PhD Supervision - Areas of Interest

Barber, Sarah

Dr Barber is keen to hear from students interested inworking on topics that would fall under the following headings:

• The British Isles, especially England and Ireland, in the seventeenth century.
• Seventeenth-Century English Radicalism and Republicanism.
• Ethnic Minorities in Early-Modern Europe.
• The Caribbean in the seventeenth Century.

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Camino, Mercedes

Memory Studies, Film Studies, Early Modern Exploration,Colonialism, History of Cartography, Contemporary Cultural Studies.

Gregory, Ian

Any area associated with Digital Humanities (or Humanities Computing) but in particular the use of GIS in history or another humanities discipline.

Hagopian, Patrick

Critical Studies of Museums, Cultural and Social Memory; Twentieth-Century Cultural Politics;Cold War and Post-Cold War Military Discourses; Representations of the History of Race and Slavery

Hickman, Tim

• United States Cultural and Intellectual History, particularly of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Modernity and modernism.
• Postmodernity.
• Drug and alcohol use, policy and culture.
• Cultural History of American medicine.

Jotischky, Andrew

Medieval religious history

Monasticism and religious orders

Crusades and Crusader States

Religious/cultural interactions in medieval Mediterranean

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Kallis, Aristotle

I would be very interested in supervising students with interests in the following broad fields:

• extremist ideologies (20th-century and contemporary)
• anti-Semitism
• Islamophobia
• fascism and the contemporary extreme-right
• modern propaganda
• violence, genocide, terrorism
• modernism and urban studies
• German and Italian history/politics
• Greek interwar history

Palladino, Paolo

History of the medical and human sciences; history of the environmental sciences, agriculture and the environment; the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze.

Current supervision:

Dee Leahy (Sociology), 'The Invention of Epilepsy'. (Co-supervised with Adrian Mackenzie). Drawing on Judith Butler's Bodies that Matter, Dee explores the scientific understanding of epilepsy which emerged at the end of the 19th c. and how it continues to shape the development of the neurosciences.

Former students:

Piers Hale (University of Oklahoma), 'William Morris, Edward Carpenter and Robert Blatchford on labour, nature and the body' (2003).

Peniston-Bird, Corinna

Dr Peniston-Bird would like to hear from students interested in writing dissertations and theses on topics that would fall under the following headings:

• The combat taboo and gendered experience of war and commemoration.
• Britain in the First and Second World Wars.
• Austria in the inter-war period.
• Cultural Representations of and Personal Testimonies in the above fields.

Students writing essays and dissertations might be interested in the following guide to websites useful for Modern British History.

Pumfrey, Stephen

1. Science, Medicine and Philosophy in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe.
2. Early English Books and the application of corpus linguistic analysis.
3. Patronage in Tudor and Stuart England
4. The intellectual history of magic and witchcraft.
5. Science, technology, private enterprise and the state in England, 1500-1800.

Rohkrämer, Thomas

• German history in the 19th and 20th century, in particular political culture since 1871.
• Critical discourses on modernity in comparative perspective.
• Conservatism and the political Right in comparative perspective.

Sayer, Derek

• Czech history, especially in nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• Twentieth-century art, architecture, and photography
• Historical memory and social identity
• Social, cultural and aesthetic theories of modernity

Strachan, John

Social, cultural and intellectual histories of modern France andthe French overseas empire

Imperialism and colonialism

Historiography (especially French) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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Sutton, Deborah

Dr Sutton is interested in hearing from students interested in writing dissertations and theses on topics that would fall under the following headings:

• Modern Indian history
• South Asian Agrarian History
• The Indian diaspora

Tadmor, Naomi

I have broad research interests and will be delighted to discuss possible doctoral work with students interested in British social and cultural history c. 1500-1800, with particular reference to -

• Religious culture and the English Bible
• History and literature and print culture
• Political culture and community life
• The history of the family
• Gender and women's history

Taylor, James

I am keen to hear from students interested in researching the following areas:

• Topics connecting economic, business, and cultural history in Britain since 1800;
• History of financial fraud and crime;
• History of joint-stock companies and corporate governance;
• History of advertising and consumerism;

Don't hesitate to contact me if you would like to discuss your research plans.

Welshman, John

He supervises several doctoral students, and would welcome enquiries from students interested in any of his areas of research interest:

· the history of the debate over transmitted deprivation in the period 1972-82, and its links with current policy on child poverty and social exclusion

· the history of the concepts of unemployability and worklessness

· the history of tuberculosis, medical examination, and migration, in both the UK and Australia

· the history of care in the community since 1948, especially for people with learning disabilities

Winchester, Angus

I welcome enquiries from students interested in writing dissertations and theses on topics that would fall under the following headings:

• Landscape and Agrarian History
• Common Land
• History of Cumbria

Wong, Yoke-Sum

Theory, Material Culture, Cultural Studies, Historical Sociology, Design, Art and Architecture, Mobilities