People

Dr Roham Alvandi
Associate Professor
*on Sabbatical leave 2022-23*

Research interests:
Iran, US in the World, Global Cold War

Room: SAR.M.12
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6897
Email: r.alvandi@lse.ac.uk

Professor Nigel Ashton
Professor of International History

Other titles:
Coordinator of Teaching and Learning

Research interests:
Anglo-American Relations; Modern Middle-East

Room: SAR.M.07
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7104
Email: n.ashton@lse.ac.uk

Professor Marc David Baer
Professor of International History

Other titles:
Deputy Head of Department

Research interests:
Early Modern and Modern Europe and Middle East; Ottoman Empire,Turkey; Germany

Room: SAR.3.17
Email: m.d.baer@lse.ac.uk

Professor Antony Best
Professor of International History

Other titles:
Masters Tutor

Research interests:
Modern East Asian History; Modern Japan

Room: SAR.3.14
Email: a.best@lse.ac.uk

Dr Anna Cant
Assistant Professor

Other titles:
Masters Programmes Admissions Advisor

Research interests:
Mass communication; Modern Latin American History; Rural Development

Room: SAR.3.12
Email: a.cant1@lse.ac.uk

Professor Steven Casey
Professor of International History

Other titles:
REF Coordinator

Research interests:
20th-Century United States

Room: SAR.2.10
Email: s.casey@lse.ac.uk

Dr Dina Gusejnova
Assistant Professor

Other titles:
Coordinator of BA/BSc Dissertations (HY300); LSE-Columbia University Double MSc in International and World History Programme Director; International Partnerships

Research Interests:
Modern European History; Intellectual and Cultural History; History and Social Theory

Room: SAR.M.14
Email: d.gusejnova@lse.ac.uk

Dr Tanya Harmer
Associate Professor
*on Sabbatical leave 2022-23*

Research Interests:
Latin America; Cold War

Room: SAR.M.11
Email: t.harmer@lse.ac.uk

Dr Tim Hochstrasser
Associate Professor

Other titles:
Undergraduate Programmes Director

Research interests:
Early Modern History; the Enlightenment; Intellectual History

Room: SAR.2.14
Email: t.hochstrasser@lse.ac.uk

Dr Elizabeth Ingleson
Assistant Professor

Other titles:
Alumni & Careers; Student Survey Coordinator

Research interests:
United States History; Chinese History; Trade; Labour; Diplomacy; Multinational Corporations

Room: SAR.2.06
Email: e.ingleson@lse.ac.uk

Professor Matthew Jones
Professor of International History

Other titles:
PhD Programme Director and Admissions Advisor; Research Student Seminars 1st year (HY501)

Research interests:
British Foreign and Defence Policy since the Second World War; Nuclear History during the Cold War; Vietnam War; British Decolonisation and South East Asia; US Foreign Relations since 1941; Anglo-American Relations

Room: SAR.3.09
Email: m.c.jones@lse.ac.uk

Dr Paul Keenan
Assistant Professor
*on Sabbatical leave 2022-23*

Research interests:
Cultural History of 18th-Century Russia

Room: SAR.2.13
Email: p.keenan@lse.ac.uk

Dr Joanna Lewis
Associate Professor
*on Sabbatical leave 2022-23*

Research interests:
Modern African History

Room: SAR.G.02
Email: j.e.lewis1@lse.ac.uk

Professor N. Piers Ludlow
Professor of International History

Other titles:
Head of Department; Coordinator of International Partnerships

Research interests:
Western Europe since 1945; European Integration; Cold War Transatlantic Relations; Britain in the EC/EU

Room: SAR.2.16
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7099
Email: n.p.ludlow@lse.ac.uk

Dr David Motadel
Associate Professor
*on Leave 2022-23*

Research interests:
Modern Europe; Europe’s Relations with the Wider World

Room: SAR.3.16
Email: d.motadel@lse.ac.uk

Dr Ronald C. Po
Associate Professor

Other titles:
LSE–Peking University Double MSc in International Affairs Programme Director; MSc International and Asian History Programme Director

