Research students
"Between Two Worlds: The Middle East and the New Great Game in Central Asia (1991-2001)"
Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok
Research Cluster: Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War
Hammad Mustafa Al-Madani Al-Qadri
"Unfulfilled Promises: An Analysis on U.S.-Pakistan Foreign Relations between 1998-2003."
Supervisor: Professor Steve Casey
Research Cluster: The Americas in World History
"Disarming the Raj: Anglo-Pakistani Military Relations, 1945-1958."
Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze
Research Cluster: Modern World History
The End of Anticolonialism in Malaysia: From the British Recolonisation of Malaya to the 1969 Race Riots, c.1945-1969
Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze
Research Cluster: Modern World History
"Robert Marjolin, European civil Servant (1948-1967)"
Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow
Research Cluster: Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War
“Between Household and State: Landholding Elites in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Eastern India”
Supervisor: Dr Gagandeep Sood & Dr Andrew Halladay
Research Cluster: Pre-Modern East and West
The Imperial Dimension in Pacific Diplomacy: Britain, the Dominions, and East Asia in the 1930s
Supervisor: Professor Antony Best
Research Cluster: Modern World History
Matthew Cockerill
Provisional thesis title to be confirmed
Supervisor: Dr David Motadel
Research Cluster: Conflict and Identity in Europe since the 18th Century
'Rebels without a Pause: Youth, Generation, and Cycles of Guerrilla Violence in the Rwenzori Borderland of Uganda and Congo, 1960s to Present Day.'
Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis and Professor Tim Allen (Department of International Development, LSE)
Research Cluster: Modern World History
"Beneath Britannia’s Sun: Cultural Mappings of the Tropics in British Popular Print, 1815 to 1860"
Supervisor: Dr Paul Stock
Research Cluster: Pre-Modern East and West
'Making the World Safe for Empire: British Foreign Policy, Anglo-American Strategy, and the United Nations, 1944-56'
Supervisor: Professor Nigel Ashton
Research Cluster: Modern World History
"Relations between Chile and Zambia from 1964-1975, in the context of the establishment of diplomatic relations by both countries in 1965, the visit of President Kaunda to Chile in 1966 and the creation of the Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries in 1967."
Supervisor: Dr Tanya Harmer
Research Cluster: The Americas in World History
'Refugees, Identity and the State: Post-partition histories of citizen becoming in India'
Supervisor: Dr Dina Gusejnova
Research Cluster: Modern World History
"Domestic Workers and Catholic Activism in Brazil and Colombia during the Cold War (1930-1988)"
Supervisor: Dr Tanya Harmer and Dr Anna Cant
Research Cluster: The Americas in World History
"Vernacular U.S. American imaginings of empire in the transnational post-Civil War period."
Supervisor: TBC
Research Cluster: The Americas in World History
"The Enemy of My Enemy: America’s Use of Islam During the Cold War"
Supervisor: Dr David Motadel
Research Cluster: Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War
'Dutchness and European colonial identity in Transimperial Dutch Communities in Asian port cities, 1918-1949'
Supervisor: Professor Kirsten Schulze
Research Cluster: Modern World History
“Carceral Spaces and Punitive Mobilities: Re-examining Chinese Migration in Colonial Maritime Southeast Asia, 1900-1941”
Supervisors: Dr Qingfei Yin and Dr Ron Po
Research Cluster: Pre-Modern East and West
'The Anglo-American policy towards Korea, 1897-1905'.
Supervisor: Professor Antony Best
Research Cluster: Modern World History
"Aesthetics and Materialities of Empire: Global Objectscapes and Colonial Worldmaking in Late Stuart England, c.1685-1714"
Supervisor: Dr Paul Stock
Research Cluster: Pre-Modern East and West
Thesis title to be confirmed
Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow
Research Cluster: Conflict and Identity in Europe since the 18th Century
Provisional thesis title to be confirmed
Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze
Research Cluster: Modern World History
"Inter-war revolutionary students in Moscow"
Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok
Research Cluster: Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War
A history of ZANLA operatives in Africa, China and the Eastern Block, 1963-80: imagining Home and Nation in exile.
Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis
Research Cluster: Modern World History
"Made in Europe? How Japanese foreign direct investment and British automotive policy shaped the European Single Car Market, 1979-1999."
Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow
Research Cluster: Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War
"Prison abolitionism within black feminism in the US."
Supervisor: Dr Imaobong Umoren
Research Cluster: The Americas in Modern World History
"Cyprus, 1974: American Foreign Policy in the Eastern Mediterranean and Inter-NATO Conflict"
Supervisor: Professor Matthew Jones
Research Cluster: Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War
"Friends of the Family: Informal actors in Iran-US relations during the late Pahlavi period (1953-1979)"
Supervisor: Dr Roham Alvandi
Research Cluster: Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War
'Securing the fragile crescent: Britain and the IRD: Collaboration, cooperation and propaganda in the Middle East 1948-77'
Supervisor: Professor Nigel Ashton
Research Cluster: Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War
“Empire of Governors: a Collective Biography of Italian Colonial Governors”
Supervisor: Dr David Motadel and Professor Charles Burdett (SAS - School of Advanced Studies)
Research Cluster: Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War
'The China Wedge: A Cold War Dilemma Dividing Britain and America (1957 - 1972)'
Supervisor: Professor Nigel Ashton
Research Cluster: Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War
"Caste, Race and Empire: Tracing the Roots of Indian Traders' Hegemony Over Lower-Caste Labourers in South Africa C. 1860-1994"
Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis
Research Cluster: Modern World History
"Beyond the Headlines: The Representation of Islam in Western Media – a Four Case Study Approach"
Supervisors: Dr Kirsten Schulze and Professor Steven Casey
Research Cluster: Modern World History
"Decolonisation and Collective Memory in French Equatorial Africa, 1943-60"
Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis
Research Cluster: Modern World History
‘From Red Scare to War Scare: Britain, Soviet Russia and the Chinese Revolution, 1919-1927’
Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok
Research Cluster: Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War
‘The Transformation of the Qing Empire's governance of Taiwan in the early nineteenth century.’
Supervisor: Dr Ron C. Po
Research Cluster: Pre-Modern East and West
"European Military Advisors and Their Role in the Making of Modern Iran"
Supervisor: Dr Roham Alvandi
Research Cluster: Pre-Modern East and West
“The Tree That Dyed China Red: A Cultural and Environmental History of Siamese Sappanwood from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries.”
Supervisors: Dr Ron Po and Dr Andrew Halladay
Research Cluster: Pre-Modern East and West