The Parkes Institute

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Dr Janek Gryta

Lecturer in Holocaust History

Research interests

  • Holocaust studies
  • history of State Socialism 
  • memory studies

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Emeritus Professor Joachim Schloer

Research interests

  • German-Jewish history in modern times
  • German-Jewish emigration after 1933 as a transnational phenomenon
  • Urban history (Berlin, Tel Aviv, Odessa)
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Dr Katie Power

Faculty Web Manager

Research interests

  • Yiddish Theatre
  • Yiddish Culture in Britain
  • Digital Humanities
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Emeritus Professor Mark Cornwall PhD, FRHistS

Research interests

  • Late Habsburg Empire 1848-1918, including the First World War
  • Global History of Treason from antiquity to the modern era
  • Czech-German relations in the Bohemian lands

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Neil Gregor

Professor of Modern European History

Research interests

  • Art music in twentieth century Germany
  • Cultural histories in modern German history
  • The Third Reich and Nazism
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Dr Noëmie Duhaut

Lecturer in Mdrn European Jewish History

Research interests

  • Jewish politics & Jewish internationalism
  • Legal practice and legal actors
  • Imperial expansion

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Rachel Pistol

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Second World War internment in the UK
  • Refugees in Britain 1930s-1940s
  • Japanese American incarceration

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Sami Everett

Senior Research Fellow

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Dr Scott Soo

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Conflict, migration and commemoration in contemporary France and Europe
  • Mass internment in France during WWII
  • The Spanish Civil War

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Thomas Irvine

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Global History of Music
  • Music and the Anthropocene
  • Science and Technology Studies

Accepting applications from PhD students

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