Research students
History at Glasgow has an active postgraduate community, carrying out research on a wide range of topics. Check out our students' web pages!
Current research students
- Peter Aiken: The effectiveness of Allied special operations in WW2
- Akintunde Victor Ajayi: BENIN’S SOCIO-POLITICAL INFLUENCE IN EASTERN YORUBALAND
- Alyce Anderson: Examining Britain's West India Regiments
- Thomas Archambaud: The Case of the Macphersons: Highland clanship, imperial patronage and continental networks in 18th-century Britain
- James Arnaud: Women in the Great Highland Famine: Gender Relations, Subsistence Crises, and Relief Efforts 1847-1850
- Susie Banks: Millennial Mythologies: American Memory, Imagination, and Cr
- Alison Basil: 'Worse than wolves of France' - Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou: Bad Queens or Casualties of Failed Kingship?
- Richard Brija: Orphaned Heritage: Preserving the Material and Commemorative Culture of American Battlefield Graffiti from the First World War in Northern France.
- Ashley Brown: Fraternity, feuds, and the academic bubble: Masculinities at Scotland’s universities between 1560-1606
- Emma Brunton: Transformations in women’s spiritual power from pre-colonial to early colonial Rwanda.
- Eliska Bujokova: Tending to ‘His poor and sick brethren’: Care in the Scottish City, c 1720 c 1850
- Janice Mary Burns: A microhistory of Port Glasgow c. 1841, with reference to the economic and social role of Irish migrants
- Erin Burrows: Monuments of Glasgow: Shaping Public Identity, Cultural Memory and Social Cohesion
- Thea May Gillies Campbell: Investigate the changes to Classics teaching in primary, secondary and tertiary education in Scotland from 1944 - 2014 (part of Reception of Classical Antiquity in Scotland research theme) and chart the contribution of Classics.
- Simon Canning: Military analysis of the Scottish Covenanter armies
- Taylar Carty: 'Yuh tun ol' before yuh young': Colonial Violence and the Adultification of Enslaved Girls in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica and Barbados
- Giuseppe Celico: Women and the law in Milan before the Renaissance
- Yin Lam Ethan Chan: The Freier Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund in Halle-Neustadt
- Christina Chatzitheodorou: A historical comparative study of the role of female partisans in Greece, Italy, France, and Spain in the 1930s and 1940s
- Arron Cockell: Visions of Virility: Masculinity Within Case Studies of Inter-War British Fascism
- Craig Conner: Scottish Military Culture and Highland and Lowland Elites: A Comparative Study, 1493-1625
- Beth Cowen: James VI of Scotland: a British King-in-Waiting
- Valentina Cralli: Civil war and revolutions: ideology, ‘regeneration’ and conflict.
- Juliette Desportes: Geographies of 'improvement': the Annexed Estates 1752-1784
- Samantha Dobbie: The Importance of Women's Agency in the French Revolution, 1789-1793
- Claire Dobson: A gendered analysis of human and animal interaction during Scotland's witch hunts, 1563-1736
- Danielle Fleming: Native Americans and American Culture 1887-1924
- James Gallacher: The Accomplishments of Their Ancestors: Memory and Crusading in England, France, and Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century
- Amanda Gavin: Understanding and Interpreting Children’s Agency in Scotland
- Marianna Golinucci: ‘Gaping Silences Where Those Other Voices Should Be’: Race, Gender, and Activism in Scotland, 1980s-1990s
- Sam Hamad: The Rise of Illiberalism in the Era of the Global War on Terror
- Mairi Hamilton: Intimacy Corrupted: Domestic Abuse against Women in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
- Claire Hammond: ‘Going Native’, Malady and Madness: Representations of Masculinity in the Colonial Context of British New Imperialism 1880-1914
- Stephen Hanna: Evaluating Military Intelligence in War: The Burma Theatre of World War Two as a case study in objective focused analysis
- Euan Healey: Maritime Gaels: a Social History of Fishing Work in the Highland and Hebrides c. 1750-1914
- Bethan Holt: Maternal welfare and reproductive politics on the plantation in the age of indenture, 1834-c.1920.
- Chiara Howe: he Post-Transcendentalist Poetics of Walt Whitman
- Ayodele Ige: Medical Pluralism and Epistemic Contestation
- Niall Ingham: ‘M’ aghan cri, coir, gradhach’ – ‘My heifer beloved, kind and loving’: Human-cattle interactions in the Scottish Gàidhealtachd c.1750-1960
- Charlotte James Robertson: Women’s Aid as an international endeavour, 1971-1993.
