History at Leicester
PhD Students
Browse this list of our current PhD students.
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). |
| Dimitri Abrahams | da359 | The development, evolution and reception to Holocaust memory in South Africa 1947-2009 |
| James Adams | jsa23 | These Beastly Wretches: Sodomy and Anxiety in Eighteenth-Century British Society. |
| Kelsey Akers | kea25 | "Stitching a New Life: Holocaust Survivors' Rehabilitation through Fashion Design in the Post-War Years; 1944-1967 |
| Jess Amoako-Acheampong | jsaa3 | Black Power and Rastafarianism: A History of 1970s and 1980s' Black British Style |
| Gaverne Bennett | gb319 | The Black Cultural Archives: Collective Memory and the Politics of Commemorating Blackness in the UK, 1981-2021 |
| Husain Bhana | hyb2 | God and the Category of the Relative and Relation in the Philosophy of al-Kindi and al-Farabi |
| Harold Briscoe | hdb9 | Architects of Freedom: How Four Minority Members Influenced Harry Truman Committee on Civil Rights |
|
Kevin Brown |
kgb5 |
Pioneering Leicester: A study of the significance of Leicester's working-classes in the shaping of local radical networks between the 1830s and 1870s |
| James Burns | jrb49 | Slavery and the Households of Sixth-Century Gaul |
| Tom Callaghan | tjmc3 | English decadence and dominion vitality: Anglo-Australian sport and English self-perception 1901-1962. |
| Abigail Carr | amc88 | How was the English wet nurse conceptualised and understood in the context of disease transmission in the eighteenth century? |
|
Ash Carter |
asbc1 |
'A Catholik Christian'? Richard Baxter and the Reformed Reception of Other Theological Traditions |
| Julie Chamberlain | jc959 | Women's public lives in four Warwickshire urban centres, 1590-1740 (exact dates TBC) |
| Alex Cooper | ac832 | Commodities and the role of British capital in shaping financial markets in Sicily 1816-1861. |
| David Coppock | dac35 | Monarchs, Mass Rallies and Peace Camps: Contesting Space in UK Women's and Feminist Protest since 1900. |
| Emily Cotton | ecc28 | Elite women's agency in marriage choice and negotiations, 1700-1790 |
| Nilakshi Das | nd199 | Becoming a Scientist: South Asian Students in British Universities and the Making of Postcolonial Scientific Lives, 1950-2000 |
| Jack Duggan | jd566 | Facing up to the Past: Challenging Histories and Changing Future Conversations at the UK British Psychological Society |
| Joel Felten | jf374 | A Comparative Analysis of Civil Religion in the Political Discourse of US Presidents, 1789-1865 |
| Simon Fowler | jsf20 | Visitors to Richmond c1740-1940 |
| Lanette Gonzalez | lg315 | The exclusion of women from enfranchisement earned through military service |
| Junshu Guo | jg526 | From Empire to Socialism: Urban Planning and Architecture in North Manchuria, 1900-1953 |
| Sally Hazell | svh6 | A Political Punctuation Mark - Ronald Reagan and American Exceptionalism |
| Rob Hedge | reh47 | Dispersed Settlement in the West Midlands' Severn Valley: An Interdisciplinary Approach |
|
Todd Henderson |
tkh9 |
The State of Christianity Today: An Historical Assessment of the Flagship Evangelical Publication. |
| Sheida Heydarishovir | sh918 | Domestic Slaves in Early Islamic Conceptions of the Past (DoSSE Project) |
| Julie Hurst-Whitehouse | jhw15 | Changing Spaces for Women's Voice in Oral Testimonial Collections of the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsi |
| Stuart Ifield | sjsi1 | A Failed Revolution. The Origins and Consequences of the demutualisation of British Building Societies since 1986 |
| Elizabeth Inlow | eji3 | Museum Use of Holocaust Graphic Narratives |
| Nicole Kemp | njlk2 | In the Shadows of Nazism: A Study of Nordicism and Antisemitism in British Far-Right Ideology |
| Hari Ladwa | hl379 | Minority Ethnic MPs in the UK Parliament since 1987 |
| Carrie Laverick | clal1 | Institutionalisation of the Insane Poor: Analysis of the Suspected Causes, Prescribed Treatment and Likelihood of Recovery from Insanity, within Victorian Leicester. |
| Peilin Li | pl217 | Jianghu? Japanese Empire and Civil Organisations in Tianjin 1928-1945 |
| Ros Locke | rjl52 | How important was female associational life to middle class women's public identity in Banbury, Oxfordshire: 1850-1914? |
| Tonja Marking | tkm17 | The Enslaved Roseland Plantation Community of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, 1805 -2025. |
| Dom McCaffrey | dm580 | How Pan Am and Intercontinental Hotels Collaborated with the US Government to Shape the American Century Through Cold War Foreign Policy, and the Consequences for Contemporary US Politics |
|
Adam Millar |
am1115 |
In Darkest Empire: The Salvation Army's Settlements and Colonies in Australia, 1890-1939 |
|
Shiela Nicoll |
san30 | Voices after Vietnam: Intergenerational relationships between Vietnam veterans, anti-war resisters, and their children |
| Tamsin O'Connor | tmoc1 | Power Relations, Penal Policy and Resistance at the Penal Station of Newcastle, 1804-1824 |
| Alexa O'Hara | aeo16 | "Cold Warriors in Rome: the culture and conduct of the American Embassy in Rome, 1945-1956" |
| Georgia Parsisson | gip1 | Youth Perpetration in Rwanda: A Social History of Youth Involvement in the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi |
| Veena Patel | vp161 | Water, Healing and the Reformation in England 1500-1720 |
| Chloe Phillips | crp21 | Black Experiences in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century England and Wales |
|
John Pullin |
jlp27 |
Engine Drivers in Local, Regional and National Context, 1850–1885. |
| David Russell | dr231 | Stretching the Evidence: An examination of the English Landscape through GIS 1573-1700. |
| Joann Russell | jr512 | The Elusive Promise: The Gap Between the Rhetoric of Civil Rights Progress and the Lived Experiences of Black Americans During World War II and Beyond |
| Nicole Salomone | ncs17 | Death - the Uncertain Certainty: Changing definitions of medical death in Britain c.1750 to 1850 |
| Steve Sawbridge | sjs116 | Hegemony and the exercise of civic governance in Hanley, Staffordshire, 1857-1889 |
| Mariella Scerri | ms1165 | A Cultural History of the Impact of Modern Technology on Patient Care in the 20th Century |
| Paul Shaw | pavs2 | Culture, Crops and Choices: Scandinavian Settlement in the English East Midlands During the Viking Age |
| Jiawang Shuai | js1299 | The past we remember and the future we rouse: exploring the community engagement and sustainable future for China's third-front construction industrial heritage within the perspective of memory |
| Nicholas 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. |
| Robin Smith | ras90 | 'The crucifixion of the mind of youth': the responses of British teachers to Education in the Third Reich |
| Judy Somekh | jms99 | Inglorious Emigrants: a study of the influence of penal transportation on the migration of families to the colonies of the British Empire, 1788-1875 |
| Sadie Spencer | ss1761 | "Ruffanism on my banks and Death in my current": The River Thames as a Space of Gender, Violence, and Poverty at the Fin de Siècle |
| Robert Sulley | rds30 | Contested Schooling: the Governance of Education in Leicester and Leicestershire, 1963-1995 |
| Gemma Thompson | gt165 | The treatment of the human body in death: a study of the display and storage of human remains in museums |
| Thomas Vare | thbv1 | Kingship and Power in Mercia in the Long Eighth Century |
|
Judith Vocker |
jtv1 |
'In the Name of the German Volk' The German judiciary in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation of the General Government (1939-1944) |
| Bruce White | bdw12 | Rise of the Tennessee Republican Party, 1963-1995 |
| Chenye Xiao | cx57 | Women, Workers, and Mothers in the 'Forgotten Middle' City: Zibo women's life and work in Danwei from the 1960s to the 1980s |
| Shunan Zhang | sz300 | Richard Baxter and Practical Holiness in Early English Evangelicalism |