Our Staff
| Centre Director | |
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| Dr Gregory Lippiatt | Lecturer in Medieval History (E&R) (Medieval aristocracy and political reform, crusades, heresy, France and the Mediterranean, 12th–13th centuries) |
| Arab and Islamic Studies | |
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| Professor Dionisius Agius | Al Qasimi Professor of Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture (Islamic material culture, maritime ethnography and Arabic language and linguistics) |
| Dr István Kristó-Nagy | Lecturer in Arab & Islamic Studies |
| Professor Ian Netton | Sharjah Professor of Islamic Studies (Classical Arab and Islamic history; Islamic theology and philosophy; sufism; medieval Arab travellers; Arabic and Islamic bibliography; Islamic art and architecture; comparative textuality and semiotics; and comparative religion) |
| Dr Michael Noble | |
| Professor Sajjad Rizvi | Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History (Islamic philosophical traditions, mystical theology and Shi'ite thought) |
| Dr Emily Selove | Associate Professor in Medieval Arabic Literature |
| Archaeology | |
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| Professor Oliver Creighton | Professor of Archaeology (Medieval archaeology; landscape studies; medieval town and country; medieval castle studies) |
| Dr Hajnalka Herold | Senior Lecturer in Historical Archaeology (Early medieval archaeology (AD 400-1100)) |
| Dr Catriona McKenzie | Senior Lecturer in Human Osteoarchaeology |
| Professor Stephen Rippon | Professor of Landscape Archaeology (Landscape archaeology; wetland archaeology; Roman-medieval transition) |
| Professor Naomi Sykes | Head of Department, The Lawrence Professor of Archaeology |
| Art History and Visual Culture | |
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| Professor Fabrizio Nevola | Professor in Art History and Visual Culture |
| Classics and Ancient History | |
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| Professor Richard Flower | Associate Professor in Classics and Late Antiquity (Roman and late Roman history; religious identity; late-antique and Christian 'patristic' literature, especially invective and heresiology; the many and various forms of authority) |
| English | |
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| Dr Naomi Howell | Lecturer |
| Professor Eddie Jones | Professor (Middle English; middle English religious history; hermits and anchorites; medieval religious history; interrelation of textuality and history in late medieval culture) |
| Professor Elliot Kendall | Associate Professor (Middle English, Ricardian literature, the aristocratic household in medieval society, intersections of ‘literary’ and ‘official’ texts, medieval apocalyptic) |
| History | |
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| Dr Helen Birkett | Senior Lecturer |
| Dr Tom Chadwick | Lecturer in Medieval History |
| Professor James Clark | Director of Societies and Cultures Institute (Late medieval monasticism, late medieval humanism and historical writing) |
| Dr Jennifer Farrell | Lecturer in Medieval History |
| Professor Sarah Hamilton | Professor of Medieval History (The religious and social history of Early Medieval Europe, c900–1100; monasteries, bishops and medieval kingship; the institution of penance in Lotharingian, German and Italian society) |
| Dr Gregory Lippiatt | Lecturer in Medieval History (E&R) (Medieval aristocracy and political reform, crusades, heresy, France and the Mediterranean, 12th–13th centuries) |
| Dr Stuart Pracy | Lecturer in Medieval History |
| Professor Catherine Rider | Associate Professor in Medieval History (Religious history, history of magic and the church's attitude to magic, history of medicine and the body ) |
| Professor Levi Roach | Associate Professor (Political and religious history of western Europe, 900–1100; charters and documentary culture; feudalism) |
| Dr Hester Schadee | Senior Lecturer in European History, 1450 - 1750 (Fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italian humanism; cultural history of ideas; and classical reception) |
| Professor Jane Whittle | Professor of Economic and Social History (The history of rural England, 1250-1750 (especially 1350-1650)) |
| Modern Languages | |
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| Professor Thomas Hinton | Associate Professor of French Language and Literature |
| Professor Ulrike Zitzlsperger | Associate Professor in German (The literary figure of the fool, pamphlets in the Early Modern period, and the role of women) |
| Theology and Religion | |
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| Professor Emma Loosley-Leeming | Professor of Middle Eastern and Caucasian Christianities (Late antique byzantine culture in the near east) |
| Professor Morwenna Ludlow | Professor of Christian History and Theology (Early medieval monasticism and eschatology) |
| Honorary Research Fellows and Other Members of the Centre | |
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| Dr Peter Cramer | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Marion Glasscoe | Former member of staff in English (Medieval mysticism) |
| Dr Robert Higham | Honorary University Fellow (Medieval British archaeology; castle studies; medieval settlement) |
| Professor Richard Hitchcock | Emeritus Professor for Modern Languages (Medieval Hispanic studies literature; Hispano-Arabic studies) |
| Dr Jonathan Hughes | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Professor Alan Robertshaw | Emeritus Professor for Modern Languages (Late medieval German lyric, especially the works of Tyrolean poet-composer Oswald van Wolkenstein (c1377-1445)) |
| Professor Michael Swanton | Emeritus Professor for English (Old English) |
| Dr Kim Taylor-Moore | Honorary Associate Research Fellow |
| Dr John Withrington | Honorary Research Fellow (Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur; Middle English Arthurian romance; the role of the Arthurian legend in Medieval and Renaissance notions of history and nationhood) |