Completed PhD projects

Lauren Parsons

Seeking Justice and Atonement: British Legal Approaches to Dealing with Mass Murder in the Aftermath of the Holocaust, 1945-1969

Supervisors: Dr Svenja Bethke, Dr Alexander Korb

Completed in 2022. The PhD thesis: 'Seeking Justice and Atonement: British Legal Approaches to Dealing with Mass Murder in the Aftermath of the Holocaust, 1945-1969 can be accessed at the Charles Wilson Library or the SBC.

Anna Scanlon

Postwar Theatrical Images of Anne Frank in Britain, United States and France

Supervisors: Dr Olaf Jensen, Fransiska Louwagie

Completed in July 2017. The PhD thesis: 'The Image of Anne Frank in Modern Theatre' can be accessed at the Charles Wilson Library or the SBC.

Christina Winkler

The Russian view on the Shoah: Official remembrance versus individual memory of the Holocaust in contemporary Russia

Supervisors: Dr Olaf Jensen, Dr Zoe Knox

Completed in November 2015. The PhD thesis: 'The Holocaust in Rostov-on-Don: Official Russian Holocaust remembrance versus a local case study' can be accessed at the Charles Wilson Library or the SBC. 

Stephanie Rauch

The Holocaust in British Popular Culture: Interpretations of Recent Feature Films

Supervisors: Dr Olaf Jensen, Professor James Chapman (Director of Film Studies)

Completed in December 2014. The PhD thesis: 'Making sense of Holocaust representations: a reception study of audience responses to recent films' can be accessed at the Charles Wilson Library or the SBC. 

Thomas McKay

Dealing with the Past: Memories of National Socialism, World War II and the Holocaust in Great Britain (an oral history project)

Supervisors: Dr Olaf Jensen, Mr Martin L Davies

Completed in May 2012. The PhD thesis: 'A multi-generational oral history study considering English collective memory of the Second World War and Holocaust' can be accessed at the Charles Wilson Library or the SBC.