People

Political Parties and Movements

Oleksa Drachewych

Oleksa specializes in the history of international communism in the interwar period (1919-1939) and in the international and transnational influence of the Bolshevik Revolution. He...

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...

Sven Widmalm

Sven is professor at the Department of History of Sciences and Ideas, Uppsala University, and was previously professor at the Department for Thematic Research, Unit...

Dora Vargha

Dora is Lecturer in Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter. Her first monograph, Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary’s Cold War with an Epidemic, is...

Luis Trindade

Luís Trindade is Senior Lecturer in Portuguese Studies at Birkbeck, where he teaches Portuguese Culture and History. His most recent book is Narratives in Motion....

Davide Rodogno

Davide is Professor in International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. His teaching and research interests include the history and politics...

Steffen Rimner

Steffen is currently Assistant Professor of the History of International Relations at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He previously taught at Columbia and held fellowships...

Elidor Mëhilli

Elidor is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He received a PhD from Princeton University and...

Helen McCarthy

Helen is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. She joined the Faculty in September 2018 following nine years at Queen Mary, University...

Peter Docking

Peter is a PhD candidate at King’s College London. His thesis will examine the role of constitutional conferences and commissions in the decolonisation of British...

Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos

Dionyssis is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Birkbeck where he directs the MSc programme in European Politics & Policy. He holds degrees from Panteion University of...

Alex Colas

Alex is Reader in International Relations in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London, where he directs the MSc in International Security and...