Research Projects, Networks and Fellowships
Current Research Projects
- Africa’s Sons Under Arms: Race, Military Bodies and the British West India Regiment in the Atlantic World, 1795-1914
Professor David Lambert, Professor Tim Lockley, and Dr Phil Hatfield
funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), 2014-2018 - Another World? East Africa and the Global 1960s
Professor Dan Branch (Warwick), Dr Emma Hunter (Edinburgh), and Dr Gerald McCann (York)
funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2018-2022
- English Factories of the Indian Ocean, c. 1600-1750
Professor Maxine Berg and Professor Giorgio Riello
pilot project, 2016 onwards - Forms of Conversion: Religion, Culture, and Cognitive Ecologies in Early Modern Europe and its Worlds
Professor Peter Marshall
funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2013-2019 - Narco-Mex: Drugs and the Making of Modern Mexico
Dr Benjamin Smith
funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), 2014-2018 - Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000
Professor Hilary Marland
funded by the Wellcome Trust, 2014-2018 - The Cultural History of the NHS
Professor Roberta Bivins and Professor Mathew Thomson
funded by the Wellcome Trust, 2015-2019 - What's at Stake in the Fake? Indian Pharmaceuticals, African Markets and Global Health
Dr Sarah Hodges (Warwick), Dr Julia Hornberger (University of the Witwatersrand), Dr Rene Gerrets (University of Amsterdam & Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development)
funded by the Wellcome Trust, 2018-2023
Current Networks
- Being Human Network: Medicine and the Human Sciences
Dr Claudia Stein
funded by the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) - Coventry Lives
Professor Mark Knights - Early Modern Forum
Professor Mark Knights
funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) - Corruption Network
Professor Mark Knights
funded by the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) - Mothering Slaves Research Network
Dr Camillia Cowling (additional Steering Committee member)
funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) -
Socioeconomic Rights in History Network
Dr Claudia Stein and Dr Charles Walton
funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2015-2018 - The History of Violence Network
Dr Jonathan Davies and Professor Chris Read
funded by the Warwick University History Department - Warwick Jazz
Dr Roger Fagge and Dr Nicolas Pillai
funded by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) - Warwick Network for Parish Research with the associated community platform My-Parish
Professor Beat Kümin
funded by the Research Development Fund (RDF) and the Global Priorities Programme (GPP) - Warwick Oral History Network
Dr Rosie Doyle and Dr Stephanie Panichelli-Batalla
funded by the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS)
Current Fellowships
- Bodies, Selves and the Supernatural in Early Modern Britain
Dr Martha McGill
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2018-2021
- Cross-Cultural Diplomacy Compared: European Diplomats in South Asia (1600-1750)
Dr Guido van Meersbergen
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2016-2019 - Crude Empire: British Oil Imperialism and the Making of the Modern Middle East (c.1901–1935)
Dr Guillemette Crouzet
Newton International Fellowship, 2017-2019
- Female Foes: Conflict, Dispute and Identity in the Early Modern British Atlantic
Dr Naomi Pullin
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2017-2018 (Cambridge) and 2018-2020 (Warwick)
- Imagining Englands: Confessionalisation, Catholicism and National Identity after the English Reformation
Dr Lucy Underwood
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2016-2020 - Scandals, State Secrets, and the Dissemination of Information about the East India Company
Dr Callie Wilkinson
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2018-2021
- The Hatters’ Blues: A Microglobal History of New World Dyes in Early Modern Spain
Dr Adrianna Catena
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2016-2019
Completed Research Projects, Networks and Fellowships
- A Contemporary History of Female Sexual Dysfunction, 1960 to present
Dr Katherine Angel
Wellcome Trust Fellowship, 2010-2013 - A History of Non-Violent Resistance in South Asia
Professor David Hardiman
funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2010-2013 - Alcohol and Nation-Building in Nineteenth Century Mexican Literature
Dr Deborah Toner
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2009-2010 - Alehouses and Sociability in Seventeenth-Century England
Dr Mark Hailwood
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2010-2011 - An Intellectual History of Soviet State Violence, 1917-1938
Dr James Ryan
Government of Ireland Postdoctoral CARA Research Mobility Fellowship, 2011-2013 - Arts Award: Transplant
Professor Margot Finn
funded by the Wellcome Trust, 2008-2009 - Band of Brothers: Enslaved Men of the Antebellum South
Dr Sergio Lussana
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2010-2011 - Biotrash: Money, Medicine and Garbage in India
Dr Sarah Hodges
funded by the Nuffield Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Wellcome Trust, 2009-2014 - Britannia Rules the Wastes: Britain and the Arid World, 1900-1960
Dr Robert Fletcher
funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), 2015-2017 - Brothers in Wounds: Italy's Disabled Veterans in Transnational Perspective (1917-1939)
Dr Martina Salvante
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, 2016-2018 - Centre for the History of Innovation and Creativity (CHIC)
Dr Luca Molà
funded by the University of Warwick, 2008-2010
