teven John Gunn is an English historian and fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He teaches and researches the history of late medieval and early modern Britain and Europe, and is the author of a number of academic texts.
Gunn was an undergraduate and doctoral student at Merton College, Oxford, matriculating in 1979. Prior to this he attended the Whitgift School in South Croydon. Gunn's doctoral thesis, a study of the life and career of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, was supervised by C. S. L. Davies and completed in 1986. Prior to being elected a Tutorial Fellow at his alma mater, Gunn held a research fellowship at Newcastle University.
Gunn's research interests lie in the political, social, cultural and military history of England and its European neighbours, spanning the mid-fifteenth to the late sixteenth century.
Gunn was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of Early Modern History by the University of Oxford in October 2015.
