People

Dr Julia Moses

Julia Moses is Reader in Modern History at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on modern British and European history from comparative and transnational perspectives, and it connects with related scholarship in law, sociology and politics. She is especially interested in the relationship between state, law and civil society. Julia has explored this issue in her research on the history of labour, risk and the welfare state, and in her work on legal history related to torts and the family. Her interests in this area have also led to an exploration of the history of ideas about social and human rights related to work, welfare and the family. Julia’s full profile can be viewed here.

Email: j.moses@sheffield.ac.uk

Professor Emma Hunter

Emma Hunter is Professor of Global and African History at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the intellectual, cultural and political history of twentieth-century Africa in a global context. She is the author of Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, Democracy and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization, editor of Citizenship, Belonging and Political Community in Africa: Dialogues between Past and Present and co-editor of African Print Cultures: Newspapers and their Publics in the Twentieth Century. Emma’s full profile can be viewed here.

Email: Emma.Hunter@ed.ac.uk

Niels is a historian of modern Africa, focusing on the political and intellectual history of modern East Africa, particularly interested in decolonisation. In 2024 he completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Warwick, analysing the aftermaths of the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. His work has been published in the Journal of Social History and the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Most recently, he has completed an edited collection, Homecoming Veterans in Literature and Culture, to be published with Routledge in February 2025. His full profile can be viewed here.

Email: nboender@ed.ac.uk

Rory is a historian of twentieth-century Europe. He is interested in how social groups and non-state actors affect, and are affected by, political decisions and discourses. His doctoral thesis, on West German student protest and activism between 1949 and 1965, was awarded the Prize of the German Historical Institute London in 2024. Rory has previously studied at the Universities of Oxford, Sheffield, Freiburg, and at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and was a fellow of the Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz) in 2023. 

Email: r.hanna@sheffield.ac.uk

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements at the Ruhr University of Bochum. He is also Executive Chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr. Stefan has long-standing interests in comparative labour history, the history of nationalism, German-British relations, and processes of deindustrialisation. Before taking up his current position in 2011, he held professorships at the universities of Manchester and Glamorgan and taught at the universities of Cardiff and Plymouth. Stefan’s full profile can be viewed here.

Email: stefan.berger@rub.de

Dr Maxmillian Julius Chuhila

Maxmillian Chuhila is a scholar of African history and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. He has published widely on rural labour and the environmental history of East Africa. He completed his PhD thesis, on land use change in Kilimanjaro between ca. 1920 and the twenty-first century, at the University of Warwick in 2016. Maxmillian is a partner on the ‘Green Futures’ project, funded by the German Research Foundation, which investigates environmental and economic policies in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Namibia.

Email:  chuhilamj@gmail.com