- Childbearing and Childrearing amongst Jewish Women in England and Israel c.1948-1990
Dr Angela Davis
Wellcome Trust University Award, 2013-2018 - China and the Human Sciences: 1600 to the Present
Dr Howard Chiang
funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), 2014-2016 - Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England: Discourses, Sites and Identities
Dr Jonathan Willis
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2008-2009 - Commercialisation of Invention and the Economy of Knowledge (CITEK): Britain-France, 18th Century
Dr Marie Thébaud-Sorger
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, 2008-2010 - Communal Culture - Communal Power: Parishes in the Holy Roman Empire
Professor Beat Kümin
funded by the British Academy and a Senior Research Fellowship of the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, 2012-2013 - Convalescence and the Public Mental Hospital in England, 1919-1939
Dr Stephen Soanes
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2010-2011 - Corruption in Britain c1550-1850
Professor Mark Knights
funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), 2014-2016 - Cultivating Commerce: Connoisseurship, Botany and the Plant Trade in London and Paris, c.1760-c.1815
Dr Sarah Easterby-Smith
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2009-2010 - Edna Ferber's America: Historical Fictions of Race and Gender
Dr Jennifer Smyth
funded by the British Academy, 2006-2008 - Empire Loyalists: Histories of Rebellion and Collaboration
Professor David Anderson and Professor Daniel Branch
funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), 2011-2014 - Endangered Archives - From Indigenous Subjects to Indigenous Citizens: Digitising State-Society Relations in the State Archive of Oaxaca
Dr Benjamin Smith
funded by the British Academy, 2013-2015 - European Network in Early American History
Dr Tim Lockley
funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, 2008-2010 - Europe's Asian Centuries: Trading Eurasia, 1600-1830
Professor Maxine Berg
funded by the European Research Council (ERC), 2010-2014 - Everyday Technology in Monsoon Asia c.1880-1960
Professor David Arnold
funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), 2007-2010 - Feminism and the Servant Problem: Feminist Thought and Domestic Labour, 1880-1939
Dr Laura Schwartz
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2011-2012 - From Eden to Terror: Reciprocity, Redistribution and the French Revolution
Dr Charles Walton
Institut dtudes avances (Institute of Advanced Studies), Paris, 2015-2016 - Getty Research Scholars Fellowship: The Historical Image in the Contested Frame: Fred Zinnemann's Cinematic Archive
Dr Jennifer Smyth
The Getty Research Institute, 2011-2012 - Global Arts: East Meets West, Creativity and Cultural Interchange in the Early Modern World
Professor Maxine Berg
funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, 2007-2009 - Global Commodities: The Material Culture of Early Modern Connections
Professor Giorgio Riello
funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, 2011-2012 - Global Jingdezhen: Local Manufacturers and Early Modern Global Connections
Dr Anne Gerritsen
funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), 2008-2011 - Globalization and the City in East Asia: New Approaches
Dr Chris Hess
funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), 2010-2011 - Healing Cultures, Medicine and the Therapeutical uses of Water in the English Midlands, 1840-1948
Professor Hilary Marland
funded by the Wellcome Trust, 2005-2009 - Healthy Bodies and Healthy Minds: The Health and Welfare of Pre-School Children 1939-1979
Dr Angela Davis
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2010-2013 - Heretics and Believers: A New History of the English Reformation
Professor Peter Marshall
funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2012-2013 - Hierarchies and Honour among Enslaved Men in the Antebellum South
Dr David Doddington
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2012-2013 - History and Policy Forum on Parenting
Dr Angela Davis and Dr Laura King
funded by the Centre for the History of Medicine (CHM) - Honour, Race and Violence in the Mississippi Slave Insurrection Scare of 1835
Dr Lydia Plath
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2009-2010 - IAS Global Research Fellowship
Dr Christopher Moores
funded by the Institute of Advanced Study, 2012-2013 - Jewellers, Travellers and the Science of Gems in France, 1630-1830
Dr Michael Bycroft
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2014-2017 - Landscape & Power in Early Modern China
Dr Stephen McDowell
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, 2011-2012 - Law, Violence and Elite Politics in mid 18th-Century Egypt
Dr James Baldwin
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, 2011-2014 - Living Standards, Social Identity and the Working Class in England c.1945-1970
Dr Selina Todd
funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), 2006-2008 - Lone Motherhood in England 1945-1990: Economy, Agency and Identity
Dr April Gallwey
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2011-2012 - Madness, Migration and the Irish in Lancashire, c.1841-1921
Professor Hilary Marland
funded by the Wellcome Trust, 2009-2014 - Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925
Professor Maria Luddy
funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), 2008-2011 - Medical History, Immersive Museum Theatre and "The Last Women"
Dr Norwood Andrews
funded by the Wellcome Trust - Mexico and the Enlightenment Conference
Professor Rebecca Earle
funded by the Institute of Advanced Study, 2008 - Motherhood c.1970-1990
Dr Angela Davis
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, 2008-2010 - National Humanties Center Fellowship
Professor Trevor Burnard
Archie K. Davis Fellowship, 2008-2009 - Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) Fellow in Residence
Dr Anne Gerritsen
funded by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), 2013-2014 - RCUK Fellowship
Dr Chris Hess
Research Council UK (RCUK) Fellowship, 2006-2012 - Reading for Cures in Early Modern England
Dr Elaine Leong
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2007-2010 - Relationship Versus Authority: Psychiatric Social Work, Theraputic Communities, and the Subjectivity of the Child c.1930-1970
Dr Mathew Thomson
funded by the Wellcome Trust, 2006-2009 - Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL): Identifying Critical Thresholds and Sustainable Trajectories - Past, Present and Future
Professor David Anderson
funded by a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) award, 2013-2017 - Science, Technology and Medicine in India, 1930-2000: The Problem of Poverty
Dr Sarah Hodges
funded by the British Academy, 2010-2013 - Selling Consumption in the Eighteenth Century: Advertising and the Trade Card
Professor Maxine Berg
funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2004-2008 - Selling Consumption: Eighteenth-Century Advertising Trade Cards in Britain, America and France
Dr Phillipa Hubbard
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2008-2009 - Servants, Society and the State: The Making of the Social in England, 1760-1820
Professor Carolyn Steedman
funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), 2004-2007 - Situating Medicine: New Directions in the History of Medicine
Professor David Arnold, Dr Roberta Bivins, Professor David Hardiman, Dr Sarah Hodges, Professor Hilary Marland, Dr Claudia Stein, Dr Mathew Thomson
funded by a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award, 2008-2014 - Soaking up the Rays: the Reception of Light Therapeutics in Britain, c.1895-1939
Dr Tania Woloshyn
Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship, 2012-2016 - Social Sites - Öffentliche Räume - Lieux d'échanges, 1300-1800
Professor Beat Kümin
funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2005-2008 - The Afterlives of Afterbirth - A Contemporary History of Placental Use and Disposal in Chennai, India 1980-2010
Dr Sarah Hodges
funded by the Wellcome Trust, 2010 - The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
Professor Margot Finn
funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2011-2012 - The Eighteenth Century: Cultures of Collection and Display: Waddesdon Manor Programme
Professor Maxine Berg
funded by the Lord Rothschild and Waddesdon Manor, 2006-2008 - The Experience and Construction of the Vagabond in England 1650-1750
Dr David Hitchcock
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2012-2013 - The Khanna Study: Population and Development in India, 1953-1969
Dr Rebecca Williams
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2013-2014 - The London Livery Companies and the Reformation c.1510-1600
Dr Laura Branch
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2011-2012 - The Luxury Network: Luxury & the Manipulation of Desire: Historical Perspectives for Contemporary Debates
Professor Giorgio Riello, Dr Rosa Salzberg
funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2013-2015 - The Material Culture of Global Connections, 1600-1800
Professor Giorgio Riello
Philip Leverhulme Prize, 2011-2014 - The Organization Woman: Gender and Power at Work in Hollywood, 1919-1959
Professor J. E. Smyth
funded by the British Academy and the Warwick University Humanities Research Fund (HRF), 2014-2016 -
The Politics of Emotion: Challenging Emotional Regimes in Europe across the Iron Curtain from 1960s to the 1980s
Dr Joachim Häberlen
funded by a Marie Curie Career Integration Award, 2014-2017 - The Press, Power and Public Opinion in Mexico, 1920-1976
Dr Benjamin Smith
funded by the British Library, 2014-2016 - The Social Topography of a Rural Community: The Warwickshire Parish of Chilvers Coton, c.1600-1730
Professor Steve Hindle
funded by the British Academy, 2008-2009 - The Socio-Cultural Milieus of the Left in Post-War Britain
Dr Celia Hughes
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2011-2012 - The Significance of Angels in English Religious Cultures c.1480-1700
Dr Laura Sangha
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2008-2009 - The Spirit of Vatican II
Professor Gerd-Rainer Horn
funded by the British Academy, 2011-2012 - The Viceroy's New Suit: the Politics and Reform of Viceregal Rule in the Spanish World under Philip V (1700-1746)
Dr Francisco Eissa Barroso
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship, 2010-2011 - The War of the Locust
Dr Robert Fletcher
funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), 2016-2017 - Warwick Drinking Studies Network
Emeritus Professor Bernard Capp, Professor Rebecca Earle, Professor Beat Kümin, Emeritus Professor Guy Thomson
funded by the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) - Women and the Spread and Adaptation of Biomedical Knowledge in Uganda, 1897-1979
Dr Kathleen Vongsathorn
Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship, 2015-2018 - Writers and Cultural Change in Argentina, 1960-2010: A Study of Three Journals
Professor John King
funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2012-2014 - Writing Republics/Seeing Nations: Text and Image in Spanish America
Professor Rebecca Earle
funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2008-2010