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The activities of the Centre involve staff and postgraduates from numerous departments across the College of Arts and Social Sciences.
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| Name | Department | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Nerea Arruti | Hispanic Studies | Basque culture; contemporary Latin-American literature and culture; visual and cultural memory |
| Iain Beavan i.beavan@abdn.ac.uk |
Special Libraries & Archives | History of the book |
| Andrew Blaikie | Sociology | Ageing; motherhood; biography and demography; Scottish family life 1855-1955 |
| Cath Brennan | History | Siberia, the Russian Far East, and Russian America |
| John David Brewer | Sociology | Sociology of peace processes (especially Northern Ireland); origins of sociology; sociology of the Bible |
| Michael Brown | History / Irish-Scottish Studies | Irish and Scottish intellectual history, Enlightenments, and political identity, 1700-1850 |
| Stefan Brink | Scandinavian Studies | Early Scandinavian society and culture; Scandinavian landscape history; Viking slavery; Germanic place-names |
| Terry Brotherstone | History | Oral history of North Sea oil; contemporary Scottish labour history; historical theory |
| Steve Bruce | Sociology | Religion, secularization, politics, and modernity |
| Leigh Clayton | Philosophy | History and philosophy of selfhood; myth; film |
| Cairns Craig | English / Irish-Scottish Studies | Irish-Scottish cultural relations 1700-2000; Scottish thought 1850-1950 |
| Elizabeth Curtis | Education | Aesthetics and children's learning; play and understanding; modern perceptions of stone circles |
| Neil Curtis | Historic Collections | Museums and archaeology; social and cultural roles of museums today, repatriation and human remains |
| Peter Davidson | Renaissance Studies | Renaissance emblematics; Baroque cultural syncretism; northernness |
| Di Rienzo, Stephen | Politics and International Relations | |
| Clare Downham | Celtic / History | Vikings in Britain and Ireland; Iron Age and mediaeval Insular history and archaeology |
| Paul Dukes | History | Russia |
| David Dumville | History / Celtic | Mediaeval Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia; palaeography |
| Rob Dunbar | Law / Celtic | Minority language legislation; Gaelic periodicals |
| John Dunkley | French | Enlightenment France; the literature of childhood |
| Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner | Church History | Women and religion in the Middle Ages; the Dominicans; the Reformation |
| Nick Fisher | History & Philosophy of Science | Victorian culture and the Great Exhibition |
| Angelo Forte | Law | Scottish legal history 1000-1700; mediaeval ships |
| Karin Friedrich | History | Polish Prussia, 1500-1800; urban élites; early modern festival culture |
| Jane Geddes | History of Art | British mediaeval manuscripts; mediaeval ironwork; Scottish architecture |
| Andrew Gordon | English | Early modern British literature and urban space, cartography, popular culture, and letter writing |
| Elizabeth Hallam | Anthropology | The body; material and visual cultures |
| Glynn Hesketh | French | Mediaeval French language and literature; popular religious literature |
| Tony Heywood | History | Russia since the late 19th century; Russia's railway system |
| Derek Hughes | English | Early modern literature and culture; representations of human sacrifice; literature and music |
| Hazel Hutchison | English | British and American thought 1850-1930; Victorian literature of religious doubt; First World War literature |
| David Inglis | Sociology | Sociology of culture; sociology of ancient Greece and Rome; cultural globalization; nature and society |
| Catherine Jones | English | Literature and culture of Enlightenment and Romantic Britain, Ireland, and America; relations between literature and other arts |
| Margaret Jubb | French | Mediaeval French historiography; the Crusades; mediaeval attitudes towards Islam |
| Nadia Kiwan | French | Identity and post-colonialism in modern France; the migration of North African cultural practices |
| Owen Logan | History / Creative & Performing Arts | |
| Alastair Macdonald | History | War and society in mediaeval Scotland; sport |
| Andrew Mackillop | History | Scotland and empire in the long 18th century |
| Elizabeth Macknight | History | European élite culture around 1900 |
| Gabriele Marranci | Religious Studies | Islamic cultural practices and identity; Islam and modernity |
| Ben Marsden | Cultural History | Victorian science and technology; thermodynamics; humanitarianism; science and music |
| Peter McCaffery | International Relations | Sociology of plausibility; midwifery; Dutch Catholicism |
| Martin Mills | Anthropology of Religion | Religous communities in south and central Asia |
| Alberto Moreiras | Hispanic Studies | Culture and politics in modern Latin America |
| John Morrison | History of Art | Scottish and Irish visual culture since 1800 |
| Bill Naphy | History | Early modern sexuality, deviance and criminality; Calvin |
| Tom Nichols | History of Art | Early modern poverty; Renaissance and contemporary art theory |
| Bill Nicolaisen | English / Elphinstone Institute | Folklore; placenames |
| Ralph O'Connor | History / Celtic | Fossils; science and literature; Victorian spectacle; 19th-century literature; mediaeval fictionality; Irish and Icelandic sagas |
| Frederik Pedersen | History | Law, sex and the family in mediaeval Europe; canon law in mediaeval Scandinavia; European integration |
| Richard Perren | Economic History | British economic history since 1800, especially agriculture; the international meat trade since 1840 |
| Joan Pittock Wesson | English | |
| Tom Rist | English | Early modern English theatre and religio-political controversy |
| Roland Robertson | Sociology | Globalization |
| Alison Saunders | French | Word and image in early modern France; emblematics; history of the book |
| Paul Schlicke | English | 19th-century British popular culture and theatre |
| Robert Segal | Religious Studies | Myth; religion and the social sciences |
| Trevor Stack | Hispanic Studies | Mexican urban history, citizenship, and imagination |
| David Smith | History of Medicine | 20th-century British medicine, nutrition, and food safety |
| Greg Smithers | History | American History, Race, Gender, Slavery, Whiteness, Comparative/ Transnational Histories |
| Janet Stewart | German | Modern Germany and Austria; urban space, architecture and communication |
| Jane Stevenson | History / Humanity | Mediaeval Christianization and literacy; early modern élite culture; Latin poetry by women |
| Alex Sutherland | History | Enlightenment and folk culture; second sight; the invention of Scottish 'tradition' |
| Nick Thompson | Church History | Tolerance and religious pluralism in the Early Modern period; the Reformation |
| Janet Todd | English / Centre for the Novel | British literature and culture since 1660; women's writing |
| Will Tuladhar-Douglas | Religious Studies | Buddhism; historical anthropology of religions |
| Teresa María Vilarós | Hispanic Studies | Modern Spain; globalization; nationalisms |
| Nancy Wachowich | Anthropology | Colonialism in the Arctic |
| Simon Ward | German | Modern Germany and its cinema; urban space; architecture; tourism and travel |
| Roger B. Williams | Music | Music collections; the 20th-century symphony |
| Robert Wishart | Anthropology | Scottish diaspora in Arctic Canada |