Research students

"Cultural mappings of the Imperial Tropics, 1815-1860."

“Carceral Spaces and Punitive Mobilities: Re-examining Chinese Migration in Colonial Maritime Southeast Asia, 1900-1941”

Supervisors: Dr Qingfei Yin and Dr Ron Po

Ziquan Zhou

“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

Matthew Cockerill

Provisional thesis title to be confirmed

Supervisor: Dr David Motadel

Francesca Mascanzoni

Thesis title to be confirmed.

Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow

Ryoya Mizuno

The International Thought of Arnold J. Toynbee: The Decline of the West and the End of the British Imperial System

Supervisor: Dr Dina Gusejnova

Omar Nasr

The British Empire and Islam in the Second World War

Supervisor: Dr David Motadel

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

Jonathan Slater

Indigestible, Disgusting, and Vile: The Development and Regulation of Ersatz Food Products in Germany during the First World War

Supervisor: Professor David Stevenson

Edoardo Vaccari

The Ventotene Moment -- Justice, Liberty, and European Federalism in the Political Thought of Third Force Socialism

Supervisor: Dr Dina Gusejnova

Maliha Ahmed

Bangladesh’s Path to Recognition, 1971-1974

Supervisor: Professor Steven Casey

Marcus Andreopoulos

"Disarming the Raj: Anglo-Pakistani Military Relations, 1945-1958."

Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze

Armand Azra bin Azlira

The End of Anticolonialism in Malaysia: From the British Recolonisation of Malaya to the 1969 Race Riots, c.1945-1969

Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze

Milton Chow

The Imperial Dimension in Pacific Diplomacy: Britain, the Dominions, and East Asia in the 1930s

Supervisor: Professor Antony Best

Mairead Costello

Global Pilgrims: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the British Empire, c. 1869-1914

Supervisor: Dr David Motadel

Stephanus Yusuf Tri Effendi

"Military Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism in Indonesia, 2002-2018."

Supervisor: Professor Kirsten E. Schulze

Isa Egiri

"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)

Jonathan Franco

"The Peacemaking and Peacekeeping Role of the United Nations in the Arab-Israeli Conflict."

Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze

Noel Mariam George

Refugees, Identity and the State: Post-partition histories of citizen becoming in India

Supervisor: Dr Dina Gusejnova

Yasmin Getirana

"The organisation of domestic workers in Brazil and Colombia through the Young Christian Workers movement, 1956-1988."

Supervisors: Dr Tanya Harmer

Sungok Lim

The Anglo-American approach and commonality upon East Asia and Korea, 1897-190

Supervisor: Professor Antony Best

Amir Mehdi

Provisional thesis title to be confirmed

Supervisor: Dr Kirsten Schulze

Malaika Newsome-Magadza

A history of ZANLA operatives in Africa, China and the Eastern Block, 1963-80: imagining Home and Nation in exile.

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis

Fergus Richardson-Soar

“’Amalume Lekani Mowa (Uncle Please Stop Drinking),’ Shebeen Kings and Strange Dreams: Rock Music, Antimony and Countercultural Challenges to Authoritarianism in Zambia. C.1969-1980.

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis, Dr Tim Hochstrasser and Dr Tim Gibbs (UCL)

Fabio Sappino

"Eritrean colony and its foreign policy with it's neighbours."

Supervisor: Dr David Motadel and Professor Charles Burdett (SAS - School of Advanced Studies)

Pritam Singh

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

Austin Swift

"Decolonization and Collective Memory in Central Africa: Case Studies from Gabon and the Republic of the Congo, 1960-91."

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis

Harriet Solomon

Beyond the Headlines: The Representation of Islam in Western Media – a Four Case Study Approach

Supervisors: Dr Kirsten Schulze and Professor Steven Casey

Hammad Mustafa Al-Madani Al-Qadri

"Unfulfilled Promises: An Analysis on U.S.-Pakistan Foreign Relations between 1998-2003."

Supervisor: Professor Steve Casey

Santiago Garcia Pardo

"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

Arianna Parisi

"Prison abolitionism within black feminism in the US."

Supervisor: Dr Imaobong Umoren

Ahmed Almansoori

"Between Two Worlds: The Middle East and the New Great Game in Central Asia (1991-2001)."

Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok

Arnaud Balner

"Robert Marjolin, European civil Servant (1948-1967)."

Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow

Oliver Barton

Dual Track Diplomacy: Britain, Intermediate Nuclear Forces, and Transatlantic Relations, 1977-87

Supervisor: Professor Matthew Jones

Bernard Gordon

Case studies on the UK and the European Investment Bank (EIB) - 1973-2019

Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow

Jeffrey Hawn Jr

From Collapse to Crisis: The Fall of the Russian Parliament and the Constitutional Crisis of 1993

Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok

Richard Hutton

"The Threats We Face: British Imperial Defence and the Far East, 1925-1934."

Supervisor: Professor Antony Best

Thomas Mitchell

"Inter-war revolutionary students in Moscow."

Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok

Kenichi Odrich

"Made in Europe? How Japanese foreign direct investment and British automotive policy shaped the European Single Car Market, 1979-1999."

Supervisor: Professor Piers Ludlow

Mina Rigby-Thompson

Cyprus, 1974: American Foreign Policy in the Eastern Mediterranean and Inter-NATO Conflict

Supervisor: Professor Matthew Jones

Jack Roush

Friends of the Family: Informal actors in Iran-US relations during the late Pahlavi period (1953-1979)

Supervisor: Dr Roham Alvandi

Gray Sergeant

Provisional thesis title to be confirmed

Supervisor: Professor Nigel Ashton

Marral Shamshiri-Fard

Resisting Marxism and Imperialism in the Persian Gulf: Political Alliances and Revolutionary Transnationalism, 1965 – 1979

Supervisor: Professor John Chalcraft (LSE Government), Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (St. Andrews History), Dr Sara Salem (LSE Sociology)

Balint Urmos

"Empire and International Communism: Britain, Soviet Russia and the Origins of the Global Cold War in East Asia, 1919-1929".

Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok

PhD Graduate	Thesis Title	Supervisor
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
Liam Connell (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