The history of empires, expecially the British Empire in its global setting. The rise & decline of imperial port-cities, 1830s-1930s
Elected 2012
John Darwin was awarded a CBE for services to the study of Global History in 2020.
Architectural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially in relation to empire, industrialisation, and the welfare state. Also, the historiography of architectural history and its interdisciplinary connections
The social, political & cultural history of Germany in the long 19th centure; Germans & the natural world; German transnational history since the 16th century.
Barak Kushner was educated at Brandeis University and Princeton University in the United States. He is currently Professor of East Asian history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Corpus Christi College.