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-GonzalezThesis: Sustenance: a history of foods, drinks and bodies in the colonisation of Mesoamerica, 1475-1600
Supervisors: Professor Rebecca Earle
ePortfolio: 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 FletcherLink opens in a new window
ePortfolio: n/a
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- Boender, Niels
Niels Boender
Thesis: Legacies of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: Activism and Politics in Central Kenya, 1956-75
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
- Bowman, Jack
Jack BowmanThesis: Pan-African Print, Politics in Action: A Book History of the Pan-African Movement, 1930-1950
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: A history of incarceration in Kenya 1945-present
Supervisor: Professor David Anderson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1637773- 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
- Challoner, Adam
Adam Challoner
Thesis: A Reading People: The Southern Common Reader and the Sectional Crisis, 1848-1861
Supervisor: Professor Tim Lockley
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1864719Link opens in a new window- 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: Rural Women and Private Credit
Supervisor: Dr Song-Chuan Chen & Dr Laura Schwartz
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1896220
- 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/
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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
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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
- Egan, Elizabeth
Elizabeth EganThesis: ‘Backra Country’: Creole Whiteness in Jamaica, 1865-1938
Supervisor: Professor 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/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1897977
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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- 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: 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
- 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
- Guthrie, Sofia
Sofia GuthrieThesis: "Antoine de 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/
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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- 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: Professor Anne Gerritsen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1757471
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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
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/
- Love, Ronan
Ronan Love
Thesis: Revolutionary Debts: Governing Finance in the French Revolution
Supervisor: Dr Charles Walton
ePortfolio: n/a
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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
Paola Medina-Gonzalez
Thesis: Wehrmacht Masculinities: Exploring Queerness and Martial Masculinity Through Cross-Dressing Soldiers
Supervisor: 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/
- 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/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1863755/
- Morgan, Louise
Louise MorganThesis: Eat Better, Not Less: Contextualising Clean Eating in Contemporary British History
Supervisor: Professor Hilary Marland
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1865488/
- Morton, Tara
Tara Morton
Thesis: Redrawing Boundaries: Suffrage Artists, Spatiality, Gender and Power.
Supervisor: Prof Sarah Richardson
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u0558548
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- Ni, Leiyun
Leiyun NiThesis: Food as Negotiation Sites: Sino-Western Encounters in Canton and Macao, ca. 1700-1845
Supervisor: Professor Anne Gerritsen & Dr Song-Chuan Chen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1892888/
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- Orchardson, Emma
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/- 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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- 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
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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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- 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: n/a- 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- Rutherford, Beckie
Beckie Rutherford
Thesis: '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/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1790389/
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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- 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: Regulation and English Private Trade in the Mediterranean, 1600-1750
Supervisor: Professor Mark Knights and Dr Guido van Meersbergen
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1982410/- Straw, Hannah
Hannah StrawThesis: 'A Good Deal That’s Bad and Very Little Good’: The Court Wits and Performance of Scandal
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: 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, 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/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/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 & Professor 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 Poskett
ePortfolio: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/2290937- 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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- Yang, Gongchen
Gongchen Yang
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
Liuyue Yang
Thesis: Local Production, Domestic Consumption And Scholars’ Taste Of Ceramic In Seventeenth-Century China
Supervisor: Anne Gerritsen
ePortfolio: n/a- Yao, Zhaoqin
Zhaoqin Yao
Thesis: Development Of Financial Institutions In Pre-Socialist China: Successes And Vulnerability
Supervisor: Song-Chuan Chen
ePortfolio: n/a
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