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History Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre

Students

Current PhD Students

  • Kristi Flake (Supervisors: Peter Marshall, Beat Kumin and Mark Knights) 'The Book of Homilies and the Church of England, 1603-1720'
  • Nitya Gundu (supervisor: Guido van Meersbergen) 'Local Responses to Early Modern Global Contact in Peninsular India in the 17th and 18th centuries'
  • Angus Crawford (supervisors: Naomi Pullin and Beat Kumin) 'Almshouse, Guild and Town Community: The Lord Leycester Hospital in its Urban Setting'
  • Haijiao Wang (Supervisors: Naomi Pullin and Peter Marshall) 'Contours of Womanhood: Navigating Women’s Beauty, Emotion, and Relationships in Early Modern England'
  • Jingyang Xu (Supervisors: Rebecca Earle and Mark Knights) 'Eating in the Cottonopolis: Politics in the Diet of Manchester’s Cotton Workers, 1770-1870'
  • Luchen Pan (supervisor: Guido van Meersbergen) 'Comparing Overseas Commercial Organisation: British and Chinese Private Traders in East and Southeast Asia (17th-18th Centuries)'
  • Sophie Hartles (supervisors: Jonathan Davies and Ingrid De Smet) 'Laughter and Violence in the Italian Renaissance: The Physical and Emotional Abuse of the beffa’
  • 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)'
  • Daniel Gettings (supervisor Beat Kumin): 'Sustaining Body and Soul: The Early Modern English and their water, 1550-1750'
  • Imogen Knox (supervisors: Peter Marshall and Naomi Pullin): 'Suicide, Self-Harm, And The Supernatural In Early Modern Britain'.
  • 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'
  • Andrew Steels (supervisor: Guido van Meersbergen and Mark Knights) 'Merchant Families and the Organisation of Trade in the Levant ,1600-1750'
  • 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
  • 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

  • Hannah Dennett (supervisors: Maxine Berg and Rebecca Earle), 'Forgotten Foundlings: Black Lives and the Eighteenth-Century Foundling Hospital'
  • David Fletcher (supervisors Mark Knights): 'Religion and the Restoration Stage'
  • 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'
  • Sander Molenaar (supervisor: Anne Gerritsen): 'Society in a State of Disorder: Coastal Violence in South China During the Mid-Ming Period, ca. 1450-1600.'
  • Dave Steele (supervisor: Dr Sarah Richardson, History): The Crowd in Britain 1780-1850
  • Hannah Straw (supervisor Mark Knights): 'Those Nauseous Harlequins': The Court Wits and Restoration Politics and Ideology, 1660-1685'.
  • Maria Tauber (supervisors: Mark Knights & Beat Kümin): 'The Making of the English Politician: Early Modern MPs and the Transformation of the Media System'
  • Ronan Love (supervisor: Dr Charles Walton, History): Financial Debt and the French Revolution
  • 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'
  • 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'
  • Rebecca Pilliere (supervisor: Kate Astbury, French Studies): Constructs of a Rebel City: Representations of La Rochelle in Early Modern Print Culture (1560-Present)
  • Claire Rioult (supervisor: Dr Charles Walton, History): French and British Commercial Diplomacy and the Spanish Market
  • Ellie Sutton (supervisors: Karen Harvey (Birmingham) and Naomi Pullin): 'Female Identity and the Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballad'.
  • 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”'

Completed PhD Students