History at Leicester
Post Doctoral and early Career Fellows
The School of History has an excellent track record for attracting and winning highly competitive post doctoral fellowships. Current and recent award holders are listed below. We welcome enquiries from potential applicants whose research agenda enriches the strengths and ambitions of the School.
The list of recent award holders is up to date as at September 2024.
| Award Date | Funder | Fellow | Research Project | Academic Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Leverhulme Trust | Dr Heena Heena | Fortune telling and astrology in early modern South Asia (1700-1900) | Professor Clare Anderson |
| 2024 | Leverhulme Trust | Dr Kiran Mehta | Making useful subjects: penal labour in Britain and its Empire | Professor Clare Anderson |
| 2023 | Leverhulme Trust | Dr Robert Frost | Mapping Ancient Egypt: the relationship between Egyptology and cartography | Professor Roey Sweet |
| 2020 | Wellcome Trust | Dr Jamie Banks (Teaching Fellow in Medical History, University of Warwick) | Alcohol and Ethnicity/ Wellcome Trust ISSF Early Career Fellow | Dr Deborah Toner |
| 2018 | Commonwealth Rutherford Fellowship | Dr Richard Anderson (Lecturer, University of Aberdeen) | Running into Empire: Abolition and the Fugitive Slave Question in British Colonial Africa | Professor Clare Anderson |
| 2018 | British Academy | Dr Alistair Kefford (Assistant Professor in Urban Studies, Leiden University) | Commercial Property Development and the Remaking of British Cities, 1950-2000 | Professor Simon Gunn |
| 2017 | Wellcome Trust - The Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) | Dr Steven Taylor (Lecturer, University of Kent) | Medicalising Childhood: Health and Education in Twentieth Century Britain | Professor Steven King |
| 2017 | Leverhulme Trust | Dr Kate Boehme (Teaching Fellow in Modern South Asian History, The University of Edinburgh) | Princely States in British India: rethinking the economics of empire, 1857-1947 | Professor Clare Anderson |
| 2017 | Leverhulme Trust | Dr Luca Fenoglio | 'A head for a tooth' Violence in Fascist Italy's Path to a Mediterranean Empire | Dr Alexander Korb |
| 2016 | Leverhulme Trust | Dr Sarah Goldsmith (Chancellor's Fellow, The University of Edinburgh) | Embodying the Aristocrat: A History of the 18th-Century Elite Male Body | Professor Roey Sweet |
| 2015 | British Academy | Dr Richard Ansell (Research Associate, Birkbeck, University of London) | Education, Travel and Family Strategy in Britain and Ireland, c. 1650-1750 | Professor Roey Sweet |
| 2015 | Leverhulme Trust | Dr Maeve Ryan (Reader in History and Foreign Policy, King's College, London) | The British Empire and the Geopolitics of Human Rights in the 19th Century | Professor Clare Anderson |
| 2014 | Wellcome Trust | Dr Eureka Henrich (Lecturer, University of New South Wales, Sydney) | Healthy Citizens? Migrant Identity and Constructions of Health in Postwar Australia | Professor Clare Anderson |
| 2013 | Leverhulme Trust | Dr Irina Marin | Fear Across Borders: Peasant Violence and Anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe |
Dr Alexander Korb |
| 2011 | Leverhulme Trust | Dr Erika Hanna (Associate Professor in Modern History, University of Bristol) | Popular Photography and Camera Culture in Ireland 1922-2000 | Professor Simon Gunn |
| 2011 | Wellcome Trust | Dr Nandini Bhattacharya (Associate Professor in South Asian History and history of medicine, University of Houston) | A coming of age story: a history of the Indian pharmaceutical industry, 1905-1966 | Professor Steven King |
| 2010 | British Academy | Associate Professor Peter Darby (Associate Professor of History, University of Nottingham) | Heresy and Orthodoxy in the works of Bede | Professor Joanna Story |
| 2009 | Leverhulme Trust | Professor Helen Foxhall Forbes (Professor of Medieval History, Ca'Foscari University of Venice) | Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England (c. 650-c. 1100): the social context of theology | Professor Joanna Story |
| 2005 | Economic and Social Research Council | Professor Anne Murphy (Deputy VC (Education), University of Portsmouth) | Institutions and investors: a study of the early English financial markets | Professor Philip Cottrell |
| 2003 | Economic and Social Research Council | Professor Shane Ewen (Professor of Urban History, Leeds Beckett University) | Fires and urban growth in Britain, 1830-1914 | Professor Richard Rodger |