Frank Mort FRHistS, is a British historian, author and broadcaster who is currently Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Manchester, UK.
[2] He was educated at Buxton College Grammar School and then at the University of York (BA English and Related Literature) and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, where he completed his PhD with Stuart Hall and Richard Johnson.
He then joined the University of Manchester as Professor of Cultural Histories (2004–23) and he was founding Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, CIDRA (2004–08).
[4] Mort has held visiting professorships and fellowships at the Universities of Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Michigan and Princeton, and at the National Humanities Center (USA).
[1] He is on the editorial and advisory boards of journals that include Cultural and Social History and Twentieth Century British History, together with the Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy book series.