Research interests:
History of China; Hong Kong and Taiwan Studies; Maritime History; Sino-British Relations; History of Cartography; Frontier Studies; Global History

Room: SAR.2.18
Email: c.y.po@lse.ac.uk

Professor Anita Prazmowska
Professor of International History

Other titles:
Third year Undergraduate Tutor

Research interests:
Modern Eastern Europe

Room: SAR.M.09
Email: a.j.prazmowska@lse.ac.uk

Professor Paul Preston
School Professor for the Department of International History

Research Interests:
Spanish History

Room: SAR.1.02.A
Email: p.preston@lse.ac.uk

Dr Svetozar Rajak
Associate Professor

Other titles:
Masters Programmes Director (School liaison inquiries); Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS; Second year Undergraduate Tutor

Research interests:
Cold War; Eastern Europe; Balkans

Room: SAR.3.15
Email: s.rajak@lse.ac.uk

Dr Jake Subryan Richards
Assistant Professor
*on Leave LT 2023*

Research interests:
African Diaspora, Legal History, West Africa, Latin America, Caribbean

Room: SAR.2.08
Email: j.richards@lse.ac.uk

Dr Kirsten E. Schulze
Associate Professor

Other titles:
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Chair

Research interests:
Arab-Israeli Conflict; Indonesian History; Militant Islam; Ethnic and Communal Conflict; Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Southeast Asia

Room: SAR.2.12
Email: k.e.schulze@lse.ac.uk

Professor Taylor C. Sherman
Professor of International History
*on sabbatical leave 2022/23*

Research interests:
Modern South Asian History

Room: SAR.M.10
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 5002
Email: t.c.sherman@lse.ac.uk

Dr Gagandeep S. Sood
Associate Professor

Other titles:
First year Undergraduate Tutor; MA in History Programme Director

Research interests:
The Mughal, Safavid and Ottoman Empires; Early Modern Globalisation; Transition to Colonialism in the Middle East and South Asia

Room: SAR.2.07
Email: g.sood1@lse.ac.uk

Professor Aino Rosa Kristina Spohr
Professor of International History

Other titles:
Undergraduate Examinations Board Chair

Research interests:
Germany Post-1945; Summit Diplomacy; Global Cold War Exits; World Order & Strategy; Arctic Affairs

Room: SAR.2.17
Email: k.spohr@lse.ac.uk

Dr Paul Stock
Associate Professor

Other titles:
Masters Examinations Board Chair

Research interests:
Intellectual and Cultural History; Long Eighteenth Century; Britain; Idea of Europe; Spatial History; History of Cartography; Travel and Tourism

Room: SAR.2.15
Email: p.stock@lse.ac.uk

Dr Imaobong Umoren
Associate Professor
*on maternity leave 2022-2023*

Research interests:
Race and Gender in the Caribbean; 19th and 20th Century Wider African Diaspora

Room: SAR.G.04
Email: i.umoren@lse.ac.uk

Dr Qingfei Yin
Assistant Professor

Other titles:
Cumberland Lodge Weekend Event Organiser; Undergraduate Programmes Admissions Advisor

Research interests:
Cold War; China; Vietnam; China-Southeast Asia Relations; Borderlands

Room: SAR.M.06
Email: q.yin@lse.ac.uk

Professor Vladislav Zubok
Professor of International History

Other titles:
Research Committee Chair

Research interests:
Cold War; 20th-Century Russia

Room: SAR.3.13
Email: v.m.zubok@lse.ac.uk

Dr Zeinab Azarbadegan
BA Postdoctoral Fellow

Research interests:
Modern Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Iraq, Iran

Room: SAR M.13
Email: z.a.azarbadegan@lse.ac.uk

Professor Constantin Goschler
Visiting Professor

Research interests:
German and European history in the 20th century, restitution transformation of societies after dictatorships, history of intelligence and biopolitics.

