Taking up his post in October, Professor Cook will lead and expand the study and teaching of LGBTQ+ history at Oxford University, after 18 years at Birkbeck College where he led the Gender and Sexuality Studies MA programme, and directed the Raphael
Mansfield College, University of Oxford, is delighted to announce the appointment of the UK’s first permanently endowed Professorship in LGBTQ+ History, in association with the Faculty of History. The renowned historian, Professor Matt Cook, will become the first Jonathan Cooper Chair of the History of Sexualities.