Current Postgraduate Projects
PhD candidates in History
Jennifer Banister
Late Medieval Renaissance Italy with a focus on Warfare.
Supervisors: Prof J Stevenson and Dr A Macdonald
John R. Barrett
Clearances in Moray and Banffshire, 1760-1840
Supervisors: Dr Marjory Harper and Dr Andrew G. Newby
Jessica Bilhartz
A Re-evaluation of Henrietta Maria
Supervisors: Prof William G. Naphy and Prof Peter Davidson
Thomas Brochard
The 'civilizing' of the Far North of Scotland, 1560-1640
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Mackillop
Edward Carlsson Browne
The role of the half-brothers, step-fathers, foster-fathers and other ‘non-royal kin’ of Norwegian kings in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Supervisors: Scandinavian Studies
George Chittenden
Twentieth Century Scandinavian Compositional Music, c. 1925-65
Supervisors: Dr Frederik Pedersen and Dr Jonathan Stephens (Education)
Lynne Clark
Potentially dislocating experience of transatlantic emigration through examination of psychiatric records.
Supervisors: Prof M Harper and Dr A Dilley
Anne Crerar
The East India Company and Political Culture in Scotland and Ireland 1680-1813
Supervisors: Dr Andrew Mackillop and Dr Michael Brown
Richard Forty
Financial management, improvement and politics on the estates of the Duff family (Earls of Fife), 1722-1857
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Mackillop
Irene Furneaux
Pre-Reformation Scottish marriage supplications to the Papal Penitentiary
Supervisors: Dr Frederik Pedersen and Prof A.D.M Forte (Law)
Irene Garcia Losquino
The Split of West Germanic from Northwest Germanic through the analysis of the runic inscriptions in the Elder Futhark
Supervisors: Prof Stefan Brink & Dr Tarrin Wills
Cheryl Garrett
The political life and relevance of Lord John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, 1660-1724
Supervisors: Prof Jane Stevenson & Dr Marjory Harper
Alexander Gatos
A comparative analysis of policy initiatives designed to shape the outlook of German society highlighting the role of the German military establishment as an educator of society
Supervisors: Dr Christoph Dartmann & Dr Karin Friedrich
Kieran German
Jacobites and the north-east of Scotland
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Mackillop & Prof Jane Stevenson
Jenny Grieve-Laing
Coping with Exile: the Zemgor and the Russian Emigration, 1919-1939
Supervisors: Dr Tony Heywood & Dr Elizabeth MacKnight
Dee Hoole
'A pioneer custodial home for pauper idiot and imbecile boys’: Stanley Hall at West Riding pauper lunatic asylum: the 1901-1910 intake
supervisors: Dr David Smith & Prof Andrew Blaikie (Sociology)
John Hutton
The Campbells of Argyll in eighteenth century Scotland and America
Supervisors: Dr Michael Brown & Professor Cairns Craig (RIISS)
Françoise Kunka
Jeanne Deroin and the radical left: international feminism and the European émigré community of 1848 in London.
Supervisor: Dr Elizabeth MacKnight
Triin Laidoner
The practices concerned with ancestor worship in pre-Christian Scandinavia
Supervisors: Prof Stefan Brink & Prof Neil Smith (Archaeology)
Chris Langley
The Dissentions of Brethren: Presbyterian Worship and Military Government in the 1650s
Supervisors: Prof William G. Naphy & Dr Sandra Hynes
Sandra Lantz
Scandinavian Studies
Supervisors: Prof Stefan Brink & Dr Karen Bek-Pedersen
Richard Lawes
An Oral History of Scottish Mountaineering since 1979
Supervisor: Dr Ben Marsden
Stuart MacKenzie
Prisons in Northern Scotland in the early 19th century: the old system's end
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Mackillop
Aisling MacQuarrie
The contribution private fur traders made towards the development and consolidation of the British empire and the role Aberdeenshire and the North East
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Mackillop
Susan Marshall
Illegitimacy in Medieval Scotland
Supervisors: Dr Alastair Macdonald & Dr Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner
Bram Mathew
Perceptions of Vikings in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers from Britain and Ireland
Supervisors: Prof David Dumville & Dr Ralph O'Connor
Freya McCracken
Scottish emigrant letters home from Canada in the nineteenth century
Supervisor: Dr Michael Brown & Prof Cairns Craig (RIISS)
Steffi Metze
An imperial Enlightenment? The Scottish Enlightenment and India.
