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Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Illuminated manuscript in Bishop Cosin's Library, Palace Green

Honorary Positions

Honorary Positions are awarded in line with the University's Honorary and Visiting Titles Policy. Nominations are made via the IMEMS Executive Committee for individuals, external to the University, who have made a substantial contribution to research and research-led teaching at Durham under the aegis of the IMEMS, and those who have a close connection to the strategic research priorities of the Institute.

The titles of Honorary/Visiting Professor, Fellow or Associate are normally conferred for a period of three years, renewable as appropriate. Title holders will be expected to continue their academic connections with Durham and may be asked to deliver a public lecture to inaugurate their status.

To see full biographical details of all of our honorary title holders click here, or select the appropriate thumbnail below. 

Honorary Professors and Fellows

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John O’Brien

John works on the period of the French Wars of Religion, and in particular the writers Michel de Montaigne and Estienne de La Boétie.
O’Brien

Krista Kesselring

Krista specialises in British History and is a social historian of law. She has particular interests in violence, protest, and gender.
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Tim Harris

Tim is a social historian of politics; among other things, he has written about the politics of religious dissent in seventeenth-century England, Scotland and Ireland.
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Robert G. Ingram

Robert is an historian of early modern British religious, political and intellectual history. He is also a series editor for Durham University IMEMS Press.
Robert G. Ingram

Anne Thayer

Anne specialises in late medieval and early modern Christianity, the history of preaching and pastoral care, and the popular communication of religious ideas.
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Joanna Barker

Joanna's research concentrates on early modern France, notably women's writing. She is a trustee of Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online.
Headshot of Mrs Joanna Barker MBE

Marco Barducci

Marco's research interests centre on the impact of early modern European ideas on British intellectual and political culture.
Headshot of Marco Barducci

Ana de Oliveira Dias

Ana specialises in visual and intellectual culture in medieval Iberia and Continental Europe, with a strong focus on manuscript production in a monastic context.
Ana de Oliveira Dias

Hannah Smith

Hannah works on Britain in the period 1660 to 1760 and, in particular, politics, culture and gender.
Two cartoon figures of medieval and early modern characters

Andrew Foster

Andrew works on the early modern Church of England, its bishops and clergy, its cathedrals, parishes, and churchwardens.
Andrew Foster

Freya Horsfield

Freya is a heritage scientist whose research looks at the physical legacy of medieval activities for modern-day challenges, such as flood hazard management.
Freya Horsfield

Andy Hook

Andy is keenly interested in the Middle Ages and the domestic lives of the mendicant order. He owns Blackfriars, a restaurant within a C13th former Dominican friary.

Michael Stansfield

Michael is an archivist who has worked in some of the major medieval institutional archives in the UK, including those of the cathedrals of Canterbury and Durham.

Eric Cambridge

Eric researches the material culture of the middle ages, especially its architecture and archaeology.