The history of landscape representation, design and management; the landscape arts of eighteenth century Britain; the history of geographical knowledge and imagination
Elected 2017
Environmental humanities, climatic and environmental history; the impacts of and responses to unusual weather events and conceptualisations of climate and climate variability in historical perspective
Chimpanzee social ecology; primate and human behaviour in a comparative framework, including influences of diet, violence and culture; self-domestication and the evolution of reduced aggression; primate conservation
Aesthetics in combination with politics; Marxism and critical theory, especially the work of Walter Benjamin and TW Adorno; the poetics of science and technology; animation; digital culture and the sensorium
