Matt Cook

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Matt Cook

Country

Great Britain

Birth - Death

1969 -

Occupation

Academic

Notable Achievements

FRHS

Description

Professor of LGBTQ+ History at Mansfield College, Oxford University. The first Jonathan Cooper Chair of the History of Sexualities at the university when he was appointed in 2023. Former Professor of History at Birkbeck College, Oxford University. Cultural historian specializing in the history of sexuality and the history of London in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has a background in literary and cultural theory and strong interests in cross-disciplinary work and queer, public and community history. He is an editor of History Workshop Journal, sits on the steering committee of the Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality (BIGS), and was director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre (2009 - 2018). Author of two books: 'London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885 – 1914' (2003) and 'Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London' (2014).

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