Caitlin John

Caitlin’s research interests are in medieval urban and comparative history. Her doctoral thesis is titled ‘Cities of the Living and the Dead: Cemeteries in Late Medieval Cairo, Paris and Beyond’. Caitlin’s PhD thesis adopts a microhistorical approach to illuminate the understudied space of the cemetery in late medieval Cairo and Paris. It argues that cemeteries were key urban spaces and that, by focusing on them in a comparative perspective, much can be revealed about the dynamics of space, power and people in these cities. 

PhD

Primary Supervisor: Dr Patrick Lantschner (UCL)
Secondary Supervisor: Professor Yossef Rapoport (QMUL)
Working title: ‘Cities of the Living and the Dead: Cemeteries in Late Medieval Cairo, Paris and Beyond’
Expected completion date: 2023

Funding: LAHP Studentship (AHRC), IHR Thornley Fellow 2023

Publications 

• ‘Urban Space, Power and People through the Optic of Cemeteries in Late Medieval Cairo and Paris’, Urban History. Published online at Urban History, First View. Forthcoming in print volume, 2023.
• ‘Les espaces funéraires urbains au Caire et à Paris à la fin du Moyen Âge’, Summary of Research Paper for Troisième journée des jeunes chercheur.se.s de la SFHU (Société française d’histoire urbaine), Paris, 1 April 2022. Available at: https://sfhu.hypotheses.org/7648