Current PhD students
Name | Research area | Contact details |
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Aida Abbashar | Constitution-making in Sudan | Contact Aida Abbashar |
Neil Achary | An assessment of Black Consciousness political parties in South Africa between 1994 and 2014 | Contact Neil Achary |
Daniel Adamson | The portrayal - in educational settings - of the relationship between Britain and the Holocaust | Contact Daniel Adamson |
Amira Al-harthi | Omani merchants in Zanzibar textiles trade in the nineteenth century | Contact Amira Al-harthi |
Natasha Anson | Nostalgia and the transformation of working-class heritage | Contact Natasha Anson |
Sahava Baranow | Projected Identities: Displaying and gendering Japanese objects in Europe and America, 1862-2013 |
Contact Sahava Baranow |
Marie Bigotte |
The politics of space applied to French and English princely gardens in the early modern period |
Contact Marie Bigotte |
Bethany Brewer | Women and the Rwandan Genocide: Agency, Culpability and Evasion | Contact Bethany Brewer |
Jacqueline Brooks | The Vipond family of Alston Moor and the City of Durham: the impact of non-conformity on family status in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries | Contact Jacqueline Brooks |
Daniel Burrell | British cremation movement | Contact Daniel Burrell |
Lily Chadwick | Female Ministry in the Transatlantic Quaker Community, 1650-1700 | Contact Lily Chadwick |
Chi Chuk | Early Modern History of England: Religious politics of 17th Century England | Contact Chi Chuk |
Medieval cosmology with an emphasis on 13th Century alchemical treatises | Contact Walker Christian | |
Keeping the Diseased: Plague Nursing, Care and Bodywork in Early Modern England c.1570-1665 | Contact Rachel Clamp | |
Matthew Clayton |
Images of Rome in 12th Century English and German Historigraphy |
Contact Matthew Clayton |
Austin Collins | Influence of the Early Modern French Monarchy in Material, Visual, and Spatial Culture, 1547-1589 | Contact Austin Collins |
Bridget Cox | The late medieval history of archives and record-keeping | Contact Bridget Cox |
James Cronin | Historical writing and research in the Benedictine monastic communities of late medieval England | Contact James Cronin |
Hana Cutts-Smith | Forcible Transfer of Children, Cultural Genocide in Aotearoa (New Zealand) | Contact Hana Cutts-Smith |
Daniel Doherty | Anti-Abolitionist Violence in the Antebellum North, 1840-1845 | Contact Daniel Doherty |
Christian Drury | British Narratives of Arctic Travel and Exploration, 1875-1940 | Contact Christian Drury |
Razvan Dumitru | ‘We lived with it, we were born with it and we have the tradition in our blood’: Local identities among Transylvanian Romanians between 1918 and 1948 | Contact Razvan Dumitru |
Simon Feasey | Popular political speech in the 1530s | Contact Simon Feasey |
Gabriel Fidler | Comparative History of Norman England and Italy | Contact Gabriel Fidler |
Adam Fletcher | Learning for Salvation’s Sake: Durham Cathedral Priory and the Scholastic Revolution, c.1083-c.1200 | Contact Adam Fletcher |
Alastair Forbes | Anglo-Norman Monastic Conceptualisations on the Place, Nature, and Fate of the milites, c. 1050 – 1150 | Contact Alastair Forbes |
Kimberley Foy | Dress and Diplomacy at the Early Stuart Court | Contact Kimberley Foy |
Jeremy Goldsmith | The Heralds' Visitations, 1530-1700 | Contact Jeremy Goldsmith |
James Goodwin | A bottom up approach to the art market: what was the influence of artists in the late 18th century British art market? The case of Johan Zoffany | Contact James Goodwin |
Janet Gormley | Augustine’s historiography and its interpretation in the High Middle Ages with particular focus on the Spiritual Franciscans. | Contact Janet Gormley |
Andrew Green | French noble networks between c.1430 and c.1490 | Contact Andrew Green |
Yundi Guo | Classical music culture in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and in Anglo-GDR relations under Honecker (1971-1989) | Contact Yundi Guo |
Alexander Hibberts | The Sustainability of Settlement and Exploitation of Liminal Environments in the North Sea Region, c.1150-1400 | Contacts Alexander Hibberts |
