Staff

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.

contact: +44 (0)191 243 7231; charlotte.alston@northumbria.ac.uk

Victoria Brown, Research Associate

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

contact: v.brown@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr Tanja Bueltmann, Senior Lecturer in History

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

contact: +44 (0)191 227 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.

contact: +44 (0)191 227 4606; michael.cullinane@northumbria.ac.uk

Professor Sylvia Ellis, Professor in International History 

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

contact: +44 (0)191 227 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.

contact: +44 (0)191 227 3707; david.gleeson@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr Joe Hardwick, Lecturer in History

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

contact: +44 (0)191 243 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.

contact: +44 (0)191 227 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.

contact: kyle2.hughes@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr Henry Knight, Lecturer in American Studies

Henry works in American History in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially race, region, environment, and expansion.

contact: +44 (0)191 243 7949; henry.knight@northumbria.ac.uk

Andrea Knox, Senior Lecturer in History

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

contact: +44 (0)191 227 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. 

contact: +44 (0)191 227 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.  

contact: +44 (0)191 227 3491; daniel.laqua@northumbria.ac.uk 

Professor Don MacRaild, Professor in History 

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

contact: +44 (0)191 243 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.

contact: +44 (0)191 227 4666; gaby.mahlberg@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr Peter Maw, Senior Lecturer in History

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

contact: +44 (0)191 243 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. 

contact: +44 (0)191 227 3946; james.mcconnel@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr Neil Murphy, Lecturer in Early Modern History

Neil's research is principally focused on the history of France during the 15th and 16th centuries.

contact: +44 (0)191 227 4221; neil.murphy@northumbria.ac.uk

Professor Glyn Parry, Professor in Early Modern History

Glyn is interested in Reformation and Renaissance history, with particular reference to religious history and the history of magic.

contact: +44 (0)191 227 3023; glyn.parry@northumbria.ac.uk  

Dr Alasdair Raffe, Lecturer in History 

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

contact: +44 (0)191 227 4601; alasdair.raffe@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr Colin Reid, Senior Lecturer in History

Colin's research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century Anglo-Irish and imperial history.

contact: +44 (0)191 227 4306; colin.w.reid@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.

contact: +44 (0)191 227 3738; nicole.robertson@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr Randall Stephens, Reader in American Studies

Randall researches American religious history, United States South, Pentecostalism and American popular music  

contact: +44 (0)191 243 7848; randall.stephens@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.

contact: +44 (0)191 227 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.

contact: +44 (0)191 227 4923; avram.taylor@northumbria.ac.uk

Professor Brian Ward, Professor in American Studies

Brian’s research focuses on the mass media, popular culture, the American South, and race relations.

contact: +44 (0)191 243 7060; brian.ward@northumbria.ac.uk

Howard Wickes, Principal Lecturer & Programme Director

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

contact: +44 (0)191 227 4923; howard.wickes@northumbria.ac.uk