School of Arts and Humanities

Byzantine material culture and architecture.

Late antique and medieval Cyprus.

The sociology of fashion, dress and embodiment, cultural work, cultural workers and processes of cultural mediation, aesthetic labour and gender.

Cultural sociology and the sociology of culture, social and cultural theory (particularly with reference to habitus, reflexivity and sociality), subcultures, the body and identity, fashion and consumption, visual methods and methodology, ethics, representation and recognition.

text editing modern manuscripts; text encoding; digital publishing; collaborative research in the Digital Humanities; modeling

Palaeography and manuscript studies; Digital Humanities, particularly the application of digital tools and techniques to palaeography and manuscript studies; Old English, Latin language and literature; Medieval studies, early medieval history

Theories of International Political Economy/International Relations; Geopolitics; Political Economy of Oil and Gas; Russian Politics; Marxist Theory.

Government formation and duration; political parties and party systems; electoral behaviour; pre-electoral coalitions; the politics of wage and income inequality; Central and East European politics.

East Asia's international relations and political economy, Europe-Asia relations, European Union foreign policy and political economy, Spanish politics and political economy.

International political economy; intellectual property rights; global governance; development

Film and Religion, especially Christianity; Film and Philosophy; Critical theory, especially theories of spectatorship; Animal studies; European cinema

Chinese and East Asian cinema and screen cultures; Screens and Public Space; Gender, Sexuality and Cinema; Documentary Film; Theorizing Screen Studies; Theories of National and Transnational Cinema

East Asian Cinema; the Global Film Industry; Classical and Contemporary Film Theories and Philosophy of Film

• history and geography of film and visual culture in the United States
• cinema and the city (especially Los Angeles)
• Italian neorealism
• the road moviecinema and radical politics (especially circa 1968)
• critical theory

The ‘classical’ cinemas of Hollywood and France; The history of film spectacle (especially of the musical); The representation of history on film; The relationship between practices of close interpretative analysis, film history and classic film theory; Performance

German cinema; early film theory (Béla Balázs); gender and consumption in cultural history; transnationalism in film and cultural history; European colonialism.

• Nineteenth and twentieth Century Portuguese Intellectual and Cultural History
• Nationalism, Identity politics, colonialism, postcolonialism
• Islam, Muslims, Muslim politics

• Intellectual history of Western Europe, c.1650-1850
• Early modern and modern European Jewish history
• The politics of Jewish history and memory
• The history of friendship
• Religion and radical political thought

• The Spanish empire in the eighteenth century
• British trade with Latin America
• Native Andeans in the long nineteenth century

• Social and economic history of late antique and early medieval Europe
• Frankish kingdoms under the Merovingians and Carolingians
• Legal practice and legal texts
• Slavery and unfreedom between the 4th and the 11th centuries
• Women and gender

• 17th- and 18th-century European social and cultural history
• The Netherlands and Francophone culture
• Print culture and the culture of collecting
• The interaction of society, art and science

• Religion and Politics in Modern Britain
• Reform in the late Hanoverian period
• Institutional history of the Church of England and its Clergy

• Intersections between Australian domestic politics, diplomacy and military decision-making, particularly during two world wars and the cold war
• Setting Australian history in its comparative context, particularly as part of the imagined ‘British world’ from the 1880s to the 1960s
• The social history of Australians in the United Kingdom
• Carl Bridge has published extensively on Australia’s relations with Britain, the United States and New Zealand

• English social, economic, architectural, military and political history in the thirteenth century
• Medieval Britain
• Henry III
• Westminster Abbey
• Magna Carta

• Economic History and Diplomatic History of Modern Britain
• Military and naval history in the 18th- and 19th-centuries
• Educational development in 19th-century British schools
• History of Medicine
   

• French and British imperial history, 18th-20th century
• Political economy since 1700
• The impact of the world on Europe since 1500
• The Mediterranean in the 19th century

• European Expansion (15th-19th centuries)
• History of Civil Rights in the World
• Religious History and the Inquisition
• Cultural Exchange in the Iberian World
• Identities in the Portuguese speaking World

• Herodotus
• Archaic and classical Greek history (fifth and fourth centuries BC)
• Greek religion
• Alexander the Great

• 18th-century Ireland
• Intellectual History and Cultural History of Early Modern Britain and Ireland
• Northern Ireland since 1920
• Collective memories and commemorations in Irish culture
  

