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Department of History PhD students

Find out more aboutBelow is a list of our current students and the tiles of their theses.

Surname

Forename

Email

Supervisors

Thesis title

AGUILAR TORRES

EDISSON

edisson.aguilar_torres@kcl.ac.uk

DAVID EDGERTON

Christine Mathias

The Power Dynamics of Small-Scale Technology: Community-Managed Water Supply and State Formation in Colombia, 1942-1989

ALDEGALEGA

JOAO

joao.aldegalega@kcl.ac.uk

ALICE RIO

 

ALVAREZ HERNANDEZ

JOSE MARIA

jose.m.alvarez_hernandez@kcl.ac.uk

TOBIAS GREEN

Black African Political Thought and its Impact on British and Spanish Imperial Foreign Policy (1725-1743)

ANDREJEVIC

ALEKSA

aleksa.andrejevic@kcl.ac.uk

MICHAEL ROWE

‘The Spirit of the Age’


Imperial Administration, Intellectual Discourse and Foreign Policy in the ‘British’ Mediterranean, 1793-1848:

A Study on How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imperial Imagination

ANDRES CUERVO

JUANJO

juanjo.andres_cuervo@kcl.ac.uk

DAVID BRYDAN

A study about the lives of the Spanish exiles and the Spanish pieds-noirs in Algerian during the War of Independence (1954-1962). Furthermore, there will be an exploration about their lives after 1962, whether they stayed or left Algeria.

APHRODITE

SHARMINI

sharmini.aphrodite@kcl.ac.uk

Faizah Zakaria

 

AZARHOOSH

KAVEH

kaveh.azarhoosh@kcl.ac.uk

REZA ZIA-EBRAHIMI

In my research, I am constructing a history of Iranian pro-Nazi parties and public figures and their impact on the development of Iranian nationalism between 1933-and 1975.

BARNARD

ISOBEL

isobel.barnard@kcl.ac.uk

ALICE TAYLOR

Masculinity and the Castle in Late Medieval Scotland

BARNES

JEREMY

jeremy.r.barnes@kcl.ac.uk

 

 

BARNETT

WILLIAM

william.barnett@kcl.ac.uk

Peter Heather

Law and Society in the Northern Barbarian kingdoms: How Does Framing Lex Salica and the Early Anglo-Saxon Legal Codes in a Developing Legal Culture Impact our View on their Function and the Cultures they Reflect.

BELL

CHARLOTTE

charlotte.m.bell@kcl.ac.uk

CAITJAN GAINTY

 

BRADLEY

EMMA

emma.m.bradley@kcl.ac.uk

ALANA HARRIS

Empty Cradles': life-cycles of Mother and Baby Homes in England, 1945-1976

BROYD

THEODORA

theodora.broyd@kcl.ac.uk

JIM WOLFREYS and REZA ZIA-EBRAHIMI

Self-identification of French nationals, descendants of Algerian immigration, in contemporary France

BUTLER

JOSEF

josef.butler@kcl.ac.uk

JAMES E BJORK

Polskość in exile: How did the experience of exile reshape identity in the Polish exile community in Great Britain, 1940-1971?

BYERS

CATRIONA

catriona.byers@kcl.ac.uk

ANNA MAERKER

Death as an institution: managing the anonymous dead at the morgues of Paris and New York, c.1864-1914.

CHAVDA

SAAVAN

saavan.1.chavda@kcl.ac.uk

PAUL READMAN

The Imperial Peninsula: Rotherhithe and Local Experiences of British Imperialism, 1755-1914

CHU

RISI

risi.chu@kcl.ac.uk

Edward Zychowicz-Coghill

Early Islamic Historiography: A Study of al-Wāqidī’s Kitāb al-Maghāzī

COGAN

HANNAH

hannah.cogan@kcl.ac.uk

CHRISTOPHER DILLON

Gender and Postwar Justice: The Denazification of Women in the British Occupation Zone of Postwar Germany, 1945-1955

CULL

CHARLOTTE

charlotte.l.cull@kcl.ac.uk

DAVID EDGERTON

The Freedom Defence Committee: Anarchism and Libertarian Thinking in British Thought from 1940 - 1960.

