Richard B Straus Travel Bursary Recipients

Read about the dissertation titles and travel destinations of past recipients of this generous bursary

Iman Adzajlic (MSc in Theory and History of International Relations)

Dissertation title: 'British Policy towards Yugoslavia from 1943-1946: Britain’s failed effort to consolidate strategic influence in Yugoslavia'

Travel destinations: Serbia (Belgrade) & UK (National Archives, British Library)

Lynn Allegrie (MSc in International Affairs)

Dissertation title: 'Strategic Ambitions vs. Diplomatic Realities: The Gap Between Gaullist Vision and Sino-French Relations (1964-1969)'

Travel destination: France (Paris & Courneuve)

Rhea Chandran (MSc in International and World History)

Dissertation title: 'Between Rescue and Control: The Emergence Protective Homes and Postcolonial Governance of Sexuality in India'

Travel destination: India (Delhi)

Nicholas Chik (MSc in International and World History)

Dissertation title: 'Cantopop and the Hong Kong Identity: From Sam Hui to Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui (1974–2004)'

Travel destination: Hong Kong

Alexandre Dupont-Sinhsattanak (MSc in International Affairs)

Dissertation title: 'The Disunited Front: Western Divergences on the Laotian Crisis, 1958-1962'

Travel destinations: France (Courneuve) & Laos

Peter Gaber (MSc in International and World History)

Dissertation title: 'Depoliticizing the World: The Chicago Committee and the Limits of Postwar Liberal Internationalism, 1945-1951'

Travel destination: USA (Chicago)

Lauren Griffith-Singleton (MSc in Theory and History of International Relations)

Dissertation title: 'Setting Precedent for Separation: Margaret Thatcher's creation of British Exceptionalism through key events and media frameworks in UK-European Relations, 1984-1990'

Travel destination: Italy (Florence & Rome)

Samson Heyer (MSc in International and World History)

Dissertation title: 'Black Reconstruction of the Maghreb: Pan-African Myth-Building, Racial-Geographies of Belonging, and Negotiation through the Work of W.E.B. Du Bois'

Travel destination: France (Paris & Aix-en-Provence)

Evridiki Ioannidou (MA in Modern History)

Dissertation title: 'Cyprus’ Foreign Policy in the Middle East and the use of British bases during the Six-Day War, 1967'

Travel destinations: Cyprus & UK (National Archives, Imperial War Museum)

Jade Jemmett (MSc in International Affairs)

Dissertation title: 'Post-conflict Diplomatic Normalisation through Culture: The Case of Franco-Egyptian Relations, UNESCO, and the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia under Nasser'

Travel destination: Egypt (Cairo & Aswan)

Marc Lallemand (MSc in International Affairs)

Dissertation title: 'Committing America to Southeast Asia: France-UK-US intelligence sharing against China, 1950-54'

Travel destination: France (Paris & Aix-en-Provence)

Jin Joo Lee (MSc in International Affairs)

Dissertation title: 'Containing the Pirate Queen: Visual Representations of Zheng Yi Sao and the Politics of Maritime Memory'

Travel destination: China (Beijing & Guangzhou)

Faycal Mallek (MSc in International and World History)

Dissertation title: 'Confronting Parallel Universes: Ecclesiastical Reimagining of The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba During the Early Years of Francoism, 1939 – 1954'

Travel destination: Spain (Seville, Cordoba, Salamanca)

Marion Nsilulu (MSc in History of International Relations)

Dissertation title: 'Women and the Congo Free State: The intersection of gender, race, and colonialism during 1885-1905'

Travel destination: Belgium (Brussels)

Juliette Odolant (MSc in International Affairs)

Dissertation title: 'Empires in Motion: Franco-British Railway Competition in China’s Yunnan (1895-1901)'

Travel destinations: China (Beijing & Kunming), France (Paris, Courneuve, Aix-en-Provence)

Marco Pozzi (MSc in Theory and History of International Relations)

Dissertation title: 'A Historical Review of East African Regional Integration and Federation through the Pan-African Lens'

Travel destinations: Kenya (Nairobi), Tanzania (Arusha, Dar es Salaam), Uganda (Kampala)

