Our research students

Student name	Student programme	Supervisor(s)	Project
Dima Alhaj Hussein	History of Art	Professor Leslie Topp	The three urban identities of Old Damascus during the twentieth century
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	Dr Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra	Art, Activism and the Amazon forest: the ongoing environmental struggle in Brazil.
Surya Bowyer	History of Art	Professor Steve Edwards	Collecting the boundaries of art in the Science Museum Group
Albert Brenchat Aguilar	History of Art	Professor Mark Crinson	Shaping Postcolonial Worlds: Otto Koenigsberger, Global Architecture, and the Networks of the International Planning Consultant.
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	Professor Mark Crinson	Irony-work in architecture: taste, other voices and the cultural economy of paradox.
Netta Clavner	History of Art	Dr Zoe Opacic-Masters	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	Professor Patrizia di Bello	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).
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	Dr Dorigen Caldwell	Botanical Symbolism in Florentine Renaissance Painting.
Francesca Issatt	History of Art	Professor Patrizia di Bello	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.
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	Dr Sarah Thomas	Slave-Ownership and the National Portrait Gallery
Patrick Quinlan	History of Art	Professor Leslie Topp	‘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	Dr Zoe Opacic-Masters	Romanesque architecture of the Conflent area of Roussillon
Tamsin Silvey	History of Art	Dr Silke Arnold-de Simine	Conflict -Photography-Exhibition: curating conflict in art and history institutions, 2010-20.
Rebecca Simovic	History of Art	Professor Leslie Topp and Professor Mark Crinson	Partisan war memorials, Montenegro
Sonia Solicari	History of Art	Professor Lynda Nead	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.

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