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Cambridge AHRC DTP Cohort 1 - Student Profiles

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Department: History
Supervisor: Professor Alexandra Walsham
College: Trinity
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: Religious Toleration and the Restoration Church Courts, 1660 - 1688
Department: Classics
Supervisor: Dr Christopher Kelly
College: Corpus Christi
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: Rethinking the Third Century: Greek Historiography and Political Narrative.
 Wendy  Andrews
Department: Architecture
Supervisor: Dr James Campbell
College: Queens'
AHRC Subject Area: Architecture
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Innovations in English wallpaper materials and manufacture from 1800-1940: the evidence of the Cowtan Company Order Books
Department: History
Supervisor: Dr. Joel Isaac
College: Jesus
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: Walter Lippmann and Democratic Politics
 Joseph  Ashmore
Department: English
Supervisor: Katrin Ettenhuber
College: Pembroke
AHRC Subject Area: English
Title of Thesis: Scriptural Topography in Seventeenth-Century Religious Writing
 Jack  Belloli
Department: English
Supervisor: Steven Connor
College: Queens'
AHRC Subject Area: Languages and literature
Title of Thesis: Constructions of skill in experimental theatre since Beckett
Department: Faculty of Music
Supervisor: Dr Benjamin Walton
College: Emmanuel
AHRC Subject Area: Music
Title of Thesis: French grand opera in America, 1835-1860
 Melissa  Berrill
Department: French
Supervisor: Dr Miranda Griffin
College: Emmanuel
AHRC Subject Area: Languages and literature
Title of Thesis: The Old French Crusade Cycle
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 Lucy  Bollington
Department: Centre of Latin American Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Geoffrey Kantaris
College: Clare College
Title of Thesis: Reframing Excess: Death and Power in Contemporary Mexican Literary and Visual Culture
Department: Faculty of Music
Supervisor: Richard Causton
College: King's
AHRC Subject Area: Music (composition)
Title of Thesis: The Abstraction of Spectral Sonorities
Department: Faculty of Law
Supervisors: Dr David Erdos and Dr Kirsty Hughes
College: Emmanuel College
AHRC Subject Area: Law
Title of Thesis: Information Law in an Era of Public Services Commissioning: The Implications for Privacy, Confidentiality and Data Protection
 Stijn  Conix
Department: History and Philosophy of Science
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Lewens
College: Queens'
AHRC Subject Area: Philosophy
Title of Thesis: Radical Pluralism, Ontological Underdetermination, and the Role of Values in Species Classification.
Department: History
Supervisor: Dr. Henning Grunwald
College: Wolfson
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: The occupation of Germany and the British public, 1942-49
 Lorraine  de la Verpillière
Department: History of Art
Supervisor: Dr Alexander Marr
College: Pembroke college
Research area: ‘Visceral Creativity: Digestion, Earthly Melancholy, and Materiality in the Visual Arts of Early Modern France and the German-Speaking Lands.'
Department: Italian
Supervisor: Dr Helena Sanson
College: Clare College
AHRC Subject Area: Italian Studies
Title of Thesis: From the Restoration to the Pisanelli Code (1814-1865): A Historical and Cultural Assessment of the Legal Status of Women in the Centre-North of the Italian Peninsula
 Rafael  Dernbach
Department: German
Supervisor: Prof. Andrew J. Webber
College: King's College
AHRC Subject Area: Film Studies
Title of Thesis: Anticipatory Realism - constructions of future in contemporary documentary practices
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 Robert  Evans
Department: Faculty of History
Supervisor: Rosamond McKitterick, Richard Sowerby
College: Sidney Sussex
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: Theology and the history of the recent past in the Carolingian world, 700-900AD
Department: History
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Pearsall & Dr. William O'Reilly
College: Pembroke
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Title of Thesis: Missionaries and State Formation in America 1688-1730
 Freddy  Foks
Department: History
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Mandler
College: Trinity Hall
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: British anthropology and the idea of the 'primitive society' c. 1920 - 1970
 Vincent  Garton
Department: Politics and International Studies
Supervisor: Dr Duncan Kelly
College: Trinity
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: Time and catastrophe in continental political thought, 1898–1969
 Abigail L. Glen
Department: Faculty of English
Supervisor: Dr J.A. Tasioulas, Prof. Barry Windeatt
College: Clare
AHRC Subject Area: English
Title of Thesis: The use of beast imagery in the art and literature of Medieval Britain to perpetuate female sexual control
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 Jerome  Greenfield
Department: History
Supervisor: Professor Robert Tombs
College: St. Catharine's
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: Public finance and the making of the modern French state, 1799-1853
 Blake  Gutt
Department: French
Supervisor: Professor Bill Burgwinkle
College: King's
AHRC Subject Area: French
Title of Thesis: Rhizomes, Parasites and Trees: Systems of Thought in Medieval French and Occitan/Catalan Literary Texts.
Department: Education
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Nikolajeva
College: Homerton
AHRC Subject Area: Languages and Literature
Title of Thesis: Hidden Economies and Secret Societies: Political Agency in Literature for Young People
 Benjamin  Hinson
Department: Archaeology
Supervisor: Hratch Papazian
College: Magdalene
AHRC Subject Area: Archaeology
Title of Thesis: Coming of Age or an Age of Becoming? The Role of Childhood in Identity Formation at Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom Egypt
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 Isidoros Charalampos Katsos
Department: Divinity
Supervisor: Dr. Rowan Williams
College: Pembroke
AHRC subject area: Philosophy of Religion & Historical Theology
Title of Thesis: The Metaphysics of Light in the Hexaemeral Literature - From Philo of Alexandria to Ambrose of Milan
Department: Classics
Supervisor: Dr Emily Gowers
College: Clare
AHRC Subject Area: Classics
Title of Thesis: [provisional] Concepts of Authorship in the Ancient Reception of Virgil
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 Cynthia  Larbey
Department: Archaeology
Supervisor: Professor Martin Jones
College: Jesus College
AHRC Subject Area: Archaeobotany
Title of Thesis: There are significant phylogenetic evolutionary differences in human adaptation to diet - how does that correlate with a deep history of processed plant food consumption?
