Faculty
Art History
Dr Rixt Woudstra
BA, MA, PhD (MIT)
Assistant Professor in Art History
Dr Rixt Woudstra is an Assistant Professor in Art History. At New College of Humanities, she teaches a variety of undergraduate courses on architectural and urban history, material culture and cultural heritage. Dr Rixt ...
Read BiographyDr Niamh Bhalla
BA, MA, PhD
Course Leader & Assistant Professor in Art History
Dr Niamh Bhalla is Course Leader & Assistant Professor in Art History at New College of the Humanities. Niamh came to NCH in 2018, having previously lectured and worked on research projects at The Courtauld Institute...
Read BiographyDr Susan Green
BA (Wales), GradDip, MA, PhD (Courtauld)
Associate Professor in Art History
Dr Green joined NCH in 2016 as a Lecturer in Art History and in 2019 became Head of Faculty. From August 2021, Susie will be stepping down as Head of Faculty, but will continue working at the college as an Associate Prof...
Read BiographyDr Kate Grandjouan
BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor in Art History
Dr Kate Grandjouan is an Assistant Professor in Art History at the New College of Humanities where she teaches European and North American painting post-1700. She joined NCH in 2019 from the Courtauld. Since September 20...
Read BiographyCreative Writing
Dr Sam Kemp
BA (Hons), MA, PhD, FHEA
Assistant Professor in Creative Writing
Dr Sam Kemp is a poet and lecturer in Creative Writing. He joined the New College of Humanities in August 2021 and teaches on a variety of writing crafts, including all aspects of poetry, hybrid and experimental forms, a...
Read BiographyDeborah Walker
Assistant Professor in Creative Writing
Deborah Walker is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing. In a writing career spanning three decades, Deborah has been a travel writer, novelist, ghost writer, editor, commercial content writer and editor, literary c...
Read BiographyDr Claire Griffiths
BA Hons, MA, PhD, FHEA
Programme Director and Assistant Professor in Creative Writing
Dr Claire Griffiths is Programme Director and Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at NCH/Northeastern University London. She studied American Literature with Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where s...
Read BiographyEconomics
Dr Marianna Koli
BSc (UMIST), MSc (Manc), PhD (Manc)
Dean for Education in Business & Economics, Head of Faculty and Senior Lecturer for Economics
Dr Marianna Koli joined New College of the Humanities for its first teaching year, and has held a number of responsibilities at the College. In her current role, she is responsible for overseeing the College’s LAUNCH p...
Read BiographySabina Crowe
MA (Nantes), PhD (SOAS)
Assistant Professor in Economics
Sabina Crowe is a Assistant Professor in Economics at New College of the Humanities where she teaches first-year courses in International Business, Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. Over the last eight years she has wor...
Read BiographyDr Ahmad Seyf
BA (Tehran), PDip (Glas), MA (Manc), PhD (Rdg)
Course Leader and Lecturer in Political Economy
Dr Ahmad Seyf is Course Leader and Lecturer in Political Economy at New College of the Humanities. Qualifications PhD, University of Reading (1982) MA Econ, University of Manchester (1975) Postgrad Dip, University of Gla...
Read BiographyDr George Zouros
BSc (QMUL), MSc (Imp Lond), PhD (LSE), PGCE (KCL)
Assistant Professor in Economics
Dr Zouros has worked as a Assistant Professor and Senior Tutor in Economics at NCH since its foundation, teaching Mathematics, Statistics and Further Mathematics. He received his PhD in Philosophy of Science in 2007 from...
Read BiographyDr Sebastian Ille
MSc (HU), PhD (UNISI)
Associate Professor in Economics
Sebastian is an Associate Professor in Economics at New College of the Humanities (NCH) and Editor-in-Chief of the International Social Science Journal (ISSJ) published by Wiley. Before joining NCH, he taught for two yea...
Read BiographyDr Mahmoud Shahin
PhD (Exeter)
Lecturer in Economics
Dr Mahmoud Shahin is a Lecturer in Economics at New College of the Humanities. He is teaching on Principles of Microeconomics for Northeastern University (The N.U.in Program). He graduated from Faculty of Economics, Univ...
