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Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Dr Anna Collar PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • mobility, pilgrimage and migration in the ancient world.
  • landscape, religious experience and spirituality.
  • emotion in archaeology.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: a.collar@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65a, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Miss Anoushka Alexander-Rose

Research interests

  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • Russian émigré literature
  • The Jewish 'Other' in the text 

Mr Charlie Knight BA (Hons), MA

Research interests

  • Holocaust studies
  • German-Jewish History
  • Archives and collections

Professor Claire Le Foll

Professor

Research interests

  • History and culture of Jews in Belarus from 1772 to 1939, including Belarusian-Jewish relations
  • Jewish art in Eastern Europe, more specifically in Belarus and Ukraine
  • Nationalities policy in the Russian/Soviet western borderlands

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: c.le-foll@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Dr Devorah Baum

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Marriage – in literature, memoir, film, art, psychoanalysis, feminism and philosophy.
  • Docufiction (cinema) and life-writing/autofiction (literature).
  • Humour – joking, comedy (especially in relation to e.g. language theory, politics, religion, sex).

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: d.m.baum@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Dr Emily-Rose Baker

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Holocaust studies 
  • Film philosophy and ethics 
  • Central and Eastern Europe

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr George Gilbert

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Politics and culture in late Imperial Russia
  • Russian identity, Russian nationalism
  • Historiography of modern Russia

Email: g.gilbert@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Mrs Hannah Capey

Professor Helen Spurling

Associate Dean Research & Enterprise

Research interests

  • Jewish-Christian relations and Jewish-Muslim relations
  • Interpretation of midrashic literature
  • Apocalyptic, eschatology and messianism

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: h.spurling@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

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