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
Maud BelairIdentity, Environment, and Policy: Intersected Spaces of Poverty and Hunger in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Joshua MacRaeThe Canmores: A Thematic Study of Dynastic Politics in Scotland and Europe, c.1058-1290
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.
Mark SlaterA Necessary Relationship?: Big Tobacco Advertising and Black American Marketers Post-WW2
Shelby Neuhauser Innocent Amusements and so-called Frivolous Things: Comparing social identities and the influence of high society females in the making of the modern woman and celebrity in the United States and Great Britain 1870-1914

Recent graduates:

NameThesis title
Claire E. AubinFrom Treblinka to Trenton: Holocaust Perpetrators as Immigrants to the United States
Beatrice BersaniThe Colours of God Colourful Imagery of the Divine in Late Antique Latin Poetry
Krysten BlackstoneThe Hardest Conflict: Morale and Identity in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, 1775-1783
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)
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.
Amy M. CoolsThe Life and Work of James McCune Smith (1813-1865)
Siân DaviesSugar and Slate: A labour history of the Pennants and their estates in Jamaica and North Wales 1780 – c.1900
Monique De PaceAn investigation of health and disease in Mesambria, Bulgaria through physiological stress markers and dietary reconstruction
Devin GrierBecoming Argonauts: Scots in the California Gold Rush, 1848-1860
Roxanne GuildfordBeyond Counting Sheep: an review of data analysis in zooarchaeology
Kevin HallSocial Problems and Urban Governance in Edinburgh and Canongate, 1560-1640
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)
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
Richard KendallCultural Memory in Post-Getic Olbia
Helen LoweThe development of technical and vocational education in Scottish secondary schooling (c.1976-1990)
Gino MagniniTransmission Mechanisms and Persistence of the Great Depression in Italy
Rory Scothorne 
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’
Dilan TulsianiTraditions of Dissent
Christopher WheelerThe Influence of Irish Catholic Immigrants on New York City Politics between 1840 and 1860