People

Migration and Refugees

Laura C. Forster 

Laura is a historian of modern Britain and Europe. She is a Postdoctoral fellow at Birkbeck, University of London as part of the HERA funded...

Francesca Piana

Francesca is a postdoctoral fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation, currently based at the University of Zürich. She has held research fellowships at Binghamton University,...

Julia Laite

Julia is Lecturer in Modern History at Birkbeck. She is an editor of History Workshop Journal and a Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, as well as a...

Friederike Kind-Kovaks

Friederike is Assistant Professor at the Department of Southeast and East European History at the University of Regensburg, and Associate Postdoctoral Researcher at the Graduate...

Valeska Huber

Valeska is head of the Emmy Noether Research Group Reaching the People: Communication and Global Orders in the Twentieth Century, funded by the DFG (German Research...

Philippa Hetherington

Before beginning as a Lecturer in Modern Eurasian History at UCL, Philippa was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Laureate Research Programme in International History...

Brigid O’Keeffe

Brigid is broadly interested in the study of language’s many roles in international encounters and internationalist projects. Her book Esperanto and Languages Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia is under contract with Bloomsbury...

Daniel Laqua

Daniel is Head of History and Senior Lecturer in European History at Northumbria University. His work explores the workings of transnational movements as well as...

Jessica Reinisch

Jessica is Reader in Modern European History at Birkbeck’s Department of History, Classics and Archaeology.