Postgraduate Prospectus

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About our research degrees
We offer three main research degrees,
all examined by a thesis or dissertation:
MA by Dissertation – this will particularly
suit you if your circumstances make a
taught MA inappropriate and your previous
academic achievement indicates an ability
to undertake a research-only degree in
history (research training is best acquired
through a taught course). Our students may
register for an MA by Dissertation in any
topic for which we have the appropriate
supervisory expertise available, including
those not covered by our taught MA
courses. The minimum period of study
is usually one year full-time (two years
part-time) and your dissertation should
be no more than 30,000 words.
MPhil – this is examined by a thesis of
50,000 words (maximum), over a minimum
period of two years (four years part-time).
PhD – your PhD degree is examined by
a thesis of 80,000 words (maximum), over
a minimum period of three years (six years
part-time). We offer supervision in a wide
range of topics and have particular
expertise in a number of key areas.
Our graduates have achieved success in a
variety of professions. In addition to posts
within higher education, this includes work
in archives, research, managing research
funds, and other forms of educational
provision.
Staff and their research interests
Hugh Brogan, MA Cambridge
(Research Professor)
History of the United States
Catherine Crawford, BA British
Columbia, MSc Sussex, DPhil Oxford
(Lecturer)
History of medicine
Joan Davies, BA PhD London (Visiting
Fellow)
Social and political history of early
modern France; the reformation in France
Amanda Flather, BA PhD Essex
(Lecturer)
Social and cultural history of early
modern Europe
Mark Frost, BA Oxford, PhD Cambridge
(Lecturer)
Print, politics and religion in Britain’s
Asian Empire
Peter Gurney, BA MA DPhil Sussex
(Senior Lecturer)
Modern British social history; mass
consumption
Laila Haidarali, BA MA PhD York,
Toronto (Lecturer)
Cultural history of African American
women
Brian Hamnett, BA PhD Cambridge
(Research Professor)
Comparative Iberian empires; Iberian
background; Mexican history
Edward Higgs, BA DPhil Oxford
(Professor)
Statistical representations of society; the
history of state surveillance and personal
identification
Elena Hore, BA PhD Essex (Lecturer)
Contemporary Russian history and
politics
Jeremy Krikler, BA Cape Town, DPhil
Oxford (Reader)
Agrarian history/peasant studies;
South African history; labour history;
race and class
James Raven, MA PhD Cambridge
(Professor)
Modern British literary and cultural history
Matthias Röhrig Assunção, MA Paris,
PhD FU Berlin (Senior Lecturer)
History of Brazil and Venezuela,
especially social history and
agrarian history
Nadine Rossol, MA St Andrews, PhD
Limerick (Lecturer)
German history, especially social and
cultural history of Weimar and Nazi
Germany; European cultural and urban
history; police history
Alison Rowlands, BA Oxford, PhD
Cambridge (Senior Lecturer and Head
of Department)
Early modern German and European
history; gender history; witchcraft
– early modern
Rainer Schulze, BA PhD Göttingen
(Professor)
Twentieth-century German history;
regionalism in nineteenth- and
twentieth-century Europe
Kevin Schürer, BA CNAA, PhD London
(Professor)
Historical demography; historical social
structure and history of the family;
community history
Steve Smith, BA Oxford, PhD
Birmingham (Professor)
History of modern Russia and China;
comparative labour history
Tony Swift, BA Washington, MA PhD
California (Senior Lecturer)
Russian history; popular culture
Clodagh Tait, BA PhD Cork
(Senior Lecturer)
Social and cultural history of Britain
and Ireland, 1500-1700
Fiona Venn, BA PhD Bristol (Senior
Lecturer)
History of Anglo-American relations;
history of oil diplomacy
John Walter, MA Cambridge, MA
Pennsylvania (Professor)
Early modern British and European
history; historical anthropology;
historical sociology
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