Africa; British Colonial Education; Cultural History (English Literature, LLC)Dr Richard Oosterhoff: Europe; knowledge communities; print and reading; global and comparative approaches to early modern history (History, HCA)Dr Désha Osborne: Caribbean and African diasporic literature and culture; 18th Century Scotland and the Caribbean; Literary history (English Literature, LLC)Professor Diana Paton: Caribbean; punishment, crime and state formation; slavery; religious cultures (History, HCA)Dr Nicola Perugini, Political violence; human rights; international law (International Relations, SSPS)Dr Meha Priyadarshini: Asia; Latin America; global history; material culture (History, HCA)Dr Rochelle Rowe: Black British history; Caribbean history, Black Atlantic, Black feminisms, Visual Culture (History, HCA)Dr Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins: Japanese history; law and history; women and Japanese history (Asian Studies, LLC)Dr Hana Sleiman: The modern Middle East, cultural and intellectual history.Dr Justyna Turkowska: Central and Eastern Europe; German Empire; history of knowledge; history of medicine (History, HCA) Dr Sonia Tycko: Early modern England in the Atlantic world; labour; law; coercionDr Wendy Ugolini: Italy; Wales; diaspora; identities in wartime (History, HCA)Dr Tereza Valny: Europe; transnational histories of landscape, collective memory, genocide and commemoration (History, HCA)Dr Ben Weinstein: British empire; Victorian politics; liberalism (History, HCA)Dr Hatice Yıldız: The late Ottoman Empire; colonial India; gender; labour; class; comparative history (History, HCA) Affiliated Staff (beyond the University of Edinburgh) Professor Manuel Barcia (University of Leeds)Dr Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews)Dr Bethan Fisk: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow (University of Bristol)Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)Dr Zhu Jing (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)Dr Gerard McCann (University of York)Dr Julia McClure (University of Glasgow)Dr Ismay Milford (Universität Leipzig)Dr Mikko Toivanen (European University Institute)Dr Christine Whyte (University of Glasgow)Professor Nuala Zahedieh (University of Cambridge) Affiliated Students Our students are conducting cutting-edge research into a wide range of global and transnational history topics.Marios Anastasiadis, PhD, researcher, Greek slavery and social mobility (Classics, HCA)Katherine Burns, PhD researcher: Nineteenth-Century US Studies/Slavery Studies/Gender Studies (History, HCA)Carmen Channing Eberhard, PhD researcher: Patagonia; Britain; cultural history; imagined geographies; Latin America (History, HCA)Ash Charlton, PhD Researcher: Slavery and Race in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1768-1860): A Text Mining Approach, (History, HCA)Sam Cheney, PhD Researcher: Sounds Exotic: British Perceptions and Representations of Chinese Musicality, 1793 - 1939" (History, HCA)Arran Claringbold, PhD researcher: Africa; Zimbabwe; nationalism (History, HCA)Alison Clark, PhD researcher: Caribbean; Scotland; economic history; slavery (History, HCA)Amy Cools, PhD researcher: Biography of James McCune Smith (1813-1865), African American history, medicine, philosophy (History, HCA)Siân Davies, PhD Researcher: Sugar and Slate: A labour history of the Pennants and their Estates in Jamaica and North Wales 1780 – c.1900, (History, HCA)Alastair Learmont, PhD researcher: Scotland; slavery; abolition (History, HCA)James Mackay, PhD researcher: African American refugees in the American Revolution (History, HCA)Linsey McMillan, PhD researcher: Medicine and Slavery in the British Caribbean, 1780-1820 (History, HCA)Willem Pauw, PhD researcher: Experience of Chinese immigrants in Scotland (History, HCA)Emma Pearce, PhD researcher: Tartan and colonial identities in the circum-Atlantic British Empire c.1745–1822 (History of Art, ECA)Dilan Tulsiani, PhD Researcher: Imperial dissidents and British surveillance (History, HCA)Xian Wan, PhD Researcher: The fate of the Chinese compradors in the 20th century (History, HCA)Florian Wieser, PhD Researcher: The agency of Black and Native Americans in the French-Spanish conflict of the 17th-century Caribbean (History, HCA) This article was published on 2024-08-01
