Permanent Academic Staff

Who's who in the Department of International History

Professor Vladislav Zubok (Head of Department)
Stevenson Professor of International History
Other titles:
Head of the Cold War Studies programme
Research interests:
Cold War; 20th-Century Russia
Room: SAR.3.11
Email: v.m.zubok@lse.ac.uk
Dr Tim Hochstrasser (Deputy Head of Department for Teaching)
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Early Modern History; the Enlightenment; Intellectual History
Room: SAR.2.14
Email: t.hochstrasser@lse.ac.uk
Professor Aino Rosa Kristina Spohr (Deputy Head of Department for Research)
Professor of International History
Other titles: Research Committee 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 Roham Alvandi
Associate Professor
Other titles: Director of the LSE Iranian History Initiative; Undergraduate Tutor (2nd year)
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: PhD Programme Director; Head of Research Student Seminars (1st year - HY501)
Research interests:
Anglo-American Relations; Modern Middle-East
Room: SAR.M.09
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7104
Email: n.ashton@lse.ac.uk
Professor Marc David Baer
Professor of International History
Sabbatical Leave 2026-27
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; MSc History of International Relations Programme Director; MSc Theory and History of International Relations Programme Director
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: Head of HY300 Dissertations
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
Research interests:
20th-Century United States
Room: SAR.2.10
Email: s.casey@lse.ac.uk
Dr Dina Gusejnova
Associate Professor
Other titles: Undergraduate Tutor (1st year)
Research Interests:
Modern European History; Intellectual and Cultural History; History and Social Theory
Room: SAR.M.14
Email: d.gusejnova@lse.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Halladay
Assistant Professor
Other titles: Careers & Alumni; Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Representative; Cumberland Lodge Programme; Academic Board Representative
Research Interests:
Modern South Asia; Cultural History; Imperialism and Empire
Room: SAR.M.10
Email: a.halladay@lse.ac.uk
Dr Tanya Harmer
Associate Professor
Other titles: Coordinator of International Partnerships.
Research Interests:
Latin America; Cold War
Room: SAR.M.07
Email: t.harmer@lse.ac.uk
Professor Matthew Jones
Professor of International History
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
Associate Professor
Other titles:
Undergraduate Programme Director, Student Survey Coordinator
Research interests:
Cultural History of 18th-Century Russia
Room: SAR.2.13
Email: p.keenan@lse.ac.uk
Professor Joanna Lewis
Professor of International History
Research interests:
Modern African History
(Meetings by appointment)
Email: j.e.lewis1@lse.ac.uk
Professor N. Piers Ludlow
Professor of International History
Other titles: LSE-Columbia University Double MA Degree in International and World History Programme Director; Academic Board Representative
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 Alex Mayhew
Assistant Professor
Other titles: Department AI Representative
Research interests:
First World War; Interdisciplinary History; Modern Warfare; Morale; Crisis
Room: SAR.M.11
Email: a.c.mayhew@lse.ac.uk
Dr David Motadel
Associate Professor
Sabbatical Leave 2026-27
Research interests:
Modern Europe; Europe’s Relations with the Wider World
Room: SAR.3.16
Email: d.motadel@lse.ac.uk
Dr Artemis Photiadou
Assistant Professor
Other titles: Undergraduate Admissions Tutor; Academic Board Representative
Research interests:
Britain and Europe; European Political Regimes; Intelligence History
Room: SAR.3.13
Email: a.photiadou@lse.ac.uk
Dr Ronald C. Po
Associate Professor
Other titles: LSE-PKU Double Degree MSc International Affairs Programme Director; LSE-NUS Double Degree MA in Asian and International History 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 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
Sabbatical Leave 2026-27
Other titles: Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS
Research interests:
Cold War; Eastern Europe; Balkans
Room: SAR.3.15
Email: s.rajak@lse.ac.uk
Dr Jake Subryan Richards
Assistant Professor
Buyout Leave 2026-27
Research interests:
African Diaspora, Legal History, West Africa, Latin America, Caribbean
Room: SAR.2.08
Email: j.richards@lse.ac.uk
Professor Kirsten E. Schulze
Professor of International History
Sabbatical Leave 2026-27
Other titles: Graduate School Board of Examiners (GSBE) Chair, USBE Deputy Chair, Member of the Education Committee.
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
Dr Gagandeep S. Sood
Associate Professor
Other titles: MA in Modern 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
Dr Paul Stock
Associate Professor
Other titles: Masters Programmes Admissions Advisor
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
Other titles: MSc Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation Programme Director; Chair of MSc Examinations
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
Associate Professor
Other titles: Chair of Undergraduate Examinations & USBE Representative
Research interests:
Cold War; China; Vietnam; China-Southeast Asia Relations; Borderlands; Ocean Shipping
Room: SAR.M.06
Email: q.yin@lse.ac.uk