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The activities of the Centre involve staff and postgraduates from numerous departments acorss 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

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