Postgraduate researchers

School of English, Drama and Creative Studies

PhD candidates

  • Ruth Caddick, ‘An Edition of the Older Scots Romance Clariodus’. Supervisor: Dr Emily Wingfield
  • Neelam Hussain, ‘The Compilation & Career of Kitāb Sirr al-Asrār’. M3C AHRC award holder. Supervisors: Prof. Wendy Scase and Dr Richard Todd
  • Andy Hyde, ‘An Epic Redemption: Re-reading Some Aberrant Eleventh-Century Bodies’. Supervisor: Dr Philippa Semper
  • Jim McTear, ‘A Critical Study of Andrew of Wyntoun's Original Chronicle’. Supervisors: Dr Emily Wingfield and Dr David Griffith
  • Hannah Millard, ‘The ‘Wyrm’ in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture’. Supervisor: Dr Philippa Semper
  • Mary Ward, ‘Imaginary landscapes in Old English literature’. Supervisor: Dr Philippa Semper 

MRes candidates

  • George Belgrove, ‘Melancholy and Medicine in Late Medieval English Poetry’. Supervisors: Dr Victoria Flood and Dr David Griffith
  • Katie Richards, ‘Impairment and Chronic Illness in Old English Literature’. College of Arts and Law Scholarship. Supervisor: Dr Philippa Semper
  • Rachel Tudor, ‘The Old English ‘Order of the World’’. Supervisor: Dr Philippa Semper
  • MLitt candidates

  • Imogen Corrigan, ‘The nature and function of the foliate head in the medieval English parish church’. Supervisor: Dr David Griffith 

Recently completed

  • Rebeca Cubas-Peña, ‘Every practitioner his own compiler’: Late medieval practitioners and the compilation of Middle English medical books, with special reference to York Minster Library, MS XVI E. 32' (PhD). Supervisor: Prof. Wendy Scase, 2016
  • Anna Gottschall, ‘The Pater Noster and the laity in England c.700 – 1560, with special focus on the clergy’s use of the prayer to structure basic catechetical teaching' (PhD). Supervisor: Prof. Wendy Scase, 2016
  • Emily Rozier, ‘The Galaunt Tradition in England, c. 1380 - c. 1550: The Form and Function of a Satirical Youth Figure’ (PhD). Supervisor: Prof. Wendy Scase, 2016
  • Gabriel Bell, ‘Able to stonde among the Worthi Nyne!’: The Use of the ‘Tenth’ Worthy as Political Propaganda in England and Scotland’ (M Res). CAL funded. Supervisor: Prof. Wendy Scase, 2016.
  • Hannah Millard, ‘The Uses of Atypical Text in Anglo-Saxon Literary Contexts’ (MRes). Supervisor: Dr Philippa Semper, 2017 
  • School of History and Cultures

PhD candidates

  • Lucrezia Campagna, ‘Ceramics and society in Rome in the central middle ages’, Supervisors: Dr Chris Callow and Prof Chris Wickham
  • Jonathan Dugdale, ‘An entangled history of Liao architecture’, AHRC award holder. Supervisors: Prof. Naomi Standen and Dr Dominik Maschek
  • Frances Durkin, ‘Crusade Preachers: Identities and Impact, 1095–c.1215’. Supervisor: Dr. William Purkis
  • Geoffrey Humble, ‘The politics of portrayal: narrative and rhetoric in Yuanshi biography’. AHRC award holder. Supervisor: Prof. Naomi Standen
  • Li Wanchun, ‘A study of the relations between the Arab Caliphate and other political entities (the Sogdians, Chinese, Turks and Tibetans) in Transoxiana from 705 to the 810s’. Supervisors: Dr Arezou Azad and Prof. Naomi Standen.
  • Ian Styler, ‘An Analysis of the Longevity, Influence and Success (or Otherwise) of the Shrine of St Æthelthryth at Ely’, College of Arts and Law Doctoral Scholarship. Supervisors: Dr William Purkis and Dr Simon Yarrow
  • Steve Walker, ‘Politics and Identity in post-Roman Cumbria’. Supervisor: Dr Chris Callow
  • Laura Whitehouse, ‘Gendering burial assemblages in early Anglo-Saxon England’. Supervisor: Dr Roger White
  • Xie Chen, ‘Collection and patronage of the arts by Tang courts’, Li Siguang Scholarship 2016-19. Supervisors: Prof. Naomi Standen and Dr Liz L’Estrange
  • Xue Chen, ‘Breaking the boundaries: the historical identity of Khitan Liao and its interpretations’, College of Arts and Law Doctoral Scholarship 2015-18 and Neville Chamberlain Postgraduate Scholarship 2015-16. Supervisor: Prof. Naomi Standen

MRes candidates

  • Moayad Hanoush, ‘Devotional Practice in the “Counter-Crusades”’. Supervisors: Dr William Purkis and Dr Arezou Azad
  • Leah Ruston, ‘Jewish settlement in England, 1066-1190’. Supervisors: Dr Simon Yarrow and Dr Miriam Muller
  • John Seasholtz, MA by Research DL PT. ‘The Economic Impact of the Camino de Santiago on Local Communities in Medieval Spain’. Supervisors: Dr William Purkis and Dr Simon Yarrow

Visiting students

  • Liu Yu, ‘Comparative studies on Nestorianism and Catholicism in Yuan China’, China Scholarship Council visiting student from South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, PRC. 2016-17. Supervisor: Prof. Naomi Standen. 

