The Centre for Magic and Esotericism
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Professor Emily Selove, Medieval Arabic Literature
Professor Dionisius Agius FBA, Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture
Professor Jonathan Barry (Emeritus), Early Modern History
Professor Siam Bhayro, Semitic Languages and Jewish Studies
Professor Nahyan Fancy, Islamic Studies, History of Medicine
Professor William Gallois, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean History
Professor Marion Gibson, Renaissance and Magical Literatures
Professor Nick Groom (Honorary Professor), English, Medical Humanities
Professor Timothy Insoll, African and Islamic Archaeology
Professor Richard Noakes, History of Science
Professor Daniel Ogden, Classics and Ancient History
Professor Brian Rappert, Science and Technology, Sociology
Professor Catherine Rider, Medieval History
Professor Sajjad Rizvi, Islamic Intellectual History and Islamic Studies
Dr Bryan Brown, Drama
Dr Susannah Crockford, Environment Anthropology; Anthropology of Religion
Dr Amy Cutler, Lecturer in Interactive Narrative Design; English and Creative Writing
Dr James Downs, Middle East Collections Archivist
Dr Jennifer Farrell, Medieval History
Dr Felicity Gee, Modernism and World Cinema
Dr Samuel Gillis Hogan, Researcher of fairy summoning spells, University of King’s College, Halifax
Dr Naomi Howell, English
Dr Jonathan Hill, Theology and Religion
Dr. Andey Letcher, Psychology
Dr Tony Lidington, Drama
Dr Anna Milon
Dr Michael Noble, Islamic Occult Philosophy
Dr Olya Petrakova-Brown, Drama
Dr Davina Quinlivan, English and Creative Writing
Dr Kara Reilly, Drama
Dr Laura Sangha, History of Religious Cultures of Early Modern England
Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Lecturer, Philosopher of Mind, Metaphysics, and Psychedelics.
Dr Tabitha Stanmore, Post-doctoral research fellow, History and English Literature
Dr Dorka Tamas
Arghavan Moharrami:
Thesis: The Winds of Zār: On Occult Oral Literature and Ritual Performance among Black Indigenous communities of the Persian Gulf
Barbara Dunn:
Thesis: ‘Astrology is higher and nobler than medicine and every physician must be an astrologer’: The Astrological Figure and the ‘Prognostical part of Physick’ c. 1580-1700
Sarah Scaife:
Research Project: Medicines of uncertainty: in a more-than-human world, how might polyvocal, practice-based performance methods reveal novel ways to articulate and attend to spells of illness?
Charlotte Spence:
Thesis: Conceptions of the Dead and Divine in Greek and Latin Curse Tablets