Currents students and their theses

Supervisor

Research student and thesis

• Sue Kentish: Ottoman-British relations in the age of revolution, 1789-1839.

• Jane Keegan: The Meanings of Food in Western Europe of the High Middle Ages.
• Rachael Lazenby: A Comparison of the Interrogative techniques used in the inquisition, Canonization and Enquetes Processes in the 13th Century France.
• Jill Moore: The inquisition in Italy 1200-1350. Also supervised by Filippo De Vivo.
• Diana Ricketts: Society - dissent, conformity, power and expediency in Quercy 1188 - circa 1300.

• Hazel Croft: War Neurosis and Civilian Mental Health in Second World War Britain.
• Cormac Deane: Terrorists and counter-terrorists in Hollywood film and television of the last two decades.
• Louise Hide: Gender and asylums.
• Annette Jander: The Working Conditions of War Reporting in the Vietnam War 1961-75.

• Clare Makepeace: "A pseudo-soldier's cross". The subjectivities of British POWs held in Europe in the Second World War.
• Ashleigh Melvin: The Other World: Religion and the Western Front During the Great War.
• Alena Papayanis: 'Vietnam' in the age of Iraq. The cultural capital of Vietnam veterans, and their self-constructions as post-war beings.
• Neil Penlington: Masculinity and Male Heterosexuality in Britain, 1918-1961.
• Maryam Philpott: Notions of motivation and attitude in the forces during the First World War, with particular attention to the Royal Flying Corps and Navy.
• Rachel Richardson: Cultural history of the British on the Balkan front during the Great War.
• Geoffrey Sumner: Ingredient of National Identity: Beef and Britishness, 1880-2006.

• Madisson Brown: Seas of Reform: Gender, Politics and the Women's Movement in Britain and America 1830-1900
• Marian Flint: Masculinity and financial failure in the 19th Century
• Victoria Russell: Sex, Class & Politics of gender 1790-1850
• Gillian Williamson: The world of the gentleman: constructions of British masculinity in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1815

• Giselle Glasman: Ancient Greeks and the sea.
• Owain Morris: Connectivity, networks and agency
• Isabel Paintin: Herodotus and opsis
• Janet Powell: Xenophon's Poroi

• Hilary Maddicott: The political and cultural career of Philip Sydney, Lord Viscount Lisle, 3rd earl of Leicester, 1619-98.

• Clare Goudy: Reflections, Refractions and Distortions: Horace and Juvenal in Early-Eighteenth Century Satire (also supervised by Judith Hawley (RHUL)).
• Linda Grant: The English Renaissance literary reception of Latin erotic elegy (Catullus, Propertius, Ovid, Sulpicia) with a particular focus on the love lyrics of Wyatt, Sidney, Donne and Wroth. Also supervised by Sue Wiseman (School of English).
• Peter Hayden: Aspects of Senecan Tragedy.
• Lucy Pollard: Britons in Greece and Asia Minor, 1603-88: their attitudes to the people they encountered, their use of classical and other texts, and their observation and/or collection of antiquities, and also in how their attitudes were shaped by their (usually classical) education.

• Christos Efstathiou: A Political biography of E. P. Thompson: Politics and Theory in the CPGB, the New Left and END.
• Richard Hebditch: How charities helped immigrant groups in London, 1800-1850.
• Jacob Middleton: Corporal punishment within mainstream education 1880-1947.
• James Perkins: Britain and "the East End of Europe": The Balkans and British Liberalism, 1875-1925.
• Jane Vokins: Industrial relations and the steam locomotive crew 1841-1851.

• Nicholas Adams: Socialist Utopias.
• Matthew Annis: Chinese Railroad labourers in mid-late 19th century.

• Angela Cox: Children in English Portraits c1570 - c1630.
• Gary Jenkins: "Christ's Hospital charity and poor relief in the City of London c. 1552-1670".
• Erin Johnson: Medicine in the books: sixteenth century English medical remedies in manuscripts and printed works.
• Miu Sugahara: The management of grammar schools in the suburbs of London, late 16th - early 17th centuries.

