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Once you've identified the subject area you wish to research, you will need to find a supervisor for your project. All Doctoral Researchers are provided with a lead supervisor, who will act as the main source of academic supervisory support and research mentoring during your time as a Doctoral Researcher at the University.
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Search for supervisors below to see who you think may be a great fit for your research area. Once you have identified they are able to offer appropriate supervisory support, you can start to reach out to staff using the contact details provided on their profile.
Search results for “religious history”
Professor of Medieval History
Head of School of History and Cultures
Department of History
I am currently supervising the following postgraduate research students and topics:
• Serish Baseel (PhD Medieval History PT, co-supervised with Dr Christopher Markiewicz), ‘The Muslim Persecution of Minorities: Understanding Medieval Arab Constructs of the “Other”’
• Giles Connolly (PhD Medieval History FT, full Wolfson Scholarship, co-supervised with Dr Simon Yarrow), ‘From Living Memory to Recent Past: Recording Thomas Becket’s Life in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries’
• James Kawalek (PhD ...
Associate Professor in Early Modern History
Department of History
I am interested in supervising research projects on most aspects of the social, cultural and religious history of early modern England, especially in areas relating to the reformation, theology, popular religion and belief, religious practices, puritanism, parish religion, music, the material culture of the parish church, and histories of emotion and mental illness.
I have been/am currently involved in supervising MA dissertations, MRes theses and PhD theses on the following topics: ...
Assistant Professor in the History of the Pre-modern Islamicate World
Department of History
I welcome postgraduate (doctoral and master’s) students to work with me on any aspect of the history or literary culture of the pre-modern Islamicate world, especially Iran, Central Asia and the Ottoman Empire.
I have hitherto supervised master’s and doctoral students working on
Ottoman intellectual history
Ottoman religious history
Ottoman-Iranian history
Ottoman cultural history
History of Iran
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History
School of History and Cultures
I am interested to supervise postgraduate work on narrative sources, including histories and hagiographies, of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, in Northern France and England, with particular reference to elite political cultures and ideas of gender and other social identities.
Associate Professor in Ancient History
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
I have supervised and am currently supervising successful postgraduate research students on many different aspects of Roman history, literature and culture. There are several areas that I have and would consider supervising MPhil and PhD students on, but in particular:
Urbanism in the Roman Empire and in particular work on North Africa and/or on the late Roman city
North African society and history during the Roman period
Christianity and Christians ...
Assistant Professor of Race and Ethnicity in the United States
Department of History
I am interested in supervising topics in 20th c US history, with a particular focus on histories of white privilege, racism, women’s history, urban history and queer sexualities.
Current PhD supervisions:
Lesbian Cultures in UK Urban Spaces
Women and Marginalized Peoples in Community Archives
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 ...
Assistant Professor in History of Art
Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies
decolonial methodologies in art, diaspora art practices, contemporary art from the 'Global South', decolonial archival practice, cultural identity, multilingualism, creolisation, belonging beyond the human
Professor of African Studies
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
I supervise doctoral research students working on African and Nigerian history, politics, gender and religion. Recent and current supervision topics include ethno-religious conflict and women’s lives in the Nigerian Middle Belt, The portrayal of Pentecostalism and traditional religion in Edo language popular video films, Local Debates and Struggles over 'Prostitution' in Southern Nigeria, 1890-1960, and Modernisation, Bureaucracy and Traditional rule in Ghana: The case of the Otumfuo Education Fund.
Senior Lecturer
Department of History
I would be happy to supervise students working on any early modern topic that overlaps with my research interests, such as history of reading and of the book, political history understood as broadly as possible, the history of subjectivities, and so on.
Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History
Department of History
I would be delighted to hear from students intending to work on any aspect of Modern German history, as well as those with thematic interests in the histories of religion, war and memory in any European context since 1800.
Associate Professor in Early Medieval History
Department of History
I am interested in supervising research on early medieval gender and sexuality, religious communities and institutional development.
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