Professor Sam Cohn
Professor Sam Cohn's research interests include late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern Italy: social and economic history, plague, disease, demography, religion, sex and women, criminality, mentalities. Late medieval European history (Italy, France, and Flanders): popular revolt, state formation, disease and epidemiology, violence and persecution of the Jews.
Professor Peter Jackson
Professor Peter Jackson's research interests include Nineteenth and Twentieth Century International History; Modern and Contemporary France; and Intelligence and Security Studies.
Dr Alex Marshall
Dr Alex Marshall is a member of editorial board of Small Wars & Insurgencies. His research interests include the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, the Caucasus, Black Sea, Afghanistan and Central Asia. He has published, among others, The Russian General Staff and Asia, 1800-1917, and has just published Afghanistan: How the West Lost Its Way (Yale University Press, ISBN: 978-0300154573).
Professor Evan Mawdsley
Professor Evan Mawdsley is Professor of International History. His research interests include the political elite in the Soviet period and the history of Russia in the early Soviet period. Currently working with Stephen White (Politics) on the Soviet Elite Project, a prosopographical project involving computerised biographies and interviews with former members of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
Dr Phillips O'Brien
Dr Phillips O'Brien is Director of the Centre, Senior Lecturer in History and Joint Reviewer Editor War in History. His current research interests are the rise and fall of national powers and the role of party politics in American foreign policy. He has published, amongst others, two books: Technology and Naval Combat in the 20th Century and Beyond and The Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
Dr Tony Pollard
Dr Pollard is one of Britain's leading battlefield archaeologists and co-presenter of BBC's popular series Two Men in a Trench. He recently, with Dr I. Banks, set up the Journal of Conflict Archaeology. He is the Director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology.
Professor Sir Hew Strachan
Professor Sir Hew Strachan is Honorary Visiting Professor and Chichele Professor in History of War. His research interests include military history from the 18th century to the present, including contemporary strategic studies, but with particular interest in the First World War and in the history of the British Army.
Professor Matthew Strickland
Professor Matthew Strickland's research interests include chivalry and conduct in medieval Warfare, Anglo-Norman warfare. His current research concentrates on the theory and practice of political opposition and the dynamics of baronial rebellion in the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman period.