Craig Griffiths

Dr Craig Griffiths is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan University, specializing in queer history, modern German history, and the history of sexuality. He co-leads the Histories of RGSI (Race, Gender, Sexuality, Identity) research group and holds a Leverhulme Trust fellowship for his upcoming project on human rights through a queer lens. His 2021 book The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation won the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize, analyzing LGBTQ+ politics in 1970s West Germany.

Education: PhD (2015) and MRes (2011) from University of London; BA (2010) from UCL. Professional roles include co-convenor of the History of Sexuality Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, membership in German History Society, and DFG-funded Queer Contemporary History network.

Research focuses on queer historiography, human rights discourses, post-Holocaust memory, and transnational LGBTQ+ movements. Teaching includes modules like Queer Histories: Modern Sexuality in Historical Perspective and A Queer History of the Twentieth Century.

Awards: Waterloo Book Prize (2021), Fellow of Higher Education Academy (2016), Royal Historical Society Fellow. Grants: Leverhulme Trust fellowship (2025).

Current projects: Human rights history through queer frameworks; co-authored German/English articles on queer methodologies. Supervises three PhD students across History, International Relations, and Sociology.