Department: Classics
Supervisor: Dr. Emily Gowers
College: Newnham
AHRC Subject Area: Classics
Title of Thesis: [provisional] Nature or nurture?: Roman epic's interrogation of gender and sexuality as natural and/or cultural
 Harriet  Lyon
Department: History
Supervisor: Prof. Alexandra Walsham
College: Christ's
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: The afterlife of the dissolution of the monasteries, 1539-c.1700
Department: Law
Supervisor: Prof. David Ibbetson
College: Trinity Hall
AHRC Subject Area: Law and Legal Studies
Title of Thesis: The Concept of Equity in Early-Modern Legal Scholarship
 Emilija  Marcinkeviciute
Department: Law
Supervisor: Dr Michael Waibel
College: Trinitu
AHRC Subject Area: Law
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 Nigel  Meager
Department: Education
Supervisor: Dr Richard Hickman
College: Queens'
AHRC Subject Area: Education and the Arts
Title of Thesis: Using filmmaking as method in the exploration, description, analysis and interpretation of children's experience as they make art in primary school.
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 Paul  Merchant
Department: Centre of Latin American Studies
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
College: St John's
AHRC Subject Area: Modern Languages
Title of Thesis: Ideas of home in contemporary Argentine and Chilean cinema
Mr Alexander Paul Moran
Department: Philosophy
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Crane, Prof. Rae Langton
College: Queens' College
AHRC Subject Area: Philosophy
Title of Thesis: Perception and Reality (Working Title)
 Nicolò  Morelli
Department: Italian
Supervisor: Dr Heather Webb
College: Pembroke
AHRC Subject Area: Italian Studies
Title of Thesis: Animal imagery in Petrarch's poetry
Dr Thomas J. Nelson
Department: Classics
Supervisor: Prof. Richard Hunter
College: Trinity
AHRC Subject Area: Classics
Thesis Title: Early Greek Indexicality: Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry
 Anna  Nickerson
Department: Faculty of English
Supervisor: Dr Michael Hurley
College: Girton
AHRC Subject Area: English
Title of Thesis: Repetition in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry
 Vangelis  Pappas
Department: Classics
Supervisor: Dr Robert Wardy
College: Pembroke
AHRC Subject Area: Philosophy
Title of Thesis: "Aristotle on the metaphysical status of mathematicals"
 Afra  Pujol i Campeny
Department:Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Supervisor: Dr Ioanna Sitaridou
College: Queens'
AHRC Subject Area: Linguistics
Title of Thesis: Word Order in Old Catalan and Old Occitan
 Tom  Pye
Department: History
Supervisor: Professor John Robertson
College: King's
Title of Thesis: The Gothic Past in Scottish Thought, c.1750-1820
 Hazel  Robins
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Manuel Lisboa and Prof. Brad Epps
College: Queens' College
AHRC Subject Area: Portuguese Literature
Title of Thesis: Problematics and potential in using allegory to critique Anglo-Portuguese relations in the nineteenth century
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 Jacobus P.P. Saers
Department: Archaeology and Anthropology
Supervisor: Dr Jay Stock
College: Downing College
AHRC Subject Area: Biological Anthropology
Title of Thesis: Ontogeny and functional adaptation of pedal trabecular bone
 Susanne  Schmidt
Department: History and Philosophy of Science
Supervisor: Professor Nick Hopwood
Advisor: Professor Peter Mandler
College: Clare College
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: The midlife crisis, gender, and social science in the United States, 1970–2000
Email: sas92 at cam.ac.uk
 Daniel  Smith
Department: Theology
Supervisor: Jacob Sherman
College: Jesus
AHRC Subject Area: Theology
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 Harriet  Soper
Department: Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
Supervisor: Dr Richard Dance
College: King's
AHRC Subject Area: English
Title of Thesis: The Anglo-Saxon Life Course: Youth and Age in Old English Literature
Department: History
Supervisor: Christopher Clark
College: St. John's
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: War and Political Thought in Prussia in the First Half of the Reign of King Frederick II, 1740-1763’
 Emily  Wright
Department: Archaeology
Supervisor: Prof. Cyprian Broodbank
College: Pembroke
AHRC Subject Area: Archaeology
Subject of Thesis: Cremation and inhumation practices in the Mediterranean, 1500-500 BC
 Jack  Wright
Department: History and Philosophy of Science
Supervisors: Anna Alexandrova, Ha Joon Chang
College: King's
AHRC Subject Area: Philosophy
Thesis topic: Contextualism and pluralism in economics
 Alex  Wright
Department: English (C.18th and Romantic Studies)
Supervisor: Dr. Philip Connell
College: Sidney Sussex
AHRC Subject Area: Literature
Title of Thesis: Literary History and Historia Literaria in Eighteenth-Century England
Mr Tom  Young
Department: History Of Art
Supervisor: Jean Michel Massing
College: Pembroke
AHRC Subject Area: History of Art
Title of Thesis: Art, Aesthetics and Knowledge in Colonial India