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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- Aguilar-Gonzalez, Ricardo
Ricardo Aguilar-GonzalezLink opens in a new windowThesis: Food culture in sixteenth-century Relaciones geograficas of the New Spain
Supervisors: Professor Rebecca EarleePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1763811
- Al Khalifa, Ali
Ali Al Khalifa
Thesis: The Adviser: Charles Belgrave’s Relationship with Britain’s Informal Empire in the Gulf
Supervisor: Dr Robert Fletcher
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/alialkhalifa
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- Bhayat, Sabera
Sabera BhayatThesis: 'Muslim Women and Legal Reform: Polygamy and 'Gendered' Rights Under Personal Laws in Twentieth Century South Asia'.
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Hodges
ePortfolio: www.warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/eportfolio/directory/pg/u1361893- Boender, Niels
Niels Boender
Thesis: Legacies of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: Activism and Politics in Central Kenya, 1956-75
Supervisor: Prof Daniel Branch and Prof 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/study/csde/gsp/eportfolio/directory/pg/live/u0028240
- Botcherby, Pierre
Pierre BotcherbyThesis: Memory, Resistance, and Regeneration: A Merseyside Town in the Age of De-industrialisation, St. Helens 1968-2018
Supervisors: Dr Joachim Häberlen and Professor Mathew Thomson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1103101- Bowman, Jack
Jack BowmanThesis: 'Pan-African Print: Politics in Action - A Book History of the Pan-African Movement, 1935-1955'
Supervisors: Dr James Poskett and Professor Daniel Branch
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1850906
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- Caistor-Parker, Ian
Ian Caistor-Parker
Thesis:
Supervisor: David Anderson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/ian-caistor-parker/- Challender, Chloe
Chloe ChallenderThesis: Institutional intimacy: gender, contested sexuality and relationships in the 19th Century Parliament
Supervisor: Prof Sarah Richardson & Dr Laura Schwartz
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2251689
- Challoner, Adam
Adam Challoner
Thesis: Reading the Sectional Crisis: Antebellum Intellectual Culture and the Southern Middle Class, 1840-1861
Supervisor: Prof Tim Lockley
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1864719- Chen, Qing
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/- Chen, Qiuyang
Qiuyang ChenThesis: 'Beyond revolutions: the everyday life of women on the southeastern coast of China, 1949-1992.'
Supervisor: Dr Song-Chuan Chen & Dr Laura Schwartz
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/eportfolio/directory/pg/live/u1896220
- Cooper, Nathalie
Nathalie Cooper
Thesis: Museum Collections and The Legacies Of Imperialism: Curating Colonial Violence at The Horniman
Supervisor: Prof David Anderson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2056998/
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- Dennett, Hannah
Hannah Dennett
Thesis: “Forgotten Foundlings”: Black Lives and the Eighteenth-Century Foundling Hospital
Supervisor: Prof Maxine Berg and Prof Rebecca Earle
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1966016- Devane, Ed
Ed DevaneThesis: 'Building the NHS: planning, public opinion and Britain's new state healthcare facilities, 1945 - 1974.'
Supervisor: Professor Roberta Bivins & Professor Mathew Thomson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/eportfolio/directory/pg/live/u1864867
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- Edwards, Mia
Mia Edwards
Thesis: How racialised constructions of masculinity and physicality shaped the differing treatment, communities and resistance methods of enslaved men in the Antebellum U.S
Supervisor: Prof Tim Lockley & Dr Sergio Lussana (Nottingham Trent University)
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2252430
- Egan, Elizabeth
Elizabeth EganThesis: Constructing and Challenging Creole Whiteness in Jamaica, 1865-1938
Supervisor: Prof David Lambert
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1991073
- Etayo, Oihane
Oihane EtayoThesis: 'Gendering the Study of Contention: Women's Protest in the Nineteeth and Early Twentieth Centuries'.
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Richardson & Professor Noortje Marres
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/eportfolio/directory/pg/live/u1897977
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- Farnell, Francesca
Francesca FarnellThesis: Women and the Supernatural: Agency and Oppression at the Intersection of Gender and Religion in Reformation England
Supervisor: Professor Peter Marshall & Prof Beat Kumin
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/1614964
- Fletcher, David
David FletcherThesis: Religion and the Restoration Stage
Supervisor: Professor Mark Knights and Dr David Taylor
ePortfolio: www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1554404
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- Gao, Haoqi
Haoqi GaoThesis: Kenya Post-Colonial History
Supervisor: Prof Daniel Branch
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/haoqigao/
- Geraghty, Erin
Erin Geraghty
Thesis: Transnational Feminists in Ireland 1900-1921: Imperial mentality or internationalist solidarity?
Supervisor: Dr Laura Schwartz
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1966581- Gettings, Daniel
Daniel GettingsThesis: Sustaining Body and Soul: The Early Modern English and their water, 1550-1750.
Supervisor: Prof Beat Kumin
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/danielgettings
- Gómez Baeza, Nicolás
Nicolás Gómez Baeza
Thesis: Gringos Duros: Transnational British Managements of Labour Discipline in Sheep Farming Industry (Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, 1837 - c. 1950)."
Supervisor: Dr Camillia Cowling and Dr Robert Fletcher
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/nicolasgomezbaeza/- Gray, Aleema
Aleema GrayThesis: Bun Babylon: A community-engaged history of the Rastafari movement in Britain
Supervisor: Professor David Lambert & Dr Meleisa Ono-George
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/aleemagray
- Greenway, Sophie
Sophie GreenwayThesis: Growing well: Dirt, health and the home gardener in Britain, 1930-60
Supervisor: Professor Hilary Marland
ePortfolio: www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/hypnad/
- Guthrie, Sofia
Sofia GuthrieThesis: "Antoine Garissoles' Adolphid (1649), a Huguenot Latin epic: An edited text, translation and historical commentary"
Supervisor: Professor Penny Roberts & Professor Andrew Laird
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/clrhag/clrhag/
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- Hamoud, Samir
Samir HamdoudThesis: Tbc
Supervisor: Professor Hilary Marland
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/eportfolio/directory/pg/live/u1866443- He, Cheng
Cheng He
Thesis: Tracing the Global Life of Chinese Export Lacquerware in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century: Its Making, Reception and Remediation Then and Now
Supervisor: Prof Anne Gerritsen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1757471
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- Knox, Imogen
Imogen KnoxThesis: Suicide, Self-Harm, And The Supernatural In Early Modern Britain
Supervisor: Professor Peter Marshall & Professor Mark Knights
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/imogenknox/
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- Lemos, Sue
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 LiuLink opens in a new windowThesis: 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/
- Love, Ronan
Ronan Love
Thesis: Revolutionary Debts: The Politics of Moral and Financial Obligation in the French Revolution
Supervisor: Dr Charles Walton
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/ronanlove
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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/
- Ma, Xiaofang
Xiaofang MaThesis: Transatlantic Afro-Americans In The Antebellum Period, Equal Integration To White Public Spheres
Supervisor: Professor David Lambert
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/xiaofangma/
- Medina-Gonzalez, Paola
Paola Medina-Gonzalez
Thesis:
Supervisor: Anna Hajkova
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/paola-medina-gonzalez
- Mehta, Himesh
Himesh MehtaThesis: ‘Psychedelic Selves’: Neoliberalism, Neuroscience, and the British Psychedelic
Supervisor: Prof 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: Prof Daniel Branch & Dr Robert Fletcher
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/petermetcalfe
- Miyonga, Rose
Rose, Miyonga
Thesis: Forgive and Forget? Mau Mau and the Making of Memory and History in Post-Colonial Kenya
Supervisor: David Anderson and Daniel Branch
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/rose-miyonga/
- Molenaar, Sander
Sander MolenaarThesis: Society in a State of Disorder: Coastal Violence in South China During the Mid-Ming Period, ca. 1450-1600.
Supervisor: Professor Anne Gerritsen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/eportfolio/directory/pg/live/u1863755
- Morgan, Louise
Louise MorganThesis: "Eat Better Not Less": Contextualising Orthorexia Nervosa in History
Supervisor: Professor Hilary Marland
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/eportfolio/directory/pg/live/u1865488
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- Ni, Leiyun
Leiyun NiThesis: Reshaping Food practices and Identities: Anglo-Sino Encounters in Late Qing Era
Supervisor: Professor Anne Gerritsen & Dr Song-Chuan ChenLink opens in a new window
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/eportfolio/directory/pg/u1892888/
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- Orchardson, Emma
Emma Orchardson
Thesis:
Supervisor: David Anderson and Daniel Branch
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/emma-orchardson/- Oswald, Ute
Ute OswaldThesis: Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century Asylums
Supervisor: Professor Hilary Marland
ePortfolio: www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1664073
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- Patel, Joshua
Joshua PatelThesis: ‘Human Capital Theory' in British economic and scientific thought, 1950-today
Supervisors: Professor Giorgio Riello & Dr Claudia Stein
Eportfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/hyunfw- Pravdica, Anna
Anna PravdicaThesis: “Admirably Skill’d in the Art of Feigning”: Emotional Sincerity, Social Authenticity, and Performance in England, 1660-1760
Supervisor: Dr Naomi Pullen, Prof Mark Knights & Dr Kate LovemanLink opens in a new window (University of Leicester)
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/2246011
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- Qing, Qianwen
Qianwen QingThesis: Scandal in the Caribbean, 1680-1720
Supervisor: Professor Mark Knights
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1764733/- 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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- Rautenberg, Uta
Uta RautenbergThesis: Homophobia in the Nazi Camps
Supervisors: Dr Anna Hájková and Professor Christoph Mick
ePortfolio: www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1566211
- Reyes Baztán, Maria
Maria Reyes BaztánThesis: 'Anti-colonial imagination and internationalism in Basque radical nationalism (1892-1939)'
Supervisors: Professor Rebecca Earle and Dr Anna Ross
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1660539- Rioult, Claire
Claire Rioult (Monash)
Thesis: Investigating the role played by the conflicts between France and Great Britain on the economic and social events in Spain from 1759 to 1793
Supervisors: Dr Charles Walton
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/clairerioult- Rudra, Shalini
Shalini Rudra
Thesis: ‘What’s at stake in the fake?’
Supervisors: Prof Sarah Hodges
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1984684- Russ, Steve
Steve Russ
Thesis:
Supervisor: Claudia Stein
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/steve-russ/- Rutherford, Beckie
Beckie RutherfordThesis: 'Apart or A Part? Understanding the Agency and Erasure of Disabled Women Within the Women's Liberation Movement in Britain, c.1970 - 1993.'
Supervisor: Dr Laura Schwartz & Dr Claire Shaw
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/eportfolio/directory/pg/live/u1790389
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Catriona Sharples
Thesis:
Supervisor: David Lambert and James PoskettePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/catriona-sharples/
- Steele, Dave
Dave SteeleThesis: The Crowd in Britain 1780-1850
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Richardson
ePortfolio: www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/pdueak
- Steels, Andrew
Andrew Steels
Thesis: How did different forms and degrees of institutional oversight impact the development of English trade with the Ottoman Empire and North Africa between 1600 and 1750?
Supervisor: Professor Mark Knights and Dr Guido van Meersbergen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1982410/- Straw, Hannah
Hannah StrawThesis: 'Those Nauseous Harlequins': The Court Wits and Restoration Politics and Ideology, 1660-1685.
Supervisor: Professor Mark Knights
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/eportfolio/directory/pg/live/u1763210
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- Talbot, Connor
Connor TalbotThesis: Tbc
Supervisor: Professor Mark Knights
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/connortalbot
- Tam, Bobby
Bobby TamThesis: Emotions of Death in Nineteenth-Century British Colonial China
Supervisor: Dr Song-Chuan Chen & Dr Robert Fletcher
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/eportfolio/directory/pg/live/u1861810- 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 & Prof Mark Philp
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/2159639
- Tauber, Maria
Maria Tauber
Thesis: The Making of English Politicians - Early Modern MPs and the Transformation of the Media System
Supervisor: Professor Beat Kümin
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1990624
- Tomassetti, Valentina
Valentina TomassettiThesis: Born Naked and Shameless - An Anatomy of Shame Through Early Modern Art.
Supervisor: Professor Rebecca Earle & Dr Lorenzo Pericolo
ePortfolio: www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1661268
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- Uribe Botta, Camilo
Camilo Uribe Botta
Thesis: The Hunting of the Odontoglossum Crispum: Colombian Orchids in the Nineteenth Century British “Orchid Craze”
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 PoskettLink opens in a new window
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/2290937Link opens in a new window- Winter, Holly
Holly WinterThesis: Material Culture and the Limits of British Masculine Ideals in Nineteenth Century India.
Supervisor: Professor Maxine Berg
ePortfolio: www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/hyukef- Wu, Yitian
Yitian WuThesis: The East African Asian Immigration into the UK, 1968-1973
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Branch
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/yitianwu
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- Yang, Gongchen
Yang, Gongchen
Thesis: The British Commercial Community in Canton and the Changes of Modern China Foreign Trade System, 1700s–1840s
Supervisor: Song-Chuan Chen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/gongchen-yang/
- Yang, Liuyue
Yang, Liuyue
Thesis:
Supervisor: Anne Gerritsen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/liuyue-yang/- Yao, Zhaoqin
Zhaoqin Yao
Thesis:
Supervisor: Song-Chuan Chen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/zhaoqin-yao
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