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Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership - Student Profiles

 
 Eleanor  Barnett
Department:History
Supervisor: Professor Craig Muldrew, Professor Ulinka Rublack
College: Christ's
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: Food and Religion in Reformation England and Italy, c.1560-1640.
 Huw  Batts
Department: History
Supervisor: Professor Gary Gerstle
College: Trinity Hall
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: Conflict and citizenship in the New American West, 1865-1900
 Kris  Beaghton
Department: Centre for Film and Screen
Supervisor: Dr John David Rhodes
College: Clare College
AHRC Subject Area: Contemporary arts practice, theory in art, cultural theory
Title of Thesis: The Films and Media Work of Barbara Hammer
 Megan Clare Beech
Department: Faculty of English
Supervisor: Dr Ruth Abbott
College: Newnham
AHRC Subject Area: English
Title of Thesis:Dickens and the Making of His Readings
 Catherine  Bevilacqua
PhD in Law
Member of King's College
 Hari  Blackmore
Department: Division of Archaeology
Supervisor: Dr Elizabeth DeMarrais
College: Churchill
AHRC Subject Area: Archaeology
Title of Thesis: An evaluation of models of heterarchy and state formation on the Korean peninsula, with reference to the Kingdom of Baekje
 Giulia  Boitani
Department: MML
Supervisor: Bill Burgwinkle & Sylvia Huot
College: Pembroke
AHRC Subject Area: French
Title of Thesis: Founding Women in Late Medieval French Romance
 Emma  Brownlee
Department: Archaeology
Supervisor: Dr Susanne Hakenbeck
College: Pembroke
AHRC Subject Area: Archaeology
Title of Thesis: Change and Continuity of Burial Practice: a Study of Cultural and Religious Cohesion in Early Medieval Europe
Mr Karamvir  Chadha
Department: Philosophy
Supervisor: Dr Tom Dougherty & Prof Rae Langton
College: Trinity College
AHRC Subject Area: Philosophy
Title of Thesis: [Provisional] Informed Consent in Morality and Law
 Helen  Charman
Department: English
Supervisor: Dr Jan-Melissa Schramm
College: Trinity Hall
AHRC Subject Area: Literature
Title of Thesis: 'Transactions of maternal sacrifice in George Eliot's fiction'
 Orfeas  Chasapis-Tassinis
Department: Faculty of Law
Supervisor: Dr Lorand Bartels
College: Gonville & Caius College
AHRC Subject Area: Law
Title of Thesis: International legal norms governing the acts of international organizations under general international law
Department: History and Philosophy of Science
Supervisor: Prof Tim Lewens
College: Wolfson
AHRC Subject Area: Philosophy
Title of Thesis: The Cultural Evolution of Early Human Institutions
 Anna L. Christie
Department: Faculty of Law
Colleges: PhD Candidate in Law at Trinity College, Director of Studies in Law at Newnham College
AHRC Subject Area: Law
Title of Thesis: The New Hedge Fund Activism: Activist Directors and the Market for Corporate Quasi-Control
 Richard  Clements
Department: Law Faculty
Supervisor: Dr Surabhi Ranganathan
College: Girton
AHRC Subject Area: Law
Title of Thesis: Theorising the institutional structures of the international criminal courts and tribunals
 Tom  Crowley
Department: Archaeology
Supervisor: Dacia Viejo Rose
College: Jesus
AHRC Subject Area: Heritage
Title of Thesis: Heritage on the Margins: Brokerage and Enchantment on Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier
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 Michael  Dormandy
Department: Faculty of Divinity
Supervisor: Dirk Jongkind
College: Christ's
AHRC Subject Area: Theology, Divinity and Religion
Title of Thesis: An investigation into text-critical problems surrounding Revelation and the Codex Alexandrinus
Department: Archaeology
Supervisor: Prof Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
College: Jesus
AHRC Subject Area: Archaeology
Title of Thesis: Social identities and power in Early Bronze Age society: a comparative analysis of the construction and negotiation of age and gender ideologies in the burials of Ireland and Scotland
Department: English Literature
Supervisor: Dr Fred Parker
College: Kings
AHRC Subject Area: English
Title of Thesis: The Wound and the Show: Pain and Eccentricity in Sterne, Wordsworth, Lamb, and Dickens.
 Robert  Hawkins
Department: History of Art and Architecture
Supervisor: Professor Paul Binski
College: King's College
AHRC Subject Area: History of Art
Title of Thesis: 'Questions of Sculptural Idiom in The Later Bosses from Norwich Cathedral Cloister c.1411-1430'
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 Susanna  Hill
Department: English
Supervisor: Dr Anne Stillman / Dr Deborah Bowman
College: Clare
AHRC Subject Area: English
Title of Thesis: Close Reading as Performance
 Dominik  Hoehn
Department: Social Anthropology
Supervisor: Dr Maryon McDonald
College: King's
AHRC Subject Area: Design
Title of Thesis: The science of cities: an ethnography of evidence-based approaches to architectural and urban design in Denmark (provisional title)
 Luisa  Hulsrøj
Department: History
Supervisor: Chris Clark
College: Trinity Hall
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis (provisional): The Rise of National Socialism in the German Borderlands, 1930-1933
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 David  Kay
Department: Archaeology
Supervisor: Prof Charles French
College: King's
AHRC Subject Area: Archaeology/Anthropology
Title of Thesis: The Changing Rhythms of Settlement and Domestic Space in Marakwet, Northwest Kenya
Department: Music
Supervisor: Richard Causton
College: King's
AHRC Subject Area: Music
Title of Thesis: The Contemporary Cellist
 Charles  Lockwood
Department: History
Supervisor: Dr Jon Parry
College: Selwyn
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: 'Conceptions of public opinion and social change in the British New Right, c.1965-1983’.
