Intellectual history of the British world from the 17th century onwards; history of race, ethnicity and nationhood; constitutional theory; Scottish history
Elected 2010
British history between 1500 and 1700; the history of paganism, shamanism, magic and witchcraft, and of attitudes to those phenomena
The global history of European empires; legal history of the British and Spanish empires; the history of international law; legal theory.
The interface of historical geography and intellectual history, in particular the intellectual history of British geography books, demography and migration, c 1660-1900