Personal profile
Biography
I joined HCA in 2023 as a Lecturer in Public History. I was previously a Research Fellow and Associate Lecturer in the History of Twentieth-Century Italy and Spain at the University of St Andrews; the Macmillan-Rodewald Postdoctoral Student at the British School at Athens; and an Associate Lecturer at the University of York. I hold a BA(Hons), MA, and PhD from the University of York. My research focuses on public history, memory, and everyday life, with a particular focus on the history of the Mediterranean world.
Research Interests
I work on public history, memory studies, and the history of everyday life, with a particular focus on the Mediterranean world. I have written about memory, migration, and belonging in Greece and Turkey (Greeks without Greece, Routledge, 2019; Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2014; Journal of Migration History, 2022; Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2014), place loss, landscape, and environmental change (History & Anthropology, 2020), digital and transcultural memory (History & Memory, 2018; Memory Studies, 2021), dictatorship, conflict, and everyday life in southern Europe (Miniatures [with Kate Ferris], University of Exeter Press, 2025; European Research Quarterly, 2022); and “everyday public history” (History, 2022). I am founder and co-host of the Miniatures podcast (2020-ongoing) and I was previously co-director of the Holocaust education project Personalising History (2013-2018).
Research Groups
- Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Edinburgh
- Institute for Transnational and Spatial History, University of St Andrews
- Institute of Historical Research
- British School at Athens
Teaching
Undergraduate teaching
History, Memory, and Everyday Life
Based on a True Story: Representing the Past in Museums and on Screen
Themes in Modern European History
Historical Skills and Methods I
Historical Skills and Methods II
Postgraduate teaching
The ‘Dark Side’: Dark Tourism and Difficult Heritages.
Historical Methodology
Media
Founder and Co-Host of the Miniatures Podcast
Education/Academic qualification
History, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Greeks without Greece, University of York
Award Date: 20 Jan 2017
History (by Research), Master of Arts, Heirs to Byzantium, University of York
Award Date: 1 Jan 2013
History, Bachelor of Arts, University of York
Award Date: 14 Jul 2010
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Ethnokafenology: Oral testimony, space, and the noise of the everyday in Western Thrace, Greece (c. 1939-2013)
Halstead, H., 27 May 2025, Miniatures: A Reader in the History of Everyday Life. Ferris, K. & Halstead, H. (eds.). University of Exeter Press, p. 125-138Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Introduction: Miniature perspectives on big historical pictures
Halstead, H. & Ferris, K., 27 May 2025, Miniatures: A Reader in the History of Everyday Life. Ferris, K. & Halstead, H. (eds.). University of Exeter Press, p. 1-20 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Miniatures: A Reader in the History of Everyday Life
Ferris, K. (Editor) & Halstead, H. (Editor), 27 May 2025, University of Exeter Press. 416 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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'Two Homelands and None': Belonging, alienation, and everyday citizenship with the expatriated Greeks of Turkey
Halstead, H., Oct 2022, In: Journal of Migration History. 8, 3, p. 432-456 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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‘The Pawns That They Moved Here and There’? Microacts, room for manoeuvre, and everyday agency in the 1974 Cyprus conflict
Halstead, H., Apr 2022, In: European History Quarterly. 52, 2, p. 245-267 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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An Afternoon at the Barber Shop: Space, Oral Testimony, and “Ethnokafenology”.
Halstead, H. (Invited speaker)
23 Feb 2026Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Yoshinori Kasai
Halstead, H. (Host)
2026 → 2027Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
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Carl Smith
Halstead, H. (Host)
1 Nov 2025 → 30 Nov 2025Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
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Everyday Public History
Halstead, H. (Keynote speaker)
8 Oct 2025Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Miniatures: Exeter Histories of Everyday Life book series launch
Halstead, H. (Organiser)
19 Sept 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Lomography in Leith
Halstead, H. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/25 → …
Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation
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Miniatures Podcast: Small Stories, Big Histories
Halstead, H. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/20 → …
Project: Other
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Edges of a Dictatorship: Everyday Life in the Colonels' Greece, 1967-1974
Halstead, H. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/18 → …
Project: Research
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