Research student profiles

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Find out more about our PhD students and what they are studying, and if you would like to make contact with them for open discussion. 

Please note, it is not mandatory for our PhD students to have a profile page so this list only contains those who have created one.

NameThesis title
Beatrice BersaniThe Colours of God. Polychromatic Imagery for the Divine in Late Antique Latin Poetry
Ash CharltonSlavery and Race in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1768-1860): A Text Mining Approach
Samuel Cheney"Sounds Exotic": British Perceptions and Representations of Chinese Musicality, 1793 - 1939
Alison ClarkExpanding the Boundaries of Empire, 1790-1838: Scottish Traders in the Southeast Caribbean and the rise of Sandbach Tinne & Co.
Siân DaviesSugar and Slate: A labour history of the Pennants and their estates in Jamaica and North Wales 1780 – c.1900
Laura-Kate GirdwoodA comparative analysis of the evolution of stable isotope dietary data and oral health pathologies through the historic period in two contrasting populations: Scotland and Ibiza, Spain.
Roxanne GuildfordBeyond Counting Sheep: an review of data analysis in zooarchaeology
Kevin HallSocial Problems and Urban Governance in Edinburgh and Canongate, 1560-1640
Lewis Johnson“The Great Hunting Ground”?: Republican Party Politics and the White Conservative South, 1945-1952
Delila JordanA Commentary on Servius' In Vergilii Bucolica Commentarii
Gino MagniniTransmission Mechanisms and Persistence of the Great Depression in Italy
Stefano Nicastro 
Sam Scott-Moncrieff"...there are no tribes beyond us": the construction of complex identities through Roman Iron Age architecture in Scotland and North Wales.
Ines Silva 
Brandon James TangAnglo-American Discourses on Federalism and Political Centralization, 1880s-1900s.
Dilan TulsianiTraditions of Dissent
Christopher WheelerThe Influence of Irish Catholic Immigrants on New York City Politics between 1840 and 1860

Recent graduates:

NameThesis titleEmail
Courtney AstromComparative Projectile Trauma: An Examination of the Differences in Skeletal Trauma Inflicted by Multiple Classifications of Projectile WeaponsCourtney.Astrom@ed.ac.uk
Claire E. AubinFrom Treblinka to Trenton: Holocaust Perpetrators as Immigrants to the United States 
Krysten BlackstoneThe Hardest Conflict: Morale and Identity in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, 1775-1783 
Angela BoyleViolence and conflict in south-east Scotland from c AD 400 to AD 850: a biocultural study.angela.boyle@ed.ac.uk
Craig J. Brown craig.brown@ed.ac.uk
Katherine Burns“Keep this Unwritten History”: Mapping African American Family Histories in “Information Wanted” Advertisements, 1880-1902 
Carlos Cáceres-PuertoA provincial capital in its territorial context: reassessing the environs and funerary evidence of Augusta Emerita (1st century BC - 3rd century AD) 
Amy M. CoolsThe Life and Work of James McCune Smith (1813-1865)amymcools@gmail.com
Phoebe Cooper s1774295@ed.ac.uk
Sophie Cooper  
Gulcin Coskun  
Monique De PaceAn investigation of health and disease in Mesambria, Bulgaria through physiological stress markers and dietary reconstruction 
Guillermo Diaz de Liano del ValleThe Study of personhood through the analysis of funerary evidence: the Southeastern Iberian Peninsula during the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ags1654361@sms.ed.ac.uk
Devin GrierBecoming Argonauts: Scots in the California Gold Rush, 1848-1860devin.grier@ed.ac.uk
Mike Hally m.d.hally@ed.ac.uk
Daniel HeathcoteAnother World? East Africa and the Global 1960s 
Cassidy IdeToil and Trade: Functional Bone Adaptation and Social Allocations of Labour in Urban Medieval Scotland 
Iker Itoiz CiaurrizThe Political Commitment of Eric Hobsbawm: the passion for communist politics in a transformed world (1978-2012)s1678708@ed.ac.uk
Richard KendallCultural Memory in Post-Getic Olbia 
Helen LoweThe development of technical and vocational education in Scottish secondary schooling (c.1976-1990) 
Alicia Núñez-GarcíaConnecting Worlds: Early Phoenician Presence Across Atlantic Iberia (8th-6th Centuries BC)A.Nunez-Garcia@sms.ed.ac.uk
Rory Scothorne s0938929@sms.ed.ac.uk
Katharine SteinkeBones of Transition: Iron Age-Roman Zooarchaeological Assemblages from East Wear Cliff, Kent 
Sarah Thomson‘A Transformational Conservative? Constructing Ronald Reagan’s Political Legacy, 1984-93’