If you are a prospective student seeking information about PhD study at UCL History, you can find out more through the online prospectus or by visiting our prospective students' page. Any additional questions can be directed to the graduate tutor, Prof Jason Peacey.
Current PGR Students
Waseem Ahmed
'Our Blessed Republic: Everyday Politics in Revolutionary England, 1649-1660'
Christopher Batten
'Class and Civilian Internment in the British Empire during the First World War'
Simon Bralee
Anubis in the Greek and Roman World
Joshua Britton
'Individual agency and cultural interaction during the kārum period in central Anatolia (20th-18th centuries BCE)'
Nicolás Camino
'Political Thought in Latin America during the early Cold War: A view beyond diffusionist approaches'
José Manuel Castro
‘Intellectuals, politics and ideology in the era of revolutions. Chile 1964-1980’
Rachel Chua
‘Virtuous Reality: Confucian Ideals and Women’s Agency in Late Imperial China'
Benjamin Concha Gonzalez
The Reconstruction of a Polis: An Intellectual History of the Concept of Democracy in Chile (1990-2023)
Rebecca Daly
Models of Female Integration in Koan Religion
Nadia Dobrianska
‘The Troubles during Partition. Representations of the inter-communal conflict in Northern Ireland in 1920-1922 in Irish and British political discourse’
Ellen Durban
Marriage, Motherhood, and Divorce of Women Who Desired Women in England (1945-1999)
Francesca Edgerton
“The Lighthouse of America”: Political exiles and the myth of the Mexican Revolution
Thomas Fleming
'Religious Bodies: Refiguring Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the Early/Modern'
Jack Ford
'The five senses and "affectivity" in the late Middle Ages'
Vincent Fourcade
''"ἡ πεζὴ στρατιὰ καὶ τὸ ναυτικὸν": reintegrating the navy into Ancient Greek warfare, 499-362 BC'
Aidan Fusco
Words and Things in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
Alex Hill
The Politics of the Future in Britain, 1940-1985
Rebekah Hodge
The Weaponization of Food in War in France, 1919-1949
Emily Hollywood
Life Like or Like Life: Votive Terracotta Figurines and the Societal Ideals of Ancient Greek Women from the Archaic to Classical Era
Joseph Hopper
Working title TBC
G. Vaughn Joy
'A Cold War Christmas: Political and Cultural Perceptions in Hollywood's America'
Yanyi Liu
The French Communist Party and Hollywood Films: A Study of Political and Cultural Interactions (1944-1956)
Joshua Madrid
English Catholics in the Second World War: Understanding the Social and Cultural Roles of Religion in Modern Warfare
Finn Manders
‘Commonplacing Health and the Body in Early Modern England’
Gregory Mansi
'Imperium Infinitum: L. Cornelius Sulla and his redefiniition of Imperium as the Precident for the Development of the Augustan Principate. 82-19 BCE.'
Becca Palmer
In the “Little Spheres” of the Empire: A conceptual analysis of provincial political thought during the American Revolution.
Chloe Pieters
'The First World War and the making of the modern family in Belgium and Britain'
Borbala Pigler
Empire against Melancholy: Healing the Body Politic in Britain, c. 1558–1630
Sameema Rahman
'The Figure of the Refugee in 1970s Britain'
Hugo Raine
'Political Thinking in Communal Italy, 1250-c.1300'
Noam Rytwo
The Concept of Compromise in the Roman Political Culture
Caroline Streek
'Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach and the political influence within her female household 1714-1737'
Sadie Sunderland-Rhoads
“Patriots or Paychecks? Irish Catholic recruitment into the British Army for service during the American Revolution”
Jorge Varela Yepes
Liberal thought in comparative perspective: the cases of Colombia and Chile, 1820-1880.
