History, Prehistory and Archaeology - The University of Nottingham

Description: Art and archaeology of the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods ie. what is today Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine and Jordan from 300BC to AD 300. Art and architecture of the so-called Roman 'client' kings of 100 BC to AD 100 including Herod the Great and the Nabataean kings. Ancient architecture including the Temple at Jerusalem, Masada, Herodium, Caesarea and Jordan's Petra.

Dr Andrew Cobbing

Description: Cultural and international history of 19th-century Japan. Japan's cultural encounter with the West. Japanese source material from diaries to published works. Iwakura Embassy, which helped to shape state policy in Japan's drive for modernisation.

Dr Christina Lee

Description: Viking studies. Vikings in Britain. Anglo-Saxon studies. Old English. Disease and disability in early medieval England. Food and drink in early medieval funerary rites. Women in Anglo-Saxon England. Viking women.

Dr Christopher J Conselice

Description: Galaxy formation and evolution, cosmological parameters and their determination, Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, the discovery and study of the first galaxies to form in the universe, history of astronomy.

Dr Colin Heywood

Description: History of childhood. 19th-century France.

Dr David Appleby

Description: British civil wars 1642–51, 17th-century British history generally (especially social, religious, military, crime and punishment aspects.)

Dr Gabriele Neher

Description: Northern Italian Renaissance painting, especially in Venice, Brescia, Moretto and Romanino. The Italian courts in the Renaissance. Renaissance women. Altar pieces 1500-1600. Caravaggio.

Dr Jackie Sheehan

Description: Contemporary history and politics of the People's Republic of China (1949-present) particularly: dissent and political opposition; civil/human rights; The Cultural Revolution (1966-76); The 1989 Democracy Movement. Chinese economic reforms, particularly: state-enterprise reform; redundancy; welfare; unemployment; independent trade unions; labour unrest. Criminal justice and legal reform in China.

Dr Karen Adler

Description: The importance of women and gender in history, especially in western Europe during the 20th century. 20th-century France, especially World War II, the Resistance and the Holocaust. Jews in France and more broadly in modern Europe.

Dr Maike Oergel

Description: National myths in England and Germany between the 18th and the 20th-centuries. King Arthur. Siegfried. Myth in literature. Modern literature as myth. The Celts and Anglo-Saxons in 18th and 19th-century English thought. Romantic literary theory. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Historicity and theory (18th and early 19th-centuries). Construction of national identities (English and German).

Dr Mark Pearce

Description: Earlier prehistory. Italian prehistory. Early copper mining. Early metallurgy.

Dr Nick Baron

Description: Modern Russian/Soviet history, especially Lenin and Stalin - regional policy, economic development, the Gulag, the Great Terror; the Russian region of Karelia in the 20th century; contemporary Russian political, economic, social and cultural developments.

Dr Nicola Royan

Description: Late medieval and early modern historiography. Kingship and national identity. Early Scottish literature and the reception of humanism.

Dr Paul Cavill

Description: Meaning and history of English place names. Literature of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings.

Dr Richard Gaunt

Description: Politics-1750-1850. Aristocrats as electioneers, eg 4th Duke of Newcastle's influence in Notts. Political culture c1789-1848, including the press, constituency factors, public opinion. Gladstone, Disraeli, Wellington, Peel. History of the conservative party. Political caricatures and cartoons of the 18th and 19th-centuries including Hogarth, Gillray, Cruikshank, John Doyle and Punch magazine.

Dr Richard Winton

Description: Archaic and classical Greek. Intellectual history. Thucydides.

Dr Robert A Lambert

Description: Environmental history. Tourism and the environment. Sustainable tourism. Eco-tourism. Environmental management. Environmental policy. Birds and birdwatching. British wildlife. Television and radio natural history/wildlife programming. BBC Natural History Unit. Australia and New Zealand ecology. Public history and heritage. Environmental geography. Landscape history. Antarctica.

Dr Ross Balzaretti

Description: History of Europe in early Middle Ages. Italian history, especially in Milan and Liguria, pre-1600. History of women, gender relations and sexuality in the Medieval period. Renaissance history.

Jane-Marie Collins

Description: 19th-century Brazilian slave society, focusing on gender and resistance. 19th-century Latin American history, with particular attention to issues of race and gender.

Mr Bill Hubbard

Description: SHERPA project: opening access to research, making publicly-funded research publicly available. Building network of freely accessible archives in UK's leading research institutions. National debates on policies for academic copyright, mandates for giving access to pubicly-funded work. Development of medieval arms and armour, especially 13th-century. Use of multimedia and virtual reality in archaeological and heritage applications.

Mr Phillip Weller

Description: Renaissance music. French opera. Music and language. 18th-century classicism in music.

Professor Alan Ford

Description: Northern Ireland. Anglo-Irish relations. Irish history. Religious history.

Professor Alan Sommerstein

Description: Ancient Greek theatre and drama; law and society; language. Oaths in ancient Greece.

Professor Antoni Kapcia

Description: Modern and contemporary Cuban history and politics.

Professor Bob Berry

Description: Finance specialist including ethical finance, 19th-century business history (especially the accounting records of coal, iron and steel companies), shareholder value, portfolio management.

Professor Charles Watkins

Description: Rural land management. History of the British landscape. History of forestry in Britain and Europe. History of agriculture. Wildlife conservation. Conservation of the black poplar. Social change in the British countryside. The effect of farming on the rural landscape and wildlife. Historic parks and gardens. Public access to the countryside. Landscape history of Liguria. Conservation of Sherwood forest.

Professor Georgina Endfield

Description: Archival investigations for climate and environmental change in Latin America. Environmental and climate history. Human adaptation and response to unusual weather events in historical context. Vulnerability to extreme weather and environmental history in southern Africa and Mexico.

Professor John Beckett

Description: East Midlands history. History of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Granting of city status. Englishness.

Professor Judith Jesch

Description: Viking studies. Runic inscriptions. Old Norse.

Professor Julian Henderson

Description: Science and archaeology. Ancient technologies, particularly glass, ceramics, metals and stone. Islamic archaeology in Syria. Scientific techniques used in archaeology.

Professor Mike Heffernan

Description: Historical and political Geography, Western Europe (especially UK, France and Germany) and North America. History of geographical and environmental thought. Environmental causes and consequences of war. Cultural heritage and conservation in Western Europe and North America. Archival research.

Professor Paul Brown

Description: Materials characterisation. The assessment of the structure-property relationships of materials using electron microscopy.

Professor Peter Ling

Description: African American history. American history. Non-violence and social justice. Martin Luther King Jnr and political education in the civil rights movement.

Professor Peter Wright

Description: Medieval/early Renaissance music. The music of Sir Michael Tippett. 20th-century music.

Professor Philip Olleson

Description: The music of Samuel Wesley (1766-1837). Music in England in the 19th-century.

Professor Richard H King

Description: American politics. Race relations, including black/white and ethnic issues. American culture.

Professor Veronica James

Description: Sociology of health. Citizenship.

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