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 Ahlemeyer

Thesis: 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

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 Angadi

Thesis: 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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Boote Powell, Sarah

Sarah Boote Powell

Thesis: '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

Anna Bruins

Anna Bruins

Thesis: In Pursuit of Planting: Scientific Travel and the VOC's Bioprospective Quest 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

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 Capel

Thesis: 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 Challender

Thesis: 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

Charles, Rosie

Rosie Charles

Thesis: Steeped in Soil: Soil Fertility, Colonial Agronomists, and the Making of the Imperial Plantation, 1875-1940
Supervisor(s): Dr Tom Simpson & Dr James Poskett
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u5672918

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

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 Crawford

Thesis: 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 Dai

Thesis: Memory, Identity, and Power: Constructing and Mobilising the Historical Memory of the Sanyuanli Incident in China, from 1841 to the Present.
Supervisor: Professor Susan Carruthers & Dr Song-Chuan Chen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2257785

Diable, Aidan

Aidan Diable

Thesis: 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 Flake

Thesis: 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 Gao

Thesis: Kenya Post-Colonial History
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Branch
ePortfolio: n/a

Goh, Jeremy

Jeremy Goh

Thesis: 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

Grey, Joshua

Joshua Grey

Thesis: 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 Gundu

Thesis: 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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Hodgson, Rosie

Rosie Hodgson

Thesis: Editing Empire: The Hakluyt Society in (Post-)imperial Britain, 1846 to the present
Supervisor(s): Dr Guido van Meersbergen & Prof David Lambert
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u5730614

Hussain, Muminah

Muminah Hussain

Thesis: Muslim Women of South Asian Origin: Diversifying Representation of Female Migrant Communities living in Britain between 1960-1990.
Supervisor(s): Dr Simon Peplow & Professor Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (University of Coventry)
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2004405

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Kalra, Moksh: Moksh Kalra

Thesis: Ruptured Ecologies, Pathogenic Landscapes: Assam as a commodity frontier in the 19th Century
Supervisor(s): Tom Simpson & Elise Smith
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u5716234
Khaund, Shreya: Shreya Khaund

Thesis: Mapping Fossil Colonialism in Asia, c. 1810–1914
Supervisor: Dr Thomas Simpson & Dr James Poskett
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u5673479

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Judy Law

Thesis: 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

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

Lindo, Jade

Jade Lindo

Thesis: Creolising Caribbean Foodways: Breadfruit from the mid-nineteenth century to the present
Supervisor: Prof David Lambert & Prof Rebecca Earle
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u5646109

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Martin, Fleur

Fleur Martin

Thesis: Looting, Trade and The Gift: Imperial Collecting in Eastern Africa, c. 1860-1914
Supervisor: Professor David Anderson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/fleurmartin/

Medina-Gonzalez, Paola

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

Meldon, Dan

Dan Meldon

Thesis: Warwickshire Identities: Early Modern Archival Perspectives
Supervisor(s): Dr Naomi Pullin & Prof Beat Kumin
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u5716106

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/

Moffat, Mackenzie

Mackenzie Moffat

Thesis: Medicinal Methods of Enslaved Resistance: Healing and Harming in Enslaved Communities in the Americas between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Supervisor: Dr Elise Smith & Prof David Lambert
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1917851

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Evie Nash

Thesis: 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 Thomas

Thesis: 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

Emma Orchardson

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 Pravdica

Thesis: 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 Price

Thesis: The making of sexual health at university: students, sex and society in postwar England
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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Rizzi Bastiani, Gabriele

Gabriele Rizzi Bastiani (Cotutelle)

Thesis: African askaris and the Italian empire in eastern Africa, c.1936-1960
Supervisor(s): Prof Alessandro VolterraLink opens in a new window (Università di Roma Tre) and Prof David Anderson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u5671737

Rudra, Shalini

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

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Sabri, Alfisha

Alfisha Sabri

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

Sharples, Catriona

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

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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Tam, Brendan: Brendan Tam

Thesis: ‘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
Twiby, Lewis: Lewis Twiby

Thesis: 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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Walsdorf, Anais

Anais Walsdorf

Thesis: 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, David

David Wang

Thesis: Translating Empires: Translators of Chinese and Diplomacy at the British and French Legations in Peking, 1861-1912
Supervisor(s): Prof Song-Chuan Chen & Dr Ross Forman
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u5716434

Wang, Haijiao

Haijiao Wang

Thesis: 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

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Xu, Jingyang: Jingyang Xu

Thesis: 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

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

An ePortfolio is a personal web page and the University is not responsible for any of the content contained in an ePortfolio, nor does the University assert any ownership over the content. There may be some exceptions to this rule, where an ePortfolio is being written by University staff for some official purpose, but such exceptions will be individually identified and do not affect the general principle that responsibility and ownership of an ePortfolio rest with the student or member of staff.

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