This is a list of current graduate students in the Faculty of History. The list is not a complete one and only contains those students who wish to appear.

Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Ms Anne Bailey (Harris Manchester College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Representations of female pilgrimage in English miracle collections (c.1050-1200)

Supervisor: Mrs Henrietta Leyser 

Mr Michael Burtscher (St John's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The life and career of Richard Fitzalan, earl of Arundel and Surrey (c. 1307-1376): a study in fourteenth-century aristocratic power

Supervisor: Dr Rowena Archer Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Vale Supervisor: Dr John Watts 

Ms Romy Cerratti (Magdalen College)

Degree: Master of Letters in History

Topic: The concept and practice of fellowship in late medieval England

Supervisor: Dr John Watts 

Mrs Margaret Coombe (Worcester College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: An edition, translation, and commentary on Reginald of Durham's 'Life' of St Godric of Finchale

Supervisor: Mrs Henrietta Leyser Supervisor: Professor Richard Sharpe 

Mr Thomas Gruber (Merton College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Atheism in the Middle Ages

Supervisor: Dr Matthew Kempshall 

Mr John Jenkins (Wadham College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Monasteries in context: Torre Abbey and the nature of late medieval monasticism in England

Supervisor: Dr Benjamin Thompson Supervisor: Professor John Blair 

Miss Kelly Kilpatrick (Wadham College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The historical interpretation of early medieval insular place-names

Supervisor: Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards 

Mr Ilya Kovalev (St Peter's College)

Degree: Master of Letters in History

Topic: Feud and vengeance in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Wales

Supervisor: Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards 

Mr Oren Margolis (Jesus College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The politics of cultural trasmission in the world of King Rene

Supervisor: Dr John Watts 

Mr George Molyneaux (All Souls College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: "Amicitia" and the expansion of West Saxon power in the tenth century

Supervisor: Dr George Garnett 

Ms Hilary Pearson (Somerville College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Teresa de Cartagena: a late medieval woman's theological approach to disability

Supervisor: Dr John Edwards 

Mr Oliver Pengelley (Keble College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Rome and the Anglo-Saxon imagination

Supervisor: Professor Sarah Foot 

Mr Tiago Viula de Faria (St John's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Bound by the Garter - chivalry and the relations between Portugal and England during the fifteenth century

Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Vale Supervisor: Dr John Watts 

Mr Patrick Wadden (Exeter College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Irish perception of foreigners in the Middle Ahes

Supervisor: Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards 

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Early Modern Britain and Europe

Ms Christina Anderson (Wadham College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Dealer, collector, entrepreneur: Daniel Nijs and his impact on the early seventeenth-century European art world

Supervisor: Dr CPH Brown 

Ms Sara Bennett (Jesus College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Popular medical and erotic literature in England and France: 1650-1720

Supervisor: Mr Robin Briggs 

Mr Jared Diener (Balliol College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Anabaptism in seventeenth-century Germany

Supervisor: Professor Lyndal Roper 

Ms Elizabeth Ferguson (Christ Church)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Catholic devotion in post-Reformation England, 1570-1625

Supervisor: Dr Christopher Haigh 

Mr Jonathan Fitzgibbons (Balliol College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The Cromwellian House of Lords, 1657-1659

Supervisor: Dr Clive Holmes 

Ms Miranda Kaufmann (Christ Church)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Tudor and early Stuart perceptions of Africa and Africans, 1500-1640

Supervisor: Dr Nicholas Davidson Supervisor: Dr Clive Holmes 

M r Johannes Machielsen (Lady Margaret Hall)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Witches & rebels: the life and works of Martin Delrio (1551- 1608)

Supervisor: Mr Robin Briggs 

Mr J Marshall (St Anne's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The nature of duelling in Britain c. 1570-1750

Supervisor: Dr Clive Holmes 

Mr Stuart Minson (Lincoln College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Urban space and political culture in early Tudor London

Supervisor: Dr Ian Archer 

Ms Valentina Pugliano (Mansfield College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Botanical artisans: apthecaries and the study of nature in Venice and London, 1550-1630

Supervisor: Professor Ian Maclean 

Mr James Russell (Jesus College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The role of conciliarism in English thought (1378-1562)

Supervisor: Dr Felicity Heal 

Mr Michael Saunders (Keble College)

Degree: Master of Letters in History

Topic: Property management: a comparative study of three corporate institutions, c. 1500 to c. 1640

Supervisor: Dr Ralph Evans Supervisor: Dr Ian Archer 

Ms Corinna Streckfuss (Christ Church)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Propaganda in the reign of Mary Tudor (1553-1558)

Supervisor: Dr Judith Pollmann Supervisor: Dr Christopher Haigh 

Ms Annette Walton (Linacre College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Propaganda during the English civil wars, 1642-9 - the art of persuasion

