History
Elected 2000
Emeritus Professor of History, Swansea University
Cultural, social and religious history of the early modern world, comparative work on Protestantism and on material culture, with a focus on Germany
World history, especially since 1750: sciences and environments; race and racisms; the Indian and Pacific Oceans; Sri Lanka and South and Southeast Asia; material cultures; cities; human-animal relations; empires
History of France, especially 17th to 19th centuries; French Revolution; history of medicine; cultural history