Doctoral researchers in history

The Department of History maintains a thriving and diverse postgraduate community. A broad range of research opportunities are available to our students. Profiles of some of our doctoral researchers and information on their research topics are shown below.

Pete Bounous

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: Reasons to Remember: Commemorating the Great and the Good in Late Victorian Birmingham
Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick
PhD History

Graham Cox

Graham Cox

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: From the Great Migration to the Great War: The Re-Creation of a Polish State and the Question of Causality
Supervisors:  Dr Klaus Richter, Dr Simon Jackson and Dr Thomas Brodie
PhD History

Anna Dearden

Anna Dearden

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: Britons dislocated: the effects of mobility and dislocation on the navigation and expression of the imperial self, c. 1757-1833
SupervisorDr Kate Smith and Professor Karen Harvey
PhD History

Alfie Hancox

Alfie Hancox

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: Strained Solidarities: Black Power and the British Left, 1960–80
Supervisors: Professor Gavin Schaffer, Dr Sarah Kenny and Dr John Munro 
PhD History

Steve Hewett

Steve Hewett

Doctoral Researcher

PhD title: ‘For all our people’ – an examination of the Free Library Movement in Birmingham and its impact on the cultural life of the town, 1851 – 1914.

Supervisors: Dr Malcolm Dick and Professor Ewan Fernie

Ian Jenkins

Ian Jenkins

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: The emergence of US Counter Terrorism policy Post-Watergate 1975-1989
SupervisorDr Steve Hewitt
PhD Modern History

Elaine Mitchell

Elaine Mitchell

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: 'A handsome flower garden about half an acre, square': urban gardens in the east midlands' manufacturing towns of the 18th century
Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick
PhD History

Agni Agathi Papamichael

Agni Agathi Papamichael

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: Byzantium in Scandinavian Sources, ca. 1000-1400
SupervisorDr Chris Callow (University of Birmingham) and  Professor Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham)
PhD History