Supervisor: Dr Steven Gunn Supervisor: Professor Blair Worden Supervisor: Dr Jason McElligott 

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Eighteenth-Century Britain and Europe

Mr Anton Caruana Galizia (St Edmund Hall)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Family, clientele and nobility: the Depiro family in eighteenth-century Malta

Supervisor: Dr Nicholas Davidson 

Mr Huw David (Lincoln College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The Atlantic at work: Britain and South Carolina's trading networks, c.1730-1783

Supervisor: Dr Perry Gauci 

Mr John McCarthy (Exeter College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Gladstone's Irish questions: an historical approach, 1830-86

Supervisor: To be confirmed

Mr Robert Priest (New College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The production, reception and legacy of Ernest Renan's 'Vie de J�sus'

Supervisor: Dr Ruth Harris 

Mrs Kristina Van Prooyen (Christ Church)

Degree: Master of Letters in History

Topic: The thought of David Hartley

Supervisor: Professor Pietro Corsi Supervisor: Dr Margaret Pelling 

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Modern Britain and Europe

Mr Benjamin Arnold (Oriel College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Sir James Graham and politics, 1824-61: a study in ideas and practice

Supervisor: Dr Simon Skinner 

Mr Jonathan Brunstedt (St Antony's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Mythologizing the 'socialist metropolis': public commemoration of World War II in Moscow, 1941-1986

Supervisor: To be confirmed

Miss Gemma Clark (The Queen's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Fire, boycott and threat: political and social violence within the local community. A study of three Munster counties during the Irish civil war

Supervisor: To be confirmed

Mr Robert Davis (St Antony's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Narrating the past: constructing a national history of the Moldavian Csangos

Supervisor: Professor Robert Evans 

Mr Luke Fenwick (University College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Church communities in Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, 1945-48

Supervisor: Professor Jane Caplan Supervisor: Professor Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann 

Miss Erika Hanna (Hertford College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Planning, preservation and heritage in Ireland, 1950-1980

Supervisor: Professor Roy Foster 

Miss Karen Heath (St Anne's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The politics of art: Conservatives and the National Endowment for the Arts, c. 1965 - c. 2000

Supervisor: Dr Stephen Tuck Supervisor: Dr Gareth Davies 

Mrs Graciela Iglesias Rogers (Lady Margaret Hall)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: 'British liberators': the role of volunteers in the Spanish forces during the Peninsular War (1808-1814)� and far beyond

Supervisor: Dr Michael Broers 

Mr Daniel Lee (St Hugh's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Jewish youth under Vichy: les �claireurs Isra�lites de France (EIF)

Supervisor: Professor Robert Gildea 

Mr Thomas Marsden (Balliol College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The politics of religious dissent in Imperial Russia, 1846-1863

Supervisor: Dr Catherine Andreyev 

Mr Jonathan McDonagh (Magdalen College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The community unit and government agency: Speke, Wythenshawe and New Addington estates, c.1930-1980

Supervisor: Mr Philip Waller 

Mr Allen Middlebro' (Somerville College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Choices and actions of members and former members of the French Communist Party: August1939-June1941

Supervisor: Professor Robert Gildea 

Mr Luke Samy (Nuffield College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The building society promise: the accessibility, risk and efficiency of building societies in England: c.1880-1939

Supervisor: Professor Jane Humphries 

Ms Stephanie Solywoda (St Cross College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Internal visions, external changes: Russian religious philosophy, 1905-1940

Supervisor: Dr Catherine Andreyev 

Ms Rachael Vorberg-Rugh (The Queen's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Co-operative contradictions: business, labour and gender in the British Co-operative movement, 1889-1920

Supervisor: Professor Jane Humphries 

Ms Dagmar Wernitznig (St Hilda's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: No documents, no history: a political biography of Rosika Schwimmer (1877-1948)

Supervisor: Professor Robert Evans 

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International, Imperial and Global History

Mr Yaqoob Bangash (Keble College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The integration of the princely states of Pakistan, 1947-55

Supervisor: Professor Judith Brown Supervisor: Professor Francis Robinson 

Mr Gavin Brown (Balliol College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Dig for bloody victory: the British soldier's experience of trench warfare, 1939-1945

Supervisor: Dr Adrian Gregory 

Miss Ellen Feingold (Merton College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: A professional history of Tanganyika's judiciary, 1921-1961

Supervisor: Dr Jan-Georg Deutsch 

Mr Nathan Fisher (St Edmund Hall)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Power, prestige and the past: archaeology, antiquities legislation and British Imperialism in the Near East, 1815-1939

Supervisor: Dr Eugene Rogan 

Mr Timothy Gibbs (St Antony's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Transkei's notables, African nationalism and the transformation of the Bantustans, c.1955-c.1999

Supervisor: Professor William Beinart 

Mr Simon Pooley (St Antony's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: An environmental history of fire in South Africa in the twentieth century