Rebeca Vial Valdes
'Searching for Pax: from Sulla to Augustus'
Deborah Woolf
'A study of the guest and host relationship and its applications in Chinese Medicine'
James Worth
Carvings, Codices, and Material Cultures: Belief, Communal Identities, and the competition for Local Power in early-medieval Italy, c. 535-774
- Recently Completed PhDs
Ilyas Azouzi
'Imperial visions, architectural planning, colonial ideals, and empire building in Fascist Italy'Catherine Beck
'Patronage in the Royal Navy, 1776-1815'Melissa Benson
'Violence in the Behistun monument: construction and cohesion of Achaemenid imperial rule under Darius I (522-519 BCE)'Alys Beverton
'Perceptions of Mexico in US political discourse, 1863-1896'Jessica Clarke
‘Roman theatre and the politics of entertainment’Alessandro De Arcangelis
'Hegelians on the Slopes of Vesuvius: A Transnational Study in the Intellectual History of Naples, 1799-1861'DeAnn Deluna
'War and Peace and English Taxation, 1660-1664'Natalia Gándara Chacana
'Imperial and republican images of the Chilean Sea, from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century'Nathan Goh
‘Contrasting visions: Singapore’s urban development in reality and the colonial imagination, 1710-1864’Cristina González Mestre
'Military settlements in Western Asia Minor during the early Hellenistic period: topography, agency and identity within the Macedonian framework.'Matt Griffin
'The environmental imagination and mid-nineteenth-century American politics'Anastazja Grudnicka
‘Being a Catholic in the House of Austria: The Religious Formation of Matthias Habsburg, 1557-1612’Johannes Hartmann
'The German Notgeld, 1914-1924'Alfred Hinrichsen-Herrera
'The frontiers of Chilean nationalism: foreigners, indigenous people, and neighbours, 1840-1930'Shane Horwell
'Taxation in British economic and political thought, 1733-1816'Chaitanya Kanchan
'Empire's Inner Theatre: Interiority and Assyrian Administration 745-669 BC'Shiru Lim
'Philosophical kingship in Enlightenment Europe: Frederick II, Catherine II, and their correspondence with the philosophes'Ryan Low
'New questions about an old inquisitor: the life and works of Bernard Gui'Stephen Mallet
‘The business of smuggling in the eighteenth century: Anglo-French comparisons’Hélène Maloigne
'Describing and depicting the Ancient Near East in interwar Britain'Mario Maritan
'Inter-ethnic relations and dynastic loyalty in Habsburg Trieste from 1848 to 1867'Amy Miller
'The globe-trotter on the Eastern Grand Tour, 1870-1920'Peter Morgan
‘Empire and international order in Spanish American political thought during the Age of Revolutions, c.1808-1830’Brooke Palmieri
'Compelling Reading: The Circulation of Quaker Texts'Sotirios Christos Peithis
'Tactical and strategic communications in Ancient Greek warfare'Beatrice Pestarino
'The political-administrative structure in Cyprus during the Archaic and Classical periods'Mark Power Smith
'The "Young America" movement: American nationalism and the natural law tradition, 1844-1861'Grace Redhead
'The history of sickle cell anaemia in postwar Britain'Jack David Sargeant
'The aesthetics of politics in the English Revolution'Andrew Short
''To Spread Abroad the Gospel’: The Home Missionary Enterprise in Gilded Age America, 1870-1902'Francesco Strocchi
'Author and authorship: Caesar and his editors'Xueyan (Juno) Sun
'Representations of Chinese in Hollywood films from the 1930s to the 1990s'David Tiedemann
'Britain and the United States at the World's Fairs, 1851-1893'Kevin Tuffnell
'"A Just and Honourable Peace"': the negotiation of the Treaty of Utrecht in British politics and political discourse, 1708 to 1713'Marjolein van Bavel
'The narratives of British women who posed for Playboy magazine between the 1960s and the 1990s' (April 2018)Nashuyuan Serenity Wang
'Psycho-geography and the travels of the suffering female body in the 21st century Chinese cinema of dislocation'Joseph Whitchurch
'Revenge and state formation in Ancient Greece'Roderick White
'Locus Classicus: Origin Brands in Ancient Rome c. 100 BC-c. AD 130'Benedict Wiedemann
'Papal Overlordship and protectio of the King, c.1000-1300'Dolly Yang
'An exploration of the significance of the Daoyin [therapeutic, 'leading and guiding'] exercises in Zhubing Yuanhou Lun'Agata Zielinska
'Territorialization, the Papacy and the Institutions of the Polish Church, 1198-1357'Emma Zürcher
'Territorial loss and moral affliction at the time of the Crusades'