 Michael  Loy
Department: Classics
Supervisor: Prof. Robin Osborne and Prof. Cyprian Broodbank
College: Pembroke
AHRC Subject Area: Archaeology
Title of Thesis: State interactions in Archaic Greece
 Johan  Lundberg
Department: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Supervisor: Prof. Geoffrey Khan
College: Trinity
AHRC Subject Area: Languages and Literature: Middle Eastern and African Studies; Linguistics
Title of Thesis: [Provisional] The Use and Development of Causative Constructions in Ancient Aramaic
 Robert  Machado
Department: Classics
Supervisor: Dr Rupert Thompson
College: Fitzwilliam
AHRC Subject Area: Classics
Title of Thesis: (Provisional) 'A Linguistic History of Classical Greek Oratory'
 Melina  Mandelbaum
Department: German and Dutch
Supervisor: Professor Sarah Colvin
College: King's
AHRC Subject Area: Languages and Literature: German Studies
Title of Thesis: The Fictional 'Bürger': Citizenship in the German Novel
Department: Classics
Supervisor: Dr John Patterson
College: Pembroke
AHRC Subject Area: Ancient History
Title of Thesis: [Provisional] The provincial soldier in the Roman army, from Trajan to Valerian
Department: Faculty of History
Supervisor: Prof Peter Mandler
College: Christ's
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: Theories of the mind and the disciplining of anthropology, c.1880-1910
 Lizzie  Marx
Department: History of Art
Supervisor: Jean Michel Massing
College: Pembroke
AHRC Subject Area: History of Art
Title of Thesis: Piquant Perfumes and Putrid Effluvia: Visualising Smell in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
 Cathy  Mason
Department: Philosophy
Supervisor: Paulina Sliwa, Tom Dougherty
College: Trinity
AHRC Subject Area: Philosophy
Title of Thesis: Moral Testimony, Disagreement, and Expertise
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Department: Classics
Supervisor: Richard Hunter
College: Churchill
AHRC Subject Area: Classics
Title of Thesis: The language of Menander in the interpretation of the Greek lexicographers
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 Katrina-Louise  Moseley
Department: History
Supervisor: Dr Lucy Delap
College: Wolfson
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: 'Food, Body Weight and the Construction of Selfhood in Britain, circa 1954–1990'
Department: English
Supervisor: Dr Raphael Lyne
College: Jesus
AHRC Subject Area: English
Title of Thesis: 'Forming Attention in Early Modern England: Lancelot Andrewes, Edmund Spenser, and the Pedagogies of Poetry and Prayer'
 Alex  Partridge
Department: Archaeology
Supervisor: Dr Anita Herle
College: Darwin
AHRC Subject Area: Archaeology
Title of Thesis: Between Two Words: contesting Copper Inuit pasts and futures in ethnographic museums
 Gabriele  Passabì
Department: History
Supervisor: Prof. Elisabeth Van Houts
College: Sidney Sussex College
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: "The writing of universal chronicles and ideas about empire at Bec, Mont-Saint-Michel and Gembloux" [Provisional]
Department: English
Supervisor: David Hillman
College: King's
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Title of Thesis: Shakespeare's Air
Department: Faculty of Classics
Supervisor: Professor Simon Goldhill
College: Christ's
AHRC Subject Area: Classics
Title of Thesis: Authority and Interpretation in Augustine of Hippo
 Edwin  Rose
Department: History and Philosophy of Science
Supervisor: Prof. Jim Secord
College: Churchill
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: Managing nature in the age of enlightenment: the practice of natural history in Britain, 1760-1830
 Abigail  Sage
Department: History
Supervisor: Professor Peter Mandler
College: Newnham
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: The Aspiring Writer and the Conditions of Authorship, 1870-1914
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 Conrad  Steel
Department: English
Supervisor: Dr Deborah Bowman
College: King's
AHRC Subject Area: English
Title of Thesis: Ambient lyric: Apollinaire and the limits of the social imaginary in twentieth-century poetry
 Vedran  Sulovsky
Department: History
Supervisor: Dr Nora Berend
College: Sidney Sussex
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: Aachen and the Hohenstaufen: State-Building and Ideology, cca. 1125 - 1268
Department: Architecture
College: King's
Thesis title: Racial and Relational Urbanisms: The Spatial Politics of Afro-Colombian Emplacement in Bogotá 
 Marietta D.C. van der Tol
Department: Politics and International Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Sara Silvestri
College: Sidney Sussex
AHRC Subject Area: Politics
Title of Thesis: Toleration, religious freedom and visibility of religion in the public space
 Anna-Luise  Wagner
Department: Italian
Supervisor: Dr Helena Sanson
College: Selwyn College
AHRC Subject Area: Languages and Literature
Title of Thesis: Margherita Costa - A 'Virtuosa' on the Literary Stage of the Seicento
 Luke  Warde
Department: French
Supervisor: Dr. Martin Crowley
College: Trinity Hall
AHRC Subject Area: Modern Languages and Literatures
Title of Thesis: Rhythm, Form and Affect in the works of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
 Pascal  Zambito
Department: History and Philosophy of Science
Supervisor: Prof Hasok Chang
College: Emmanuel
AHRC Subject Area: Philosophy
Title of Thesis: "Working against the myth-building tendencies in our mind" - arguments on language, philosophy and science in Wittgenstein's Nachlass
 Valerio  Zanetti
Department: History
Supervisor: Prof. Ulinka Rublack
College: St. John's
AHRC Subject Area: History
Title of Thesis: Female Sport in Renaissance Europe
Department: Faculty of Education
Supervisor: Dr Yongcan Liu
College: Robinson
AHRC Subject Area: Linguistics
Title of Thesis: Social class and language learning in the transnational migration context