If you would like to get in touch for further inforation please contact Dr Neil Cummins, our Head of PhD Programmes (n.j.cummins@lse.ac.uk).
Thea Don Siemion
PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Macroeconomics; financial history; the Great Depression; hyperinflations.
Thesis title: 'Money, Debt and the Balance of Payments in Poland's Great Depression'
CV available here: Thea Don-Siemion [PDF]
Research Interests: Macroeconomics; financial history; the Great Depression; hyperinflations.
Personal website: theadonsiemion.com
Hanzhi Deng
PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Public finance; state capacity and local governance; institutional transitions and economic development; political economy of modern and contemporary China
Thesis Title: The Making of Regional Fiscal States in China: Striving Paths towards Modernization, 1850s-1930s
CV available here: Hanzhi Deng [PDF]
Ivan Luzardo Luna
Primary: Labor Economics and Quantitative Economic History.
Secondary: Financial Economics, Development Economics and Latin America.
Thesis Title: The Economic History of British Interwar Unemployment, 1920-1939
CV: Ivan Luzardo Luna CV [PDF]
Placements 2019-20
Mattia Bertazzini
Nuffield College, Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Economics (2019)
Thesis Title: "The economic impact of Italian colonial investments in Libya and in the Horn of Africa, 1920-2000."
Curriculum Vitae
Sijie Hu
PhD Candidate
Assistant Professor, Renmin University of China
Research interests: Historical and economic demography, Chinese population history, social stratification and social mobility.
Thesis title: 'A New Examination of Chinese Fertility, 1400-1900'
CV available here: Sijie Hu CV [PDF]
Personal website: www.sijiehu.com