Director and Committees
The Centre is administered under the History Faculty by a Steering Committee, Director, and an Advisory Committee representing the chronological range from Ancient to Late Modern History.
Centre Directors
Professor Andrew Thompson
Professor of Global and Imperial History
Advisory Committee
Professor Wale Adebanwi
Rhodes Professor of Race Relations
Dr Jennifer Altehenger
Associate Professor of Chinese History and Jessica Rawson Fellow in Modern Asian History
Merton
Professor James Belich
Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Balliol College
Dr Fanny Bessard
Associate Professor in Medieval Eurasian History
Trinity College
Professor Paul Betts
Professor of Modern European History
St Antony's College
Dr Peter Brooke
Departmental Lecturer in African History
Wolfson College
Professor Patricia Clavin (BA, PhD)
Professor of International History; Fellow and Tutor in History
Jesus College
Professor Peter Frankopan
Professor of Global History
Worcester College
Dr John-Paul A. Ghobrial
Associate Professor and Lucas Fellow in Early Modern History
Balliol College
Dr Todd Hall
Associate Professor of International Relations; Director of China Centre, Oxford
Department of Politics & International Relations / St Anne's College
Professor Pekka Hämäläinen
Rhodes Professor of American History
St Catherine's College
Professor Mark Harrison
Professor of the History of Medicine | Co-Director of the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities
Faculty of History | Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Dr Catherine Holmes
Tutor in Medieval History
University College
Professor Andrew Hurrell
Montague Burton Professor of International Relations; Fellow, Balliol College
Department of Politics and International Relations
Professor Robert Iliffe
Professor of the History of Science
Linacre College
Professor Marek Jankowiak
Associate Professor of Byzantine History
Corpus Christi
Dr Mallica Kumbera Landrus
Keeper of Eastern Art
Ashmolean Museum
Professor Miles Larmer
Professor of African History
St Antony's College
Dr Conrad Leyser
Associate Professor of Medieval History
Worcester College
Professor Giuseppe Marcocci
Associate Professor in Iberian History (European and Extra-European, 1450-1800)
Exeter College
Professor Ian McBride
Foster Professor of Irish History
Hertford College
Dr Christopher McKenna
Reader in Business History & Strategy
Brasenose College
Dr Alexander Morrison
Fellow & Tutor in History
New College
Professor Polly O'Hanlon
Professor in Indian History and Culture
People
Past Centre Directors
2018-19 Professor Catherine Schenk & Professor Patricia Clavin
2016-18: Dr Erica Charters
2012-14: Professor James Belich
2011-12, 2014-16: Professor John Darwin