Read this page aloud What is Recite? skip to content
Quick Links Hints



Staff

There are 22 History staff in the Department of Humanities. Please click on the individual staff member's profile below for further details. Please also browse the profiles of History's Visiting Scholars, Fellows and Associates

 

Dr Charlotte Alston, Senior Lecturer in History

Charlotte’s research interests are in international history, 1890 -1945, especially the history of Russia and Eastern Europe.

phone: 0191 243 7231; charlotte.alston@northumbria.ac.uk


   

Victoria Brown, Research Associate

Victoria is working on the Wellcome Trust Programme Award Disability and Industrial Society.

v.brown@northumbria.ac.uk


 

Dr Tanja Bueltmann, Lecturer in History

Tanja’s research is in British World history, focussing in particular on ethnic associationalism in the Scottish and English diasporas.

phone: 0191 227 4761; tanja.bueltmann@northumbria.ac.uk 


  

Dr Michael Patrick Cullinane, Senior Lecturer in History

Michael’s research interests are in the history of the United States and transatlantic relations in the early twentieth century.

phone: 0191 227 4606; michael.cullinane@northumbria.ac.uk


  

Dr Sylvia Ellis, Reader in History 

Sylvia's research interests lie in post-1945 British and American political and diplomatic history.

phone: 0191 227 3736; sylvia.ellis@northumbria.ac.uk


  

Dr David T. Gleeson, Reader in History 

David's research interests are in the Irish in the Atlantic World and the English Diaspora.

phone: 0191 227 3707; david.gleeson@northumbria.ac.uk


Dr Sasha Handley, Senior Lecturer in History

Sasha's research focuses on the social and cultural history of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Britain.

phone: 0191 227 3463; sasha.handley@northumbria.ac.uk 


 

Dr Joe Hardwick, Lecturer in History

Joe’s research interests lie in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British political and imperial history. 

phone: 0191 243 7315 ; joseph.hardwick@northumbria.ac.uk


 
 

Dr Alan Harvey, Senior Lecturer in History & Admissions Tutor

Alan's teaching and research interests are in the economic history of the Byzantine Empire, especially from the tenth century.

phone: 0191 227 3727; alan.harvey@northumbria.ac.uk


Dr Kyle Hughes, Senior Research Assistant

Kyle's research interests are in Scottish diaspora history, the historyof 19th and 20th century Belfast, and Ribbonism in Britain.

kyle2.hughes@northumbria.ac.uk

 

  

Andrea Knox, Senior Lecturer in History

Andrea is currently researching early modern Irish women migrants in Spain and Portugal.

phone: 0191 227 3193; andrea.knox@northumbria.ac.uk


  

Dr Ewan Knox, Senior Lecturer in History

Ewan's research interests lie in the social history of work, especially morbidity and injury in the work environment. 

phone: 0191 227 4763; e.knox@northumbria.ac.uk


  

Dr Daniel Laqua, Lecturer in History

Daniel's research is concerned with transnational movements and associations in 19th/20th-century Europe.  

phone: 0191 227 3491; daniel.laqua@northumbria.ac.uk 


  

Prof Don MacRaild, Associate Dean & Professor in History 

Don's fields of research expertise, include: the Irish in Britain and the wider British World and the English Diaspora.

phone: 0191 243 7259; don.macraild@northumbria.ac.uk


  

Dr Gaby Mahlberg, Lecturer in History 

Gaby’s research is in the intellectual and cultural history of 17th-century Britain, especially the history of English republicanism.

phone: 0191 227 4666; gaby.mahlberg@northumbria.ac.uk


  

Dr Peter Maw, Lecturer in History

Peter's research interests include: the British-Atlantic World and the merchant communities of inland towns in northern England.

phone: 0191 243 7344; pete.maw@northumbria.ac.uk 


  

Dr James McConnel, Principal Lecturer in History 

James's research relates to Irish Nationalist MPs and the development of Protestant commemorations in the British World. 

phone: 0191 227 3946; james.mcconnel@northumbria.ac.uk


  

Dr Alasdair Raffe, Lecturer in History 

Alasdair is a historian of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious and political culture.  

phone: 0191 227 4601; alasdair.raffe@northumbria.ac.uk


  

Dr Nicole Robertson, Senior Lecturer in History 

Nicole’s research interests include the co-operative movement in Britain and retailing, consumption and consumer protection.

phone: 0191 227 3738; nicole.robertson@northumbria.ac.uk


  

Dr Joe Street, Senior Lecturer in History 

Joe’s work focuses on the interaction between African American politics and culture in twentieth century.

phone: 0191 227 4182; joe.street@northumbria.ac.uk 


  

Dr Avram Taylor, Senior Lecturer in History 

Avram's research interests are in historical sociology, and the relationship between history and theory in general.

phone: 0191 227 4923; avram.taylor@northumbria.ac.uk


  

Howard Wickes, Principal Lecturer & Programme Director

Howard’s research interests are in intellectual and cultural history, especially of early-modern Europe.

phone: 0191 227 4923; howard.wickes@northumbria.ac.uk