PhD Students

Browse this list of our current PhD students, or see our past PhD students for information on previous projects and research.

To find out more about undertaking research in History, visit our research degrees pages or contact hypirpgr@le.ac.uk.

Student	Email address	Research focus
Ahmad Abouelnour	aa1034@	Revitalization of Old RAK (Oldest Settlement in the UAE).
Natasha Bailey	nkb11@	Nahua Women in the Pulque Trade of Early Colonial Mexico, 1521-1600.
Jamie Banks	jeab2@	British Imperialism, Labour Migration, Local Resistance, and the problem of Indian Opium Use, 1858-1912.
Richard Bates	rb413@	British diplomacy, politics and espionage at Spa during the American War of Independence (the ‘AWI’).
Sue Bishop	skb47@	Mixed Race Relationships in post-war Leicester: Multiculturalism and the emotional complexities of Female Agency.
Elizabeth Blood	ejb51@	The construction history of war memorials in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Kevin Brown	kgb5@	A study of the significance of the kinship and wider social relationships of those involved in the shaping of the radical networks among the working classes in England from the 1840s to the 1870s.
Thomas Joseph Michael Callaghan	tjmc3@	English decadence and dominion vitality: Anglo-Australian sport and English self-perception 1901-1962.
Ash Carter	asbc1@	The Church in a State: How Richard Baxter's theology of the Visible and Invisible Church impacted his philosophy of Church and State.
Congjie Cheng	cc513@	Survivalism and Patriotism of Chinese Local Cliques: From the Perspective of Relationship between the Kuomintang Central Government and the Guangxi Clique during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Maria Christodoulou	mc544@	Politics and Everyday Life in a Divided City: Nicosia, 1955 - 1974.
Alexandra Cooper	ac832@	Commodities and the role of British capital in shaping financial markets in Sicily 1816-1861.
Nicholas Cummins	nc236@	The '"cork" in the bottle': Explaining Reagan's failure to confront Iran.
Hubertus Drobner	hd190@
Ann Drynan	ad515@	"Associational culture in a developing residential and leisure town: Brighton and Hove in the nineteenth century."
Abigail Eiceman	aee7@	The Development of Automatic Chemical Warfare Agent Detectors in England 1970-1998.
Paige Emerick	pne2@	Royal visits within Britain and the formation of National Identity, 1760-1849.
Amanda Jane Gillam	ajg57@	Anglo-Russian Relations 1700-1725, descent into Cold War.
Michael Greasley	mg353@	Propaganda and the British provincial press in the Anglo-Irish Conflict, 1919-1923.
Prisca Greenhow	pmg25@	Norfolk Pauper Letter 1750-1850.
Karianne Hansen	kh370@	'Men always find it harder to explain death than life' : Survival within The Auschwitz Camp Structure 1942-1945.
Stanley Hardie	sesh1@	A study of the civil parish of Meare in the Poor Law Union of Well in the County of Somerset with emphasis on the forces leading to decisions to either stay or to migrate from the parish in the period 1851 to 1891.
Jordan Harris	jh723@	Biracial England: An Analysis of the Anglo-African Experience in Victorian Age.
Emilia Henderson	eth4@	Franco-Saxon Manuscripts in the Ninth Century.
Todd Henderson	tkh9@	The State of Christianity Today: An Historical Assessment of the Flagship Evangelical Publication.
Carla Herrmann	ch271@	Medical relief under the Old Poor Law in Hertfordshire.
Jessica Hodgkinson	jmh81@	Gender and Literacy: the participation of women in book culture in England and Francia, c.650-c.950.
Julie Hurst-Whitehouse	jhw15@	Then and Now: Changing Spaces for Women's Voices in Oral Histories of Holocaust and Genocide, 1945-2018.
Elizabeth Inlow	eji3@	Cultural Differences in the Emotional Experiences of Visitors to Nazi Concentration Camp site.
April Claire Jackson	acj22@	Execution and Empire: A History of Judicial Killing under British Colonial Rule.
Daniel Johnson	dj111@	Songs Before Unknown - Isaac Watts and the Dynamics of Protestant Worship in Enlightenment England.
Elizabeth Jones	ejfj1@	Growth, Identity and Urbanisation. The Impact of Migration on small rural communities in Monmouthshire.
Erkjad Kajo	ek309@	How the North was Won? Minorities, demographic engineering and the making of the Greco-Albanian borderland (1912-1945).
Jessica Kebbell	jk394@	The History of the Howard League for Penal Reform, 1866-1948.
Namak Khoshnaw	nnk6@	The Spoil Of The War a PhD proposal on the Kurdish genocide in Iraq.
Jonathan Lanz	jb841@	History and memory of the Theresienstadt Family Camp, a sector of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex
Amy Latimer	afl11@	Elections as Black Women's work since the 1960s.
Carrie Laverick	clal1@	Institutionalisation of the Insane Poor: Analysis of the Suspected Causes, Prescribed Treatment and Likelihood of Recovery from Insanity, within Victorian Leicester.
Emmeline Ledgerwood	egbl1@	Re-evaluating the 1980s and 1990s through life histories: politics, privatisation and the culture of government research.
Peilin Li	pl217@	Jianghu: Daily life in Tianjin 1900-1949.
Georgina Lockton	gjl12@	Science, Technology and Road Safety in the Motor Age.
