A global network with a nucleus in Cambridge.

Victor Apryshchenko is a History professor whose research focuses on the political and intellectual cultures of modern Europe, with particular attention to nation-building, regionalism and the political languages through which communities articulated authority, autonomy and collective identity.

He has held fellowships from institutions including the Carnegie Foundation, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Paulsen Fellowship at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has also led major international research initiatives on European memory politics, including projects funded by the European Commission.

He is the author of more than 100 publications on European intellectual history, collective memory and political thought and is currently completing a comparative monograph on nation-building and regionalism in Scotland, Catalonia and the Don Cossacks within the British, Spanish and Russian Empires.

Hattie Clark is a PhD student in History at the University of Cambridge. Her current research explores the political and literary writings of Theodosia Garrow Trollope in the context of her network and popular salon in Florence in the mid-nineteenth century, using Trollope as the lens through which to approach broader questions of women's transnational intellectual engagement, the importance of salons as sites for exchange, and Anglo-Italian relations in the years around Italian Unification.

She holds a BA in History and an MPhil in Modern European History, both from the University of Cambridge. She has been the Global History Lab Teaching Fellow for La Sapienza in Rome since September 2025.

Constanza Dalla Porta holds a PhD in History from Princeton University. Her research focuses on memory, human rights and knowledge production in Latin America, with particular emphasis on forensic anthropology, enforced disappearances, and truth and justice policies in post-dictatorial contexts.

She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, where she is conducting a project on the intersections between human rights and gender studies in Latin America.

Rajab Emad is a Sudanese national from the Nuba Mountains who lives in the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement in Uganda. He joined the Global History Lab as a student in 2020–2021 and has been working as a Teaching Fellow at Kiryandongo since 2024.

Rajab also works as a trainer in conflict resolution education with the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative. He arrived in Uganda from Sudan in 2014 seeking refuge and better educational opportunities.

Nerea Fernández Cadenas holds a PhD in Late Antiquity History. Her research focuses on the Visigothic period and the use of AI tools to research Medieval History. She was the principal investigator on the BADDO-CM-UC3M project, dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence models for the analysis of the Middle Ages.

She has lectured at several universities such as the University of Crete, Tübingen, and Warsaw. His article "A Critical Review of the Signs on Visigothic slates" has been awarded as the best article published in JMIS (2021).

Ella Foschia completed her undergraduate and Master’s studies in France and is now a PhD candidate in Medieval History at the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research examines the political, legislative and spiritual mechanisms employed by the monarchs of the Union of Kalmar to legitimise their authority and establish the Union in the context of contested rule.

She has taught academic skills, French and History at university level for several years, beginning at Sorbonne University and through private tutoring before teaching at the University of Cambridge and joining the Global History Lab team.

Martín González Dombrecht holds a BA and MA in History from the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF). He is currently completing his PhD in History at the same institution, supported by a Doctoral Completion Fellowship from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET).

He teaches at UNTREF and the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (UNIPE) and is a member of the Latin American History Program (PROHAL) at the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani”.

His research focuses on the history of political thought in the Río de la Plata region during the first half of the nineteenth century, particularly republican discourse from the 1830s through the 1850s.

Aayushi Gupta is a PhD student in History at the University of Cambridge and a Research Assistant at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Since 2023, she has taught with the Global History Lab, working first with the Modern University for Business and Science in Lebanon and, more recently, with BRAC University in Bangladesh.

Hareim Hadi Hassan is an Assistant Professor of Political Argumentation in the Department of Social Sciences at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS). He holds a PhD in Argumentation Studies from the University of Windsor, Canada.

As a Global History Lab Teaching Fellow, he teaches global history through the AUIS–University of Cambridge collaboration. His teaching emphasises critical inquiry, argument analysis and the application of historical knowledge to contemporary political and social questions.

His research interests include argumentation theory, political argumentation, extremism, civility and political philosophy. His publications have appeared in journals including Topoi and Informal Logic.

Mike Martin is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in global intellectual history, particularly the history of federalism.

His doctoral dissertation examines federalist rhetorical strategies in British settler colonies and explores modes of persuasion implemented by different colonial federalist groups. Mike is also a Global History Lab graduate.

Su Nwe is a PhD student at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, working on China-Myanmar relations since 2021. Previously she has worked with Dr Thant Myint-U at U Thant House in Yangon, Myanmar, on various projects including lostfootsteps.org challenging the mainstream Burmese history and connecting it to world history.

Ellie O'Shea is a teaching fellow with the Global History Lab working with SciencesPo in Paris and a teaching associate at Cambridge University.

Her research examines the intersection between literature and historiography in the medieval period, with a particular emphasis on the space of the archive.

Nisa Paleker is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Heritage and Cultural Tourism at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.  She has taught world history, history of globalisation, world history in film.  Her research interests include film history, food histories and diaspora studies.

