Current PhD students

Table showing names and contact details of current PhD students
Name	Research area	Contact details
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
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
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
Rachel Clamp	Keeping the Diseased: Plague Nursing, Care and Bodywork in Early Modern England c.1570-1665	Contact Rachel Clamp
Matthew Clayton	Images of Rome in 12^th 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
Arielle Jasiewicz-Gill	The Influence of St Bridget of Sweden on the Textual Programme of Fifteenth-Century Books of Hours.	Contact Arielle Jasiewicz-Gill
Nancy Johnson	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
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
Yaling Peng	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
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
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

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Table showing names and contact details of PhD graduates
Name	Research area
Dr. Daniel Adamson	The portrayal - in educational settings - of the relationship between Britain and the Holocaust
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. Bethany Brewer	Women and the Rwandan Gacaca Courts: Gender, Genocide and Justice
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. Walker Chrisian	Unio mystica and the aurora consurgens: mystical theology in a late medeival alchemical treatise
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. Jamie Irvine	Causal origins of the ‘Religious movement of the Middle ages’: Cluny, Tiron, and the New Orders, 910-1156
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. Sarah McCook	Reasonable Latitude: Learning and Adaptability in British Army Despatch Riders During the Second World War
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. James Taffe	Reconstructing the queen’s household, 1485 – 1547: a study in royal service
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

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