Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Director: James Jordan
MA Holocaust convenor: Janek Gryta

Dr Katie Power

Faculty Web Manager

Research interests

  • Yiddish Theatre
  • Yiddish Culture in Britain
  • Digital Humanities
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Emeritus Professor Mark Cornwall PhD, FRHistS

Research interests

  • Late Habsburg Empire 1848-1918, including the First World War
  • Global History of Treason from antiquity to the modern era
  • Czech-German relations in the Bohemian lands

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Noëmie Duhaut

Lecturer in Mdrn European Jewish History

Research interests

  • Jewish politics and Jewish internationalism
  • Legal practice and legal actors
  • Imperial expansion

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Rachel Pistol

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Second World War internment in the UK
  • Refugees in Britain 1930s-1940s
  • Japanese American incarceration

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Sami Everett

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Thomas Irvine

Professor

Research interests

  • AI and Music
  • Global History of Music

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Tony Kushner

James Parkes Professor of History

Research interests

  • Jewish migration history
  • Refugee studies
  • Representation and memory of the Holocaust
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Mr Yiliang Chee

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