Postgraduate Prospectus

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Amanda Wilkinson, Great
Holland, Essex – BA History
and Sociology ’07, MA
Cultural and Social History
’08 and PhD History
Staying at Essex to undertake
my PhD was an easy decision
to make, as I had completed
my BA and MA within the
University’s Department
of History, so knew the staff in my
Department, and my potential supervisor,
really well. Indeed, the Department of
History at Essex was simply the perfect
place for me to continue my studies.
My PhD examines the cultural and social
implications of women working away from
the home, in order to further understand
the nature of under-enumeration in the
census data between the years 1840
and 1944. This is an aspect of history
that I am fascinated with and I really
wanted to learn more about it. I love
the fact that my PhD gives me this
opportunity to really immerse
myself in my work, and to spend
time researching and developing my
writing further. Having really enjoyed
my undergraduate time and my MA
at Essex, I feel very lucky to have been
able to stay here and study further.
I would love to work in academia in
the future, so for me doing a PhD degree
is essential. Following completion of
my PhD, I would like to spend my time
lecturing and researching.
I will have many fond memories
of being at the University of
Essex, particularly the close
friends that I have made while
studying here.
Student
profile
Research areas
Research supervision is available in the
following fields:
n Community history
n Comparative labour history
n Cultural history of African American
women
n Early modern British history
n European cultural and urban history
n Gender history
n Historical demography
n Historical social structure and history
of the family
n History of Anglo-American relations
n History of Brazil and Venezuela,
especially social and agrarian history
n History of medicine
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History of oil diplomacy
History of state surveillance and
personal identification
History of the United States
Holocaust, genocide and forced
migration in the twentieth century,
including the history of Bergen-Belsen,
and the Roma and Sinti in Europe
Labour history
Mass consumption
Modern British social, literary and
cultural history
Police history
Print, politics and religion in Britain's
Asian Empire
Race and class
Russian history, politics and popular
culture
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Social and cultural history of Britain
and Ireland, 1500-1700
Social and cultural history of early
modern Europe
South African history
Statistical representations of society
Twentieth-century German history,
especially social and cultural history
of Weimar and Nazi Germany
Witchcraft – early modern
128 | Postgraduate Prospectus 2012