Postgraduate Research Community
Explore the work of our current and recently graduated PGR students at the UCL History Department.
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 Benedetta Rossi.
Current PGR Students
Waseem Ahmed
‘Our Blessed Republic: Everyday Politics in Revolutionary England, 1649-1660’
Christopher Batten
‘Imprisonment, incarceration, internment?’ A comparative history analysis of criminal prisons and civilian internment camps in First World War Britain
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)’
José Manuel Castro
‘Intellectuals, politics and ideology in the era of revolutions. Chile 1964-1980’
Benjamin Concha Gonzalez
The Reconstruction of a Polis: An Intellectual History of the Concept of Democracy in Chile (1990-2023)
Isaac Crichlow
Black Troops and Resistance: Movement Control and Freedom in the Revolutionary Caribbean, 1795-1840
Rebecca Daly
Models of Female Integration in Koan Religion
Jack Deasley
The Purpose of School: Neoliberalism and Secondary Education in Britain, 1968-2000
Nadia Dobrianska
‘The Troubles during Partition. Representations of the inter-communal conflict in Northern Ireland in 1920-1922 in Irish and British political discourse’
Francesca Edgerton
“The Lighthouse of America”: Political exiles and the myth of the Mexican Revolution
A guiding light: British labour officers, trade unions, and de-colonisation in the Caribbean
The Other Woman: Demonology and the Regulation of Femininity in Ancient Mesopotamia
Vincent Fourcade
””ἡ πεζὴ στρατιὰ καὶ τὸ ναυτικὸν”: reintegrating the navy into Ancient Greek warfare, 499-362 BC’
Holly French
Race, Citizenship and Commonwealth in Jamaican Migration to Britain, 1961-1981
Aidan Fusco
Words and Things in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
Nalina Gopal
Power on Paper: Petitions to the East India Company from Tamils in the Straits Settlements,1786 – 1867
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
Unity in Plurality: Group Compositions of Alexandrian Divinities as Pluralistic Expressions in the Imperial Roman Period
Rong Li
The Foreign Trade and Economy of Archaic Corinth
Yanyi Liu
The French Communist Party and Hollywood Films: A Study of Political and Cultural Interactions (1944-1956)
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.’
Max Oberwelland
PhD title TBC
Becca Palmer
In the “Little Spheres” of the Empire: A conceptual analysis of provincial political thought during the American Revolution.
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
Celine Seymour
Title TBC
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
The ‘Palace Without Rival’: The Role of Built Space in Expressing and Maintaining Imperial Control (c.705-612 BCE)
Ilyas Azouzi
'Imperial visions, architectural planning, colonial ideals, and empire building in Fascist Italy'
Melissa Benson
'Violence in the Behistun monument: construction and cohesion of Achaemenid imperial rule under Darius I (522-519 BCE)'
Rachel Chua
‘Virtuous Reality: Confucian Ideals and Women’s Agency in Late Imperial China'
Jessica Clarke
‘Roman theatre and the politics of entertainment’
Ellen Durban
Marriage, Motherhood, and Divorce of Women Who Desired Women in England (1945-1999)
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'
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.'
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'
Alex Hill
The Politics of the Future in Britain, 1940-1985
Alfred Hinrichsen-Herrera
'The frontiers of Chilean nationalism: foreigners, indigenous people, and neighbours, 1840-1930'
Joseph Hopper
The Art of Community at Saint Victor: Practice and influence, 1108-c.1265
Joshua Madrid
English Catholics in the Second World War: Understanding the Social and Cultural Roles of Religion in Modern Warfare
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'
Peter Morgan
‘Empire and international order in Spanish American political thought during the Age of Revolutions, c.1808-1830’
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'
Chloe Pieters
'The First World War and the making of the modern family in Belgium and Britain'
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'
Caroline Streek
'Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach and the political influence within her female household 1714-1737'
Francesco Strocchi
'Author and authorship: Caesar and his editors'
Xueyan (Juno) Sun
'Representations of Chinese in Hollywood films from the 1930s to the 1990s'
Sadie Sunderland-Rhoads
“Patriots or Paychecks? Irish Catholic recruitment into the British Army for service during the American Revolution”
Kevin Tuffnell
'"A Just and Honourable Peace"': the negotiation of the Treaty of Utrecht in British politics and political discourse, 1708 to 1713'
Jorge Varela Yepes
Liberal thought in comparative perspective: the cases of Colombia and Chile, 1820-1880.
G. Vaughn Joy
'A Cold War Christmas: Political and Cultural Perceptions in Hollywood's America'
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'
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'