Academic profiles
Dr Alastair Owens
Alastair is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary. A historical geographer, he specialises in Victorian London life and runs the London Studies Masters.
Dr Nadia Valman
Nadia is a Victorian literature expert at Queen Mary, with a particular interest in Jewish writers. She is currently researching the literary history of the East End of London.
Professor Miles Ogborn
Miles is a historical geographer at Queen Mary. His research focuses on the eighteenth century when London emerged as a global city, and seat of Britain’s maritime power.
Professor Amanda Vickery
Amanda is a historian at Queen Mary and an authority on English domestic life in the Georgian era. She is also an author, broadcaster and presenter.
Professor Parvati Nair
Parvati is Director of the Centre for the Study of Migration at Queen Mary. She specialises in the life and culture of immigrant communities as represented in film, art and photography.
