Elvira Tamus is the Course Coordinator of the Global History Lab at CRASSH. In this role, she supports and liaises with Teaching Fellows, and co-organises the annual GHL online student conference. Previously, she was a Teaching Fellow for two years, working with students living in the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, Uganda, and with students enrolled at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Elvira is also a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. She conducts her doctoral research on early modern Franco-Hungarian diplomacy in the context of European geopolitics and great power relations. She has taught European and world history at the Faculty of History and worked as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Geopolitics at CRASSH. She holds a BA in History and French from the University of Leicester and an MA in History from Leiden University.