• Mihaela Ciausescu: The development of the ceramic industry and exchange networks in the province of Dacia by establishing a Roman Fabrics Reference collection.
• Clare Pickersgill: Roman pottery from Sparta

• Cristina Bellorini: Plants and medicine in sixteenth-century Tuscany.

• Paula Hershkowitz: Prudentius, Poetry and Hispania.

• Harman Bhogal: "Rethinking demonic possession: the impact of debates about the Darrel case on later demonological thought, with particular reference to John Deacon and John Walker".
• Stephen Brogan: The healing of scrofula – or the King's Evil - by the royal touch during the early modern period.
• Susan Dale: Sir William Petty (1623-1687) and his religious, political and social reform proposals in the 1680's.
• Clare Fitzpatrick: The collections of strange or "paranormal" experiences in the works of Henry More (1614-1687).
• Marilyn Lewis: The educational influence of Cambridge Platonism, with special reference to Christ's College, Cambridge, 1641-1688.
• Catherine Meaden: Medical books and the distribution of medical knowledge in the early modern period.
• Nadiya Midgley: Organic Theories of the Earth (c. 1680 – c. 1720).
• Michael Townsend: The plague in English medical literature from the 14th  to the 18th centuries.

• Caroline Clark: Late Antique and Early Medieval Burial Practice in Gaul: A Diverse Landscape.

• Marc Widdowson: Merovingian and Visigothic succession.

• Abigail Baker: How have ancient narratives influenced the understanding of classical archaeology in museums?

• Shaul Bar-Haim: Sandor Ferenczi in London: authority, regression and psychoanalysis in British society, 1918 -1957
• Clare Roche: Women Mountaineers and Walkers in the Alps 1850-1907 - Conventional or Aberrant Behaviour?
• Daniel Wilson: The idea of the machine c.1900. See www.danielwilson.info Currently 'Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 19th Century Studies' as part of the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, 2010/11

• Simon Huxtable: The Soviet Press in the 1960s
• Jeffrey Porter: Restitution of Germans dispossessed by the Nazis, especially on racial grounds.
• Barbara Warnock:

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• Megan Trudell: Nation building in Italy.

• Brandon Broll: Shining the liberal light on South Africa up to Apartheid: 19th Century Cape liberalism, liberal segregationist mistakes, and the founding and establishment of the Civil Rights League (1948-1953).
• Sarah Duff: My thesis explores the ways in which ideas about childhood changed as a result of the Dutch Reformed Church's evangelical movement in the Cape Colony between 1860 and 1902
• Geoffrey Levett: Sport and Empire in the British World 1900 - 1914.
• Sarah Longair: The development of historical and cultural representation in museums in Zanzibar from the colonial to the contemporary.

• Loukas Balomenos: Technologies of social knowledge
• Clare Leeming-Latham: The Seed and the Soil: The Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculosis in England, 1940-1974.
• Thomas Turner: The study of the cultural significance of the trainer in Britain and the United States.

• James Arnold: The cultural history of music in the French Revolution.
• Susan Carr: The Burgundian nobility in the 18th century.
• Michael Essex: Territorial Grandees and State Formation in England and France: The Provincial Governors in France and Lords Lieutenant in England 1660-1715.

• Brian O'Sullivan: London's Merchant Banks in the Interwar Period.

• Christopher Dillon: The SS personnel of the Dachau concentration camp 1933-1939.
• Rowan Gemei-Macauslan: Belsen medical students
• Julia Hoerath: The establishment and extension of early Nazi concentration camps.
• Kim Wunschmann: Jewish Prisoners in Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933–1939; the specific experiences of Jewish inmates in the camps' context of violence, their relationship towards the SS and other prisoners, as well as the dynamics within the group itself; the overall function of Jewish camp-imprisonment for the regime's anti-Jewish policies.
• Paul Moore: The relationship between the Nazi regime and the public in reference to concentration camps.
• Amelia Nel: The Dissolution of Auschwitz 1944 -1945: From Evacuation to Integration. A comprehensive study of the re-deployment of SS staff and prisoner functionaries into concentration camps during the last months of the Third Reich.
• Jeffrey Porter: Restitution of Germans dispossessed by the Nazis, especially on racial grounds.

• Diana C. Dunford: "The business of charity".