PhD Job Market - First Placements
2024-25 placements
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 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/
Thesis Title: Fiscal Capacity and Taxation Inequalities in Spain, 1901-1936
Supervisors: Professor Max-Stephan Schulze and Professor Joan R. Rosés
Placement: Research Fellow, Tax Justice Network
Thesis title: On the shoulders of science: Scientific culture as a driver of innovation during the early industrial revolution
Supervisors: Professor Max Schulze and Dr Jeremiah Dittmar
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Southern Denmark
Thesis title: Social capital and elite persistence in late-Victorian and Edwardian England
Supervisors: Professor Olivier Accominotti and Professor Neil Cummins
Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economic History
Dr Hilary Vipond
Thesis title: Technological unemployment in Victorian Britain: A task-based approach
Supervisors: Professor Patrick Wallis and Professor Chris Minns
Placement: Post-doctoral researcher, Complexity Science Hub Vienna; visiting scholar, Harvard Kennedy Growth Lab
Thesis title: Structural change in the Italian economy, 1950s-1990s
Supervisors: Dr Gerben Bakker and Dr Natacha Postel-Vinay
Placement: Research fellow at CSEF, Department of Economics and Statistics at the University of Naples Federico II.
Thesis title: 'How was the Manila Trade financed? An alternative institutional approach to Early Modern long-distance trade finance, 1668-1830'
Supervisors: Dr Alejandra Irigoin and Professor Kent Deng
Placement: Economic History Society Fellow, Institute of Historical Research
Thesis title: Social change in Colombia: studying social mobility and the fertility decline
Supervisors: Professor Neil Cummins and Professor Eric Schneider
Placement: Junior Researcher, Central Bank of Colombia
Thesis title: Evolution of Revolutions: State Capacity in Mughal India (1555-1707)
Supervisors: Professor Tirthankar Roy and Dr Jordan Claridge
Placement: LSE Fellow, Department of Economic History
Thesis title: Power and Identity in the Qing Empire: A Study of the Political and Economic Life of the Elites through Confiscation Inventories, 1700-1912
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Wallis
Placement: Teaching Fellow, Oxford
Thesis title: Exploring the Historical Causes of Inequality in Pre-Industrial Germany, c.1300-1800
Supervisor: Professor Oliver Volckart
Placement: Max Weber Fellow, EUI
Thesis title: Were central bank policies responsible for economic and financial stability during the Golden Age?
Supervisors: Professor Albrecht Ritschl and Professor Joan R. Rosés
Placement: Senior Economist, Bank of England
Thesis title: The Economic Consequences of Fiscal Transfers
Supervisors: Professor Albrecht Ritschl and Dr Natacha Postel-Vinay
Placement: Portfolio Manager, Sampension
Dr Samuel Betteridge
Thesis Title: 'Market Integration and Market Structure in the East Asian Opium Trade, 1860-1909'
Supervisors: Dr Debin Ma and Professor Oliver Volckart
Placement: n/k
Thesis Title: The Microeconometrics of Household Behaviour: Building the Foundations, 1920-1960
Supervisors: Professor Mary Morgan and Professor Joan Rosés
Placement: Department of Economics, National Taipei University
Thesis Title: History of Decentralization: Fiscal Transitions in Late Imperial China, 1850-1911
Supervisors: Professor Kent Deng and Dr Debin Ma
Placement: Post-doc, Deparatment of Political Science, Fudan University
Thesis Title: Money, Debt, and the Balance of Payments in Poland’s Great Depression
Supervisors: Professor Albrecht Ritschl and Professor Max Schulze
Placement: Lectureship, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Thesis Title: Quantification and Fiscal Governance in China, 1400-1800
Supervisors: Professor Oliver Volckart and Professor Mary Morgan
Placement: ESRC Fellowship, Department of Accounting, LSE
Thesis Title: British labour frictions during the interwar period
Supervisors: Professor Chris Minns and Professor Joan R. Rosés
Placement: Post-doc, University of Pennsylvania
Thesis Title: Learning from the Muse: Indian cotton textiles and British industrialisation
Supervisors: Professor Tirthankar Roy and Professor Joan R. Rosés
Placement: Postan Postdoctoral Fellow/EHS/VAM
Thesis Title: Three Essays on Currency Unions and the International Monetary System
Supervisors: Professor Joan R Rosés and Professor Max Schulze
Placement: Research Economist, Bank of England
Thesis title: A New Examination of Fertility in China, 1400-1900
Supervisors: Professor Neil Cummins and Dr Debin Ma
Placement: Assistant Professor, Renmin University
Thesis Title: "Escaping" the Great Depresssion: monetary policy, financial crises and banking in Spain, 1921-1935
Supervisor: Professor Olivier Accominotti
Placement: Visiting Professor at the Department of Economic History and Institutions at Universitat de Barcelona
Thesis Title: Rural credit markets in South India 1930-1960 (provisional title)
Supervisors: Professor Tirthankar Roy and Dr Gerben Bakker
Placement: Teaching Fellow, LSE
Thilo Albers
Thesis Title: Was the world in the 1930 caught in a non-cooperative Nash-Equilibrium?
