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Research students

Research students grouped by five research clusters

 

Pre-Modern East and West (including the long 19th Century)

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Jack Englehardt

"Cultural mappings of the Imperial Tropics, 1815-1860."

Supervisor: Dr Paul Stock


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Zhen Hao Liew

“Carceral Spaces and Punitive Mobilities: Re-examining Chinese Migration in Colonial Maritime Southeast Asia, 1900-1941”

Supervisors: Dr Qingfei Yin and Dr Ron Po


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Ziquan Zhou

“The Tree That Dyed China Red: A Cultural and Environmental History of Siamese Sappanwood from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries.”

Supervisors: Dr Ron Po and Dr Andrew Halladay

Conflict and Identity in Europe since the 18th Century 

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Matthew Cockerill

Provisional thesis title to be confirmed

Supervisor: Dr David Motadel


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Francesca Mascanzoni

Thesis title to be confirmed.

Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow


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Ryoya Mizuno

The International Thought of Arnold J. Toynbee: The Decline of the West and the End of the British Imperial System

Supervisor: Dr Dina Gusejnova


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Omar Nasr

The British Empire and Islam in the Second World War

Supervisor: Dr David Motadel


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Michele Pajero

Fascist Rule and Oppression in North Africa: A Comparative Study of the Italian and French Empires at War, 1940-43

Supervisor: Dr David Motadel


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Jonathan Slater

Indigestible, Disgusting, and Vile: The Development and Regulation of Ersatz Food Products in Germany during the First World War

SupervisorProfessor David Stevenson


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Edoardo Vaccari

The Ventotene Moment -- Justice, Liberty, and European Federalism in the Political Thought of Third Force Socialism

Supervisor: Dr Dina Gusejnova

Modern World History

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Maliha Ahmed

Bangladesh’s Path to Recognition, 1971-1974

Supervisor: Professor Steven Casey


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Marcus Andreopoulos

"Disarming the Raj: Anglo-Pakistani Military Relations, 1945-1958."

Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze

 


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Armand Azra bin Azlira

The End of Anticolonialism in Malaysia: From the British Recolonisation of Malaya to the 1969 Race Riots, c.1945-1969

Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze


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Milton Chow

The Imperial Dimension in Pacific Diplomacy: Britain, the Dominions, and East Asia in the 1930s

Supervisor: Professor Antony Best


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Mairead Costello

Global Pilgrims: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the British Empire, c. 1869-1914

Supervisor: Dr David Motadel


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Stephanus Yusuf Tri Effendi

"Military Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism in Indonesia, 2002-2018."

Supervisor: Professor Kirsten E. Schulze

 


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Isa Egiri

"Rebels without a Pause: Youth, Generation, and Cycles of Guerrilla Violence in the Rwenzori Borderland of Uganda and Congo, 1960s to Present Day."

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis and Professor Tim Allen (Department of International Development, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)


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Jonathan Franco

"The Peacemaking and Peacekeeping Role of the United Nations in the Arab-Israeli Conflict."

Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze


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Noel Mariam George

Refugees, Identity and the State: Post-partition histories of citizen becoming in India 

Supervisor: Dr Dina Gusejnova

 


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Yasmin Getirana

"The organisation of domestic workers in Brazil and Colombia through the Young Christian Workers movement, 1956-1988."

Supervisors: Dr Tanya Harmer


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Sungok Lim

The Anglo-American approach and commonality upon East Asia and Korea, 1897-190

Supervisor: Professor Antony Best


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Amir Mehdi

Provisional thesis title to be confirmed 

Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze


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Malaika Newsome-Magadza

A history of ZANLA operatives in Africa, China and the Eastern Block, 1963-80: imagining Home and Nation in exile.

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis


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Fergus Richardson-Soar

“’Amalume Lekani Mowa (Uncle Please Stop Drinking),’ Shebeen Kings and Strange Dreams: Rock Music, Antimony and Countercultural Challenges to Authoritarianism in Zambia. C.1969-1980. 

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis, Dr Tim Hochstrasser and Dr Tim Gibbs (UCL)


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Fabio Sappino

"Eritrean colony and its foreign policy with it's neighbours."

