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Jack Englehardt

"Reading the Equator: Cultural Mappings of the Tropics as a Prelude to Empire, 1815-1860."

Supervisor: Dr Paul Stock

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

Ziquan Zhou

"A Cultural and Environmental History: Local Production and Global Consumption of the Siamese Sappanwood, 15th to 19th Centuries."

Supervisors: Dr Ron Po and Dr Andrew Halladay

Matthew Cockerill

Provisional thesis title to be confirmed

Supervisor: Dr David Motadel

Francesca Mascanzoni

Thesis title to be confirmed.

Supervisor: to be confirmed

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

Omar Nasr

The British Empire and Islam in the Second World War

Supervisor: Dr David Motadel and Professor Marc David Baer

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

Jonathan Slater

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

Supervisor: Dr David Motadel and Professor David Stevenson

Edoardo Vaccari

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

Supervisor: Dr Dina Gusejnova

Maliha Ahmed

Bangladesh’s Path to Recognition, 1971-1974

Supervisor: Dr Taylor C. Sherman

Marcus Andreopoulos

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

Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze

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

Milton Chow

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

Supervisor: Professor Antony Best

Mairead Costello

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

Supervisor: Dr David Motadel

Danielle Davenport

"Scope of belonging: The Uncertainty of Being Biracial or ‘Mixed Race’ in India and Zambia at the End of the British Empire."

Supervisor: Dr Joanna Lewis

Stephanus Yusuf Tri Effendi

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

Supervisor: Professor Kirsten E. Schulze

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)

Roger Enock

"Resolution 181. An Analysis of the Decision Making Process within the United Nations that Led to the Resolution in 1947 to Partition Palestine."

Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze

Liam Frahm

A Welcome Return? Britain and the Former Far Eastern Prisoners of War, 1945-54

Supervisor: Dr Antony Best

Jonathan Franco

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

Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze

Noel Mariam George

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

Supervisor: TBC

Yasmin Getirana

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

Supervisors: Dr Anna Cant and Dr Tanya Harmer

Sungok Lim

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

Supervisor: Professor Antony Best

Amir Mehdi

Provisional thesis title to be confirmed 

Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze

Celine Mitchell

French Algerian Hip-Hop: The Convergence of Colonialism, Islam, Racism, Poverty and Violence

Supervisor:  Professor Joanna Lewis

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

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: Dr Joanna Lewis and Dr Tim Gibbs (UCL)

Fabio Sappino

Attempts to define a new role for the first-born colony of the Kingdom of Italy, Eritrea from 1897 to 1935.

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

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

Austin Swift

Austin's provisional thesis title is yet to be confirmed

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis

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

Hammad Mustafa Al-Madani Al-Qadri

"A Critical Reappraisal of U.S.-Pakistan Foreign Relations Between the Coup and the Global War on Terror, 1998-2004”

Supervisor: Professor Steve Casey

Charlotte Eaton

"The Spanish Mirror: Colombian national identities, the Spanish civil war and its legacies, 1936-1946."

Supervisor: Dr Tanya Harmer

Santiago Garcia Pardo

The relations between Chile and Zambia between 1964 and 1975.

Supervisor: TBC

Arianna Parisi

The origins of Black feminist prison abolitionism from 1960s to modern developments of Abolition Feminism.

Supervisor: Imaobong Umoren

Ahmed Almansoori

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

Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok

Arnaud Balner

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

Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow

Oliver Barton

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

Supervisor: Professor Matthew Jones

Bernard Gordon

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

Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow

Jeffrey Hawn Jr

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

Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok

Richard Hutton

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

Supervisor: Professor Matthew Jones and Professor Antony Best

Thomas Mitchell

How the survivors of the Moscow-based Comintern institutional network help explain the anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist momentum of the inter-war period. 

Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok

Francesca Odrich 

"Made in Europe? Economic nationality, Japanese automotive FDI and the influence of British automotive policy on the integration of the European single car market, 1979-1999."

Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow

Mia Rigby-Thompson

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

Supervisor: Professor Matthew Jones

Jack Roush

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

Supervisor: Dr Roham Alvandi

Gray Sergeant

Provisional thesis title to be confirmed 

Supervisor: Professor Nigel Ashton

Marral Shamshiri-Fard

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

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

Balint Urmos

"Britain, Soviet Russia and the Nationalist Revolution in China, 1923-1927."

Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok