Current PhD Students
Please find below all current PhD students of the Warwick University History Department, listed alphabetically by surname. Details of former PhD students are also available.
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- Ahlemeyer, Sophie Aimée
Sophie Aimée AhlemeyerThesis: Wom(b)anhood: Herstory, “treatment” and conceptions of endometriosis from the 20th century onwards
Supervisor(s): Prof Hilary Marland & Prof Roberta Bivins
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1807725- Al Khalifa, Ali
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Ali Al Khalifa
Thesis: The Adviser: Charles Belgrave’s Relationship with Britain’s Informal Empire in the Gulf
Supervisor: Dr Robert FletcherLink opens in a new window and Prof David Anderson
ePortfolio: n/a - Angadi, Shankara
Shankara AngadiThesis: Caste and culture wars in Kanara (Western Karnataka) 1799 -1830: the restructuring of religion and society in response to early British occupation
Supervisor(s): Dr Thomas Simpson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u5652773
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- Boender, Niels
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Niels Boender
Thesis: Coercive Reconciliation, Decolonisation, and the Local Politics of Central Kenya, 1956-69
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Branch and Professor David Anderson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/nielsboender - Boote Powell, Sarah
Sarah Boote PowellThesis: 'Politics and Associated Political Culture in Three Midland Boroughs - Coventry, Leicester and Northampton - in the Age of Reform, 1826-1841'.
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Richardson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u0028240
- Bruins, Anna
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Anna Bruins
Thesis: In Pursuit of Planting: Scientific Travel and the VOC's Quest for Botanical, Environmental and Agricultural Knowledge in the Indian Ocean World (1600-1800)
Supervisor(s): Dr Guido van Meersbergen & Dr Thomas Simpson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u5655314
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- Caistor-Parker, Ian
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Ian Caistor-Parker
Thesis: A history of incarceration in Kenya 1945-present
Supervisor: Professor David Anderson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1637773 - Capel, Rebecca
Rebecca CapelThesis: Young Women's Experiences of Sex and Romance in Britain, 1650-1750
Supervisor(s): Dr Naomi Pullin & Prof Karen HarveyLink opens in a new window (University of Birmingham)
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2021829- Challender, Chloe
Chloe ChallenderThesis: Institutional intimacy: gender, contested sexuality and relationships in the 19th Century Parliament
Supervisor: Professor Sarah Richardson & Dr Laura Schwartz
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2251689
- Chen, Qing
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Qing Chen
Thesis: Sino-British Relations And Interactions, British Empire And Commercial Chamber In Modern China
Supervisor: Dr Song-Chuan Chen and Dr James Poskett
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/qingchen/ - Cooper, Nathalie
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Nathalie Cooper
Thesis: Museum Collections and The Legacies Of Imperialism: Curating Colonial Violence at The Horniman
Supervisor: Professor David Anderson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2056998/ - Crawford, Angus
Angus CrawfordThesis: Almshouse, Guild, and Town Community: The Lord Leycester Hospital in its Urban Setting, c. 1571-1700
Supervisor(s): Dr Naomi Pullin & Prof Beat Kümin
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u5563480
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- Dai, Xianxian
Xianxian DaiThesis: A Social History of the First Opium War in the Jiangnan Region
Supervisor: Professor Susan Carruthers & Dr Song-Chuan Chen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2257785
- Dennett, Hannah
Hannah Dennett
Thesis: “Forgotten Foundlings”: Black Lives and the Eighteenth-Century Foundling Hospital
Supervisor: Professor Maxine Berg and Professor Rebecca Earle
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1966016- Diable, Aidan
Aidan DiableThesis: The Materialisation of Ideas in the Suburbs of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Liverpool, UK, and Melbourne, Australia
Supervisor(s): Dr Pierre Purseigle, Prof Lionel Frost and Dr Kate Murphy
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/2014365
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- Edwards, Mia
Mia Edwards
Thesis: Masculinity, Physicality and Disability: Shifting Experiences and Ideologies within the Antebellum South, 1800-1861
Supervisor: Professor Tim Lockley & Dr Sergio Lussana (Nottingham Trent University)
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2252430
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- Flake, Kristi
Kristi FlakeThesis: The Book of Homilies and the Church of England, 1603-1720
Supervisors: Professor Peter Marshall, Professor Beat Kumin and Professor Mark Knights
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2254670
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- Gao, Haoqi
Haoqi GaoThesis: Kenya Post-Colonial History
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Branch
ePortfolio: n/a
- Gettings, Daniel
Daniel GettingsThesis: Sustaining Body and Soul: The Early Modern English and their water, 1550-1750.
Supervisor: Professor Beat Kumin
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/danielgettings
- Goh, Jeremy
Jeremy GohThesis: Globalizing from the Periphery: Chinese banking transnationalism in Singapore, Malaya, and China (1900-1950)
Supervisor(s): Dr Song-Chuan Chen & Dr Charles Walton
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u5541810
- Gómez Baeza, Nicolás
Nicolás Gómez BaezaThesis: Managers from the British World: Imperial Trajectories and Labour Regimes in the Sheep Farming Industry of Southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego (1858–1964)
Supervisor: Dr Camillia Cowling and Dr Robert Fletcher
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/nicolasgomezbaeza/- Grey, Joshua
Joshua GreyThesis: The Right-Wing Press and the British World, 1780-1830
Supervisor(s): Prof David Lambert & Prof Gordon Pentland
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1913619
- Gundu, Nitya
Nitya GunduThesis: Curiosities and Oddities: Local, Epistemic, and Material Responses to Early Modern Globalisation in Deccan and South India, 1600 - 1800
Supervisor(s): Dr Guido van Meersbergen & Prof Anne Gerritsen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2273556
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- Hamoud, Samir
Samir HamdoudThesis: Young People and Disability: Medical Science, Education and Care at the Royal Albert Asylum, 1870 - 1920
Supervisor: Professor Hilary Marland
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1866443
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- Knox, Imogen
Imogen KnoxThesis: Self-destructive desires and the supernatural in early modern Britain
Supervisor: Professor Peter Marshall & Dr Naomi Pullin
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/imogenknox/
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- Law, Judy
Judy LawThesis: Zhangzhou Ware: Chinese Porcelain for Intra-Asian Trade during the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
Supervisor: Professor Anne Gerritsen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2248245
- Lemos, Sue
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Sue Lemos
Thesis: Pioneers of Our Own Future: Historicising the Black lesbian and gay movement in Late Twentieth Century Britain
Supervisor: Dr Laura Schwartz & Dr Meleisa Ono-George
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/suelemos - Liu, Jiaqi
Jiaqi LiuThesis: Confucian Ritual Vessels In The Diplomatic Discourses In Tenth-To-Thirteenth Century East Asia
Supervisor: Professor Anne Gerritsen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/1990450/
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- Martin, Fleur
Fleur MartinThesis: 'Looting, Trade & The Gift: Imperial Collecting in Eastern Africa, 1860 – 1914'
Supervisor: Professor David Anderson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/fleurmartin/
- Medina-Gonzalez, Paola
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Paola Medina-Gonzalez
Thesis: Wehrmacht Masculinities: Exploring Queerness and Martial Masculinity Through Cross-Dressing Soldiers
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hajkova
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/paola-medina-gonzalez
- Mehta, Himesh
Himesh Mehta
Thesis: The Making of a ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’ in Britain
Supervisor: Professor Mathew Thomson & Dr Claudia Stein
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/1714634
- Metcalfe, Peter
Peter Metcalfe
Thesis: Trade Unions in Malaya & Singapore, 1942-1959.
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Branch & Dr Robert Fletcher
ePortfolio: n/a
- Miyonga, Rose
Rose, Miyonga
Thesis: Forgive and Forget? Mau Mau and the Making of Memory and History in Post-Colonial Kenya
Supervisor: Professor David Anderson and Professor Daniel Branch
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/rose-miyonga/
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- Nash, Evie
Evie NashThesis: The persecution of Quakers as vagrants in the British Atlantic, c. 1640-1750
Supervisor(s): Dr Naomi Pullin & Prof Mark Knights
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u5560562
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- Ocando-Thomas, Eloisa
Eloisa Ocando ThomasThesis: Colonial goods in early modern times: Consumption networks of import commodities in late eighteenth-century Caracas
Supervisor(s): Prof Rebecca Earle
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u554463
- Orchardson, Emma
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Emma Orchardson
Thesis: Kamuzu Banda and the Cold War in Malawi, c.1964-84
Supervisor: Professor David Anderson and Professor Daniel Branch
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/emma-orchardson/
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- Pravdica, Anna
Anna PravdicaThesis: Sincerity, Deceit, and Social Identity in Britain, 1640-1770
Supervisor: Dr Naomi Pullin, Professor Mark Knights & Dr Kate Loveman (University of Leicester)
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/2246011
- Price, Joseph
Joseph PriceThesis: Student Sexuality and Sexual Health in Postwar British Universities, 1965-2000
Supervisor(s): Prof Mathew Thomson, Dr Claudia Stein and Dr Anne Hanley (Birmingham)
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2282164
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- Quinn, Serin
Serin QuinnThesis: The spread of the tomato in early modern Italy and England
Supervisor: Professor Beat Kumin and Professor Rebecca Earle
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/serinquinn
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- Rudra, Shalini
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Shalini Rudra
Thesis: European Unions’ detention of Indian generic medicines: A compromise on the historical evolution of global health governance, 1970-present
Supervisors: Professor Roberta Bivins and Dr Elise Smith
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1984684 - Rutherford, Beckie
Beckie Rutherford
Thesis: Disabled women organising: rethinking the political within British liberation movements, 1976-1998
Supervisor: Dr Laura Schwartz & Dr Claire Shaw
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1790389/
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- Sabri, Alfisha
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Alfisha Sabri
Thesis: The Real and the Remembered: A Study of Mussoorie’s Production and Evolution through Travel Narratives, 1825-2025
Supervisor: Dr Guido van Meersbergen and Dr Thomas Simpson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u5655642 Catriona Sharples
Thesis: Colonial Science and Military Service: The West India Regiments and circum-Atlantic networks of knowledge, c.1815-c.1900
Supervisor: Professor David Lambert and Dr James Poskett
ePortfolio: n/a- Steels, Andrew
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Andrew Steels
Thesis: English Merchant Families and the Organisation of Trade in the Levant, 1600-1750
Supervisor: Professor Mark Knights and Dr Guido van Meersbergen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1982410/
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- Talbot, Connor
Connor TalbotThesis: The earliest colonial experiments that the English undertook in the 16th and 17th centuries, focusing on how public perceptions of these projects changed over time
Supervisor: Professor Mark Knights
ePortfolio: n/a
- Tam, Brendan
Brendan TamThesis: ‘Pledged by Habit, Connection or Personal Honour’? Friendship and Politics in the late Georgian and early Victorian era: 1760-1850
Supervisor: Professor Mark Knights & Professor Mark Philp
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/2159639
- Tauber, Maria
Maria TauberThesis: The Making of English Politicians. Early Modern MPs and the Transformation of the Media System, c. 1650 – 1800
Supervisor: Professor Beat Kümin
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1990624Link opens in a new window
- Twiby, Lewis
Lewis TwibyThesis: Una herida abierta: Post-revolutionary state making and identity in Mexico and Ciudad Juarez, c.1920-1960
Supervisor(s): Dr Rosie Doyle & Prof Benjamin Smith
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/2280737
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- Uribe Botta, Camilo
Camilo Uribe Botta
Thesis: Hunting Orchids in the Northern Andes. The exchange of tropical Orchidaceae between Colombia and the United Kingdom. 1843-1901
Supervisor: Professor Rebecca Earle
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1990473
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- Walsdorf, Anais
Anais WalsdorfThesis: Metallic Empire : Science, Energy, and Industrial Imperialism in the John Percy Collection, 1817–89
Supervisor: Dr James Poskett
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/2290937- Wang, Haijiao
Haijiao WangThesis: Contours of Womanhood: Navigating Women’s Beauty, Emotion, and Relationships in Early Modern England
Supervisor(s): Dr Naomi Pullin & Prof Peter Marshall
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2118795
- Wu, Yitian
Yitian WuThesis: The East African Asian Immigration into the UK, 1968-1973
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Branch
ePortfolio: n/a
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- Xu, Jingyang
Jingyang XuThesis: Eating in the Cottonopolis: Politics in the Diet of Manchester’s Cotton Workers, 1770-1870
Supervisor(s): Prof Rebecca Earle & Prof Mark Knights
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2290134
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- Yang, Gongchen
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Gongchen Yang
Thesis: The British Commercial Community in Canton and the Changes of Modern China Foreign Trade System, 1700s–1840s
Supervisor: Dr Song-Chuan Chen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/gongchen-yang/
- Yang, Liuyue
Liuyue Yang
Thesis: Local Production, Domestic Consumption And Scholars’ Taste Of Ceramic In Seventeenth-Century China
Supervisor: Prof Anne Gerritsen
ePortfolio: n/a
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