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Mackillop & Dr Catherine Jones (English)
Alastair Mitchell
Religion, Reformation and Self-Interest in the Diocese of Moray, 1560-1603
Supervisors: Prof William G. Naphy & Dr Alasdair Macdonald
Catherine O'Byrne
The experiences of partners of offshore oil workers in the North Sea.
Supervisor: Dr Elizabeth MacKnight
Jean Philip
Public Display and Public Punishment in Aberdeen and its Hinterland, 1440-1740
Supervisors: Dr. Alasdair Macdonald & Dr John Morrison
Lewis Rattray
Continental veterans and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1637-53
Supervisors: Professor Robert Frost & Dr Jackson Armstrong
Chloe Ross
Organised Labour in Comparative Persepctive: Ireland and Scotland, c. 1880-1920.
Supervisors: Dr Andrew G. Newby & Prof Tom Bartlett
Declan Taggart
Understanding Diversity in Old Norse Religion taking Þórr as a Case Study
Supervisors: Scandinavian Studies
Raymond Whelan
Archbishop William King European Philosopher
Supervisors: Dr Michael Brown
Lisa Wotherspoon
A comparative study of Old Irish and Old Norse literature on the role of status on masculine expression
Supervisors: Dr Tarrin Wills and Dr Ralph O'Connor
PhD candidates in History of Art
Lorraine Hesketh-Campbell
Scottish decorative arts and country house interiors 1714-1830.
Supervisor: Dr Jane Geddes
Fern Insh
How continental print sources shaped early modern Scottish culture & the delineation of subsequent Scottish print culture
Supervisors: Dr John Morrison, Professor Peter Davidson
Claire McKechnie
Oriental collections in Aberdeenshire houses (1850-1900)
Supervisor: Professor Jane Geddes
Fiona V. Salvesen
William Shiels, R.S.A. (1783-1857): identity, scientific enquiry and his cross-cultural art world in Edinburgh, London, New York and Charleston
Supervisor: Dr John Morrison
Mako Yoshizumi
Approaches to the Nude in the works of Caravaggio and his contemporaries
Supervisor: Dr John Gash
MLitt (Research) candidates in History
Andrew Elrick
Just Jingoism or Impetuous Imperialism? The British Occupation of Egypt, the Great Powers and the Conventions of 1885-88
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Mackillop
Matthew Lynas
Land and land reform in nineteenth-century Natal
Supervisors: Dr Andrew G. Newby & Dr Andrew Dilley
Brian Mackay
Financial Panics and the Foundation of the Federal Reserve
Supervisors: Dr Greg Smithers & Dr Andrew Dilley
Bethany Reader
Irish Nationalism in the British Empire
Supervisors: Dr Andrew Dilley & Dr Andrew G. Newby
Recently completed PhD Theses
Catherine Bourbeau PhD
The Migration of Scots to Québec: Montreal's Scottish Community and the Formation of Identities, From the 18th to the 21st Century. Dr. Bourbeau has recently completed a 2-year postdoctoral research appointment at the University of Guelph, Ontario.
Kimberly Chrisman Campbell PhD
Minister of Fashion: Marie-Jeanne ‘Rose’ Bertin, 1747-1813 (2002) (History of Art) Dr Chrisman Campbell is Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in FrenchArt at The Huntington, California.
