PhD Job Market 2024-25
Information about our job market candidates for the current academic year
To enquire about our job candidates please contact PhD Placement Officer, Professor Tirthankar Roy (t.roy@lse.ac.uk).
Ruoran Cheng
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Joan Roses and Professor Kent Deng
Research interests: Economic history, economic geography, digital humanity, historical GIS, the origin and evolution of civilsation
PhD title: Transportation network and spatial distribution of economic activities in the past 10000 years China
Personal webpage: https://ruoranc.github.io/website/
Nick Fitzhenry
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Leigh Gardner and Professor Eric Schneider
Research interests: Applied econometrics, historical demography, public health economics, the history of Africa, medical history, development studies
PhD title: Death, Disease and Doctors: The Health Transition in 20th-Century South Africa
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Max Schulze and Professor Patrick Wallis
Research interests: English East India Company; history of the business corporation; early modern financial history; historical political economy of finance; corporate theory; agency theory; public choice theory; economic history of war; economic history of empire
PhD title: The English East India Company's Transition to a Permanent Capital, 1600-1679
Personal webpage: in development
Mikhail Kolosov
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Patrick Wallis and Professor Sara Horrell
Research interests: Social history, agricultural history, Georgian and Victorian England.
PhD title: Farm servants in Victorian England: Evidence of census records and registers of servants
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Neil Cummins and Dr Melanie Xue
Research interests: social mobility, marriage assortment, meritocracy, and the role of institution.
PhD title: State, elite families and the examination system in the Qing Dynasty
First placement: EHS FEllow, Oxford
Personal webpage: https://www.xiziluoeh.com/
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Joan Rosés and Dr Mohamed Saleh
Research interests: Long-run economic growth, economic geography, Korean economic history, regional inequality, industrial location, urban and regional economics
PhD title: Long-run Economic Growth and Regional Inequality in South Korea
Víctor Pérez Sánchez
Dissertation supervisors: Dr Alejandra Irigoin and Professor Joan Rosés
Research interests: Monetary and financial history; historical political economy of finance: economic history of Spain; monetary economics; financial history; early modern history; early modern trade; monetary policy; history of central banks
PhD title: Geography of money: A monetary explanation for early modern monetary policy and trade (1575-1680)
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Eric Schneider and Professor Sara Horrel
Research interests: Health policy; history of medicine, historical demography
PhD Title: Race, Practice and Policy: Maternal and infant health in the 20th century US South
First placement: medical student, Tulane
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Neil Cummins and Professor Chris Minns
Research Interests: Social, occupational, and geographical mobility
PhD Title: Rags to Rags, Riches to Riches: Essays on Occupational Mobility in England, 1851-1911
First placement: LSE Fellow, Economic History
Personal webpage: https://www.zimingzhu.net/