Andrew Wheatcroft

Historian

Andrew Wheatcroft is an historian currently serving as Director of the Centre for Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He was educated at Christ’s College Cambridge and the University of Madrid, and has since written or edited more than twenty books, including The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe (2009). Much of his work focuses on the connections between the Islamic and Western worlds, as explored in Infidels: a History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam (2003), Cradle and Crucible: History and Faith in the Middle East (2004) and the innovative Ottomans: Dissolving Images (1993). As one of the first scholars to use photography to tell the history of the Middle East, he has always made art and images a central focus of his work.