| PhD Graduate | Thesis Title | Supervisor |
| Omar Nasr (2026) | 'British Imperial Propaganda Towards Muslims in the Second World War' | Dr David Motadel |
| Mairead Costello (2026) | 'The Politics of Immobility in the British Empire: Bombay and the Plague, c. 1896-1903' | Dr David Motadel |
| Marral Shamshiri-Fard (2026) | 'Challenging Empire in the Middle East: Revolutionary Transnationalism in the Iranian and Arab Left, 1963 – 1979' | Professor Afshin Matin-Asgari (California State University) and Dr Abdel Razzaq Takriti (Rice University) |
| Fergus Richarson-Soar (2026) | 'Shebeen Kings and Strange Dreams: A History of Rock Music in Zambia, c.1969-1980' | Professor Joanna Lewis |
| Ryoya Mizuno (2026) | 'The International Thought of Arnold J. Toynbee: The World and the West from the 'Long First World War' to the Nuclear Age' | Dr Dina Gusejnova |
| Maliha Ahmed (2025) | 'Bangladesh: The Path to Recognition, 1971-1974' | Professor Steven Casey |
| Jonathan Franco (2025) | 'Falling from Grace: United Nations Peacemaking and Peacekeeping in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1982' | Professor Kirsten Schulze |
| Jeff Hawn (2025) | 'From Collapse to Crisis: The Constitutional Standoff in Post-Soviet Russia, the Role of the United States, and the Failure of Russia’s Democratic Transition' | Professor Vladislav Zubok |
| Edoardo Vaccari (2025) | ‘The Ventotene Moment: Justice, Liberty, and European Federalism in the Political Thought of Third Force Socialism (1929–1954).’ | Dr Dina Gusejnova and Professor Piers Ludlow |
| Jonathan Slater (2025) | ‘Ersatz (Substitute) Foodstuffs in Germany during the First World War.’ | Professor David Stevenson and Dr David Motadel |
| Richard Hutton (2025) | ‘The Threats We Face: British Imperial Defence and the Far East, 1925-1934’ | Professor Antony Best and Professor Matthew Jones |
| Celine Mitchell (2024) | "Génération Ça Va Pas": An Examination of French Algerian Youth Through Hip-Hop | Professor Joanna Lewis |
| Roger Enoch (2024) | Resolution 181: An analysis of the decision making process within the United nations that le to the Resolution in 1947 partition of Palestine. | Professor Kirsten Schulze |
| Peter Farrell-Vinay (2024) | Lethal Dialectic - The Evolution of Battle Planning in the BEF 1915-16 | Professor David Stevenson |
| Sean Quinn (2024) | Agrarian Collectivisation in Catalonia and the Question of Power in the Spanish Revolution (July 1936 - June 1937) | Professor Paul Preston |
| Jan Kozdra (2024) | “Playing second fiddle”. Poland in the Global Cold War, 1956-1970 | Professor Anita Prazmowska and Professor Vlad Zubok |
| Fionntan O'Hara (2024) | Refugeedom and Humanitarianism in Cold War Central America: Refugees in Honduras during the 1980s | Dr Tanya Harmer |
| Medha Bhattacharya (2024) | An Examination of the Hindi and Bengali Movements in South Asia (1930-1971) | Professor Taylor Sherman |
| Chloe Mayoux (2024) | A Place in the World: Negotiating Nuclear Power and Independence in Africa (1957-63) | Professor Matthew Jones |
| Ben Sayle (2023) | Reappraising the "Edwardian Radical Right", 1903-1918 | Professor David Stevenson |
| Andrew Capistrano (2023) | Far Eastern Questions: Britain, the Washington System, and International Cooperation in China, 1919-1922 | Profesor Antony Best |
| Alexandra Penler (2023) | The Quiet Diplomats: American Diplomatic Wives and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1972 | Professor Matthew Jones |
| Grant Golub (2023) | Henry L. Stimson, the War Department, and the Politics of American Grand Strategy during the Second World War | Professor Matthew Jones |
| LiamConnell (2023) | 'Loyalty more personal and fervent': Australasian imperial identities, 1892-1902 | Dr Antony Best |