Recently completed

  • Georgina Fitzgibbon, ‘Comparisons, Connections and Contexts: Cistercian Monasticism and the Cult of Saints’ Relics, c.1100-c.1250’. (PhD) M3C AHRC award holder. Supervisors: Dr William Purkis and Dr Simon Yarrow
  • Michael Alley, ‘Was the Norman Conquest of Sicily, 1060–91, a Proto-Crusade?’ (MRes). Supervisor: Dr William Purkis (2016)
  • Bernadette McCooey, ‘Farming Practices in pre-modern Iceland’ (PhD). Supervisor: Dr Chris Callow (2016)
  • Ryder Patzuk-Russell, ‘The Development of Education and Grammatica in Medieval Iceland‘ (PhD). Supervisor: Dr Chris Callow (2017)
  • Lance Pursey, ‘The Inconvenient North: Mobility and Settlement in the 11th Century Liao and Song’, project student on AHRC Research Grant: Understanding cities in the premodern history of Northeast China, c. 200-1200. Supervisor: Prof. Naomi Standen.
  • Beth Spacey, ‘Miracles and Marvels in Latin Narrative Histories of the Crusades, 1095–1204’ (PhD). Supervisor: Dr William Purkis (2016)

Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies

PhD candidates

  • Andrew Blackler, ‘The medieval towers of Greece: re-interpreting their roles in the light of a reconstruction of Late Medieval Euboea’. Supervisor: Dr Archie Dunn
  • Alistair Davidson, ‘Usurpation narratives’. Supervisor: Dr Ruth Macrides
  • Ali Miynat, ‘Cultural and socio-economic relations between the Turcoman states and the Byzantine Empire, with a corpus of Turcoman coins in the barber Institute of Fine Arts’. Supervisor: Dr Archie Dunn
  • Stephanie Novasio, ‘The late Byzantine life course’.  AHRC M3C award holder.  Supervisor: Prof Leslie Brubaker
  • Flavia Vanni, ‘Byzantine stucco decoration 850-1453. Cultural and economic implications across the Mediterranean world’. AHRC M3C award holder.  Supervisors: Prof. Leslie Brubaker and Dr. Ruth Macrides
  • Jessica Varsallona, ‘Palaiologan architecture in Constantinople: the history of buildings, stratigraphic analysis, and infrared thermography (IRT)’. BRIHC fellowship. Supervisors: Prof. Leslie Brubaker and Dr. Ruth Macrides
  • Lauren Wainwright, ‘Portraits of Power: Female Imperial Imagery in the Byzantine Empire’. AHRC M3C award holder.  Supervisors: Prof. Leslie Brubaker and Dr Elizabeth L’Estrange
  • Wei-Shing Lin, ‘The dynamics of the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Cilician Armenian economy’. Supervisor: Dr Archie Dunn
  • Tülay Yeşiltaş, ‘Late Antique and Byzantine secular and religious sites in Dersim (Ancient Sophene) of the 4th to 11th centuries’. Supervisor: Dr Archie Dunn

MRes candidates

  • James Baillie, ‘Byzantium and the Black Sea, 1150-1215’. Supervisor: Dr Ruth Macrides
  • Marco Dosi,Rome after Rome.The cult of the state, ideology and propaganda in the reigns of Zeno (474-491) and Anastasius (491-518)’.Supervisor: Prof. Michael Whitby

Recently completed

  • Annika Asp-Talwar, ‘ Trebizond and Constantinople, 1253-1452’. M3C AHRC award holder. Supervisor: Dr Ruth Macrides
  • Jeff Brubaker, ‘Religion and Diplomacy: the Role of the Disputatio in Byzantine-Latin Relations after 1204’ (PhD). Supervisor: Dr Ruth Macrides (2016)
  • Siren Celik, ‘A Historical Biography of Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425)’ (PhD). Supervisor: Dr Ruth Macrides (2016)
  • Élie De Rosen, ‘The fate of the Byzantium’s urban settlements in Greece from the ninth to the eleventh centuries’. Supervisor: Dr Archie Dunn
  • Alex Feldman, ‘Byzantium, the Black Sea littoral and the End of Antiquity and the Migration Periods on the Steppe and Crimea: ca.800-1204’. Supervisor: Dr Archie Dunn
  • Francisco Lopez-Santos Kornberger, ‘Power in eleventh-century Byzantium: Rethinking its nature from an interdisciplinary approach’. M3C AHRC award holder. Supervisor: Dr Ruth Macrides
  • Andrea Mattiello, ‘Late Byzantine Mystras and the impact of foreign brides’ (PhD).  Supervisor: Prof. Leslie Brubaker (degree to be awarded 2017/18)
  • Maria Vrij, ‘Byzantine coinage during the transitional period’ (PhD).  Supervisor Prof Leslie Brubaker (degree to be awarded 2017)