Kara Savitt (MSc in History of International Relations)

Dissertation title: 'Normalization in return for settlements: How U.S. mediation contributed to Israeli settlement expansion after the signing of the Camp David Accords'

Travel destinations: Israel (Jerusalem), USA (Atlanta, Washington DC)

Alaina Shuman (MSc in International and World History)

Dissertation title: 'Another Name, Another Face: Neo-Fascist Intellectuals in France, 1945-1968'

Travel destination: France (Paris)

Emmitt Sklar (MSc in Theory and History of International Relations)

Dissertation title: 'Cities Against the Bomb: The Nuclear-Free Zone Movement in New York City and London 1979-1989'

Travel destination: USA (New York City)

Laura Smith (MSc in International and World History)

Dissertation title: 'Black Panther Internationalism within West Germany'

Travel destination: USA (Stanford, Berkeley)

Megan Thompson (MSc in Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation)

Dissertation title: 'An Analysis of Transnational, Feminist Solidarities Between the United States, United Kingdom and Nicaragua, 1979-1992'

Travel destination: USA (Boston, Northampton)

Anastasios Tsochos (MSc in Theory and History of International Relations)

Dissertation title: 'Maps and Greek Irredentism: Foreign Interventions in the Formation of the Greek Geobody'

Travel destinations: Greece (Athens)

Yoshihiko Yamazaki (MSc in International Affairs)

Dissertation title: 'Silent Signaling between Britain and China: The Case of the US Naval Visits to Hong Kong during the Vietnam War'

Travel destinations: USA (College Park, Maryland)

Xinyi Zhu (MA in Modern History)

Dissertation title: 'The Search for Terra Australis: Cartographic Narratives of Australia from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries and their Legacies for Australian Identity'

Travel destinations: Australia (Sydney, Canberra)

Julianna Castro (MA in Modern History)

Dissertation title: "The Material Basis of Society: Identity formation and the construction of new rural towns in Cuba, 1959–1974."

Travel destination: Nottingham (UK), Miami (USA), and Gainesville (US)

Yuyang Chen (MSc in International Affairs - LSE and Peking University)

Dissertation title: "Struggle and Adaptation: Identity Shifts of Chinese ‘Returnees’ from Indonesia in the 1950s and 1960s."

Travel destination: Beijing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou (China); Taiwan

Yihwan Cho (MSc Theory and History of International Relations)

Dissertation title: "Silverstar: North Korea’s Go AI Program in the International Arena, 1985-2018."

Travel destination: South Korea

Lisa Dudek (MSc in International Affairs - LSE and Peking University)

Dissertation title: "Bern 1964: The role of secret negotiations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People’s Republic of China."

Travel destination: Berlin and Koblenz (Germany)

Rowan Ley (MA in Modern History)

Dissertation title: "Ghosts of Vienna: The Memory of the 1814-15 Congress of Vienna at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference."

Travel destination: Paris and La Courneuve (France)

Jason Ma (MSc in International and Asian History)

Dissertation title: "Imagining Opium: The Commission of Enquiry into the Control of Opium-Smoking in the Far East and colonial Taiwan."

Travel destination: Nantou County (Taiwan)

Romario McCalla St Luce (MSc in International Affairs - LSE and Peking University)

Dissertation title: "State Capture: An analysis of domestic and foreign institutions in post-independence Jamaica."

Travel destination: Kingston (Jamaica)

Thomas Mitchell (MSc in International and Asian History)

Dissertation title: "From Unequal to Equal Treaties? Soviet diplomacy with Asian Neighbours: A Comparative Analysis (1920-23)."

Travel destination: Moscow (Russia)

Midori Oasa (MSc in International Affairs - LSE and Peking University)

Dissertation title: "Japanese Diplomacy during the First Oil Crisis - The Major Shift in Japanese Foreign Policy in 1973."

Travel destination: Tokyo (Japan)

Lai Yang Tang (MSc in International Affairs - LSE and Peking University)

Dissertation title: "British Decision-Making on Sino-British Relations, 1943-1946: The Question of Hong Kong."