Dr. Miranda Kaufmann
Judge for the Schools’ Competition 2023-2024
Dr. Miranda Kaufmann is the author of the Wolfson History Prize and Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize-shortlisted book Black Tudors: The Untold Story (2017).
She read History at Christ Church, Oxford and is now an Honorary Fellow of the University of Liverpool, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, where she co-convenes the 'What's Happening in Black British History?' workshop series.
She is currently working on her second book, Heiresses; as Lead Historian for the Colonial Countryside project; and taking her work into schools with her Teaching Black Tudors project and to the world with her new Black Tudors: The Untold Story course with FutureLearn.