• The social history of religion in modern Europe
• History of nationalism
• Supranational identifications in modern Central Europe, especially Germany and Poland

• Modern South Asia, particularly politics, governance and political economy
• The Indian State
• Land and Agrarian Society in South Asia
• Bangladesh
• Empire and the HIstory of Political Thought
• Philosophies of Modernity

• History of women, gender and sexuality in early modern England
• Early modern social and cultural history
• Sex and sexuality
• Crime and the law
• London
• Popular culture

• Religious, political and cultural history of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
• Reformation and Catholic Reformation in England and Europe
• Religion and Society in Early Modern England
• Henry VIII

• Cultural history in the early modern and modern periods, including women, gender and family, and visual and material culture
• Portraiture and identity 1600 onwards
• Science and medicine since 1600
• Public history

• Continental Europe in the era spanning the French Revolution and Napoleonic period (c.1780-1830)
• State formation and nationalism in the ‘long’ 19th-century (1789-1914)
• The history of modern France and Germany

• 18th- and 19th-century social, religious and scientific thought in Britain with particular reference to Thomas Robert Malthus and Charles Darwin
• 18th- and 19th-century Britain
• European Political Ideas in the Enlightenment
  

• Comparative modern and contemporary African history
• African politics: nationalism & decolonisation
• Politics, culture and identity
• Political thought and political theory
• Biography

• The Cultural and Political History of Modern Britain
• Patriotism and national identities
• History of the British landscape, preservationism
• Electoral politics
• The ‘Land Question’ in modern Britain 

• Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages: c. 200-800 AD
• Barbarians and the Roman Empire
• Late Antique historiography
• Legal sources and the social history of dispute settlement
• The late & post-Roman development of the Christian Church, everything from Popes to ascetics
• States and their operations
• Vikings & Slavs

• How empires shape economy, society, politics, and culture at both their centres and peripheries
• How ideas and sensibility have a Weberian long durée, and how, reciprocally, material facts - in particular nature, technology, and economy - order culture and feeling
• The British Empire (from Tudor expansion to decolonisation), and the impact of imperial expansion on the British isles
• French expansion and its impact on economy and society (c. 1500-1850)
• Global and transnational History, in particular Atlantic history
• The History of the Caribbean, in particular its intellectual life (both elite and ‘from below’) since 1800
• Anti-colonial movements in the Twentieth Century
• Imperialism after Decolonisation, in particular the neo-imperial moment (since c. 1990)

• Twentieth Century France, specifically Vichy France (1940-1944) and the Fourth Republic (1944-1958)
• The Algerian war of 1954-1962
• The pan-European protest movement of 1968
• The social and political aspects of British history throughout the period since the Second World War, particularly Thatcher and Thatcher’s Britain

• Social and political history of the Habsburg Monarchy and the successor states
• Agrarian society and peasantries of Europe in the early modern and modern periods
• Enlightenment and liberalism in Central Europe
• Landscape history

• End of Empire, 20th-century British Empire and Commonwealth
• 20th-century colonial Africa 
  

• Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
• Women, Gender and the State
• Late Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought

• Society, government, law and politics in Anglo-Saxon England
• Domesday Book and the Norman Conquest of England
• Lords and peasants in early Medieval Europe 

• Cultural and Social History of 19th and 20th century Russia
• Stephen Lovell would welcome applications from research students interested in working on any aspect of Russian history, 1750 to the present

• West Africa and the Atlantic World (16th-17th Centuries)
• Trans-Saharan and Trans-Atlantic Diasporas
• Atlantic Slavery
• Creolization
• New Christians in Europe, the Americas and West Africa
• Iberian Empires and Institutions in their Global Setting 

Theories of International Political Economy/International Relations; Geopolitics; Political Economy of Oil and Gas; Russian Politics; Marxist Theory

International political economy; intellectual property rights; global governance; development

• Intersections between Australian domestic politics, diplomacy and military decision-making, particularly during two world wars and the cold war
• Setting Australian history in its comparative context, particularly as part of the imagined ‘British world’ from the 1880s to the 1960s
• The social history of Australians in the United Kingdom
• Carl Bridge has published extensively on Australia’s relations with Britain, the United States and New Zealand

East Asia's international relations and political economy, Europe-Asia relations, European Union foreign policy and political economy, Spanish politics and political economy.