| Sinan Ekim (2022) | Towards a “New” Turkishness: Islam, Education and the Making of the “Good Citizen” in the 1950s | Professor Marc David Baer |
| Rishika Yadav (2022) | 'THE BOYS UP NORTH': A history of South Africa's Cape Corps, and the Indian and Malay Corps in the Second World War | Dr Joanna Lewis |
| William Mitchell (2022) | The Whig idea of Europe, 1685-1705 | Dr Paul Stock |
| Molly Avery (2022) | The Southern Cone and Central America: International and Transnational Anticommunist Networks in Guatemala and El Salvador, 1977-1984 | Dr Tanya Harmer |
| Yorai Linenberg (2021) | Jewish Soldiers, Nazi Captors: The Experience of American and British Jewish POWs in German Captivity in the Second World War | Professor Steven Casey; Dr David Motadel and Professor Heather Jones (external) |
| Hamish McDougall (2021) | Staying Alive: New Zealand, Britain and European Integration, 1960-85 | Professor Piers Ludlow |
| Katherine Arnold (2021) | German Natural History Collectors in Southern Africa, 1815-1867 | Dr Joanna Lewis and Dr David Motadel |
| Sawai, Isami (2021) | East Asia before 'Diplomacy': The Transformation of China and Japan's Foreign Policy-Making, 1858-1881 | Professor Antony Best |
| Benjamin Heckscher (2021) | The Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe: transnational socialism and the launching of the early European institutions | Professor Piers Ludlow |
| Judith Jacob (2021) | From Kartosuwiryo to Sungkar: The evolving ideology of Indonesia’s Darul Islam movement, 1928-1993 | Dr Kirsten Schulze |
| Alexandre Dab (2021) | Going beyond declaratory diplomacy: France, Britain, transatlantic relations, and the European Community’s diplomatic initiative to the Middle East, 1978-1982 | Professor Piers Ludlow |
| Gaurav Sud (2021) | Disinvestment? Out of the question. Managing German business subsidiaries in apartheid South Africa during the tenure of P.W. Botha, 1978-1989 | Dr Joanna Lewis |
| Seung Mo Kang (2021) | The crafting of the Treaty of Peace with Japan, 1945-1951 | Dr Antony Best |
| Daniel Berman (2020) | Playing the patron: Croatian-American relations and the development of American policy in Yugoslavia, 1989-1995 | Dr Svetozar Rajak |
| Caroline Green (2020) | The impact of colonialism on human rights diplomacy: Britain’s colonial legacy and the UN agenda for the advancement of women, 1950-75 | Dr Joanna Lewis |
| Amal Tarhuni Mezughi (2019) | The United States, Britain and Qadhafi’s Libya: revisiting the road to confrontation, 1969–1986 | Dr Kirsten Schulze |
| Eline van Ommen (2019) | Sandinistas Go Global: Nicaragua and Western Europe, 1977-1990 | Dr Tanya Harmer and Professor Piers Ludlow |
| Artemis Photiadou (2019) | British interrogation culture from war to peace, 1939-1948 | Dr Joanna Lewis and Dr Heather Jones (external) |
| Grace Carrington (2019) | Non-Sovereign States in the era of Decolonization: Politics, Nationalism, and Assimilation in French and British Caribbean Territories, 1945-80 | Dr Joanna Lewis |
| William King (2019) | The British Nerve Agent Debate: Acquisition, Deterrence and Disarmament, 1945-1976 | Professor Matthew Jones |
| Pedro Correa Martín-Arroyo (2019) | Europe's Bottleneck: The Iberian Peninsula and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-1944 | Professor Paul Preston |
| Anne Irfan (2019) | Internationalising Palestine: UNRWA and Palestinian Nationalism in the Refugee Camps, 1967-82 | Dr Kirsten Schulze |
| Alex Mayhew (2019) | Making sense of the Western Front: English infantrymen’s morale and perception of crisis during the Great War | Professor David Stevenson and Dr Heather Jones |
| Bastiaan Bouwman (2019) | Universal Rights in a Divided World: The Human Rights Engagement of the World Council of Churches from the 1940s to the 1970s | Professor Piers Ludlow |