Supervisor: Dr David Motadel and (SAS - School of Advanced Studies)


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Pritam Singh

Caste, Race and Empire: Tracing the Roots of Indian Traders' Hegemony Over Lower-Caste Labourers in South Africa C. 1860-1994.

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis


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Austin Swift

"Decolonization and Collective Memory in Central Africa: Case Studies from Gabon and the Republic of the Congo, 1960-91."

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis


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Harriet Solomon

Beyond the Headlines: The Representation of Islam in Western Media – a Four Case Study Approach

Supervisors: Dr Kirsten Schulze and Professor Steven Casey

The Americas in World History

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Hammad Mustafa Al-Madani Al-Qadri

"Unfulfilled Promises: An Analysis on U.S.-Pakistan Foreign Relations between 1998-2003."

Supervisor: Professor Steve Casey


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Santiago Garcia Pardo

"Relations between Chile and Zambia from 1964-1975, in the context of the establishment of diplomatic relations by both countries in 1965, the visit of President Kaunda to Chile in 1966 and the creation of the Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries in 1967."

Supervisor: Dr Tanya Harmer


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Arianna Parisi

"Prison abolitionism within black feminism in the US."

Supervisor: Dr Imaobong Umoren


Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War

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Ahmed Almansoori

"Between Two Worlds: The Middle East and the New Great Game in Central Asia (1991-2001)."

Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok

 


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Arnaud Balner

"Robert Marjolin, European civil Servant (1948-1967)."

Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow


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Oliver Barton

Dual Track Diplomacy: Britain, Intermediate Nuclear Forces, and Transatlantic Relations, 1977-87

Supervisor: Professor Matthew Jones


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Bernard Gordon

Case studies on the UK and the European Investment Bank (EIB) - 1973-2019

Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow


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Jeffrey Hawn Jr

From Collapse to Crisis: The Fall of the Russian Parliament and the Constitutional Crisis of 1993

Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok


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Richard Hutton

"The Threats We Face: British Imperial Defence and the Far East, 1925-1934."

SupervisorProfessor Antony Best


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Thomas Mitchell

"Inter-war revolutionary students in Moscow." 

Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok


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Kenichi Odrich

"Made in Europe? How Japanese foreign direct investment and British automotive policy shaped the European Single Car Market, 1979-1999."

Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow


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Mina Rigby-Thompson

Cyprus, 1974: American Foreign Policy in the Eastern Mediterranean and Inter-NATO Conflict

Supervisor: Professor Matthew Jones


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Jack Roush

Friends of the Family: Informal actors in Iran-US relations during the late Pahlavi period (1953-1979)

Supervisor: Dr Roham Alvandi

 


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Gray Sergeant

Provisional thesis title to be confirmed 

Supervisor: Professor Nigel Ashton


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Marral Shamshiri-Fard

Resisting Marxism and Imperialism in the Persian Gulf: Political Alliances and Revolutionary Transnationalism, 1965 – 1979

SupervisorProfessor John Chalcraft (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Government),  (St. Andrews History), Dr Sara Salem (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Sociology)


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Balint Urmos

"Empire and International Communism: Britain, Soviet Russia and the Origins of the Global Cold War in East Asia, 1919-1929".

Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok

Recently graduated PhD students (2015-24)

PhD Graduate

Thesis Title

Supervisor

Celine Mitchell (2024)

"Génération Ça Va Pas": An Examination of French Algerian Youth Through Hip-Hop

Professor Joanna Lewis

Roger Enoch (2024)

Resolution 181: An analysis of the decision making process within the United nations that le to the Resolution in 1947 partition of Palestine.

Professor Kirsten Schulze

Peter Farrell-Vinay (2024)

Lethal Dialectic - The Evolution of Battle Planning in the BEF 1915-16

Professor David Stevenson

Sean Quinn (2024)

Agrarian Collectivisation in Catalonia and the Question of Power in the Spanish Revolution (July 1936 - June 1937)

Professor Paul Preston

Jan Kozdra (2024)

“Playing second fiddle”. Poland in the Global Cold War, 1956-1970

Professor Anita Prazmowska and Professor Vlad Zubok

Fionntan O'Hara (2024)

Refugeedom and Humanitarianism in Cold War Central America: Refugees in Honduras during the 1980s