Tracey Logan	tjll1@	Democracy and Direct Action in the Suburbs: Chiswick, Edgbaston and Filton 1838-1940.
Tonja Koob Marking	tkm17@	The Enslaved Roseland Plantation Community of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, 1805 -2025.
Joshua McMullan	jjm36@	Defending Modernity? Communicating with the Public about Nuclear Energy: Historical Perspectives.
Adam Millar	am1115@	Empire of Salvation: The Salvation Army's Imperial Settlements and Colonies, c.1890-1939.
Ellen Morgan	ecm39@	Women of the Civil Rights Movement: The Hidden Narratives and the Commemoration of a Southern Female Voice.
Michael Morgan	mtm15@	‘The Tone of My Quarterly Payments’: The Clergy-Laity Relationship in Wilberforce’s Friendship Network (1783-1833).
Oresta Muckute	om89@	Narratives of Loss during the Civil Wars in Ireland, Wales and England Compared, 1641-52.
Raku Nagamine	rn155@	The Corporation of Chester in the long eighteenth century.
Paul O'Shea	pos5@	Masculinity and friendship between male prisoners in KL Dachau, Mauthausen, and Sachsenhausen.
Benjamin Palmer	brp7@	A fruitful field for women: A collective biography of women in biochemistry 1906-1975.
Amerdeep Panesar	asp31@	Beyond the Boundary: Cricket and Community in England, c. 1965-2015.
Lauren Parsons	lap29@	Seeking Justice and Atonement: British Legal Approaches to Mass Murder in the Aftermath of the Holocaust, 1945-1969.
Veena Patel	vp161@	Water, Healing, and the Reformation in England 1520-1680.
Bradley Phipps	bjp10@	Motherhood and Manhood: Gender in the White Citizens' Councils.
Teresa Porciani	tp211@	Figural Sculpture in Anglo-Saxon England: networks, agency and cross cultural contacts, c. 700-900.
Kimberley Pullen	kjp26@	The Old Poor Law and agrarian change in Leicestershire, c. 1700-1834.
John Pullin	jlp27@	Engine Drivers in Local, Regional and National Context, 1850–1885.
Emma Rhodes	emr18@	Non-White Women in the Works Progress Administration in the Southern United States, 1935-41.
Daniel Robert Rignall	drr13@	Popular Engagement with Biblical Texts in Eighteenth Century Britain.
Raphael Rues	rr238@	Military activities of German and Italian Fascists units during 1943-1945 in the region of Ossola and Lake Maggiore.
David Russell	dr231@	Stretching the Evidence: An examination of the English Landscape through GIS 1573-1700.
Jacob Patrick Salley	jps45@	The Impact of the Enlightenment upon the Calvinistic Baptists of England, 1730–1830.
Peter Sasvari	ps428@	"Poor Mexico: so far from God, and...": Reflections of The New York Times and US press on Mexico's political life and Mexican-American relations in the 20th century (regarding milestones of Mexico's political life).
Mariella Scerri	ms116@	The Trajectory of Care in Narratives in the Late Modern Period.
Wendy Scott	ws138@	Money, economy and society in late Saxon England: The Lenborough hoard and the monetary impact of Anglo-Danish rule.
Maria Chiara Scuderi	mcs38@	Global Leicester: The Dryad Craftwork Collection at New Walk Museum and Art Gallery.
Paul Shaw	pavs2@	A new approach to understanding Anglo-Scandinavian settlement and agrarian practice utilising analysis of terroir.
Nathaniel Van Sherman	nvs2@	The Baptistic Congregationalism Of The Wapping Church: A Cultural-Religious Analysis (1655-1712) Cultural-Religious Analysis (1655-1712).
Nicholas Christian Siniari	ncs13@	A History of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's Mission to the Rastafari of the West Indies and the West Indian Diaspora in the 20th Century.
Derek Smith	dgs14@	Guernsey Emigration 1800-1930.
Ellen Smith	ecss3@	Epistolary Labour: A Cultural History of the Imperial Letter and British Family Life in Colonial South Asia, 1857-1921.
Mark Anthony Smith	mas106@	The Life and Works of Samuel Chandler: 1693-1766.
Robin Alexander Smith	ras90@	Educating Nazi Germany: Resistance and Conformity in the teaching profession under the Third Reich.
Diane Strange	des17@	'The contempt and reproach of this nation': Widows and orphans in the Court of Wards, 1625-1650.
Nadine Tauchner	nt153@	Austrian Journalism between Austrofascism, Nazism and Democracy Otto Schulmeister, 1916-2001.
Matthew Tuohy	mat45@	Tracing the origins of settlement morphology and landscape character within the Hundred of Willey, Bedfordshire.
Judith Vocker	jtv1@	Crime and Criminal Prosecution in the Warsaw, Cracow and Riga Ghetto during World War II.
Verne Walker	vw55@	The impact of the civil wars on women's work in Wales and England 1630-1655.
Nicolas Walton	nw183@	The German Civil Service from the Kingdom of Prussia to the Federal Republic of Germany: the historical development of the service, its principles, and its loyalties.
Harry Wilkinson	hew16@	The Night and Darkness in Anglo-Saxon England.
Paul Thomas Woolley	ptw7@	Abolitionism and the Bible: The use of Scripture by Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, Thomas Buxton and William Wilberforce in their anti-slavery campaigns (1760-1840).
David Yates	dy46@	An evaluation of the criticisms of Grey’s Foreign Policy.
Megan Yates	mly8@	Poverty, Work and Punishment: Vagrancy Across the Midlands, 1834 to 1930.