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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

Historian Matt Cook will become the UK’s first permanently endowed professor in LGBTQ+ history.

The Jonathan Cooper chair of the history of sexualities will lead and expand the teaching and study of LGBTQ+ history at the University of Oxford.

Daisy Outram reports on Professor Matt Cook becoming the UK's first professor of LGBTQ+ History, a new position at the University of Oxford.

The Jonathan Cooper chair of the history of sexualities will lead and expand the teaching and study of LGBTQ+ history at the University of Oxford.

The Jonathan Cooper chair of the history of sexualities will lead and expand the teaching and study of LGBTQ+ history at the University of Oxford.

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.

Matt Cook, who has written on queer urban life and the Aids crisis, takes up the new post at Mansfield College

Matt Cook will join ‘proudly non-conformist’ Mansfield College to further the university’s ‘strong, existing vein of queer historical work’

The Chair has been named in honour of Jonathan Cooper OBE, a barrister with expertise in international human rights law and the role of public law in upholding them, who died suddenly in September 2021. Mr Cooper was an inspiring advocate and activis