Katherine Holderith | Book as Body: The Continuity of Female Sanctity within the Textual Communities of British Nunneries through the Norman Conquest | Contact Katherine Holderith |
The Religious Movement of the Twelfth Century | Contact Jamie Irvine | |
The Influence of St Bridget of Sweden on the Textual Programme of Fifteenth-Century Books of Hours. | Contact Arielle Jasiewicz-Gill | |
The Court of Mary Queen of Scots | Contact Nancy Johnson | |
Grant Jones | Pastoral Care and Chivalric Culture in England, c.1150-1250 | Contact Grant Jones |
Manish Kumar | Timber imports and the British economy c. 1660-1860 | Contact Manish Kumar |
Hasaam Latif | The Forgotten Sailors: Lascars, Homelands and 20th Century British Empire | Contact Hasaam Latif |
Fergal Leonard | Faction, Patronage, and Political Networks in the West March, 1569 – 1603 | Contact Fergal Leonard |
John Livesley | John Pearson (1613-1686): the renewal of English Theological Discourse in the Age of Reason? | Contact John Livesley |
Carrie Long | ‘Yours humbly, sincerely, and obediently’? The Social Agency of Petitioning, c1789 -1860. (AHRC funded, Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project). | Contact Carrie Long |
Maksymilian Loth-hill | The Politics of History in Stalinist Poland: Museology and the Construction of a ‘Usable Past’, 1945-56 | Contact Maksymilian Loth-hill |
Matthew Lumley | Greek and Latin Monasticism in Southern Italy during the Crusader Era | Contact Matthew Lumley |
Hugo Lunn | Premature Succession: Rebellion of Heirs Apparent in the 11th-13th centuries | Contact Hugo Lunn |
Mark Markov | Wars not fought: Neutrality and European Navies in American Waters during the US Civil War | Contact Mark Markov |
Newby Mccabe | Political activism between ‘dinner and tea’: Labour women and the problem of participation | Contact Newby Mccabe |
Sarah McCook | Aspects of the British Forces during the First and Second World War | Contact Sarah McCook |
Nicola McNeil | Landscape and Gender in Seventh to Tenth-Century England | Contact Nicola McNeil |
Antonia Miejluk | Snapshot Photography in the Interwar Soviet Union | Contact Antonia Miejluk |
Isobel Muir | Jewish Collectors and Donors at the National Gallery (c.1830-1945), a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with the National Gallery, London | Contact Isobel Muir |
Avarna Ojha | Corruption in India-Evolution through moments of crisis | Contact Avarna Ojha |
Adam O'Taylor | Rethinking the entangled past of church landed classes and coalmining communities | Contact Adam O'Taylor |
Jamie Paterno-Ostmann | Making Chocolate in the British Atlantic World: Foodways, Consumption and Heritage | Contact Jamie Paterno-Ostmann |
William Laud's Thought of ‘Enriching the People’ and His Religious Reform | Contact Yaling Peng | |
William Raybould | The aristocracy and royal power in Scandinavia 900-1300 | Contact William Raybould |
Friederike Schwelle | Modern Jews and Ancient Egypt: Patrons, Collectors and Scholars in Europe c1880-1950 | Contact Friederike Schwelle |
Benjamin Sharp | The Earl of Danby, English absolutism and the origins of the English empire 1673-1679 | Contact Benjamin Sharp |
Natasha Shoory | From the Footnotes to the Focus: Re-discovering, Re-examining, and Re-contextualising Female Collectors of the Ancien Régime | Contact Natasha Shoory |
Isaiah Silvers | The institutional transformations of sensibility, or sympathy, in the 18th century Atlantic world. | Contact Isaiah Silvers |
Alastair Smurthwaite | Ungovernable Prophets: Samuel Fisher and radical religious thoughts in England 1649-1665 | Contact Alastair Smurthwaite |
Grace Stephenson | British Newsreels at War, 1939-1945 | Contact Grace Stephenson |
Harriet Claire Strahl |
The world to come: 12th-century Chroniclers Attitudes to the secular future |
Contact Harriet Claire Strahl |
Florence Swan | The Transmission of Taste c. 1200-c.1400 | Contact Florence Swan |
James Taffe | The queen’s household in England, 1527-1547 | Contact James Taffe |
Avril Taylor | The interaction between the royal courts and households of James I, II, III and IV of Scotland | Contact Avril Taylor |
