Professor of Cultural History
Department of History
I offer PhD supervision across the cultural history of Britain in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in areas relating to my own research interests: histories of gender and sexuality, culture and self-fashioning, urban history, and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Feel free to get in touch if you’re interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire ...
Senior Lecturer in colonial and post-colonial studies
Department of Modern Languages
I am happy to offer postgraduate research supervision in the following fields:
Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
British and French imperial history
Decolonisation and the End of Empire
Colonial memory
Nineteenth and Twentieth French History
I supervise or co-supervises MA dissertation students in the above mentioned areas, and perform the role of PhD supervisor for several PhD theses:
Dunya Ismael (as lead supervisor): ‘Retro-cultural translation: neutralising cultural capital accumulation and power ...
Professor of Cultural History
Deputy Head of the School of History and Cultures
Department of History
I offer PhD supervision in several areas of eighteenth-century British history, particularly cultural and social history and the history of gender. I welcome collaborations with external partners. I am currently supervising PhDs including ones on women landowners in Shropshire, 1760-1860 (Sara Downs), black women in eighteenth-century England (Montaz Marche), curiosity in the eighteenth century (Jenni Dixon), women in seventeenth-century ballads (Eleanor Sutton) and experiences of separation in East India Company ...
Professor of Modern British and Irish History
Department of History
I welcome queries from prospective MRes, MA by Research, and PhD students. I'm interested in supervising projects on:
* twentieth-century Irish social history
* British or Irish queer history
* global histories of cooperatives or other collectives / alternative economic forms
Past PhD projects supervised include:
- Shahmima Akhtar, “‘A public display of its own capabilities and resources’: a cultural history of Irish identity on display, 1851-2015.”
- Martha Robinson ...
Chair in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Department of English Literature
I would welcome for supervision projects on all aspects of contemporary fiction, postcolonial writing, modernist literary culture, creative nonfiction, affect studies, literary geographies, and the critical health humanities.
Over the past couple of decades, I have supervised PhD students working on a range of topics, including multilingualism and the twentieth-century novel, realism and the politics of innovation in postwar American fiction, the ethics and poetics of autobiography, narrative theory, trauma ...
Lecturer in Modern History
Department of History
I currently supervise or co-supervise a number of MA and PhD students. Subjects in which I am interested include:
The modern history of drugs, especially with a focus on Britain.
The modern history of drugs and warfare.
The history, theory and practice of air power, particularly during the era of total war.
The military history of the two World Wars, especially from a British perspective.
Assistant Professor in British History
Director, Centre for Midlands History and Cultures
Department of History
I am happy to supervise doctoral researchers on topics relating to my research specialisms, just get in touch. I would be particularly keen to hear from students who are interested in working on: memory and the commemoration of conflict; family and local memory; family history; the social history of archives; the social and cultural history of the Midlands, especially during the early modern period.
Reader in Early Modern Studies
Head of Department of History
Department of History
I welcome graduate students working on any aspect of the visual and material culture, religious, social and cultural history of early modern Britain. This might include any aspect of domestic culture, the intersection between the visual arts and the Reformation, or material practices of everyday life.
I have previously supervised doctoral students working on:
Women and community in early modern Stratford-upon-Avon
Household religious practices in seventeenth-century England
The cultural heritage ...
Professor in Modern History
Department of History
Listed below are the fields in which Sabine Lee is able to offer supervision of research postgraduates.
Children Born of War; Children and War
History of UN Peacekeeping
Conflict-related gender-based violence
Social consequences of war and conflict
20th century British history
20th century international relations
19th and 20th century history of science (particularly mathematics and physics)
20th German history
Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History
Department of History
I offer postgraduate supervision in the colonial, international and global history of modern France and its empire, on empire in the twentieth century Mediterranean and in the comparative history of European empire.
I currently supervise or co-supervise several PhD students:
Gemma Jennings (Patriarchy and Poverty? A Transnational Analysis of the Social Implications of the Oil Industry between France and Algeria)
Tomoki Yamada (The League of Nations Mandates System as a ...
Associate Professor in Eighteenth-Century History
Department of History
Kate encourages contact from potential postgraduate students considering working on the following areas: eighteenth-century British material culture, women, domestic spaces, property, emotions, the senses, trade, consumption, manufacturing or skill.
Associate Professor in Art History
Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies
I would welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students hoping to undertake research relating to my research and teaching interests in British art (especially in the Victorian period); classical reception studies; the history and theory of museums; art and animals; art and imperialism; art and industry.
Current Research Students
• Zoe Fox, The Political Power of Urban Transformation: A Comparative Historical Analysis of the Augustan and Fascist Building Programs in the ...