Professor Matthew Seligmann
Professor of Naval History

Summary

I Joined Brunel as a Reader in 2012 and became a professor in 2015. I am a specialist on intelligence, threat assessment, security, armaments races and the the origins of modern wars. My main focus is on how the the British government responded to the German challenge in the first decades of the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on the naval competition between the two countries. I have published widely on these topics, including authoring or co-authoring over ten books, many book chapters and numerous articles and reviews. My teaching tends to focus on questions of intelligence, security and conflict, but I am also interested in how we (individually and as societies) fashion a past useful for the purposes of the present.

Qualifications

D.Phil History (Sussex)

M.A.(Hons) History (Edinburgh)

Responsibility

REF Panel for Politics and History

Director of Internationalisation

Academic Exchanges and Partnerships