FAN

HUA

hua.fan@kcl.ac.uk

VIVIENNE XIANGWEI GUO

History of Medicine

FERRER

MAX

max.ferrer@kcl.ac.uk

DR DAVID BRYDAN

Global Catalonia: Untangling Nationalism and Globalization, 1978-2017

FERRY

PETER

peter.ferry@kcl.ac.uk

GABRIEL MESEVAGE

 

FINER

PAUL

paul.finer@kcl.ac.uk

DAVID EDGERTON

A revolutionary business? The Finances and Organisation of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1940-1964.

FLANAGAN

TOM

thomas.b.flanagan@kcl.ac.uk

Peter Heather

The Collectio Hispana and the Development of Canon Law in Visigothic Spain

GEMMELL

JAMIE

jamie.gemmell@kcl.ac.uk

LAURA GOWING; MILES OGBORN

Racemaking in Early Modern London, 1650-1730

GRAY

BENJAMIN

benjamin.gray@kcl.ac.uk

ALEXANDRA VUKOVICH

The Buried People: Accessing Empire through the texts of Medieval Novgorod

GRIFFITHS

THOMAS

thomas.griffiths@kcl.ac.uk

JAMES E BJORK

The nationalist use of architecture across the Western Balkan region between 1989 and 2021.

HAMPSON

JOHN

john.hampson@kcl.ac.uk

DANIEL HADAS

An Investigation of the Manuscript Tradition of the Epistolae of Hildebert of Lavardin (c1055-1133), Bishop of Le Mans and then Archbishop of Tours.

HEEKS

JASPER

jasper.heeks@kcl.ac.uk

SIMON SLEIGHT

The spread of ‘genus larrikin’: overseas reaction to deviant and delinquent Australian youth, 1870-1940

HEGDALSTRAND

SIMEN

simen.s.hegdalstrand@kcl.ac.uk

ADAM SUTCLIFFE

"Judaism in the political thought and culture of Denmark and Norway: a comparative study: ca. 1750-1850."

HOTZ

DESIREE

desiree.hotz@kcl.ac.uk

CHRISTOPHER DILLON

The Lived Experience of Masculinity Amongst the Members of the NS-Paramilitaries 1933 to 1938.

HOWARD

SIMON

simon.howard@kcl.ac.uk

JULIA CRICK

Current project title: What does a comparison of English and Irish sources tell us about early medieval polities in southern Britain before the Vikings?

HUANG

JIELUAN

jieluan.huang@kcl.ac.uk

CAITJAN GAINTY

The Commodification of Female Bodies: Reconfiguring Subjectivity among Rural Migrant Women in China, 1980-1999.

JOLLY

JENNIFER

jennifer.jolly@kcl.ac.uk

ALICE TAYLOR

Monastic Chronicle writing in the thirteenth century focusing on the Chronicle of the Cistercian Abbey at Waverley

KELLY

LUCINDA

lucinda.kelly@kcl.ac.uk

ALEXANDRA SAPOZNIK

This project will examine non-criminal violence against women in England in the period c. 1250-1350 focusing on sexual assault and non-fatal domestic violence. It will also attempt to explore sexual harassment during this period.

KWOK

MATTHEW

matthew.h.kwok@kcl.ac.uk

SIMON SLEIGHT

Indigenous and Humanitarian Mobilities in Colonial Victoria and New Zealand, 1839-1908

LAWSON

MARC

marc.p.lawson@kcl.ac.uk

JULIA CRICK

 

LIMB

SARAH

sarah.limb@kcl.ac.uk

SARAH STOCKWELL &

SUNDEEP LIDHER

Students from Colonised and Commonwealth Countries at King’s College London, 1920-70

MA

LINQUAN

linquan.ma@kcl.ac.uk

CAITJAN GAINTY

Suspicious Co-operators: Tropical Disease Experts in Communist China, 1949-66.

MCDONNELL

PHOEBE

phoebe.mcdonnell@kcl.ac.uk

CAITJAN GAINTY

Exchanges of medical knowledge in Canada between Native communities and church missionaries in the nineteenth century.

MOHAN

PRANAV

pranav.mohan@kcl.ac.uk

CHRIS MANIAS

Sites and Spaces of Natural History Research in Company Calcutta 1784-1857

MORRIS

SHALOM

shalom.morris@kcl.ac.uk

ADAM SUTCLIFFE

Western Sephardim in the Age of Reform
This project looks at the way Western Sephardim in the 19th century grappled with the health of their synagogues, schools and communities, and the issue of Reform Judaism - all in a Sephardic context.

