The BEYOND Project - Team - Peter Gatrell
Peter Gatrell is Professor of History at the University of Manchester and is a founding member of University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI). Peter is a member of the BEYOND Advisory Board.
Peter is primarily a historian of population displacement in the modern world. His research on population displacement has included collaborative research projects on population displacement, state-building and social identity in the aftermath of the First World War and the Second World War. Peter has also published extensively on the history of humanitarianism, including on the UN and global campaigns on behalf of refugees.
Peter’s teaching includes the course 'Refugees in Modern World History', which addresses case-studies in twentieth-century European and non-European history and explores how one can write 'refugee history'.