Postgraduate Research Students
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Current Postgraduate Research Students
Phoebe Amis
- Thesis: 鈥楬ow is "credibility" made? A genealogy of UK Border Practices, 1914-2009鈥
- Supervised by: Professor Jan Plamper and Dr Rebekah Lee
- Award Winner
Jan Bartknecht
- Thesis: 鈥楢tat眉rk and his Cult: A Visual History鈥
- Supervised by: Professor Jan Plamper and Professor Benjamin Fortna
Milo Gough
- Thesis: 鈥楾he Built Environment and the Politics of Space in Colonial Freetown, 1850-1910鈥
- Supervised by: Dr Rebekah Lee
- Award Winner
Alice Sage
- Thesis: 鈥楩abric of Fantasy: Performing girlhood in London 1915-1934鈥
- Supervised by: Dr Vivienne Richmond
- Award Winner
Simon Salem
- Thesis: 鈥楾he Last Defence of Empire: Soldiers and Emotions in Late Colonial Wars (1948-1974)
- Supervised by: Professor Jan Plamper
Phil Smith
- Thesis: 鈥楩inding Seekers: Radical Religion during the English Revolution鈥
- Supervised by: Dr Ariel Hessayon
Andrew Whittaker
- Thesis: 鈥楾he effect of military participation in the First World War on British public day school alumni: a study of Colfe鈥檚 School鈥
- Supervised by: Professor Richard Grayson
Former Postgraduate Research Students
Dr Rebecca Bligh
- Thesis: 鈥楾he Re谩lit茅-Humaine of Henry Corbin鈥
Dr Robin Brook
- Thesis: 鈥楾he Positive and the Vital: A genealogy of the Science of Man鈥
Dr Paul Calderwood
- Thesis: 鈥楩reemasonary and the English Press in Twentieth-century Britain鈥
- Supervised by: Dr Ariel Hessayon
Dr Jane Custance-Baker
- Thesis: 鈥楩ear and Clothing in Interwar Detective Fiction鈥
- Supervised by: Dr Vivienne Richmond
Dr Cheryl Deedman
- Thesis: 鈥楾he Song of the Pen: Popular Romantic Literature 1839-89鈥
- Supervised by: Dr Vivienne Richmond
Dr Niamh Dillon
- Thesis: 鈥楾he British Diaspora: Race Return Migration and Identity in 20th Century Britain鈥
- Supervised by: Professor Richard Grayson and Dr Erica Wald
Dr Fiona Hackney
- Thesis: 鈥'They Opened up a Whole New World': Feminine Modernity and the Feminine Imagination in Women's Magazines, 1919-1939鈥
Dr David Henderson
- Thesis: 鈥楢pophatic Elements in the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis: Pseudo-Dionysius and C.G. Jung鈥
Dr Mary Ingham
- Thesis: 鈥楤ritish Women and German Prisoners of War in the 1940s鈥
- Supervised by: Professor Sally Alexander and Professor Richard Grayson
Dr Jonathan Koestle-Cate
- Thesis: 鈥楢 Fractious Embrace: Rethinking Ecclesiastical encounters with Contemporary Art鈥
Dr Christian Kurzydlowski
- Thesis: 鈥業deology and Politics of Dimitrije Ljotic and the ZBOR movement鈥
- Supervisor: Professor Dejan Djokic
Dr Imogen Lee
- Thesis: 鈥楥reating Childhoods: ideas of child and school in London 1870-1914鈥
- Supervised by: Professor Sally Alexander
Dr Jamoula McKean
- Thesis: 鈥'Doesn't He Know Who I Am?' Libeanese Children's Civil War: Film, Hisory and Philosophy鈥
Dr Kate Murphy
- Thesis: 鈥極n an Equal Footing with Men? Women in the BBC 1922-1939鈥
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
- Award Winner
Dr Nina Papazoglou
- Thesis: 鈥楳atthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle and the Ordeal of Value鈥
Dr John Rees
- Thesis: 鈥楲eveller Organisation and the Dynamic of the English Revolution鈥
- Supervised by: Dr Ariel Hessayon
Dr Alison Safadi
- Thesis: 鈥楾he Colonial Construction of Hindustani 1800-1947鈥
Dr Erin Scheopner
- Thesis: 鈥"Miserable conflict & confusion鈥: The Irish Question in British Newspapers, 1917-21'
- Supervisor: Professor Richard Grayson
Dr Christine Wheeldon
- Thesis: 鈥楶ioneers in the Corridors of Power: Women Civil Servants at the Board of Trade and the Factory Inspectorate 1891-1919鈥
Dr Justin Whitaker
- Thesis: 鈥楨thics as a Path: Kantian Dimensions of Early Buddhist Ethics鈥
- Supervised by: Professor Damien Keown and Dr Ariel Hessayon
Dr Judith Wilkinson
- Thesis: 鈥楿ncovering the Legacy. Samuel Beckett. Artist and Curator鈥
Dr John Woolf
- Thesis: 鈥楩abricating Freaks: Constructing Freakery in Nineteenth-Century London鈥
- Supervisor: Dr Vivienne Richmond
- Award Winner
