Meet our students by viewing their profile pages. 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 titleBeatrice BersaniThe Colours of God. Polychromatic Imagery for the Divine in Late Antique Latin PoetryAsh CharltonSlavery and Race in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1768-1860): A Text Mining ApproachSamuel Cheney"Sounds Exotic": British Perceptions and Representations of Chinese Musicality, 1793 - 1939Alison 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.1900Laura-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 zooarchaeologyKevin HallSocial Problems and Urban Governance in Edinburgh and Canongate, 1560-1640Lewis Johnson“The Great Hunting Ground”?: Republican Party Politics and the White Conservative South, 1945-1952Delila JordanA Commentary on Servius' In Vergilii Bucolica CommentariiGino MagniniTransmission Mechanisms and Persistence of the Great Depression in ItalyStefano 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 DissentChristopher WheelerThe Influence of Irish Catholic Immigrants on New York City Politics between 1840 and 1860Recent graduates:NameThesis titleEmailCourtney AstromComparative Projectile Trauma: An Examination of the Differences in Skeletal Trauma Inflicted by Multiple Classifications of Projectile WeaponsCourtney.Astrom@ed.ac.ukClaire 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.ukCraig J. Brown craig.brown@ed.ac.ukKatherine 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.comPhoebe Cooper s1774295@ed.ac.ukSophie 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.ukDevin GrierBecoming Argonauts: Scots in the California Gold Rush, 1848-1860devin.grier@ed.ac.ukMike Hally m.d.hally@ed.ac.ukDaniel 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.ukRichard 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.ukRory Scothorne s0938929@sms.ed.ac.ukKatharine 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’ This article was published on 2024-08-01