MURRAY

ALEXANDER

alexander.4.murray@kcl.ac.uk

ADAM SUTCLIFFE

Early Swedenborgianism in England c.1780-1830 and its relation to radical politics and social reform movements of the age in question.

NG

JASON

jason.c.ng@kcl.ac.uk

SARAH STOCKWELL

Kew and Colonial Botanic Gardens in an Era of Decolonization

ONUR

TINA

tina.onur@kcl.ac.uk

ALANA HARRIS

Theopolitical Imaginaries of the Industrial Body in Mid-Victorian England: Rethinking the Philosophy of F.D. Maurice (1830–1870)

 

PALMER

CALYX

calyx.palmer@kcl.ac.uk

DR HANNAH DAWSON

Pluralities of Freedom: Liberty and the Haitian Revolution

PIPI

CHIBUEZE

chibueze.1.pipi@kcl.ac.uk

Vincent Hiribarren and Toby Green

Calculating Resource Extraction in Colonial Nigeria, 1900 - 1960

POWER

KELLY

kelly.m.power@kcl.ac.uk

PAUL READMAN

Changing Childhoods: The Educational Experiencse of Working-Class Children 1850-1870

RANDALL

OLIVER

ollie.randall@kcl.ac.uk

PAUL READMAN

The Authors Cricket Club, 1887-1968: Gatekeepers of Englishness and Literary Networking

RICH

NAOMI

naomi.rich@kcl.ac.uk

ALANA HARRIS

Anticipating the Second Vatican Council: lay female Catholic theology, agency and radicalism in Britain, 1918-1945

ROCHE

PATRICK

patrick.roche@kcl.ac.uk

PAUL READMAN

The Irish Railway Navvy in Mid Nineteenth-Century Britain

SCUTT

OLIVER

oliver.j.scutt@kcl.ac.uk

PROFESSOR PETER HEATHER

The Historical and Anthropological literature concerning the concept of 'pagan survivals' in Anglo-Saxon English culture. I am now researching supernatural entities and their representations in Anglo Saxon topography, literature and religious works.

SINGH

IQBAL

iqbal.Singh@kcl.ac.uk

SUNDEEP LIDHER

The British state, racism and subjecthood in the late colonial period

SMITH

LYDIA

lydia.1.smith@kcl.ac.uk

EMRYS JONES and PAUL READMAN

Spectacle and Performance in the designed landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain.

SOTO VEJAR

JOSE

jose.soto_vejar@kcl.ac.uk

CHRISTINE MATHIAS

The infrastructure of knowledge: Experts and laypeople during the electrification process in Chile (1925 – 2010).

TRANCHANT

MARIE

marie.1.tranchant@kcl.ac.uk

JULIA CRICK; ALICE TAYLOR

Writing history at Burton Abbey: national politics, local networks and the construction of the past in medieval England.

VALENZUELA VILLASECA

FRANCISCA

francisca.valenzuela_villaseca@kcl.ac.uk

DAVID EDGERTON

CHRISTINE MATHIAS

The development of land telegraphy in nineteenth-century South America. A comparative study of Chile and Colombia.



WILLIAMS

DAVID

david.5.williams@kcl.ac.uk

PAUL READMAN

Britons and the Sea: Englishness and the Maritime Cultural Landscape.

WILLIAMS

JASPER

jasper.j.williams@kcl.ac.uk

RICHARD VINEN

Generational revolt? Confronting the mythologisation of the punk subculture.

WU

SHUANG

shuang.1.wu@kcl.ac.uk

CHARLOTTE GOODBURN

 

XIE

ZELAI

zelai.1.xie@kcl.ac.uk

MICHAEL ROWE

 

ZENG

SHILEI

shilei.zeng@kcl.ac.uk

Evelyn Welch

Hannah Murphy

'Knowing China Through Materials: Silk in Sino-British History (1700-1800)'

ZHAO

BINGXUN

bingxun.zhao@kcl.ac.uk

Peter Heather

 

ZHENG

RUISEN

ruisen.zheng@kcl.ac.uk

Peter Heather

From Information to Knowledge: Compilation Literature in Tenth and Eleventh Century Byzantium and China

 

 

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