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PhD Job Market 2024-25

Information about our job market candidates for the current academic year

To enquire about our job candidates please contact PhD Placement Officer, Professor Tirthankar Roy (t.roy@lse.ac.uk).

Ruoran Cheng

Dissertation supervisors: Professor Joan Roses and Professor Kent Deng

Research interests:  Economic history, economic geography, digital humanity, historical GIS, the origin and evolution of civilsation

PhD title: Transportation network and spatial distribution of economic activities in the past 10000 years China

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Nick Fitzhenry

Dissertation supervisors: Professor Leigh Gardner and Professor Eric Schneider

Research interests: Applied econometrics, historical demography, public health economics, the history of Africa, medical history, development studies

PhD title:  Death, Disease and Doctors: The Health Transition in 20th-Century South Africa


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Zane Jennings

Dissertation supervisors: Professor Max Schulze and Professor Patrick Wallis

Research interests: English East India Company; history of the business corporation; early modern financial history; historical political economy of finance; corporate theory; agency theory; public choice theory; economic history of war; economic history of empire

PhD title: The English East India Company's Transition to a Permanent Capital, 1600-1679

Personal webpage:  in development


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Mikhail Kolosov

Dissertation supervisors: Professor Patrick Wallis and Professor Sara Horrell

Research interests: Social history, agricultural history, Georgian and Victorian England.

PhD title: Farm servants in Victorian England: Evidence of census records and registers of servants


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Xizi Luo

Dissertation supervisors: Professor Neil Cummins and Dr Melanie Xue

Research interests: social mobility, marriage assortment, meritocracy, and the role of institution.

PhD title: State, elite families and the examination system in the Qing Dynasty

First placement: EHS FEllow, Oxford

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Bumjin 'Andy' Park

Dissertation supervisors: Professor Joan Rosés and Dr Mohamed Saleh

Research interests: Long-run economic growth, economic geography, Korean economic history, regional inequality, industrial location, urban and regional economics

PhD title: Long-run Economic Growth and Regional Inequality in South Korea


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Víctor Pérez Sánchez

Dissertation supervisors:  Dr Alejandra Irigoin and Professor Joan Rosés

Research interests: Monetary and financial history; historical political economy of finance: economic history of Spain; monetary economics; financial history; early modern history; early modern trade; monetary policy; history of central banks

PhD title: Geography of money: A monetary explanation for early modern monetary policy and trade (1575-1680)


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Matthew Purcell

Dissertation supervisors: Professor Eric Schneider and Professor Sara Horrel

Research interests: Health policy; history of medicine, historical demography

PhD Title: Race, Practice and Policy: Maternal and infant health in the 20th century US South

First placement: medical student, Tulane


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 Ziming Zhu

Dissertation supervisors: Professor Neil Cummins and Professor Chris Minns

Research Interests: Social, occupational, and geographical mobility

PhD Title: Rags to Rags, Riches to Riches: Essays on Occupational Mobility in England, 1851-1911

First placement: ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Fellow, Economic History

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