Professor Mary Heimann

Chair in Modern History, Cardiff University

Professor Heimann is a historian, writer and leading expert on Victorian Catholicism, Czechoslovakia, and Cold War Christian-Communist relations. She is best known as the author of Catholic Devotion in Victorian England (Oxford University Press) and Czechoslovakia: The State that Failed (Yale University Press). She directs the Central and East European Research Centre in Cardiff and is widely sought for expert opinion by international funding bodies, academic publishers, the press, media, universities, and Central European diplomats and policymakers, including NATO’s Partnership for Peace.