Research students
Research students grouped by five research clusters
Pre-Modern East and West
“Between Household and State: Landholding Elites in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Eastern India”
Supervisor: Dr Gagandeep Sood & Dr Andrew Halladay
"Beneath Britannia’s Sun: Cultural Mappings of the Tropics in British Popular Print, 1815 to 1860"
Supervisor: Dr Paul Stock
“Carceral Spaces and Punitive Mobilities: Re-examining Chinese Migration in Colonial Maritime Southeast Asia, 1900-1941”
Supervisors: Dr Qingfei Yin and Dr Ron Po
“Aesthetic Experience and Colonial Worldmaking in the Collection Spaces of Queen Mary II at Hampton Court Palace and Kensington Palace, 1689-94”
Supervisor: Dr Paul Stock
"European Military Advisors and Their Role in the Making of Modern Iran"
Supervisor: Dr Roham Alvandi
“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
Conflict and Identity in Europe since the 18th Century
Michele Pajero
Fascist Rule and Oppression in North Africa: A Comparative Study of the Italian and French Empires at War, 1940-43
Supervisor: Dr David Motadel
Modern World History
"Disarming the Raj: Anglo-Pakistani Military Relations, 1945-1958."
Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze
The End of Anticolonialism in Malaysia: From the British Recolonisation of Malaya to the 1969 Race Riots, c.1945-1969
Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze
The Imperial Dimension in Pacific Diplomacy: Britain, the Dominions, and East Asia in the 1930s
Supervisor: Professor Antony Best
'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)
'Making the World Safe for Empire: British Foreign Policy, Anglo-American Strategy, and the United Nations, 1944-56'
Supervisor: Professor Nigel Ashton
'Refugees, Identity and the State: Post-partition histories of citizen becoming in India'
Supervisor: Dr Dina Gusejnova
'The organisation of domestic workers in Brazil and Colombia through the Young Christian Workers movement, 1956-1988.'
Supervisor: Dr Tanya Harmer
'The trans-imperial extension of the Dutch Empire in Asian port cities, 1918-1960'
Supervisor: Professor Kirsten Schulze
A history of ZANLA operatives in Africa, China and the Eastern Block, 1963-80: imagining Home and Nation in exile.
Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis
"Eritrean colony and its foreign policy with it's neighbours."
Supervisor: Dr David Motadel and Professor Charles Burdett (SAS - School of Advanced Studies)
"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
"Decolonization and Collective Memory in Central Africa: Case Studies from Gabon and the Republic of the Congo, 1960-91."
Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis
"Beyond the Headlines: The Representation of Islam in Western Media – a Four Case Study Approach"
Supervisors: Dr Kirsten Schulze and Professor Steven Casey
The Americas in World History
Hammad Mustafa Al-Madani Al-Qadri
"Unfulfilled Promises: An Analysis on U.S.-Pakistan Foreign Relations between 1998-2003."
Supervisor: Professor Steve Casey
"Vernacular U.S. American imaginings of empire in the transnational post-Civil War period."
Supervisor: Dr Elizabeth Ingleson
"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
Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War
"Between Two Worlds: The Middle East and the New Great Game in Central Asia (1991-2001)"
Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok
"Robert Marjolin, European civil Servant (1948-1967)"
Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow
"Dual Track Diplomacy: Britain, Intermediate Nuclear Forces, and Transatlantic Relations, 1977-87"
Supervisor: Professor Matthew Jones
'Case studies on the UK and the European Investment Bank (EIB) - 1973-2019'
Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow
"The Enemy of My Enemy: America’s Use of Islam During the Cold War"
Supervisor: Dr David Motadel
"Made in Europe? How Japanese foreign direct investment and British automotive policy shaped the European Single Car Market, 1979-1999."
Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow
"Cyprus, 1974: American Foreign Policy in the Eastern Mediterranean and Inter-NATO Conflict"
Supervisor: Professor Matthew Jones
"Friends of the Family: Informal actors in Iran-US relations during the late Pahlavi period (1953-1979)"
Supervisor: Dr Roham Alvandi
'Securing the fragile crescent: Britain and the IRD: Collaboration, cooperation and propaganda in the Middle East 1948-77'
Supervisor: Professor Nigel Ashton
"Empire and International Communism: Britain, Soviet Russia and the Origins of the Global Cold War in East Asia, 1919-1929"
Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok