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.
| Award Date | Funder | Fellow | Research Project | Academic Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Wellcome Trust | Dr Jamie Banks | Alcohol and Ethnicity/ Wellcome Trust ISSF Early Career Fellow | Dr Deborah Toner |
| 2018 | Commonwealth Rutherford Fellowship | Richard Anderson (now Lecturer, University of Aberdeen) | Running into Empire: Abolition and the Fugitive Slave Question in British Colonial Africa | Professor Clare Anderson |
| 2017 | Wellcome Trust - The Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) | Dr Steven Taylor (now Lecturer, University of Kent) | Medicalising Childhood: Health and Education in Twentieth Century Britain | Professor Steven King |
| 2017 | Leverhulme Trust | Dr Kate Boehme (now Teaching Associate in Department of History at University of Nottingham) | 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 (now Chancellor's Fellow at 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 University of Leicester) | Education, Travel and Family Strategy in Britain and Ireland, c. 1650-1750 | Professor Roey Sweet |
| 2015 | Leverhulme Trust | Dr Maeve Ryan (now lecturer in the department of War Studies, Kings College London) | The British Empire and the Geopolitics of Human Rights in the 19th Century | Professor Clare Anderson |
| 2014 | Wellcome Trust | Dr Eureka Henrich (now Lecturer, in History, University of Hertfordshire) | 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 (now Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Bristol) | Popular Photography and Camera Culture in Ireland 1922-2000 | Professor Simon Gunn |
| 2011 | Wellcome Trust | Dr Nandini Bhattacharya (now Lecturer in History at the University of Dundee) | A coming of age story: a history of the Indian pharmaceutical industry, 1905-1966 | Professor Steven King |
| 2010 | British Academy | Dr Peter Darby (now Lecturer in Early Medieval History, University of Nottingham) | Heresy and Orthodoxy in the works of Bede | Professor Joanna Story |
| 2009 | Leverhulme Trust | Dr Helen Foxhall Forbes (now Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval History, Durham University) | 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 | Dr Anne Murphy (now Reader and Head of History, University of Hertfordshire) | Institutions and investors: a study of the early English financial markets | Professor Philip Cottrell |
| 2003 | Economic and Social Research Council | Dr Shane Ewen (now Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University) | Fires and urban growth in Britain, 1830-1914 | Professor Richard Rodger |