Research students
Get to know more about our current PhD students. Click on their name to read more about the details of their research projects.

Muhamed Agush
The Turkish Question Revisited: US-EU Relations with Turkey Since 9/11

Francesca Akhtar
The Pentagon's Spies: A Critical History of the Defense Intelligence Agency, from JFK to Trump

Javiera Arce Riffo
The Internal Organisation of Political Parties in South America and its Effects on Democracy

Daniela Belmar Mac-Vicar
Love experiences and expectations of men and women in Santiago de Chile (1880-1940)

Carlos Cárdenas Escutia
Righting Historical Wrongs: Transforming Household Workers’ Rights in Mexico

Camila Cea Moore
Upsetting inequality? An analysis of Bachelet's Higher Education Reforms in Contemporary Chile

Frankie Chappell
Autonomy and Solidarity: The Intellectual and Activist World of Black Women for Wages for Housework, 1970s-2000s

Emilia Curatola Fernández
Cultural production, ideology and struggle in Peru, 1956-1989

Thomas Cryer
‘Walking the Tightrope’: John Hope Franklin and the Dilemmas of African American History in Action

Fernando Gutiérrez Hernández
Attachment and memory: urban regeneration and the Alameda Central in Mexico City's historic centre

Josephine Harmon
Coalition between Diverse Conservative Interest Groups and Gun Politics

Christopher Hoekstra
US Special Operations Strategy in South Vietnam, 1954-65

Henry E. James
Towards “Tough Love”: James Q. Wilson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and the Roots of Contemporary Approaches to Crime and Poverty

Shodona Kettle
Reparative histories and healing contemporaries: A comparative investigation into transnational movements for reparations in the Americas

John Lawrence
Explaining corporate compliance with the 2013 Peruvian governance code

Sailin Li
Anglo-American relations and arms sales to China (1972-1989)

Yifei Li
A carefully constructed unintended consequence: Development of Medicare as a patchwork system, 1965-1997

Digby Ogston
Demand-side Challenges to Building Direct Taxation in Developing Economies: Evaluating the Potential of Informality in Redressing Low Tax Burdens of Latin America and the Caribbean

Luis Orlando Pérez Jiménez
Social mobilisation and enforced disappearances in Mexico

Will Ranger
Society, Patriotism and American Civil Religion: A Contribution to the History of Mentalities

Remy Roberts
Postmemory and Political Action: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Argentina and Guatemala

Sandra Rodríguez Castañeda
Toxic reproduction beyond the flesh: Intimate geographies and histories of extraction in Peru

Christopher Sarjeant
The Forgotten Culture War: The Roots, Structures and Implications of Intellectual Divergence on the American Left During the ‘Long' 1990s

Matthew Schlachter
The Role of Moderates in the US Republican Party, from 1980 to the Present Day

Cosimo Stahl
Claiming and framing for anti-corruption? Assessing the mobilising effects of Brazil's Public Federal Ministry's communication campaign during the Lava Jato investigations (2014-21)

Midou Tian
Promoting Peace? US Soft Power towards China, 1989-2016

Pablo Uchoa
Chavismo and civil-military relations in Venezuela

Marieta C. Valdivia Lefort
Nationalism, public policies, and decision-making: Debates on the 'national decline' in Chile during the first half of the twentieth century and policies to mitigate it