Read BiographyDr Serhiy Kovela
MSc, PhD, MBA
Associate Professor in Project Management
Serhiy is an educator, scholar and practitioner with over 21 years of experience in project management and business IT. He delivers educational and training programmes for university and executive audiences and provides ...
Read BiographyEnglish
Dr Catherine Brown
BA (Cantab), MSc (LSE), MA (UCL), Dip (Cantab), PhD (Cantab), SFHEA
Head of Faculty & Associate Professor in English
Dr Catherine Brown is Associate Professor in English, and was the founding Head of English at New College of the Humanities from 2012 to 21. She studied English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She then moved ou...
Read BiographyDr Charlotte Grant
BA (Cantab), MA (Courtauld Institute), PhD (Cantab)
Associate Professor in English
Dr Charlotte Grant is a Associate Professor in English. She studied English at Trinity Hall Cambridge, where she also did her PhD on Eighteenth-Century literature and visual culture following a Masters in Art History at ...
Read BiographyDr Peter Maber
BA, MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
Associate Professor in English & Lead on Academic Engagement
Dr Peter Maber is a Associate Professor in English and Lead on Academic Engagement at New College of the Humanities (NCH). He has degrees from the University of Cambridge in English and American Literature and completed ...
Read BiographyDr Daniel Swift
BA (Oxon), PhD (CU)
Associate Professor in English
Dr Daniel Swift is a Associate Professor in English. He has a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Columbia University in New York. He has written books about William Shakespeare, Ezra Pound, and the poetry of the Se...
Read BiographyRiyukta Raghunath
BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor in English and Education
Dr Riyukta Raghunath is an Assistant Professor in English and Education at the New College of the Humanities. She teaches on and is also the course leader for First-Year Writing Studio, a course that applies key principl...
Read BiographyJacob McGuinn
BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor in English
Jacob is Assistant Professor in English at the New College of Humanities, having also taught literature at Goldsmiths, University of London and Queen Mary, University of London. He received his PhD in English at Queen Ma...
Read BiographyOrlando Reade
BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor in Academic Writing
Dr Orlando Reade is an Assistant Professor of Academic Writing. He has a BA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Renaissance Studies from the University of London. He received his PhD in En...
Read BiographyTomas Elliott
BA, MA, PhD
Adjunct Lecturer in English
Tomas Elliott is an Adjunct Lecturer in English at the New College of the Humanities. His research focuses on literary and cinematic adaptation, transmedia studies, and translation. He has taught courses in world literat...
Read BiographyFlora Lisica
BA (New College of the Humanities), MA (Courtauld Institute), PhD (Cantab)
Lecturer
Flora Lisica is an Lecturer at NCH. Flora‘s research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture. Her PhD, which she undertook at the University of Cambridge, explored Romantic conceptions ...
Read BiographyDr Sam Waterman
BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor in English
Dr Sam Waterman is Assistant Professor in English and Associate Head of English at the New College of the Humanities. His teaching specialisms include Shakespearean adaptation, 19th, 20th and 21st century Anglophone li...
Read BiographyDr Chiara Alfano
BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (Sussex)
Assistant Professor in English and Education
Dr Chiara Alfano is an Assistant Professor in English and Education. She has a BA from the University of Oxford University, and a MA and PhD from the University of Sussex. She was an IASH postdoctoral fellow at the Unive...
Read BiographyHistory
Dr Faissal Hameed
BA, MA (SOAS), PhD (Birmingham)
Lecturer in History
Faissal Hameed is lecturer in History at the New College of the Humanities. He specialises in teaching US students studying abroad in London and has done for over 10 years. Faissal has a BA (Hons) in History and Politics...
Read BiographyDr Estelle Paranque
BA, MA (Aix), PhD (UCL), FHEA, FRHistS
Assistant Professor in Early Modern History
Dr Paranque is an Assistant Professor specialized in early modern and public history. She joined the college in 2017, after previously teaching at King’s College London, Winchester University, University College London...
Read BiographyDr. Chloë R. McKenzie
BA, MRes, PhD
Assistant Professor in Medieval History
Dr. Chloë R. McKenzie is Assistant Professor in Medieval History and joined the New College of the Humanities in December 2020. Chloë has a background of working in museums and delivering public history projects. She ...
