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History Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre

Students

Current PhD Students

  • Jose-Ricardo Aguilar Gonzalez (supervisor: Rebecca Earle) '‘History of Foods and Drinks in the Transition from pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica to sixteenth-century New Spain’.
  • Mathilde Alain (supervisors: Natalya Din-Kariuki and Paul Botley [Warwick, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies] and Nathalie Bouloux [Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours]), 'The Christian kingdom of Ethiopia in the travel diary of Francisco Álvares (1520-1526)'
  • Sarah Boote Powell (supervisor: Sarah Richardson), 'Politics and Associated Political Culture in Three Midland Boroughs - Coventry, Leicester and Northampton - in the Age of Reform, 1826-1841'.
  • Adam Challoner (supervisor: Tim Lockley), 'Reading the Sectional Crisis: Antebellum Intellectual Culture and the Southern Middle Class, 1840-1861'
  • Hannah Dennett (supervisors: Maxine Berg and Rebecca Earle), 'Forgotten Foundlings: Black Lives and the Eighteenth-Century Foundling Hospital'
  • Francesca Farnell (supervisors: Peter Marshall and Beat Kumin), 'Women and the Supernatural: Agency and Oppression at the Intersection of Gender and Religion in Reformation England'
  • David Fletcher (supervisors Mark Knights): 'Religion and the Restoration Stage'
  • Daniel Gettings (supervisor Beat Kumin): 'Sustaining Body and Soul: The Early Modern English and their water, 1550-1750'
  • Sofia Guthrie (supervisor: Penny Roberts): 'Antoine Garissoles' Adolphid (1649), a Huguenot Latin epic: an edited text, translation and historical commentary'
  • Cheng He (supervisor: Anne Gerritsen): 'Tracing the Global Life of Chinese Export Lacquerware in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century: Its Making, Reception and Remediation Then and Now'
  • Imogen Knox (supervisors: Peter Marshall and Naomi Pullin): 'Suicide, Self-Harm, And The Supernatural In Early Modern Britain'.
  • Ronan Love (supervisor: Dr Charles Walton, History): Financial Debt and the French Revolution
  • Sander Molenaar (supervisor: Anne Gerritsen): 'Society in a State of Disorder: Coastal Violence in South China During the Mid-Ming Period, ca. 1450-1600.'
  • Rebecca Pilliere (supervisor: Kate Astbury, French Studies): Constructs of a Rebel City: Representations of La Rochelle in Early Modern Print Culture (1560-Present)
  • Anna Pravdica (supervisors: Naomi Pullin, Mark Knights and Kate Loveman (Leicester): 'Emotional Sincerity, Social Authenticity, and Performance in Early Modern England'
  • Serin Quinn (supervisors Rebecca Earle and Beat Kümin), 'Love and Gold: A Comparative History of the Tomato in Britain and Italy, 1492-1900'
  • Claire Rioult (supervisor: Dr Charles Walton, History): French and British Commercial Diplomacy and the Spanish Market
  • Dave Steele (supervisor: Dr Sarah Richardson, History): The Crowd in Britain 1780-1850
  • Andrew Steels (supervisor: Guido van Meersbergen and Mark Knights) thesis topic TBC
  • Hannah Straw (supervisor Mark Knights): 'Those Nauseous Harlequins': The Court Wits and Restoration Politics and Ideology, 1660-1685'.
  • Ellie Sutton (supervisors: Karen Harvey (Birmingham) and Naomi Pullin): 'Female Identity and the Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballad'.
  • Connor Talbot (supervisors: Mark Knights and Naomi Pullin): Emotions and the Making of Early Colonial America.
  • Brendan Tam (supervisors: Mark Knights and Mark Philp): Political friendships in late eighteenth century Britain
  • Maria Tauber (supervisors: Mark Knights & Beat Kümin): 'The Making of the English Politician: Early Modern MPs and the Transformation of the Media System'
  • Valentina Tomassetti (supervisor Rebecca Earle), ’BORN NAKED AND SHAMELESS: AN ANATOMY OF SHAME THROUGH EARLY MODERN ART’.
  • Camilo Uribe Botta (supervisor Rebecca Earle): 'The Hunting of the Odontoglossum Crispum: Colombian Orchids in the Nineteenth Century British “Orchid Craze”'
  • John Wilmot (supervisors: Hilary Marland and Sarah Richardson): 'The rise of dispensaries c1820-c1880: their contribution to health care in Warwickshire'
  • Sergei Zotov (supervisors: Dr. Michael Bycroft, History; and Prof. Ingrid de Smet, School of Modern Languages and Cultures), Alchemical Iconography as a Mediator of Knowledge: Visualising Science in European Alchemical Manuscripts of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
  • Gongchen Yang (supervisor: Song-Chuan Chen): 'The British Commercial Community in Canton and the Changes of Modern China Foreign Trade System, 1700s–1840s'.