Supervisor: Professor William Beinart 

Father Jorge Salcedo Martinez (Campion Hall)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The History of the Society of Jesus in Colombia during the nineteenth century, (1844-1850), (1858-1861) and 1885

Supervisor: To be confirmed

Miss Britta Schilling (St Antony's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Memory, myth and material culture: visions of Empire in postcolonial Germany

Supervisor: Professor Jane Caplan 

Mr Harun Yilmaz (St Antony's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Construction of National Identities in Azerbaijan Kazakhstan and Ukraine in Soviet Historiography (1936-1953)

Supervisor: Professor Robert Service 

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History of the United States

Mr Raymond Lavertue (St Catherine's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Thomas Wilson Dorr, the people's governor: a life of politics and sacrifice in the early American Republic

Supervisor: Professor Richard Carwardine 

Mr Sebastian Page (Corpus Christi College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Colonization and race adjustment in the United States, 1847-65

Supervisor: Dr Donald Ratcliffe 

Mr John Springford (Merton College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The public sphere and political culture in New England, 1630-1710

Supervisor: Dr Peter Thompson 

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Economic and Social History

Ms Katerina Galani (Wolfson College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: British and Greek shipping in the Mediterranean in the Age of War, 1770-1815

Supervisor: Professor Knick Harley 

Mr Kwan Li (Nuffield College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Wall Street: revisiting its path to dominance before the Civil War

Supervisor: To be confirmed

Mr Tom Marshall (Worcester College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Apprentices in mid-eighteenth century England. How did their experiences develop during the early stages of industrialisation?

Supervisor: Professor Jane Humphries 

Mr Julian McGill (Wolfson College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The 1947 Act: accounting for six decades of urban containment

Supervisor: Professor Knick Harley 

Mr Scott Urban (St Antony's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Gold in the inter-war monetary system: evolution of the Gold Standard

Supervisor: Professor Edmund FitzGerald Supervisor: Dr Matthyas Morys 

Mr Roberto Velez Grajales (St Antony's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The biological standard of living during post-revolutionary Mexico (c.1930-1980): the effects of industrialisation, urbanisation and migration

Supervisor: To be confirmed

Mr Tamas Vonyo (Balliol College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Post-war reconstruction and the economic miracle: why did the West German economy grow so rapidly during the 1950s and why did it gradually slow down thereafter?

Supervisor:  

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History of Art and Visual Culture

Ms Nichole Fazio-Veigel (Trinity College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Julia Margaret Cameron: portraits of representative men

Supervisor: Professor Martin Kemp Supervisor: Dr Michael Weaver 

Ms Paula Freestone Mellor (Oriel College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The professional career of Sir George Scharf

Supervisor: Dr Annette Peach Supervisor: Dr Jon Whiteley 

Mrs Fiona Gatty (Somerville College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Beauty and ugliness in nineteenth-century French art criticism 1801-1860

Supervisor: Dr Jon Whiteley 

Miss Yu Liu (Trinity College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: A paradigm in transition: the concept of art in early twentieth century China (1905-1928)

Supervisor: Professor Craig Clunas 

Miss Anne Moore (Linacre College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The marvellous presented: the theatres of surrealism

Supervisor: To be confirmed

Mr Steven Pulimood (Trinity College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Architectural anatomies, 1480-1543

Supervisor: Professor Martin Kemp 

 

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Science, Medicine, and Technology

Mr Christian Andreas (St Antony's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The impact and management of the epizootics of lungsickness and African horsesickness in the Cape, South Africa, c.1853-57

Supervisor: Professor William Beinart 

Ms Alexi Baker (Somerville College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: 'This ingenious business': the socio-economics of the scientific instrument trade in London, 1700-1750

Supervisor: Dr Perry Gauci Supervisor: Dr Anita McConnell 

Ms Imogen Goold (St Anne' s College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Ethics discurse as an influence on the development of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) and embryo research regulation in Britain, 1978-1990

Supervisor: Professor Mark Harrison Supervisor: To be confirmed

Ms Yonina Murciano-Goroff (Magdalen College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Fighting a common enemy: international cancer organisations and national politics

Supervisor: Professor Mark Harrison 

 

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Thematic Studies

Mr Gavin Brown (Balliol College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Dig for bloody victory: the British soldier's experience of trench warfare, 1939-1945

Supervisor: Dr Adrian Gregory 

Mr Michael Finch (Pembroke College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: The 'Gallieni/Lyautey Method' and pacification campaigning in Tonkin and Madagascar, 1885-1905

Supervisor: To be confirmed

Mr Stuart Hallifax (The Queen's College)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History

Topic: Citizens at war: community, communication and the experience of the Great War in Essex, 1914-1923

Supervisor: Dr Adrian Gregory 

 

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