History

Professor Anna Alexandrova explores the philosophy of science, especially of economics and psychology. She is particularly interested in the role and status of formal models in special sciences and in measurement of happiness and well-being.

Professor John Arnold's research interests include:

• Medieval religion and culture.
• Heresy, inquisition, (un)belief.
• Gender and sexuality.
• Historiography.

Dr Marcus Boeick is a historian specializing in Modern German and European History. 

"My research and teaching focus on the intricate relationship between the public and private spheres throughout the 20th century, particularly at the intersection of the state, economy, and society. My initial book delved into the contentious history of mass privatization of state assets in post-socialist Eastern Germany during the early 1990s. Currently, my ongoing book project presents a comprehensive and empirically grounded history of private security in 20th-century Germany and Central Europe. My approach encompasses a wide array of sources, ranging from classical references in state archives to media coverage, oral interviews, and material artefacts. I consistently strive to unearth unheard voices "from below" and offer novel perspectives from overlooked areas. Concurrently, I contextualize Germany within its transnational connections and broader global frameworks. I place significant value on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration across a diverse spectrum of fields. Born in East Germany shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, I completed my studies at Ruhr-University Bochum, situated in the former West German "rust belt" region. Over recent years, I held a Postdoc Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London and a Guest Professorship at the Imre-Kertész-Kolleg at Jena University. In the past year, I have been awarded a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard."

Professor Richard Bourke works broadly in the history of political thought, mostly covering the enlightenment and its legacy. His interests include political ideologies, the philosophy of history, and the history of democracy. He has also published on modern Irish history. His most recent books include Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke (2015) and Hegel’s World Revolutions (2023).

History and archaeology of Early Medieval Europe, especially Italy and North Africa; Material Culture; Urbanism; Environmental History.

History, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History

Christoph’s research specialises in the economic history of early modern China and East Asia. For his doctoral work, he reconstructed the institutional framework of inheritance in pre-industrial China through thousands of documents gathered from rural household collections in China. He is currently turning the findings from his doctoral dissertation into his first book, which examines how inheritance interacted with other institutions regulating marriage, migration, and the land market, to limit long-term capital accumulation. His main project as the Mervyn King Research Fellow at King’s will be a comprehensive study of living standards and wealth inequality in China between 1650 and 1950. He is especially interested in the effect of changes in wealth on broad measures of human welfare, such as nutrition, housing quality, and education. Christoph’s other interests include the rise of intellectual pragmatism in late imperial China, servantship and slavery, and rural entrepreneurship in post-reform China.

Christoph received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. Prior to that, he read for an MPhil in Cambridge and a BA in Philosophy and Economics at the University of Bayreuth. Other stations included Zhejiang University, Keio University, the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Demographic Research.

Rebecca’s research looks at how postcolonial migration resulted in the emergence of new types of professional work and workplace in post-war Britain and its former colonies. Her doctoral thesis explored the constitutive role played by ‘European’ migrants of decolonisation in three sectors on the ascent—private security companies, universities and charitable organisations—to understand the social and economic consequences of decolonisation in Europe. As a research fellow at King’s, she is developing a project on postcolonial families in twentieth-century Britain, investigating intergenerational memory, race and belonging. At the centre of her research is an attempt to show how the arrival of postcolonial migrants reshaped not only citizenship legislation but also the organisation of work, political life and cultural production across Europe.

Rebecca received a BA in History from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Modern History from the University of Warwick. She worked as a research assistant for the Global History of Capitalism project at the University of Oxford before completing her PhD in History at the European University Institute.

Angus works on the history of Mongol and post-Mongol Eurasia, with a particular focus on the politics and institutions of Rus’ and Moscow in the late medieval period. His doctoral thesis traced the evolution of fiscal models in the regions conquered by the Mongol khans. As part of his research fellowship at King’s, he hopes to explore the role language and translation can play in studying the cross-cultural interactions of pre-modern societies. Angus studied for his PhD in Slavonic Studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, after an undergraduate degree in History and Russian, and a master’s degree in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at the University of Oxford.

Research

French History c.1650-1848. History of Political Thought, particularly in France. Origins of political economy, social science, anthropology.

Research

Modern European political thought; Political, intellectual and economic history of Europe from the time of the French Revolution; and Victorian London.

Research

Dror is a historian of pre-modern Asia, with a particular interest in scientific and intellectual exchanges between the Islamicate world and China. His publications explore the translation and articulation methods of premodern experiences of the natural world, China's participation in the early modern Islamicate book culture, China's reception of Arabo-Persian astronomy and medicine, and the movement of Islamicate knowledge along the Silk Road.

Dror received his BA degree in East Asian Studies and Economics from Tel Aviv University, MA degrees from National Chengchi University in Taipei and Princeton, and his PhD degree in 2016 from Princeton with a dissertation titled: "The Vicissitudes of Late Imperial China's Accommodation of Arabo-Persian Knowledge of the Natural World, 16th–18th Centuries".

Before taking up his position at Cambridge in 2021, Dror held a lectureship in History of Asia pre-1750 at King's College London. Dror was a recipient of the Thomas Arthur Arnold Fund for Excellence in Historical Research fellowship and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge. He also served as a Visiting Professor at EHESS in Paris and Marseille.