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PhD Supervision - Areas of Interest

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  Sarah Barber

  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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  Mercedes Camino

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

  We are interested in PhD proposals from anyone with an interest in using computing for research in any discipline across the humanities. Personally I have a particular interest in using GIS to research history, demography, English or related areas.Any area associated with Digital Humanities (or Humanities Computing) but in particular the use of GIS in history or another humanities discipline.
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  Patrick Hagopian

  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
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  Timothy Hickman

  United States Cultural and Intellectual History, particularly of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Modernity and modernism. Literary and Visual Culture. Drug and alcohol use, policy and culture. Cultural History of American medicine.
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  Andrew Jotischky

  Medieval religious history Monasticism and religious orders Crusades and Crusader States Religious/cultural interactions in medieval Mediterranean
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  Aristotle Kallis

  I would be very interested in supervising students with interests in the following broad fields: fascism and totalitarianism modern propaganda violence, genocide, terrorism urban studies German and Italian history/politics Greek interwar history modern and contemporary 'political religions'
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  Paolo Palladino

  I am interested in supervising students wishing to study either the history of the medical and human sciences or the history of the environmental sciences, agriculture and the environment. I am interested especially in those students wishing to combine such historical studies and critical examination of the analytical frameworks developed by Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze.
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  Corinna Peniston-Bird

  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. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/history/resources/modern.htm
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  Stephen Pumfrey

  Science, Medicine and Philosophy in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. In particular,Stephen Pumfrey would be pleased to hear from students interested in researching and writing dissertations and theses on topics that fall under the following headings: Renaissance and early modern natural philosophy. Renaissance and early modern astronomy/cosmology. Science and patronage. The growth of experimental science. The intellectual history of magic and witchcraft. The intellectual history of early modernity.
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  Thomas Rohkramer

  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.
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  Derek Sayer

  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. Surrealism.
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  John Strachan

  Social, cultural and intellectual histories of modern France and the French overseas empireImperialism, colonialism and raceHistoriography (especially French) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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  Deborah Sutton

  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
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  Naomi Tadmor

  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
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  James Taylor

  I am keen to hear from students researching the following areas - topics connecting economic, social and cultural history since 1800; history of financial fraud and crime; history of joint-stock companies and corporate governance; history of advertising and consumerism. Do contact me if you would like to discuss your research plans.
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  John Welshman

  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
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  Angus Winchester

  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
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  Yoke-Sum Wong

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

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