Postgraduate students

Many research students are attached to the Centre for Imperial and Global History. Below is a list of all our associated students, their supervisors and their projects. You can also read case studies from some of our current students to find out more about their research and why they chose to come to Exeter.

Current postgraduate students

Student name	Supervisors	Thesis title
Beth Rebisz	Stacey Hynd/Heike Schmidt	Reading - women and humanitarian interventions in the Mau Mau Emergency, Kenya, 1952-59.
Charlotte Kelsted	Stacey Hynd, Ilan Pappe, Christopher Prior (Southampton)	British women and intimate colonialisms in mandate Palestine
Diana Valencia Duarte	Stacey Hynd, Silvia Espelt Bombin	Food in/security and environmental history in Colombia c.1960-90
Marlen von Reith	Stacey Hynd, Agnieszka Jachec-Neale	British and German discourses on child soldiering
Polly Winfield	Stacey Hynd/Peter Manning (Bath)	Museum engagement and transitional justice in South Africa
Robin Fiore	Samantha Hurn/Stacey Hynd	(Anthrozoology) on human-wildlife conflict in Kenya
Issy Sawkins	James Mark/Clarke David (Reading)	Martyrs and Memory: The Politics of Memorialising Anti-Communist Spiritual ‘Resistance’ in Romania
Iona Ramsay	Andrew Thompson	The Commonwealth and Apartheid
Jack Reeves	Emily Bridger, Nadia Naser-Jajjab, Stacey Hynd	The Freedom Bus: A Palestinian Activist Narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Deema Alhodaif		The Status of Bahrain between 1880-1907 and its Relationships with the British Empire: A Protectorate or Not?
Christopher Freeman		Beaming the British Empire: The Imperial Wireless Chain, c1900-40.
Yuwei Hasegawa	Richard Toye/Hao Gao	A political and intellectual biography of Leopold Amery
Maria-Teresa Marangoni	Dora Vargha	Global Health Discourse and Local Health Governance: A Complex Interplay
Sonia Wigh	Nandini Chatterjee/Sarah Toulalan	The Body of Words: A Social History of Sex and the Body in Early Modern South Asia
Prashant	Nandini Chatterjee/Jonathan Barry	Legalising and Enforcing the Socio-Religious Norms: The State, Caste and Women in the Maratha Empire, 1674-1818
Daniel Phillips	Gajendra Singh/Nandini Chatterjee	‘The Proximity of Purpose in Colonial Zoological Gardens: An Entangled History of Empire and the Establishment of the Calcutta Zoological Gardens, 1867-1908'

Completed PhDs

Student name	Supervisors	Thesis title
Emily Bridger	Stacey Hynd	Militant Mothers, Destructive Daughters: Female Violence in South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Struggle, 1980–1994
Rachel Chin	Martin Thomas	Anglo-French Relations and Mers El-Kebir: Rhetorical Justification and Imperial Associations
Tank Green	Andrew Thompson	From British Subject to Colonial Immigrant: A Study of Transposed Identities, 1939 to 1981
Benjamin Holmes	Catriona Pennell and Emily Baughan (Bristol)	The efforts of British charities to relieve German civilians, c.1914-1920s
Meg Kanazawa	Mark Jackson/Rebecca Williams	AIDS, India and Global Health: the Politics of Health Policy-Making
Rhian Keyse	Stacey Hynd	Violent Women and the Justice System in Colonial Kenya c1939–58
Simon Mackley	Richard Toye	Liberal Language, Imperial Cause: Rhetoric, Empire and the Liberal Tradition in British Politics
Stuart Mole	Andrew Thompson	The Commonwealth and Apartheid
Lori Oates	Reginia Gagnier/Richard Noakes	Secrecy Redefined: Print Culture and the Globalization of the Occult in the Long Nineteenth Century
Idir Oauhes	Martin Thomas/Robert Fletcher	History of the French Mandate in Syria, Specifically Regarding State Building

Dr. Temi Alanamu, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Centre for the History of Colonialisms, University of Kent

Dr. Gareth Curless, ESRC Future Research Leader & Lecturer in History, University of Exeter

Dr. Laure Humbert, Lecturer in Modern History, University of Manchester

Dr. Elizabeth Laruni, NORHED Postdoctoral Fellow, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda