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There are a range of PhD students undertaking studies relating to the Early Modern period.
The Early Modern Studies PhD programme adopts a distinctively interdisciplinary approach, alongside a thorough grounding in research skills and is underpinned by the unparalleled resources available to students on our doorstep in Bloomsbury. Other PhD programmes also relate to the Early Modern period though. The below list includes students from a variety of different programmes.
Waseem Ahmed
'Our Blessed Republic: Everyday Politics in Revolutionary England, 1649-1660'. Supervisors: Prof Jason Peacey and Dr E Legon (QMUL)
Arthur Bainbridge
'The Impact of Experimental Physiology on Theories of Soul, 1650-1700’. Supervisors: Prof Angus Gowland and Dr Sam Zeitlin.
Antonia Belli
'Containing Knowledge: The Material History of Medicine Chests in Early Modern Italy'. UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Sam Brown
‘"It is a difficult thing which I undertake": The acquisition and transmission of Arabic linguistic knowledge in early modern England, 1569-1635'. Supervisors: Dr Robyn Adams and Dr Matthew Symonds
Laurence Chen
'Figural potential of alchemical allusions in English lyric poems'. Supervisors: Dr Anthony Ossa-Richardson and Dr Eric Langley
Siobhan Cooke
'Folk mythology and traditional oral folklore'. Supervisors: Prof Alison Shell and Dr Matthew Symonds
Evelyn Earl
Title Tea in Dutch Visual Culture, ca.1650-1750. Supervisors: Prof Alison Wright and Dr Nicholas Robbins
Thomas Fleming
'Religious Bodies: Refiguring Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the Early/Modern'. Supervisor(s): Prof Jason Peacey
Esme Garlake
'Early sixteenth-century art of north Italy: an ecocritical perspective'. Supervisors: Prof Alison Wright and Prof Bob Mills
Camille Gontarek
Title t.b.c.. Supervisor: Dr Chris Stamatakis
Nalina Gopal
'Petitioning by Tamil diasporas in the Straits of Melaka and Singapore (1786-1867)'. Supervisor(s): Dr Jagjeet Lally
Glasgow Hardie
'Uncertain Bodies: The Transient Nature of Colour in Early Modern Italy'. Supervisors: Prof Rose Marie San Juan and Dr Natasha Eaton
Simone Edgar Holmes
'Ecocritical Cartographies: Water, Power and Resistance in Maps of Dutch Colonial Suriname, 1590–1795'. Supervisor(s): Prof Zoltan Biedermann and Prof Jerry Brotton (QMUL)
Shahid Hussain
'Networks and Patronage: British Ambassadors to Muscovy in the 17th Century'. Supervisors: Dr Sergei Bogatyrev and Prof Jason Peacey
Bethany Kidd
'Resourcing the New Science, 1660-1760'. Supervisors: Prof Simon Werrett and Keith Moore (Royal Society)
Elinora Lane
'The Use of Emblems by Women in Sixteenth-Century Italy'. Supervisors: Prof Lisa Sampson and Dr Rembrandt Duits (Warburg)
Finn Manders
'Early Modern commonplace books held by the Wellcome Collection'. Supervisors: Dr Elaine Leong & Prof Angus Gowland
Alesia Mankouskaya
'Theatre culture of the Duchy of Lithuania in 17th century'. Supervisors: Prof Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski
Stuart Moss
'Removed and Recontextualized: Monastic Art in the Bavarian Säkularisation of 1803'. Supervisors: Dr Allison Stielau and Prof Richard Taws
Max Oberwelland
Title t.b.c. Supervisors: Prof Peter Schroeder and Prof Simon Dixon
Emilia Pearce
'The Sound of Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Painting'. Supervisor(s): Prof Rose Marie San Juan
Elsa Perryman Owens
'Melted, Singed, Incinerated, Saved: Catastrophe and the Non-Human in The Great Fire of London'. Supervisors: Dr Allison Stielau and Prof Jason Peacey
Borbala Pigler
'Empire against melancholy: healing the body politic in Britain, c.1558-1630’. Supervisors: Prof Angus Gowland and Dr Elaine Leong
Domenico Pino
'Printmaking in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1734–1799)'. Supervisors: Prof Richard Taws and Prof Rose Marie San Juan
Henry Tudor Pole
'The Adriatic Quattrocento and the art of the Crivelli'. Supervisor(s): Prof Alison Wright
Josh Racey
'The Dutch occupation of London during the Revolution of 1688-9'. Supervisor(s): Prof Ben Kaplan
Ella Sheddick
’Translating monstrosity: constructions of difference in early modern England and France’. Supervisors: Dr Elaine Leong
Luisa Signorelli
'The reception of Shakespeare in the eighteenth-century anthology'. Supervisors: Dr Charlotte Roberts; Prof Helen Hackett
Petra Sikic
'Gesture and the Body in Early Modern Italy'. Supervisor(s): Prof Rose Marie San Juan
Joel Singer
'Corpus Christi College, Oxford and the Religious Culture of Early Stuart England'. Supervisor(s): Prof Angus Gowland and Prof Jason Peacey
Kate So
'The Heterogeneous Nature of Early Modern Manuscript Recipe Book Functions [c. 1500 - 1800]'. Supervisors: Prof Jane Gilbert and Prof Alison Shell
Aoife Stables
'Picturing Purity, Weaponizing Womanhood: Visual Culture and the Social Order in Fifteenth-Century Valencia'. Supervisors: Prof Bob Mills and Prof Alison Wright
Caroline Streek
'Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach and the political influence within her female household 1714-1737'. Supervisor: Prof Stephen Conway
Melita Thomas
'The Power of Networks and the Networks of Power: The Social and Political networks of Mary I'. Supervisors: Prof Alexander Samson and Dr Matthew Symonds
Anne Wildschut
'(Re)defining ancient Etruria in the Renaissance: Etruscan art and history in the formation of local, regional and national identities in central and northern Italy'. Supervisors: Prof Alison Wright and Prof Corinna Riva
Katherine Wills
'Reading Heliodorus in Early Modern Europe, 1534-1670'. Supervisors: Prof Angus Gowland and Dr Elaine Leong
Jill Woodberry
'Imitation of Horace in England, 1620-1660: the moralising tradition'. Supervisors: Prof Victoria Moul, Prof Gesine Manuwald and Dr Chris Stamatakis
Ruiheng Xiao
'Reception of Western classics in 16th and 17th century China by the Jesuits missionaries'. Supervisor(s): Prof Zoltan Biedermann