The Parkes Institute
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Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.
Lecturer in Holocaust History
Research interests
- Holocaust studies
- history of State Socialism
- memory studies
Accepting applications from PhD students
Connect with Janek
Research interests
- German-Jewish history in modern times
- German-Jewish emigration after 1933 as a transnational phenomenon
- Urban history (Berlin, Tel Aviv, Odessa)
Connect with Joachim
Faculty Web Manager
Research interests
- Yiddish Theatre
- Yiddish Culture in Britain
- Digital Humanities
Connect with Katie
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
Connect with Mark
Professor of Modern European History
Research interests
- Art music in twentieth century Germany
- Cultural histories in modern German history
- The Third Reich and Nazism
Connect with Neil
Lecturer in Mdrn European Jewish History
Research interests
- Jewish politics & Jewish internationalism
- Legal practice and legal actors
- Imperial expansion
Accepting applications from PhD students
Connect with Noëmie
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
Connect with Rachel
Senior Research Fellow
Accepting applications from PhD students
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Associate Professor
Research interests
- Conflict, migration and commemoration in contemporary France and Europe
- Mass internment in France during WWII
- The Spanish Civil War
Accepting applications from PhD students
Connect with Scott
Head of Department
Research interests
- Global History of Music
- Music and the Anthropocene
- Science and Technology Studies
Accepting applications from PhD students
Connect with Thomas