Camilla Thompson |
Examination of royal patronized performance and literary publications during Mary Tudor’s reign |
Contact Camilla Thompson |
Stephen Twort | The history of animal-human power relations in the United Kingdom, c.1930-present | Contact Stephen Twort |
Joshua Whiteman-Gardner | Obedience and Subversion: The Divine Right of Kings and the Late Stuarts | Contact Joshua Whiteman-Gardner |
Adam Whybrow | The visitor experience: tourism and architecture in England during the long eighteenth century | Contact Adam Whybrow |
Emma Yeo | Considering the existence/lack of a seventeenth century 'General Crisis', within the context of studies of individual communities within the North East of England | Contact Emma Yeo |
Cara Zhao | Learning Art from the Soviet Union: Chinese Students in the Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the 1950s | Contact Cara Zhao |
PhD graduates
Name | Research area |
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Dr. Margaret Armstrong | The Medical Services of the New Poor Law in County Durham 1834-1910 |
Dr. Katharine Bader | A Culture of Inquiry: Scientific Thought and its Transmission in the Severn Valley, c.1090 - c.1150 |
Dr Mark Bennett | |
Dr Matthew Sterling Benson | Taxation, Local Government and Social Control in Sudan and South Soudan 1899-1956 |
Dr Adrian Browne |
Classificatory violence: difference, discipline, and (de)gradation in Uganda's northern Albertine Rift, c.1860 to c.1991 |
Dr. Ngala Chome |
Moral debate and political action in Mombasa 1895-1990 |
Dr Harry Cross |
Banking and finance in Sudan 1956 to 1970 |
Dr Ana de Oliveira Dias | |
Dr Finola Finn | |
Dr Yotam Gidron | The Nuer Messianic Jewish Movement: authority and authenticity in Ethiopia's western frontierlands |
Dr Sarah Gilbert | Anglo-Saxon medical recipes in non-medical manuscripts: matters of culture, context and community |
Dr Barbara Hargreaves | Not 'For Medicinal Use Only' Healthcare Narratives in Saints' Lives from Twelfth-Century England |
Dr Rachael Harkes | Joining a Fraternity in Late Medieval England: The Case of the Palmers' Guild of Ludlow, c.1250-1551 |
Dr Lydia Harris | Vitam mortalem, mortem vitalem: Abortion and Contraception in the High Middle Ages, 950-1200 |
Dr. Chi-Hsin Huang | Jeremy Collier and the Moral Reform of Politics, 1688-1722 |
Dr Alexandra Jordan | Breton hagiography from the ninth and twelfth Centuries |
Dr Thomas Kearns | The intellectual history of the Anglo-Saxon Church |
Dr Thomas Lowman | Beyond Idi Amin: Causes and Drivers of Political Violence in Uganda (1971-1979) |
Dr Lindsay Macnaughton | Archiving the Revolution: Collecting French History in Nineteenth-Century Britain |
Dr. Mathew Norman | Portrait Drawing in Three Generations of the Bacon Family |
Dr Kate Marlow | The Formation of Ethnic Identity in Anglo-Saxon England (700-1066) and Medieval Iceland (900-1264) |
Dr Rachael Matthews | The Book, the Body, and the Mirror: The Use of Metaphor in the Writings of Marguerite Porete and Marguerite d'Oingt |
Dr Marcus Meer | Cities, Citizens, and their Signs: Heraldic Communication and Urban Visual Culture in Late Medieval England and Germany |
Dr Callum Murrell | Theories of Politics and the Politics of Theory: Aspects of Power and Discourse in Early Modern England |
Dr Antonia Perna | Childhood, Politics and Patriotism in Revolutionary France, 1789–99 |
Dr Kirstyn Raitz | Urban Prostitution in London and Paris, 1650-1800 |
Dr Kathleen Reynolds | Sickness in Correspondence: gentry letter writing and the subject of health in eighteenth century Yorkshire and the North-East |
Dr Caroline Smith | The Palaces of the Bishops of Durham: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives AD 1100 – 1550 |
Dr. Rhiannon Snaith | The Politics of Noble Reputation in Late Medieval England, 1377-1437. |
Dr. Ciara Stewart | Irish Women and Political Petitioning, c. 1870-1918 |
Dr Marina Tymviou | Charlotte of Lusignan and Caterina Cornaro: The Politics of Queenship and Identity in Cyprus and Italy 1458-1861 |
Dr. Ryan Wicklund | Agriculture Management and Market Responsiveness in Medieval County Durham |