Recent PhD students

  • Qianwen Qing (supervisor Prof. Mark Knights, History): Corruption and the Caribbean Colonies 1650-1750
  • Tina Janssen (supervisor: Dr. John T. Gilmore, English & Comparative Literary Studies) 'Future Scholars, Future Poets': the contemporary reception of Sir William Jones's translations of oriental literature, 1770-1835'
  • Natalie Hanley-Smith (supervisors: Prof. Mark Philp and Dr Sarah Richardson, History): The Menage à Trois and other unconventional relationships, c1780-1830
  • Thomas Luttrell (supervisors: Prof. Mark Knights, History) Alternative Discourses: religious toleration in context, 1603-1647
  • Sihwa Mun (Prof. Emma Mason): Rethinking Vegetal Life in Romantic Poetry
  • David Nicoll (supervisor: Prof. Penny Roberts, History): The relationship between the French Reformed nobility and pastors in the French Midi (1555-1598)

Completed PhD Students

  • Meike von Brescius (History): Beyond Company Control: EIC Servants and the Distribution of Chinese Luxuries in Europe, 1730-1770.
  • Devon Cox (French Studies): ‘Napoleonic Prisoners of War and their theatricals, 1803 to 1815’
  • Helen Cowie: 'Natural History in the Spanish Empire 1750-1850'
  • Martyn Cutmore: Samuel Clarke, the History of Emotions and the Affective Culture of Puritanism
  • Robert Daniel (English & Comparative Literary Studies) “Teach me, O Lord, this sacred art”: Puritan Modes of Writing in the Poetry of Thomas St Nicholas
  • Rita Dashwood (English & Comparative Literary Studies): Women, Property, and Jane Austen
  • Gareth Davies (History): Marriage Strategies of the North Warwickshire Gentry in the long Eighteenth Century
  • Daive Dunkley: 'The Idea of Freedom in Jamaica before the Abolition of Slavery'
  • Sarah Easterby-Smith: 'Natural history collecting and commerce in Britain and France, c. 1750-1800'
  • Kat Foxhall: 'Disease and Sea Voyages: Britain and Australia 1780-1880'
  • Jake Halford (History): Dialogue, Debate and Democracy: A Study of the Early Modern Dialogue Genre
  • David Hitchcock: ‘The Experience and Construction of the Vagabond in England, 1650-1750.’
  • Philippa Hubbard (Leverhulme): 'Eighteenth Century Advertising: the trade card in Britain and America'
  • Susan Law: 'Aristocratic Adultery c.1760-1860'
  • Tim McEvoy: 'Maritime Knowledge: The Maritime Schools of Venice and Portsmouth in the Eighteenth Century'
  • John Morgan: 'Flooding in early modern England: cultures of coping in Gloucestershire and Lincolnshire'
  • Emma Markiewicz: Hair, Wigs and Wig-making in the Eighteenth Century
  • Anna Moran: 'The Market for Irish Glass in the Eighteenth Century'
  • Rachael Morton (History): Marks of Ownership, Proofs of Ownership: A study of early modern object markings in the period 1550-1750
  • Rebecca Noble (History): Madness and Selfhood in 18C Mexico
  • Lydia Plath: 'Rumours of Slave Rebellion in the Antebellum South'
  • Ricard Torra Pratt ( Mark Knights), Corruption and Governance in Early Modern Barcelona.
  • Naomi Pullin: Female friends and the transatlantic Quaker community: 'the whole family and household of faith', c1650-c1750.
  • Tom Rodgers: 'Terror in the Southern Colonies during the American Revolutionary War'
  • William Rupp: 'John Byng's Personal World'
  • Kate Smith: 'Perceptions and Constructions of Workmanship in Eighteenth-Century British Culture'
  • Ian Smith, 'Reactions to the French revolution: central and provincial perspectives'
  • Spike Sweeting: Commercial Design and Architecture in London, 1730-1800
  • Anastasia Stylianou (History): The concepts of the holy mind and the holy body in English female sanctity, c.1516-86
  • Edward Taylor: Comment Serials in Later Stuart Britain
  • Hannah Whitfield (supervisor Prof. Mark Knights, History): Common consent and public profit: political languages in early modern England, 1580-1649.
  • Han Zhao (History): 'Conscience will keep a private session within yourself': the Culture of Shame in England, 1650-1800