Matt Cook

Dr Matt Cook is a cultural historian specializing in the history of sexuality and the history of London in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries at Birkbeck, University of London. He has a background in literary and cultural theory and a strong interest in cross- and inter-disciplinary work. He is an editor of History Workshop Journal and was previously Lecturer in Modern British History at Keele University.

Dr Cook became co-director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre (with Professor Barbara Taylor, University of East London) in September 2008 and is also a member of the steering committees of the Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality (BIGS); Birkbeck's Centre for Research in Representations of Kinship and Community; the cross-institutional Britain at Work project; and the Stonewall/GALOP community oral history project.

External links

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/dr-matt-cook