Room: SAR 2.13
Email: c.goschler@lse.ac.uk

Dr Diva Gujral
LSE Teaching Fellow

Research interests:
Postcolonial India; History of Art; Global Modernism; the Cultural Cold War

Room: SAR M.10
Email: d.gujral@lse.ac.uk

Professor Dominic Lieven
Visiting Professor and Chair of The Paulsen Programme at LSE

Research interests:
Russian History

Room: SAR.1.03G
Email: d.lieven@lse.ac.uk

Dr Artemis Photiadou
LSE Fellow

Research interests:
Britain, Germany, Europe, Nazism, WWII, Intelligence, Digital History

Room: SAR 3.16
Email: a.photiadou@lse.ac.uk

Dr Zahra Shah
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Research interests:
South Asia, Early Modern South Asia, Colonial India; Cultural History

Room: SAR M.11
Email: Z.Shah@lse.ac.uk

Dr Nailya Shamgunova
LSE Teaching Fellow

Research interests:
Queer History, Early Modern History, Travel and Encounter

Room: SAR G.02
Email: N.Shamgunova@lse.ac.uk

Dr Rowena Abdul Razak
Guest Teacher

Teaching:
HY113 - From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century
HY206 - The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989

Room: SAR G.03
Email: r.binti-abdul-razak@lse.ac.uk

Dr Sara al-Qaiwani
Guest Teacher

Teaching:
HY113 - From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century
HY328 -The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion

Room: SAR M.15
Email: s.j.alqaiwani@lse.ac.uk

Mehmet Akif Aydemir
Guest Teacher

Teaching:
HY243 - Islamic Empire,1400-1800

Room: SAR M.15
Email: m.a.aydemir@lse.ac.uk

Medha Bhattacharya
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Teaching:
HY120 - Historical Approaches to the Modern World

Room: SAR 2.05
Email: M.Bhattacharya1@lse.ac.uk

Rachel Chua
Guest Teacher

Teaching:
HY235 - Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1840

Room: SAR M.15
Email: r.a.chua@lse.ac.uk

Dr Rosalind Coffey
Guest Teacher

Teaching:
HY113 - From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century

Room: SAR G.03
Email: r.s.coffey@lse.ac.uk

Pedro Correa Martin-Arroyo
Guest Teacher

Teaching:
HY206 - The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989

Room: SAR G.03
Email: p.correa-martin-arroyo1@lse.ac.uk

Dr Alexandre Dab
Guest Teacher

Teaching:
HY206 - The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989

Room: SAR G.03
Email: a.dab@lse.ac.uk

Charlotte Eaton

Teaching:
HY120 - Historical Approaches to the Modern World

Room: SAR 2.05
Email: c.eaton@lse.ac.uk

Sinan Ekim

Teaching:
HY113 - From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century

Room: SAR 2.05
Email: s.ekim@lse.ac.uk

Dr Georgios Giannakopoulos
Guest Teacher

Teaching:
HY400 - Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace 1914-2003

Room: SAR M.15
Email: g.giannakopoulos@lse.ac.uk

Dr Sajjan Gohel
Guest Teacher

Teaching:
HY435 - Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS

Room: SAR 1.03A
Email: s.m.gohel@lse.ac.uk

Milo Gough
Guest Teacher

Teaching:
HY120 - Historical Approaches to the Modern World

Room: SAR G.05
Email: m.w.gough@lse.ac.uk

Dr Giovanni Graglia
Guest Teacher

Teaching:
HY113 - From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century
HY116 - International History since 1890

Room: SAR 1.03A
Email: g.graglia@lse.ac.uk

Dr Caroline Green
Guest Teacher

Teaching:
HY113 - From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century

Room: SAR 2.05
Email: c.green@lse.ac.uk

Dr Anton Harder
Guest Teacher

Teaching:
HY113 - From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century
HY235 - Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1840
HY461 - East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945

Room: SAR.M.13
Email: a.harder@lse.ac.uk