Read BiographyDr Michael Peplar
BA, MA (Ebor) PhD (Greenw) FRHistS
Lecturer in History
Dr Michael Peplar joined NCH in 2020 as Academic Director of Student Mobility Programmes and Lecturer in History. Before this, he was for many years Academic Director of Boston University’s London campus, where he also...
Read BiographyDr Olly Ayers
BA (Manc), PhD (Kent)
Associate Professor in History
Dr Olly Ayers is an Associate Professor in History. He received a first-class honours degree in History from the University of Manchester before completing a PhD in history at the University of Kent in 2013, where he was...
Read BiographyDr Lars Kjaer
BA (AU), MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
Head of Faculty & Associate Professor in Medieval History and temporary Head of Art History
Dr. Lars Kjaer works on elite life and culture in medieval Europe, especially the period from c. 1000 to c. 1300. He has a background in social anthropology and is interested in the opportunities and challenges of interd...
Read BiographyDr Edmund Neill
MA, DPhil (Oxon), MSc (LSE), FRHistS
Assistant Professor in Modern History
Dr Neill is a Assistant Professor in Modern History at New College of the Humanities. He gained a BA in Modern History at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he was a college scholar. Subsequently, he gained an MSc ...
Read BiographyLAUNCH
Rebecca Maccabe
BA (Northumbria), PGCE (Warwick), MA (Warwick)
Assistant Professor of Professional Education
Rebecca joined NCH as a Lecturer in Professional Education in 2019. Qualifications PhD, Educational Research – Higher Education, Lancaster University (2023) MA, Educational Innovation with Specialism in Busi...
Read BiographyLaw
Ursula Smartt
JP, PGDipjur, MA, MPhil
Associate Professor in Law
Ursula Smartt is Associate Professor in Law at Northeastern (NCH London) and Legal Careers Counsellor for all students in the Faculty of Law. She holds the Master of Philosophy in Social Policy and Criminology from the U...
Read BiographyDr Alice Schneider
BA (Cambridge), LLB (King's College)
Head of Faculty and Assistant Professor for Law
Alice Schneider is Head of the Law Faculty and and Assistant Professor in Law at New College of the Humanities. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford and holds qualifyin...
Read BiographyDr Dimitrios Kyriazis
LLB (Athens), MPhil, MJur (Oxford)
Honorary Research Fellow in Law
Dr Dimitrios Kyriazis is an Honorary Research Fellow in Law. He previously served as Head of the Law Faculty and Senior Lecturer in Law (2017-2020). He joined NCH in 2017, having taught for several years at Oxford Univer...
Read BiographyDr Aislinn O’Connell
BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor in Law
Aislinn has been a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at NCH since January 2020. Aislinn is also a lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London. She has held posts at St Mary’s University Twickenham, as well as acting a...
Read BiographyStephen Dnes
MA (Cantab), LLM (UVA Law)
Associate Professor in Law
Stephen Dnes is an Associate Professor in Law at NCH. Following legal education at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and the University of Virginia School of Law, Stephen was admitted to the New York Bar and deve...
Read BiographyPhilosophy
Dr David Mitchell
BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon), MSc (LSE)
Associate Professor in Philosophy
Dr David Mitchell has been a faculty member of Philosophy at New College of the Humanities since September 2012. He currently leads courses in the first, second and third year undergraduate curriculum and in the MA in Ph...
Read BiographyDr Naomi Goulder
BA (Hons), MA (Cantab), PhD (Lond)
Dean for Academic Development & Innovation and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Naomi is Dean for Academic Development & Innovation and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at New College of the Humanities. As a founding member of the college, she has played a significant role in the institution’s de...
Read BiographyDr Alessandro Rossi
BA, MA, MPhil, PhD
Assistant Professor in Philosophy
Dr Alessandro Rossi is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at New College of the Humanities. He obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of St. Andrews (2021) with a dissertation entitled ‘Existence, Actua...
Read BiographyDr Brian Ball
BA (McGill), BPhil, DPhil (Oxon)
Head of Faculty and Associate Professor in Philosophy
Dr Brian Ball is the Head of Faculty and Associate Professor in Philosophy at New College of the Humanities. He received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University with Honours in Philosophy and a Minor Concentration in L...
