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
- 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
- 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.
- Erin Burrows: Monuments of Glasgow: Shaping Public Identity, Cultural Memory and Social Cohesion
- Simon Canning: Military analysis of the Scottish Covenanter armies
- Peter Carroll: Scottish institutional religion’s attitudes towards, and involvement in, Atlantic slavery, 1630 – 1838
- 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
- Christina Chatzitheodorou: A historical comparative study of the role of female partisans in Greece, Italy, France, and Spain in the 1930s and 1940s
- Beth Cowen: James VI of Scotland: a British King-in-Waiting
- Valentina Cralli: Civil war and revolutions: ideology, ‘regeneration’ and conflict.
- Eilidh Finlayson: Gendering Scottish-Atlantic Slavery: property rights, kinship, and the female beneficiaries of transatlantic wealth, 1770-1838
- Danielle Fleming: Native Americans and American Culture 1887-1924
- 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
- Mairi Hamilton: Intimacy Corrupted: Domestic Abuse against Women in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
- 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
- Fergus Holmes-Stanley: Pictish Pasts: Quantifying the survival of narrative culture in central and late medieval manuscripts.
- Bethan Holt: Maternal welfare and reproductive politics on the plantation in the age of indenture, 1834-c.1920.
- 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
- Susan John: Satire and Suffragettes
- Roslin Kerr: Popular sovereignty in early modern Scotland: constitutional theory and popular consent, 1603-1746
- Angeliki Kokkali: Abortion and Contraception Rights and Feminism in Post-Junta Greece: Local Campaigning in a Global Context (1976-1993)
- 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 Mackie: American Propaganda in the Korean War: Walking the fine line between apathy and annihilation.
- Cameron Maclean: The Anglo-Scottish Monetary Union (1604-1707)
- Nathan MacLennan: “They have hazarded lives and fortunes to serve his majesty”: Royalist ideology and identity in Cromwellian Scotland 1652 -1660
- Neil McClelland: Culture and Inequality after the Black Death: Tuscany and Campania
- Alan McIntyre: The formation of Scottish Identity in 1850s New York
- Alana Rachel McPake: ‘Make do and mend’ to ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’: Attitudes towards Clothing Production and Consumption in Postwar Britain
- Rachel Millar: A study of the representation of women’s war work during the First World War and its aftermath in visual culture
- Darren Miller: Medieval Dumfries inferred from 12th – 16th sources, later records, and cartographic evidence
- 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 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)
- Thajilah Olaiya: African Lineage in the Danish West Indies: Amina People
- Emma Partridge: Self-esteem and Individualism in Britain after 1945
- Clément Renault: Franco-British Intelligence Cooperation During the Second World War
- Derrick 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
- Tianwen Song: Task-based learning: Helping Children Learn History and a Second Foreign Language through Gamification
- Hannah Speed: Women’s life-writing and the suffrage campaign in Scotland c.1870s-1970s.
- 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.
- Julia Vallius: Conceptualising and Contextualising Diversity in Charters
- 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