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
