| Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
| Steven Gunn | |
| Birth Name: | Steven J. Gunn |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | Historian and academic |
| Professor of Early Modern History | |
| Thesis Title: | The life and career of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, c. 1484-1545 |
| Thesis Year: | 1986 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | C. S. L. Davies |
| Discipline: | History |
| Workplaces: | Merton College, Oxford |
| Doctoral Students: | Yuval Noah Harari |
Steven J. Gunn FRHistS[1] 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'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.[2]
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.[3]
Gunn was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of Early Modern History by the University of Oxford in October 2015.[4]
Gunn delivered the 2015 James Ford Lectures in British History at the University of Oxford, taking as his subject 'The English people at war in the age of Henry VIII'. A book of the same title based on the lectures was published in 2018.[5]
In 2021 Gunn was appointed to the board of trustees of the Royal Armouries by Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, serving a four-year term.[6]