Steering Committee
PI
Peter Hill
Peter Hill is Lecturer in History at Northumbria University and Principal Investigator of Reframing the Age of Revolutions. Peter is a historian of the modern Middle East, specialising in the Arab world in the long nineteenth century. His research focusses on political thought and practice, the politics of religion, and translation and intercultural exchanges. He also has a strong interest in comparative and global history. Peter’s first book, Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. He has published a number of articles on translation and political thought in the Middle East, in journals such as Past & Present, the Journal of Global History, and Intellectual History Review.
Co-I
Tom Cutterham
Tom Cutterham is an Associate Professor of United States History at the University of Birmingham, where he has taught since 2016. He is the author of Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the New American Republic (Princeton, 2017) and of essays on commerce, class, and capitalism in the William and Mary Quarterly, Enterprise & Society, the Journal of Historical Sociology, and elsewhere. He is also currently the Director of the Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre.
Member of Steering Committee
Felicia Gottmann
Felicia Gottmann is Associate Professor of History at Northumbria University and PI of the UKRI FLF Project ‘Migration, Adaptation, Innovation 1500-1800’. Her research interests lie in the global and transnational history of early modern Europe. Felicia joined Northumbria in January 2018. Before this she held posts at the Universities of Dundee (Leverhulme ECR Fellow, 2014-2017) and Warwick (Research Fellow, 2010-2014), having completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2010.
Member of Steering Committee
Andrew David Edwards
Andrew Edwards is a historian of Early America, capitalism, and money, focusing on the American Revolution. In addition to his work as a co-lead on the Reframing the Age of Revolutions project, he is completing a monograph on the monetary transformations of the American Revolution with Princeton University Press. Andrew had a varied career before joining academia, working as a baker, event producer, financial reporter, and foreign correspondent in the PRC before completing my degree in history at Columbia University. He received his doctorate from Princeton University in 2018 to become the inaugural Career Development Fellow in the Global History of Capitalism at Brasenose College, Oxford. Before joining St Andrews, he was a Sawyer Fellow at the New School for Social Research in New York City, working on the project Currency and Empire: Race, Monetary Policy and Power. His research has appeared in Past & Present, The Journal of American History, Law & Social Inquiry, and L’Atelier du Centre de recherches historiques.
Project Administrator