Researchers

Professor Melanie Ilic

Professor of Soviet History at University of Gloucestershire and lead researcher on the Gloucestershire Local History Project

Prof Ilic has been awarded research projects by the ESRC, AHRC and the British Academy, and has worked on a number of international research projects funded overseas, including a number financed by the Finnish Academy.

Dr Christian O’Connell

Academic Course Leader in History at University of Gloucestershire

Primarily a cultural historian, Dr O’Connell is interested in the diffusion of African American culture in Europe and author of Blues, How Do You Do? (Michigan 2015). As part of a Fulbright award, he is working a project that considers the race relations in Italy during the Second World War, and has also published an article that considers the representations of the American South in British popular culture.

Dr Vicky Randall

Senior Lecturer in History at University of Gloucestershire

Dr Randall has a specialist interest in European Intellectual History, and is particularly interested in the relationship between race, religion and historiography in the nineteenth century.

Dr Randall is currently working on a number of research projects including work on G. B. Vico and Thomas Arnold, and a monograph entitled Troubled Mirrors: Historical Time and the Problem of Progress in European Thought.

Dr Mark Hutchinson

Lecturer in History at University of Gloucestershire

Mark is a Lecturer in Early Modern History whose research explores the intractable problems posed by the Reformation(s) as found in the Holy Roman Empire (Germany), England and Ireland, asking how religious division and distrust reshaped key European political ideas.