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Staff Profiles

**indicates staff willing/able to supervise PhD students. Please feel free to contact our staff, below, to ask them questions about programmes, or if you are especially interested in graduate or PhD-level work.

Name and Contact Details	Research Interests
Dr Wali Aslam Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265436 Email: wali.aslam@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 218	United States foreign and security policy International security Asian (particularly South Asian) security International Relations theory
Dr Alison Carrol** Role: Lecturer in European History Phone: +44 (0)1895 267980 Email: alison.carrol@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 215	Modern European History Borders and borderlands French and German political history Nations and nation-building
Dr Gareth Dale** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267298 Email: gareth.dale@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 214	Karl Polanyi Environment / climate change Social movements Eastern Europe
Dr Philip Davies** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266827 Email: philip.davies@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 226	Organisation and governance of intelligence agencies and communities National intelligence cultures and traditions Intelligence professionalization, professional practice and doctrine Intelligence, counter-intelligence and cyber- and protective-security policy
Dr Filippo Del Lucchese** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267880 Email: filippo.dellucchese@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 227	History of political thought History of philosophy Political theory Cinema
Dr Inge Dornan** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266831 Email: inge.dornan@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 228	Gender and race in the Americas (17^th-19^th century) Slavery and the slave trade Abolitionism Print and press culture in the Americas
Professor Justin Fisher** Role: Professor of Political Science Phone: +44 (0)1895 266309 Email: justin.fisher@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 208	Political parties & elections Political finance Political trust British and comparative politics
Dr Martin H. Folly** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266823 Email: martin.folly@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 230	The Grand alliance in the Second World War Diplomacy and foreign policy during the Second World War and early Cold War The early history of NATO United States foreign policy 1914 - 1976
Dr Kristian Gustafson** Role: Lecturer in Intelligence Studies Phone: +44 (0)1895 265436 Email: kristian.gustafson@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda	Intelligence Doctrine Military affairs Horizon scanning
Dr Martin Hansen** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267715 Email: martin.hansen@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 220	Parliaments Political parties West European politics Governments
Professor Matthew Hughes** Role: Head of Department Phone: +44 (0)1895 266872 Email: Matthew.hughes@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 210	Military history War studies International history Palestine and the Middle East
Professor Elke Krahmann** Role: Professor Phone: +44 (0)1895 266345 Email: elke.krahmann@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 236	International relations Security studies Non-state Actors
Dr Thomas Linehan** Role: Lecturer in History Phone: +44 (0)1895 266829 Email: thomas.linehan@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 232	‘Fringe’ parties, movements and politics in Britain, 1880s - Communist politics and movements Socialist politics and movements Far right politics, movements and ideologies, including antisemitism
Dr John MacMillan** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266101 Email: john.macmillan@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 216	Democratic peace Liberal state peace / war Military intervention International relations theory
Dr Stephen Marrin** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267864 Email: stephen.marrin@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 213	Intelligence and American government/foreign policy Intelligence analysis Applied epistemology
Professor Kenneth Morgan** Role: Professor of History Phone: +44 (0)1895 266828 Email: kenneth.morgan@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 211	Slavery and the slave trade Maritime history Australian history Caribbean history
Professor Mark Neocleous** Role: Professor of the Critique of Political Economy Phone: +44 (0)1895 266824 Email: mark.neocleous@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 237	History of Ideas Marx and Marxism Police, security and state power Pacification
Dr Niall Palmer** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266826 Email: niall.palmer@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 224	US presidency US elections US party politics & ideology US political history
Dr Tamson Pietsch** Role: Lecturer in Imperial and Colonial History Phone: +44 (0)1895 267981 Email: tamson.pietsch@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 225	Britain and Empire Global and transnational history History of universities Ships and the sea
Dr Katja Sarmiento-Mirwaldt** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267717 Email: Katja.Sarmiento-Mirwaldt@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 219	Borders and border regions Political communication Employment relations
Dr David Scott** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266825 Email: david.scott@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 217	China in the international system India in the international system East-West encounters Orientalism
Dr Matthew Seligmann** Role: Reader Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267261 Email: matthew.seligmann@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 212	The Anglo-German naval race The origins of the first World War Intelligence history
Dr Astrid Swenson** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267912 Email: astrid.swenson@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 221	Modern European history Heritage and memory Comparative and transnational history French, German and British cultural history
Dr Peter Thomas** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267573 Email: peterd.thomas@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 229	History of political thought and philosophy Marxist philosophy and theory Contemporary social and cultural theory
Dr Varun Uberoi** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265858 Email: varun.uberoi@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 231	Normative political theory Public policy Multiculturalism National identity

Visiting and Associate Staff

Name and Contact Details	Research Interests
Professor Jay Kleinberg Role: Professor Emeritus Phone: Email: jay.kleinberg@brunel.ac.uk Office:	United States Women’s History Middle-Aged Women in 20th century US Cuban Women’s Migration to US History of Women in the Americas
Dr Rachel Ritchie Role: Associate Research Fellow Phone: Email: rachel.ritchie@brunel.ac.uk Office:	Modern British history Gender Women’s magazines Women’s organisations