Our research students
Student name | Student programme | Supervisor(s) | Project |
Dima Alhaj Hussein | History of Art | Professor Leslie Topp | Modernization, Built Heritage, and Conflict in Old Damascus, 1925-1979 |
Eduardo Armentia | History of Art | Professor Patrizia Di Bello | Picturing Place in the Post-Photographic Era: Google Street View at the Alhambra |
Patricia Bonchristiano | History of Art | Art, Activism and the Amazon forest: the ongoing environmental struggle in Brazil | |
Surya Bowyer | History of Art | Collecting the boundaries of art in the Science Museum Group | |
Albert Brenchat Aguilar | History of Art | Professor Mark Crinson | Non/Being Human in Global Architecture: The Sociogenic Principle in the sociology of international planning c. 1950-80 |
Elizabeth Brown | History of Art | Professor Patrizia Di Bello | “What is Focus?”: Photography and the Natural Sciences in Victorian Britain c.1843-1877 |
Aleks Catina | History of Art | Un-official Architectures of Irony: Provincialising Postmodernism in Spatial Practices | |
Netta Clavner | History of Art | Staging Authority and Creating Collective Identity in Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Century England | |
Sean Cham | History of Art | Dr Sarah Thomas and Dr Susanna Avery-Quash | London’s National Gallery and the ‘Centre of Empire’, 1824-1924 |
Sandrine Chene | History of Art | Professor Steve Edwards and Dr Duncan Forbes | Amateurs, scientists, tradesmen, and artists: The Royal Photographic Society 1853-1914 |
Alice Correia Morton | History of Art | Dr Dorigen Caldwell | Visual and material references to antiquity in sixteenth century Venetian patricians’ construction of identity |
Joanne Cottrell | History of Art | Professor Lynda Nead | ‘As a woman my country is the whole world.’ Nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the gender of Vorticism |
Laura Cowley | History of Art | Dr Suzannah Biernoff and Dr Sophie Hope | Humour and polemic in the UK Disability Arts Movement, 1976-2010 |
Krupa Desai | History of Art | Professor Steve Edwards | Exploring the visual language of development in India - a focus on the Nehruvian decades |
Liz Drew | History of Art | A Poetic Realism: Photography and Equality in the North of England 1968 – 2018 | |
Christine Eyene | History of Art | Professor Annie Coombes | Textual inscription: a study on text and the visual in relation to the work of South African photographer George Hallett (1960s-1980s) |
Emily Gallagher | History of Art | Dr Victoria Mills and Professor Amy de la Haye (UAL) | The Collection and Interpretation of Victorian Women's Dress in UK Public Museums 1901-2001 |
Carolina Garcia Manzanos | History of Art | Professor Steve Edwards | Frame, Materiality and Mirror in Gordon Matta-Clark’s Photomontages, and Paradoxical Flatness, Trace and Chance in Gabriel Orozco’s Photographs |
Irem Gulersonmez | History of Art | Professor Patrizia Di Bello | The Historical Imagery of Violence in the 19th Century Ottoman Diasporas |
Kathryn Havelock | History of Art | Botanical Symbolism in Florentine Renaissance Painting | |
Francesca Issatt | History of Art | Women Photographing Architecture: The Royal Photographic Society, knowledge sharing networks and changing gender roles (1890-1939). | |
David Jones | History of Art | Professor Steve Edwards | The life and work of Victorian photographer Thomas Birtles |
Ferry Lichtenberg | History of Art | Dr Robert Maniura | The methodological application of semiotics and social factors in visual culture: Case studies from medieval Guelders |
Eliane Mackintosh | History of Art | Professor Annie Coombes | History of Arts in Martinique – 1898-1998 |
Sarah McBryde | History of Art | Dr Dorigen Caldwell | A Visible Difference – Dwarves in Early Modern Italian Court Culture |
Rebecca McKay | History of Art | Dr Suzannah Biernoff | Pathological Bodies and Deviant Art: 20th century medical illustrations as seen through an analysis of the work of Osman Berberović |
Morag McLintock | History of Art | Dr Robert Maniura | Art, family and status in fourteenth century Italy: the Lupi in Parma, Florence and Padua |
Cate Meredith | History of Art | Professor Mark Crinson and Dr Sean Brady | Peace Walls, Interface Barriers, and No-Go Zones: The Production of Militarized Space in Troubles-Era Belfast |
John O'Brien | History of Art | Dr Dorigen Caldwell | Philosophy, Theology and Cosmology in the ceiling paintings of Andrea Pozzo |
Liberty Paterson | History of Art | Slave-Ownership and the National Portrait Gallery | |
Patrick Quinlan | History of Art | ‘Stigma and Significance’: The past, present and future of Ireland’s lunatic asylums | |
Linda Robins Da Silva | History of Art | Professor Steve Edwards | Peripheral Modernities: Diasporic Jewish Women Photographing Difference in Brazil during the Vargas Era |
Stephen Rosser | History of Art | Professor Mark Crinson | Perspectives on the City of London's architecture in the age of global markets' |
Simon Rush | History of Art | Romanesque architecture of the Conflent area of Roussillon | |
Tamsin Silvey | History of Art | Conflict-Photography-Exhibition: curating conflict photographs in British art and history museums, 2010-20 | |
Rebecca Simovic | History of Art | Professor Leslie Topp and Professor Mark Crinson | Partisan war memorials, Montenegro |
Sonia Solicari | History of Art | The Domestic Threshold in Art and Culture of the Nineteenth Century, 1830-1880 | |
Johann Spillner | History of Art | Professor Mark Crinson | Displaying the invisible: Islamic architecture and the modern museum |
James Stewart | History of Art | Professor Kate Retford | A public refuge? The artistic contributions of the 9th Earl of Devon |
Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe | History of Art | Dr Patrizia Di Bello | Cultural Snipers: Photographic Portraiture in Britain, 1970-1990 |
Salvatore Trigilia | History of Art | Dr Dorigen Caldwell | Mario Minniti: from Caravaggio's model to protagonist of the Sicilian Baroque |
Jenny Turner | History of Art | Professor Annie Coombes | ‘Examining the contemporary history of a number of ‘community’ sites of violence in the UK and US. |
Kay Watson | History of Art | Dr Patrizia Di Bello | The Institutions of Photography in the UK: 1979-2003 |
Annette Waywell | History of Art | Dr Suzannah Biernoff | Lustre: the history and cultural aesthetics of sheen in the fashion image |