- Callum Jamieson: Papal Judges-Delegate in England, c. 1120-c. 1216
- Susan John: Satire and Suffragettes
- Derrick Johnstone: Scottish Emigrants to East Jersey, 1683-1685
- Larissa Johanna Kraft: Representations of the Past in Political Discourse
- Jessica Leeper: Theorizing the Writings of Gregory of Tours: Saints, Relics, and Religious Objects
- Laura Leslie: John Erskine, First Earl of Mar and Regent of Scotland (d. 1572)
- Scott Macfie: Agricultural Improvement in South-West Scotland
- Niven Quinn Mackie: American Propaganda in the Korean War: Walking the fine line between apathy and annihilation.
- Katherine Mackinnon: Oral histories of refugee lives in Scotland 1974 - present
- Cameron Maclean: The Anglo-Scottish Monetary Union (1604-1707)
- Neil McClelland: Culture and Inequality after the Black Death: Tuscany and Campania
- Katharine McCrossan: The Co-operative Movement in Scotland After 1945
- Anna McEwan: Gendered citizenship and women’s relationship to systems of social care: Investigating the GDR’s Frauenparadies (1971-1989)
- Fraser McGowan: Intelligence culture as intelligence practice: the U.S. National Intelligence Council, 1979-1991
- Alan McIntyre: The formation of Scottish Identity in 1850s New York
- Adam Michael McNeil: Defending Poitou and Gascony, 1204-1307: Plantagenet Military
- Alana Rachel McPake: ‘Make do and mend’ to ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’: Attitudes towards Clothing Production and Consumption in Postwar Britain
- Mathilde Michaud: Popular Culture, Gender and Catholic Church: How Catholic Popular Education remodelled Québec's Gender Scripts, 1810-1880
- Rachel Millar: A study of the representation of women’s war work during the First World War and its aftermath in visual culture
- Deborah Molloy: The Sick Apple: A geocritical investigation into female mental illness in New York fiction set between 1925 and 1955
- Casey Moore: "Archiving oral histories in the wake of 21st century mass shootings"
- Dylan Andrew Moroch: Armament and Willpower of the Barbudos: The Relationship of Weapons, Strategy, and Insurgency in the Cuban Revolution
- Sophia Nash: What factors led to the generally poor reputation of British mounted troops in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (with particular focus on the link between equestrian skill and combat effectiveness)?
- Andreea Nicolau: Kongo nationalism in the era of African decolonization (1950-1966)
- Johan Norberg: Major military exercises and Russia's military power
- Anna M Paradis: On Production, Poverty, and Pestilence: Typhus in Glasgow
- Emma Partridge: Self-esteem and Individualism in Britain after 1945
- Clément RENAULT: Franco-British Intelligence Cooperation During the Second World War
- Derrick Michael Rowe: An Imperial Moment: American’s Conquest of the Philippines
- Thomas Sladen: A study of cults of saints in Yorkshire
- Russell Smith: Of Wings and Windrush: Recovering the Experience of Black Caribbean and African Volunteers in the Royal Air Force c.1939-1950
- Hannah Speed: Women’s life-writing and the suffrage campaign in Scotland c.1870s-1970s.
- William Spencer: The Official Record: For Whom?
- Andrew Stafford: The Immediate After Effects of the English Civil War Battle of Preston (1648): Battlefield Clearance and Burial Practices in Lancashire
- Kari Sund: Redefining The Hollywood Novel and its significance in the twenty-first century.
- Ole Marius Tørrisplass: Airpower for effective small state strategy in a competitive world
- Julia Vallius: Conceptualising and Contextualising Diversity in Charters
- Janette Walkinshaw: The Life of May Drummond, Quaker Preacher, 1710-1772
- David Waterman: The Identity of Associate Scottish Infantry Regiments
- Peter White: Re-disciplining Feminism: A history of Women’s and Gender Studies institutionalisation in the United Kingdom
- Rebecca Williamson: Female Sexuality on Trial: A Queer and Intersectional Analysis of 19th Century Scottish Court Records
- Grace Wright: Positioning Women’s Agency in Land Agitation and Protest in the Scottish Highlands and Islands 1847-1897
- Mengyuan Yue: Cultural diversity and remote working of UK NGO Employees
- Laura Zenner: Luxembourg's memorialisation of WWI
- Yuchang Zhao: A Comparison of Leprosy Countermeasures in China and Britain