Dr Tanya Harmer

Medha Bhattacharya (2024)

An Examination of the Hindi and Bengali Movements in South Asia (1930-1971)

Professor Taylor Sherman

Chloe Mayoux (2024)

A Place in the World: Negotiating Nuclear Power and Independence in Africa (1957-63)

Professor Matthew Jones

Ben Sayle (2023)

Reappraising the "Edwardian Radical Right", 1903-1918

Professor David Stevenson

Andrew Capistrano (2023)

Far Eastern Questions: Britain, the Washington System, and International Cooperation in China, 1919-1922

Profesor Antony Best

Alexandra Penler (2023) 

The Quiet Diplomats: American Diplomatic Wives and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1972

Professor Matthew Jones

Grant Golub (2023)

Henry L. Stimson, the War Department, and the Politics of American Grand Strategy during the Second World War

Professor Matthew Jones

Liam

Connell (2023)

Dr Antony Best

 Sinan Ekim (2022)

 Professor Marc David Baer

Rishika Yadav (2022)

Dr Joanna Lewis

 William Mitchell (2022)

 

Dr Paul Stock

Molly Avery (2022)

Dr Tanya Harmer

Yorai Linenberg (2021)

Professor Steven Casey; Dr David Motadel and Professor Heather Jones (external)

Hamish McDougall (2021)

Professor Piers Ludlow

Katherine Arnold (2021)

Dr Joanna Lewis and Dr David Motadel

Sawai, Isami (2021)

Professor Antony Best

Benjamin Heckscher (2021)

   

Professor Piers Ludlow

Judith Jacob (2021)

Dr Kirsten Schulze

Alexandre Dab (2021)

Professor Piers Ludlow

Gaurav Sud (2021)

Dr Joanna Lewis

Seung Mo Kang (2021)

Dr Antony Best

Daniel Berman (2020)

Dr Svetozar Rajak

Caroline Green (2020)

Dr Joanna Lewis

Amal Tarhuni Mezughi (2019)

Dr Kirsten Schulze

Eline van Ommen (2019)

Dr Tanya Harmer and Professor Piers Ludlow

Artemis Photiadou (2019)

Dr Joanna Lewis and Dr Heather Jones (external)

Grace Carrington (2019)

Dr Joanna Lewis

William King (2019)

Professor Matthew Jones

Pedro Correa Martín-Arroyo (2019)

Professor Paul Preston

Anne Irfan (2019)

Dr Kirsten Schulze

(2019)

Professor David Stevenson and Dr Heather Jones

Bastiaan Bouwman (2019)

Professor Piers Ludlow

Isaac Scarborough (2018)

Professor Vladislav Zubok

Sarah Ashraf (2018)

Dr Kirsten Schulze

Daniel Hardegger (2018)

Dr Antony Best

Max Skjönsberg (2018)

Dr Tim Hochstrasser

David Broder (2018)

Professor Vladislav Zubok

Ian Stewart (2017)

Dr Heather Jones

Tommaso Milani (2017)

Professor Piers Ludlow &

Dr Heather Jones

Scott Gilfillan (2017)

 Dr Antony Best

Corina Mavrodin (2017)

Professor Piers Ludlow

Ollie Elliott (2017)

Professor Steven Casey

Cornelis Heere (2017)

Dr Antony Best

Serkan Kececi (2017)

Professor Dominic Lieven and Dr Antony Best

Paul Horsler (2017)

Professor David Stevenson

Vishnu Juwono (2016)

Dr Kirsten Schulze

Vladimir Dobrenko (2016)

Professor Arne Westad

Jin Li Lim (2016)

Professor Arne Westad

Chris Parkes (2016)

Professor Steven Casey

Yu Suzuki (2016)

Dr Antony Best

Sara Al-Qaiwani (2015)

Dr Kirsten Schulze & Dr Taylor Sherman

Ranj Alaaldin (2015)

The Rise of the Shi'a: 1958-1980

Dr Kirsten Schulze

Rosalind Coffey (2015)

Dr Joanna Lewis

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2015)

Dr Joanna Lewis

Anton Harder (2015)

Professor Arne Westad

Simon Toner (2015)

Professor Arne Westad

Takahiro Yamamoto (2015)

Dr Antony Best