Dr Luca Zenobi is a historian of Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean world between 1300 and 1600. Having read history and trained as an archivist in Milan, he moved to Oxford for his PhD and then to Cambridge, where he was a research fellow at Trinity College and an affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of History. He joined the University of Edinburgh at the beginning of 2023 as a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, and IASH shortly thereafter as an Affiliate.
Dr Hannah Boast is Chancellor’s Fellow at University of Edinburgh. They are the author of Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) and shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) Book Prize 2021.
Dr Peter Joshua Atkins is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Old Testament and Hebrew Bible at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Divinity. Prior to his current position, Peter completed undergraduate (BA) and postgraduate (MA) degrees in Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield.
Dr Lynda Clark received her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at Nottingham Trent University, her home town. She grew up on a council estate and was the first in her family to attend university. Her thesis That’s Not How It Should End!: The Effect of Reader/Player Response on the Development of Narrative explored the production and reception of serialised narrative from Victorian serial fiction to modern episodic videogames and was inspired by her work as a writer and producer in the videogame industry.
Dr Hannah Simpson is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of Edinburgh. She works primarily on the representation of the human body on stage and politicised representations of the body, with a special interest in depictions of physical pain and disability, and the work of Samuel Beckett.
Dr Patrick James Errington is a Scottish-Canadian poet, translator, and multidisciplinary researcher. He is the author of several works of poetry, including Glean (2018), Field Studies (2019), and, most recently, the swailing (2023), and his writing has won numerous awards, including the Poetry International Prize and the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada.
Dr Mursed Alam
RACE.ED Archival Research Fellow, September - December 2023
Home institution: University of Gour Banga
Professor David Smith is Deputy Head of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS), supporting the Head of College in the development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of CAHSS's strategic plans. He has particular responsibility for taking forward the College's education strategy, priorities, and plans, around Learning, Teaching and Student Experience. Prior to becoming Deputy Head of College, he was Head of Moray House School of Education and Sport.
Dr Kanwal Hameed
RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow, April - July 2024
Home Institution: Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter