Current PhD Students

Research Topic: (Bertrand Russell and China - Visiting PhD student for one year, 2019-2020, supervised by myself whilst at Queen Mary University of London)

Supervisor: Professor Georgios Varouxakis

Anna Christou

a.christou@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Hollywood Exports the American Family: responses, audiences and contexts in post-war Britain

Supervisor: Dr Mark Glancy

Connor Clayton

c.a.clayton@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: An analysis of the role of emotion in political and social mobilisation, through a case study of People’s Temple 1955-78.

Supervisor: Professor Thomas Dixon

Supervisor: Dr Edmund Ramsden

Kate Connelly

k.f.connelly@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Marx, Engels and the urban poor

Robert Dickins

r.j.dickins@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: New spiritualities and domestic life c.1855-1939

Supervisor: Dr Rhodri Hayward

Lisa Di Crescenzo

l.dicrescenzo@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Letters, Lineage and the Life Cycle in Exilic Experience: The Vernacular-Authored Correspondence of Luisa Donati Strozzi (1434-1510)

Supervisor: Professor Kate Lowe

Sarah Drew

s.drew@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Varium et Mutabile Semper Femina: Therapies for the treatment of menstrual mood disorders in the 1930's

Supervisor: Dr Rhodri Hayward

Katie Ebner Landy

Supervisor: Professor Quentin Skinner

Ngozi Edeagu

n.b.edeagu@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Writing back to Empire: Newspapers, Non-Elites and Decolonisation in the Global Public Sphere, 1937-1957

Supervisor: Dr Leslie James

Alun Evans

a.evans@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Private Office since 1945

Supervisor: Dr James Ellison

Julius Fein

j.g.s.fein@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: The Quai d'Orsay's attitude to Refugees from Germany, 1933-1938

Supervisor: Professor Julian Jackson

Seamus Flaherty

s.flaherty@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: The Reception of Karl Marx in Late-Nineteenth Century Britain: The Social and Political Ideas of Henry Mayers Hyndman and Ernest Belfort Bax

Marie Giraud

m.s.giraud@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Jansenism, religious art and women in early 18th-century Paris

Supervisor: Professor Colin Jones

Supervisor: Dr Hannah Williams

Anne Goad

Research Topic: Managing the Mad: treatment and care of lunatics and idiots in Kent 1808-1875

Supervisor: Dr Rhodri Hayward

Bob Green

r.k.green@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Challenge and Crisis: The Carter Administration and Domestic Policy, 1977-81

Supervisor: Professor Mark White

Claire Green

Research Topic: The Role of Political Music in Northern Ireland's Prisons during the Troubles

Supervisor: Dr Martyn Frampton

Giuseppe Grieco

Research Topic: British imperialism and Southern liberalism: the quest for a Mediterranean order 1790s-1850s

Supervisor: Dr Maurizio Isabella

Belinda Guthrie

b.a.guthrie@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: There's no room for the perfect knight in Jerusalem': The Portrayal of Knights during the Era of the Crusades

Supervisor: Dr Tom Asbridge

Susan Haines

s.m.haines@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Gender and religious Dissent 1660 - 1720

Carmel Heeley

c.a.heeley@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: 'German Jews, German Gentiles and the Alps: How Conceptions of Heimat, Bavarian Traditions and Moral Values defined ‘German’ Belongings and German-Jewish experience, 1920-1940.'

Supervisor: Dr Daniel Wildmann

Sara Hiorns

s.a.hiorns@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: "Representing and Belonging: Social and Cultural Change in the British Diplomatic Service since 1945"

Catherine Hulse

Research Topic: Popular sovereignty, law, and ideology: Rousseau and the French Revolution after the Terror

Benjamin Jackson

Research Topic: Men's Things in 18th Century England

Supervisor: Professor Amanda Vickery

Hayley Kavanagh

h.c.kavanagh@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Joy, laughter and radical happiness in the British Women's Liberation Movement 1960s-1980s

Supervisor: Professor Thomas Dixon

Ian Kikuchi

i.kikuchi@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: British film propaganda and the war against Japan 1941-1946

Supervisor: Professor Dan Todman

Maia Kirby

m.o.c.kirby@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Comite des Recherches of the Constituent Assembly, 1789-91

Supervisor: Professor Colin Jones

David Klemperer

d.m.klemperer@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: The Ideological Crisis of French Socialism, c.1930 – c.1950

Supervisor: Professor Julian Jackson

Richard Knight

r.m.a.knight@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: The case for the South: pro-Confederate arguments in Britain during the American Civil War

Supervisor: Dr Robert Saunders

Supervisor: Professor Georgios Varouxakis

Gary Lawson

g.a.lawson@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko - Political Revolutionary or Healthcare Evangelist?

Supervisor: Dr Andy Willimott

Hannah Lee

hannah.lee@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Imprisoned Bodies: The Material Presence of the African figure in Venetian Domestic Furnishings, 1650-1750

Supervisor: Professor Kate Lowe

David Liebler

Research Topic: British Strategy in World War I

Supervisor: Professor Dan Todman

Lindsay Aqui

l.j.aqui@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: An exceptional case: Britain and the European Community, from entry to referendum, 1 January 1973 - 6 June 1975

Supervisor: Dr James Ellison

Eleanor Lowe

e.m.lowe@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: 'Married to the party?' - marriage, gender and politics in in interwar Britain

Hannah Mawdsley

h.r.mawdsley@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: A review of the worldwide effects and impact of Spanish Influenza, 1918-1919, based on IWM's medical collections

Supervisor: Dr Rhodri Hayward

Charlotte McCallum

c.l.l.mccallum@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: The Reception of Machiavelli in c17 England

Supervisor: Professor Quentin Skinner

Katherine McElvanney

k.mcelvanney@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Female Journalists in the Russian Revolutions and Civil Wars: Case Studies of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams and Larisa Reisner, 1917-1926.

Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Smele

Francis Mikus

f.j.mikus@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: The road to an integrated homosexuality? A comparative historical study of civil unions and same-sex marriage in France and the United Kingdom

Supervisor: Professor Julian Jackson

Alycen Mitchell

a.mitchell@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Sotheby’s and Christie’s rise to international pre-eminence 1956-2006

Eoghan Moran

e.moran@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: An Entangled History of the French and Spanish Popular Fronts

Supervisor: Professor Julian Jackson

Rebecca Morrison

Research Topic: The Rise of the Mantua Maker in 18th Century England

Supervisor: Professor Amanda Vickery

Anna Motyczka

a.m.motyczka@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Jews and Catholics in Communist Poland, 1944-1968

Supervisor: Professor Christina von Hodenberg

Colm Murphy

Research Topic: Modernisation and the Left in Britain

Supervisor: Dr Robert Saunders

Kieran Nelson

k.e.nelson@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Rising Expectations and the Russian Revolution

Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Smele

Atlanta Neudorf

a.r.neudorf@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: The Internationalist Socialism of London’s Political Exiles, 1848-1871

Supervisor: Professor Georgios Varouxakis

Ngozi Edeagu

n.b.edeagu@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Writing back to Empire: Newspapers, Non-Elites and Decolonisation in the Global Public Sphere, 1937-1957

Supervisor: Dr Leslie James

Anais Pedron

a.c.pedron@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Women of Theatre and the Question of Rights in Paris, 1750-1800

Supervisor: Professor Colin Jones

Steven Perkins

s.perkins@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: The Domestic Presidency of Bill Clinton, 1993-2001

Supervisor: Professor Mark White

Nigel Ritchie

n.j.m.ritchie@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: The making of a revolutionary journalist: Jean-Paul Marat (1770-90)

Supervisor: Professor Colin Jones

Ryan Ross

ryan.ross@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Gender, Health and Home in Postwar Britain: A Study of the Role of the Home in the Emotional Health of Men, c. 1945-1970

Supervisor: Dr Rhodri Hayward

Katherine Rossy

k.rossy@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: "Solving the Postwar Puzzle: Perspectives on the Evolution of Occupation Culture and Policy in the French Zone of Occupation in Post-Nazi Germany, 1945- c. 1955"

Supervisor: Professor Julian Jackson

James Southern

j.southern@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Diversity, Difference and Generational Change in the British Diplomatic Service

Emily Steinhauer

e.a.steinhauer@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: "From Critical Theorists to Political Actors: Theodor W. Adorno’s and Max Horkheimer’s Role in West-German Politics"

Supervisor: Professor Christina von Hodenberg

Nicolas Stevenson

n.stevenson@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: La France Libre and El Primer Franquismo, 1942-1946'

Supervisor: Professor Julian Jackson

Connie Thomas

c.c.thomas@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: The Emergence of Federal Migration Politics and Policy in the United States, c.1776-1802

Supervisor: Dr Joanna Cohen

Supervisor: Dr Daniel Peart

Emily Vine

Research Topic: Religion in the Home in 17th & 18th Century London

Supervisor: Professor Amanda Vickery

James Wilson

j.d.wilson@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Northern Syria 441-549 AH/1050-1154 CE: Interactions between City-states and Factions, Frontiers and Political Identity prior to and during the Early Crusading Period

Supervisor: Dr Tom Asbridge

Sophie Wilson

sophie.wilson@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: Race, Judaism and the British Women's Suffrage Movement c.1860-1918

Supervisor: Dr Robert Saunders

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