Our research students

Student name	Student programme	Supervisor(s)	Project
Eduardo Armentia	History of Art	Professor Patrizia Di Bello	Picturing Place in the Post-Photographic Era: Google Street View at the Alhambra
		Dr Nick Lambert
Patricia Bonchristiano	History of Art	Dr Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra	Art, Activism and the Amazon forest: the ongoing environmental struggle in Brazil.
		Professor Luciana Martins
Mike Bowman	History of Art	Professor Fiona Candlin	Quantitative Approaches to the History of Art: Case Studies of their Application to the History of Titling
Surya Bowyer	History of Art	Professor Steve Edwards	Collecting the boundaries of art in the Science Museum Group
		Katy Barrett (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.
		Professor Leslie Topp
Elizabeth Brown	History of Art	Professor Patrizia Di Bello	“What is Focus?”: Photography and the Natural Sciences in Victorian Britain c.1843-1877.
		Professor Steve Edwards
Melissa Buron	History of Art	Professor Lynda Nead	‘Twixt Two Worlds’ : James Tissot’s The Life of Christ and the Visual Language of Spiritualism
Aleks Catina	History of Art	Professor Mark Crinson	Irony-work in architecture: taste, other voices and the cultural economy of paradox.
Angela Cheung	SOAS	Professor Patrizia di Bello	The John Thomson (1837-1921) Photo Archive: Framing China and Southeast.
		Professor Shane McCausland (SOAS)
Netta Clavner	History of Art	Dr Zoe Opacic-Masters	Staging Authority and Creating Collective Identity in Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Century England
Alice Correia Morton	History of Art	Dr Dorigen Caldwell	Visual and material references to antiquity in sixteenth century Venetian patricians’ construction of identity.
		Professor Filippo De Vivo
Joanne Cottrell	History of Art	Professor Lynda Nead	‘As a woman my country is the whole world.’ Nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the gender of Vorticism
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).
Janine Freeston	History of Art	Professor Patrizia Di Bello	Amateurs and Colour Photography in Britain 1906 to 1932
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
Neil Handley	History of Art	Professor Fiona Candlin	New professions and professionalism in 20th century medical museums
Kathryn Havelock	History of Art	Dr Dorigen Caldwell	Botanical Symbolism in Florentine Renaissance Painting.
		Professor John Henderson (HCA)
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).
		Dr James Ryan (V&A)
David Jones	History of Art	Professor Steve Edwards	The life and work of Victorian photographer Thomas Birtles.
Kazima Khan Mukherjee	History of Art	Professor Annie Coombes	Situating Contemporary Indian art in the Global – Art Collectives and the Post postcolonial Discourse
Juliet Learmouth	History of Art	Professor Kate Retford	Women and the West End Town House: Agency and Self-fashioning in Eighteenth-Century London.
Mark Liebenrood	History of Art	Professor Fiona Candlin	'Museum closure in the UK, 1960–2010'. Examining museum closures using a combination of large-scale data and individual case studies.
Nicola Lowe	History of Art	Dr Zoe Opacic-Masters	Art and Experience in the late-medieval English parish church: selected evidence from rural Oxfordshire.
Hannah Lyons	History of Art	Professor Kate Retford	Making an impression: British women printmakers in the Long Eighteenth Century.
		Sarah Grant (V&A)
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.
		Professor John Henderson (HCA)
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
		Lucy Peltz (NPG)
Patrick Quinlan	History of Art	Professor Leslie Topp	‘Stigma and Significance’: The past, present and future of Ireland’s lunatic asylums.
Carlo Rizzo	History of Art	Dr Sarah Thomas	Collecting and displaying contemporary Middle Eastern Art and Design at the V&A: a comparative analysis of museum practices.
		Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A)
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'.
		Professor Leslie Topp
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.
		Professor Steve Edwards
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.
		Dr Simon O'Meara (SOAS)
Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe	History of Art	Dr Patrizia Di Bello	Cultural Snipers: Photographic Portraiture in Britain, 1970-1990.
		Sabina Jaskot-Gill (NPG)
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.

Our research students

Research students in our departments