Mark Hewitson is Professor of German History and Politics at the School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS), University College London. Mark's interests lie principally in the intellectual, cultural and political history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany and Europe. He is currently working on projects about nationalism and national identity, experiences and representations of modern warfare, and conceptions of Europe and the West during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Mark is also interested in various aspects of historical theory, including the relationship between history and other social sciences.

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Christopher Dillon is a Senior Lecturer in Modern German History at King’s College London. His research focuses on the history of gender and political culture in Weimar and Nazi Germany. He is the author of Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in Violence (2015) and is currently writing a socio-cultural history of the 1918-19 Revolution in Bavaria.

Stephan Bruhn joined the GHIL in May 2019. He studied History and Philosophy at the University of Münster (BA) and Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau (MA). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kiel with a discourse analysis on reform groups in late Anglo-Saxon England. Before coming to London, he held positions at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Kiel. His current research project focuses on the relationship between ecclesiastical and social hierarchies in the Frankish and early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

Edmund Wareham is Social and cultural historian of late medieval and early modern German-speaking Europe at Royal Holloway, University of London. Edmund's research broadly explores the effects of religious change on the values and beliefs of ordinary women and men. He undertook undergraduate and graduate studies in History and German at the universities of Oxford, Trier and Freiburg im Breisgau, and his research has been supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung, the German History Society, the Royal Historical Society and the Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung. Edmund has held library fellowships at the Pitts Theology Library, University of Emory, and the Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel.

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Anna Ross is Senior Lecturer of Modern European History at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on the 1848 revolutions, state-building, empire, and internationalisation. At present, she is writing about the internationalisation of territory after the First World War in the form of international zones.

Joachim Whaley studied History at Christ’s College, Cambridge. He graduated in 1975 and became a Fellow of Christ’s in 1976. In 1978 he took up a Fellowship at Robinson College, before transferring to Gonville & Caius in 1987. He was appointed to a lectureship in the German Department, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in 1980. In 2013 he was appointed Professor of German History and Thought.. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1984 and Fellow of the British Academy in 2015. In 2010 Joachim Whaley was awarded a Pilkington Teaching Prize by the University of Cambridge for his outstanding teaching in German history, thought, and politics.

Tim Grady is Professor of Modern European History and also Director of the Culture and Society Research and Knowledge Exchange Institute (RKEI) at the University of Chester. The RKEI is an interdisciplinary institute that brings together over 200 researchers, providing a platform for collaborations, public events and external partnerships. Professor Grady is an international scholar of twentieth century British and German history, who has received major funding awards, published extensively in academic and public forums. He currently leads the MA History and teaches at all levels of the undergraduate programme.

Head of School of History at the University of St Andrews. Bridget's research focuses on the long-term impact of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations on German society and culture.

Joseph Cronin is the Director of the Leo Baeck Institute London and specialises in research into Jewish life in Germany after the Holocaust. After graduating with a BA and MA from Durham University, Joseph conducted his PhD at the University of London between 2012 and 2016. Before joining the LBI, Joseph was a Lecturer in modern German History at Queen Mary University of London. His first monograph, published in 2019, is titled Russian-speaking Jews in Germany’s Jewish communities, 1990–2005.

Róisín joined the Open University in 2023 as Lecturer in Early Modern History. Following the completion of her PhD at the University of St Andrews in 2015, she taught at the University of Winchester and King’s College London. From 2018-2023 Róisín was a Departmental Lecturer at the University of Oxford. She has held research fellowships from the Institute of Historical Research, the Leibniz Institut für Europäische Geschichte, and the Society for Renaissance Studies.

Charlie Knight is a PhD candidate at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton and it a fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute London. His research interests lie in German-Jewish history, histories of migration during the Holocaust, and the archive more broadly. Charlie was previously a content researcher at the Imperial War Museum and postgraduate representative for the British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies; he is currently an Outreach Fellow at the Parkes Institute, and teaches at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies at University College London.