Read BiographyDr Bianca Serwinski
BSc (Kent), MSc, PhD (UCL)
Course Leader and Assistant Professor in Psychology
Dr Bianca Serwinski is Programme Director and Assistant Professor in Psychology at NCH in the Psychology minor and in the NU.in programmes, having joined in 2018. She further lectures in Psychology, health-science and so...
Read BiographyDr Robb Dunphy
BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor in Philosophy
Dr Dunphy is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities. He studied philosophy at the University of Warwick for his undergraduate and master’s degrees. His PhD in philosophy is from the University of...
Read BiographyDr Mark Bowker
MA, MLitt, PhD
Associate Professor in Philosophy
Mark Bowker studied Philosophy at the University of St Andrew and was awarded his PhD in 2016. He has since held postdoctoral fellowships at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy and University College Dublin. In...
Read BiographyDr Christoph Schuringa
BA (Cantab), MA, PhD (Lond)
Assistant Professor in Philosophy
Dr Christoph Schuringa holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (King’s College) and a PhD from the University of London (Birkbeck College). Qualifications PhD in Philosophy, Birkbeck, Universi...
Read BiographyDr Ioannis Votsis
BA (UC Berkeley), PhD (LSE)
Associate Professor in Philosophy
Ioannis Votsis holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley (BA 1998) and the London School of Economics (PhD 2004). He is a Associate Professor in Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities and a Fello...
Read BiographyPolitics & International Relations
Dr Diana Bozhilova
BA (Hons), PhD (KCL)
Head of Faculty and Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations
Diana completed her PhD at King’s College London where she was jointly an ORC UK and an Open Society New York Scholar. Diana then held posts at LSE and KCL, before joining New College of the Humanities as Head of Facul...
Read BiographyDr Xuechen Chen
BA (Beijing), MSc (LSE), PhD (KCL)
Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations
Dr Xuechen Chen is Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations at the New College of the Humanities. She is leader of the course “Comparative Politics”. She also convenes the courses “the European U...
Read BiographyDr John Wolfe Ackerman
BA, MA, PhD
Lecturer in Political Theory
Dr John Wolfe Ackerman is a Lecturer in Politics & International Relations at New College of the Humanities. John teaches Political Theory. Qualifications MA, PhD (Political Science) Northwestern University (2...
Read BiographyDr Pablo Calderon Martinez
BA, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations
Pablo is a Assistant Professor in Politics & International Relations at the New College of the Humanities. Prior to joining NCH, Pablo was a Lecturer in Spanish at Aston University, a Visiting Assistant Professor (Re...
Read BiographyDr Callum Barrell
BA, MPhil (Cantab), PhD (QMUL)
Associate Professor of Political Thought
Dr Barrell joined New College of the Humanities in September 2016 as Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations, having taught here as Visiting Lecturer. He is now Associate Professor of Political Though...
Read BiographyDr Sara Raimondi
BA (Milan), MSc (Milan), MA (Westminster), PhD (Westminster)
Lecturer in Politics & International Relations
Dr Sara Raimondi joined New College of the Humanities in July 2019 and she is currently an Assistant Professor in Politics & International Relations. She is currently course leader for several Level 5 courses in ...
Read BiographyComputer and Data Science
Mark Martin
BSc, MA ed, MBE
Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Education Practice
Mark Martin aka @Urban_Teacher is an Advanced Skills Teacher in Education and Computer Science. Mark is a thought leader in #EdTech and a hugely popular speaker, sharing his expertise and insights to educators around the...
Read BiographyDr Dimitris Mylonas
MSc (UAL), PhD (UCL)
Assistant Professor in Computer Science; Director of Data Science
Dimitris is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Director of the Data Science minor and BA Philosophy & Cognitive Science at New College of the Humanities at Northeastern. He holds a PhD from the Department...
Read BiographyDr Alexandros Koliousis
MSc, PhD
Associate Professor in Computer Science
Alexandros Koliousis is a Associate Professor in Computer Science. He joined NCH in 2020. Previously, he held research positions in industry (Graphcore, 2019-2020) and academia (Imperial College London, 2012-2019; Univer...
Read BiographyResearch Scientists
Dr Emily C. Collins
BA, MSc, PhD
Associate Research Scientist
Dr. Emily C. Collins is an interdisciplinary Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Research Scientist. Her research interests include human-robot interaction, trustworthy autonomous systems, the ethics of robotics and AI, biomi...
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