Lydia Plath

Lydia Plath is Professor of US History at the University of Warwick, where she also serves as the Deputy Head of Department and Director of Teaching and Learning. Lydia served as the Chair of the British Association of American Studies (BAAS) between 2022 and 2025, and established the BAAS Teaching Network. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has a Postgraduate Award in Interdisciplinary Pedagogy. She has written widely on American Studies pedagogy as well as histories of racism and racial violence from an interdisciplinary perspective.