| Isaac Scarborough (2018) | The Extremes it Takes to Survive: Tajikistan and the Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985-1992 | Professor Vladislav Zubok |
| Sarah Ashraf (2018) | Of Military and Militancy: Praetorianism and Islam in Pakistan | Dr Kirsten Schulze |
| Daniel Hardegger (2018) | PhD Candidates in Berlin and at Columbia, New York City, 1871-1913 | Dr Antony Best |
| Max Skjönsberg (2018) | Internecine Discord: Party, Religion and History in Hanoverian Britain, c.1714-1765 | Dr Tim Hochstrasser |
| David Broder (2018) | Bandiera Rossa: Communists in German-occupied Rome, 1943-44 | Professor Vladislav Zubok |
| Ian Stewart (2017) | 'The Titan of the Early World': Celtic Ideas and National Thought in Britain, Ireland and France, 1700-1900 | Dr Heather Jones |
| Tommaso Milani (2017) | 'Les Belles Années du Plan'? Hendrik de Man and the Reinvention of Western European Socialism, 1914-36 ca. | Professor Piers Ludlow &Dr Heather Jones |
| Scott Gilfillan (2017) | Enclave Empires: Britain, France and the Treaty-Port System in Japan, 1858-1868 | Dr Antony Best |
| Corina Mavrodin (2017) | A Maverick in the Making: Romania’s de-Satellization Process and the Global Cold War (1953-1963) | Professor Piers Ludlow |
| Ollie Elliott (2017) | The American Press and the Rise of Authoritarianism in South Korea 1945-1954 | Professor Steven Casey |
| Cornelis Heere (2017) | The British Empire and the Challenge of Japan, 1904-1911 | Dr Antony Best |
| Serkan Kececi (2017) | The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire in the Caucasus against Its Southern Rivals (1821-1833) | Professor Dominic Lieven and Dr Antony Best |
| Paul Horsler (2017) | Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Nation: Local-Level Opinion and Defence Preparations Prior to the Second World War, November 1937 – September 1939 | Professor David Stevenson |
| Vishnu Juwono (2016) | Berantas Korupsi: a political history of governance reform and anti-corruption initiatives in Indonesia 1945-2014 | Dr Kirsten Schulze |
| Vladimir Dobrenko (2016) | Conspiracy of Peace: The Cold War, the International Peace Movement, and the Soviet Peace Campaign, 1946-1956 | Professor Arne Westad |
| Jin Li Lim (2016) | New China and its Qiaowu: The Political Economy of Overseas Chinese policy in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1959 | Professor Arne Westad |
| Chris Parkes (2016) | The Welles of Loneliness: Sumner Welles and the Creation of American Foreign Policy | Professor Steven Casey |
| Yu Suzuki (2016) | Relationship with Distance: Korea, East Asia and the Anglo-Japanese Relationship, 1880-1894 | Dr Antony Best |
| Sara Al-Qaiwani (2015) | Nationalism, Revolution and Feminism: Women in Egypt and Iran, 1880-1980 | Dr Kirsten Schulze & Dr Taylor Sherman |
| Ranj Alaaldin (2015) | The Rise of the Shi'a: 1958-1980 | Dr Kirsten Schulze |
| Rosalind Coffey (2015) | British Media and Decolonisation in Africa between 1957 and 1960 | Dr Joanna Lewis |
| Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2015) | Continuity of Moral Policy': A Reconsideration of British Motives for the Partition of East Africa in light of Anti-Slave Trade Policy and Imperial Agency, 1878-96 | Dr Joanna Lewis |
| Anton Harder (2015) | Defining independence in Cold War Asia: Sino-Indian relations, 1949-1962 | Professor Arne Westad |
| Simon Toner (2015) | The Counter-Revolutionary Path: South Vietnam, the United States and the Global Allure of Development, 1968-1973 | Professor Arne Westad |
| Takahiro Yamamoto (2015) | Balance of Favour: The Emergence of Territorial Boundaries around Japan, 1861-1875 | Dr Antony Best |
