History of science, especially the natural history sciences of the 18th and 19th centuries; the rise and spread of evolutionary thought; Charles Darwin; the role of commemorations and biography in science
Elected 2010
Modern world history; 19th and 20th century environmental history; population and historical thought
History of thought in international relations; history of Soviet foreign policy; contemporary history of Chile; biography (E H Carr); origins of the Second World War.
The history of modern China from 1850, especially the history of warfare, globalisation, and revolution in China