Supervisor: Albrecht Ritschl
Placement: Post doc, Humboldt
Mattia Bertazzini
Thesis title: Poets, sailors and farmers: the long-term impact of the Italian colonial agricultural activity in Libya and in the Horn of Africa (1920-2000)
Supervisor: Joan Roses
Placement: Post Doctoral Prize Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford
David Escamilla
Thesis Title: Essays on Initial Patterns of Mexican Mass Migration
Supervisor: Eric Schneider
Placement: Assistant Professor, St Andrews
Young-Ook Jang
Thesis Title: Migration of Ethnic Groups in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Space during the Transition Period
Supervisor: Chris Minns
Placement: Postdoc, Stellenbosch University
Ousmene Mandeng
Thesis title: Central banking reform, regional diversity and monetary policy in nineteenth century Germany
Supervisor: Olivier Accominotti
Placement: Senior Advisor and Lead of Economic and Financial Strategy with Accenture’s Blockchain and Multiparty Systems
Yasin Arslantas
Thesis title: Confiscation by the Ruler: a study of Ottoman practice of Musadere, 1700s-1839
Supervisor: Tirthankar Roy
Placement: Economics Department, Anadolu University, Turkey
Pinar Ceylan
Thesis Title: Essays on markets, prices and consumption in the Ottoman Empire, mid-17th to mid-19th centuries
Supervisor: Patrick Wallis
Placement: Post-doc Research Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin
Olga Christodoulaki
Thesis Title: The Origins of Central Banking in Greece
Supervisor: Max Schulze
Placement: Visiting Fellow, Department of Economic History, LSE
Katja Fuder
Thesis Title: No Experiments: Federal privatisation politics in West Germany, 1949-1989
Supervisor: Albrecht Ritschl
Placement: Scientific Associate, IFZ, Institute for Contemporary History, Berlin
James Harris
Thesis Title: A Comparative Study of Private Property Rights Institutions and their Effects on Shanghai;s Early Financial Markets.
Supervisor: Kent Deng
Placement: n/k
Frank Kennedy
Thesis Title: Institutional Effects: studies from the Sterling Area in the 1950s-60s
Supervisor: Joan Roses
Placement: Research Affliate, QUB
Leonard Kukic
Thesis Title: Economic and Social Change in Yugoslavia, 1920-90
Supervisor: Max Schulze
Placement: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Joseph Lane
Thesis Title: Networks, Innovation and Knowledge: The North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851
Supervisor: Mary Morgan
Placement: n/k
Flora Macher
Thesis Title: The 1931 Financial Crisis in Austria and Hungary: A critical reassessment
Supervisor: Max Schulze
Placement: Partner, Oriens
Andrea Papadia
Thesis Title: Government Actions under Constraints: the role of fiscal capacity in shaping fiscal policy and public goods provision. International evidence from the Great Depression and from 19th and early 20th century Brazil
Supervisor: Albrecht Ritschl
Placement: Max Weber Post Doctoral Fellow, EUI
Rebecca Simson
Thesis Title: (Under) Privileged Bureaucracy? The changing fortunes of public servants in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, 1960-2010
Supervisor: Tirthankar Roy
Placement: n/k
Brian Varian
Thesis Title: Interplay between American Tariffs and British Exports, 1870 to 1913
Supervisor: Chris Minns
Placement: Lecturer in Economics, University of Swansea
Bernardo Wjuniski
Thesis Title: Multiple Exchange Rates and Industrialisation in Brazil, 1953-1961: Macroeconomic miracle or mirage?
Supervisor: Alejandra Irigoin
Placement: Economist/Strategist, Point Break Capital, Brazil
Franz Zobl
Thesis Title: Regional Economic Development under Trade Liberalisation, Technological Change and Market Integration. Evidence from 19th century France and Belgium
Supervisor: Joan Roses
Placement: Not known