History, Politics & Religious Studies

To contact any of the History, Politics & Religious Studies experts below please speak to the University of Sunderland press office in the first instance: 0191 515 3276 or 0191 515 3265 / pressoffice@sunderland.ac.uk

 

NameDr Sarah Hackett
Job title Senior Lecturer in European History
Faculty Education and Society
Areas of expertise European Muslim immigration in the post-1945 era, particularly to Britain and Germany, multiculturalism, racism, Islam in Europe, assimilation and integration. European regional identities, diaspora, migration and religion, place and space, and ethnic minorities in Europe.
NameDr Peter Hayes
Job title Senior Lecturer in History, Politics and Religion
Faculty Education and Society
Areas of expertise Political theory and political ideology, Marxism, democratic thought
NameColm O'Brien
Job title Senior Lecturer in Lifelong Learning
Faculty Education and Society
Areas of expertise Archaeology, methods and archaeology of Northern England, early Medieval history and archaeology including eg: Northumbria in the Age of Bede, the monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow, people of 7th and 8th centuries eg Benedict Biscop, founder of the Wearmouth-Jarrow monastery, Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, artefacts such as the Lindisfarane Gospels book and the Codex Amiatinus
NameProf Sylva Petrova
Job title Director, Institute for International Research in Glass
Faculty Arts, Design and Media
Areas of expertise History of art in glass, contemporary art glass production, modern Czech glass
NameDr Angela Smith
Job title Senior Lecturer in Language and Culture
Faculty Education and Society
Areas of expertise Kate Adie Collection, confrontation and argument in unscripted TV, masculinity in politics
NameDr Dennis Wheeler
Job title Reader
Faculty Applied Sciences
Areas of expertise Weather - local and national, climatic change - global, climates for the last 500 years - Europe and UK using ships' logbooks
NameDr Kevin Yuill
Job title Senior Lecturer History, Politics and Religion
Faculty Education and Society
Areas of expertise American history of the 20th Century (especially the civil rights movement, postwar American liberalism, the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson, and affirmative action) and contemporary issues in American society (gun controls, capital punishment and especially assisted suicide).
 
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