Postgraduate Research Students

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Current Postgraduate Research Students

Phoebe Amis

  • Thesis: ‘How is "credibility" made? A genealogy of UK Border Practices, 1914-2009’
  • Supervised by: Professor Jan Plamper and Dr Rebekah Lee
  • CHASE Studentship Award Winner

Jan Bartknecht

  • Thesis: ‘Atatürk and his Cult: A Visual History’
  • Supervised by: Professor Jan Plamper and Professor Benjamin Fortna

Milo Gough

  • Thesis: ‘The Built Environment and the Politics of Space in Colonial Freetown, 1850-1910’
  • Supervised by: Dr Rebekah Lee
  • CHASE Studentship Award Winner

Alice Sage

  • Thesis: ‘Fabric of Fantasy: Performing girlhood in London 1915-1934’
  • Supervised by: Dr Vivienne Richmond
  • CHASE Studentship Award Winner

Simon Salem

  • Thesis: ‘The Last Defence of Empire: Soldiers and Emotions in Late Colonial Wars (1948-1974)
  • Supervised by: Professor Jan Plamper 

Phil Smith

  • Thesis: ‘Finding Seekers: Radical Religion during the English Revolution’
  • Supervised by: Dr Ariel Hessayon

Andrew Whittaker

  • Thesis: ‘The effect of military participation in the First World War on British public day school alumni: a study of Colfe’s School’
  • Supervised by: Professor Richard Grayson 

Former Postgraduate Research Students

Dr Rebecca Bligh

  • Thesis: ‘The Reálité-Humaine of Henry Corbin’

Dr Robin Brook

  • Thesis: ‘The Positive and the Vital: A genealogy of the Science of Man’

Dr Paul Calderwood

  • Thesis: ‘Freemasonary and the English Press in Twentieth-century Britain’
  • Supervised by: Dr Ariel Hessayon

Dr Jane Custance-Baker

  • Thesis: ‘Fear and Clothing in Interwar Detective Fiction’
  • Supervised by: Dr Vivienne Richmond

Dr Cheryl Deedman

  • Thesis: ‘The Song of the Pen:  Popular Romantic Literature 1839-89’
  • Supervised by: Dr Vivienne Richmond

Dr Niamh Dillon

  • Thesis: ‘The British Diaspora: Race Return Migration and Identity in 20th Century Britain’
  • Supervised by: Professor Richard Grayson and Dr Erica Wald 

Dr Fiona Hackney

  • Thesis: ‘'They Opened up a Whole New World': Feminine Modernity and the Feminine Imagination in Women's Magazines, 1919-1939’

Dr David Henderson

  • Thesis: ‘Apophatic Elements in the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis: Pseudo-Dionysius and C.G. Jung’

Dr Mary Ingham

  • Thesis: ‘British Women and German Prisoners of War in the 1940s’
  • Supervised by: Professor Sally Alexander and Professor Richard Grayson

Dr Jonathan Koestle-Cate

  • Thesis: ‘A Fractious Embrace: Rethinking Ecclesiastical encounters with Contemporary Art’

Dr Christian Kurzydlowski 

  • Thesis: ‘Ideology and Politics of Dimitrije Ljotic and the ZBOR movement’
  • Supervisor: Professor Dejan Djokic

Dr Imogen Lee

  • Thesis: ‘Creating Childhoods: ideas of child and school in London 1870-1914’
  • Supervised by: Professor Sally Alexander

Dr Jamoula McKean

  • Thesis: ‘'Doesn't He Know Who I Am?' Libeanese Children's Civil War: Film, Hisory and Philosophy’

Dr Kate Murphy

  • Thesis: ‘On an Equal Footing with Men? Women in the BBC 1922-1939’

Dr Eoin O'Cearnaigh

  • Thesis: "More Life, Less Speed": Labour Struggles at the Ford Motor Company in Britain and the Politics of Work, 1968-1985
  • Supervisor: Professor Jan Plamper
  • CHASE Studentship Award Winner

Dr Nina Papazoglou

  • Thesis: ‘Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle and the Ordeal of Value’

Dr John Rees

  • Thesis: ‘Leveller Organisation and the Dynamic of the English Revolution’
  • Supervised by: Dr Ariel Hessayon

Dr Alison Safadi

  • Thesis: ‘The Colonial Construction of Hindustani 1800-1947’

Dr Erin Scheopner

  • Thesis: ‘"Miserable conflict & confusion”: The Irish Question in British Newspapers, 1917-21'
  • Supervisor: Professor Richard Grayson

Dr Christine Wheeldon

  • Thesis: ‘Pioneers in the Corridors of Power:  Women Civil Servants at the Board of Trade and the Factory Inspectorate 1891-1919’

Dr Justin Whitaker

  • Thesis: ‘Ethics as a Path: Kantian Dimensions of Early Buddhist Ethics’
  • Supervised by: Professor Damien Keown and Dr Ariel Hessayon

Dr Judith Wilkinson

  • Thesis: ‘Uncovering the Legacy. Samuel Beckett. Artist and Curator’

Dr John Woolf

  • Thesis: ‘Fabricating Freaks: Constructing Freakery in Nineteenth-Century London’
  • Supervisor: Dr Vivienne Richmond
  • CHASE Studentship Award Winner