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Politicial, cultural, social history
Parent category: History & Archaeology
Dr Thom Brooks
Reader, Durham Law School
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 44365
Associate , Department of Philosophy
Centre for the History of Political Thought
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Specialist expertise:
- British Idealism
- British politics
- Capabilities
- Capital Punishment
- Citizenship
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Law
- German Idealism
- Global Justice
- Hegel
- Immigration
- Jurisprudence
- Jury Trial
- Justice
- Kant
- Life in the UK test
- Plato
- Political Communication
- Political Philosophy
- Political Strategy
- Punishment
- Rawls
- Restorative Justice
- Sentencing
Dr Manuel Hijano
Lecturer, School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 43467
Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Specialist expertise:
- Literary and political history of Spain (particularly the medieval period)
- Spanish Language and Literature
Dr Amy Russell
Lecturer, Department of Classics and Ancient History
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41462
Specialist expertise:
- Roman History: the social, cultural, and political history of the ancient Roman Republic and empire.
- The City of Rome: its development, archaeology, architecture, and enduring fascination from antiquity to today.
Dr Len Scales
Lecturer, Department of History
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41077
Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Home telephone: +44 (0)191 373 3834
Specialist expertise:
- The history of ethnicity and nationhood in the Middle Ages
- The political and cultural history of medieval Germany and Central Europe
Dr Colin Turner
Reader in Islamic Thought, School of Government and International Affairs
Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Centre for the History of Political Thought
Specialist expertise:
- Muslim cultures, religion and political thought.