Solomiia Rozlutska is a Teaching Fellow of the Global History Lab at CRASSH. She has been part of the project since 2022, when it was hosted by Princeton University, and has continued in this role at the University of Cambridge since 2023.

In 2025, she served as Coordinator of the Qualitative Research Methods course. She currently works with students at the Ukrainian Catholic University, where she is also completing her PhD in the Department of History.

Her doctoral research examines Spanish representations of Eastern Europe in the mid-nineteenth century.

Ponpavi Sangsuradej is a Lecturer in Southeast Asian History at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, specialising in postcolonial Myanmar and Southeast Asia. She holds a PhD in History from SOAS, University of London, and was previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate at SOAS's Centre for Southeast Asian Studies.

Her doctoral research examined ideological contestation, ethnic minority perspectives, and global postwar currents shaping Burma's independence negotiations. Her current work explores federal democracy, postwar internationalism, and counter-histories in Southeast Asia, alongside labour migration and border conflicts following Myanmar's 2021 coup. She engages widely with debates on decolonization and Asia-Pacific geopolitics.

Aijamal Sarybaeva is an Assistant Professor of History at the American University of Central Asia. She has worked for AUCA since 2006. She teaches courses such as Women’s History, Oral History, and Digital History etc. Her research fields are social history of Soviet Kyrgyzstan and oral history of Soviet Kyrgyz women.

For the last several years she has been working on research projects such as Untold Stories of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, Oral History of Decollectivization in Kyrgyzstan, Oral History of 1991, and Accessing Memories of the Soviet Past.

Nicole Elsie Nonhlanhla Sithole is a historian of Africa whose research focuses on work, gender and social change in colonial and postcolonial Zimbabwe. She completed her PhD in History at the University of Cambridge, as a member of Sidney Sussex College, where her research examined African railway workers and gender relations in Zimbabwe between the 1940s and 1980s.

She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History, Heritage and Cultural Tourism at the University of Pretoria. Her broader research interests include African labour history, gender and women’s history, the history of work and everyday life, and the ways in which ordinary people shaped social change in twentieth-century Africa.

Barnabás Szabó completed his PhD in Comparative History at Central European University in 2024 and also holds graduate degrees in International Relations, European Studies and Nationalism Studies.

Across disciplinary boundaries, matters of “union and disunion” have remained the main thread underlying his research. More recently, he has focused on Scottish and Catalan alternatives to the fledgling British and Spanish unions around 1700.

Barnabás has worked at institutions including the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge, the Melikian Center at Arizona State University, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University. He has designed and led graduate and undergraduate courses and supervised students in Hungary, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Louise Mary Thatcher holds a BA in History from the University of Sydney and an MA Global History from the Free University and Humboldt University Berlin. Her PhD dissertation, ‘Stowaways, Deserters and False Papers: Global Bordering and Clandestine Migration to White Australia’ investigates bordering practices and practices of border evasion in the context of the racist immigration controls of early twentieth century Australia. Her teaching interests include histories of migration, labour and border control, and feminist and queer histories.

Constantine Theodiridis comes from Thessaloniki, Greece. A historian of the early modern Mediterranean, he completed his PhD in History at Princeton University in 2025. His doctoral dissertation developed a framework for reading ceremonial practices as an archive of international relations between the Ottoman Empire and European states in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His published work has focused mainly on cross-confessional diplomacy and trade between the Dutch Republic and the Mediterranean world.

He has taught at Princeton and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is currently a GHL Teaching Fellow at Panteion University in Athens, where he also coordinates a Narrative Observatory in collaboration with the Princeton Athens Center.

Jayn Vasylenko is a historian and MA student in Global History at Freie Universität and Humboldt University of Berlin. Their research interests include African and Pacific history, colonialism and its legacies, colonial knowledge production, oral history, and memory. Jayn’s work draws on archival and oral history methods, with a particular interest in how intra-colonial interactions and postcolonial societies shape knowledge, identity, and historical memory.

Jayn has contributed to research projects on German colonialism in Africa, as well as community memory, migration and diaspora in Germany. They also work as a Student Research Assistant at the University of Potsdam’s Global History Professorship.

Abdul Wahid Wafa has taught online classes in World History and Qualitative Research Methods for Afghan students in Kabul at the Global History Lab since 2022. He is the former director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University (ACKU). From 2001-2010, he worked as a local reporter for The New York Times based in Kabul, Afghanistan, travelling to nearly all provinces of Afghanistan and gained extensive knowledge about Afghanistan’s people and culture.

He holds a BA in Law and Political Science from Kabul University (2007) and was awarded the prestigious Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, where he studied leadership, democracy, and communication at the Kennedy School of Government from 2010-2011.