Sandra Cardarelli (PhD) 2011
Siena and its contado: art, iconography and patronage in the diocese of Grosseto from c. 1380 to c.1480
Supervisor: Dr Tom Nichols
David Dobson PhD
The Scottish Merchants of Colonial Charleston (2006)
Stella Donaldson PhD
Fit for survival? A study of stress in the working classes of Scotland in the nineteenth century (2005)
Glen Doris
The problem of moral agency in the Scottish Enlightenment's view of stadial history, with particular attention to the Scottish philosophical response to the issue of slavery and its abolition (2011)
Linas Eriksonas PhD
National Heroes and National Identities: A Comparative Framework for Smaller Nations (2002) (History) Dr Eriksonas is now project co-ordinator in historical studies at the University of Glamorgan.
Alan Fimister PhD
Robert Schumann: Neo-scholastic humanism and the unification of Europe, 1886-1963
Edda Frankot PhD
Medieval Maritime Law and its Practice in the Towns of Northern Europe (2004) (History & Law) Dr Frankot has taught at the University of Groningen, and at the University of Aberdeen. She takes up a lectureship at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam in Autumn 2011.
Nicola Gauld PhD
The Nature of the Beast: Depictions of the Exotic Animal in Nineteenth-Century British Visual Culture (2005) (History of Art). Dr Gauld has taken up a 3-year post-doctoral research appointment at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aaron Hoffman PhD
'Distilled Death and Liquid Damnation': The Temperance Movement in Aberdeen, Scotland, 1830-1845" (2004)
Alexandra Jackson PhD
‘Not without Honour’: Paris Bordon in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Beyond (1500-1571) (2005) (History of Art)
Jeff Jue PhD
Heaven upon earth: Joseph Mede (1586-1638) and the legacy of Millenarianism, in the International Archives of the History of Ideas series through Springer
Ian Kelly PhD
Investigating Highland regimental identities at the time of the 1881 army reorganisation
Daniel MacCannell PhD
Cultures of proclamation: Looking beyond the press for the origins of the news in Britain and Ireland, c.1500-1642
Iain MacInnes PhD
The conduct and behaviour of Scottish armies, and the influence of chivalry on those armies, 1332-1357 Dr MacInnes is lecturer in Scottish History at UHI Millenium Institute Centre for History.
Angus Mackenzie PhD
Tùs gu Iarlachd: Eachdraidh Clann Choinnich, c. 1466-1638 (2005) (Celtic & History)
Dr Mackenzie now teaches Gaelic at the University of Glasgow
Kirsteen Mackenzie PhD
Presbyterian Church government and the 'Covenanted Interest' in England, Scotland and Ireland during the Commonwealth and Protectorate 1649-1660
Jennifer Mcdonald PhD
The Penitentiary and Ecclesiastical Careers: The Requests of Scottish Clergy in the Registers of the Sacra Apostolica Penitentiaria, 1449-1542 (2005). Dr McDonald now holds a post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen, Norway
Tom McInally PhD
The cultural influences of the Scots Colleges abroad achieved through their alumni in late 17th – early 18th century.
David McMullen PhD
The life of Ellen Dawson, a twentieth-century Scottish woman who was a communist labour activist in the United States during the 1920s (2005) Dr McMullen currently teaches at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.
Karen Miller PhD
Ecclesiastical Structural Reform in Ireland and Scotland in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (2003) (Celtic & History) Dr Miller now teaches history and is a member of staff of the US Air Force in Alaska.
Catherine F. Paterson PhD
The development of occupational therapy in Scotland 1900-1960 (2002)
Suzanne Rigg PhD
A study of the Scots involvment in the Canadian Fur Trade (2007)
Barry Robertson PhD
The Scottish aristocratic family, the Gordons of Huntly, c.1597- 1692
Alasdair D Ross PhD
The Province of Moray, c.1000-1230 (2003) (Celtic & History) Dr Ross was appointed to a Lectureship at the University of Stirling in 2003.
Joanna Soden PhD
The Role of the Royal Scottish Academy in art education 1826-1910 (2006) (History of Art) Dr Soden is the Keeper of Collections/Librarian, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Piotr Stolarski PhD
Friars on the frontier: Catholic renewal and the Dominican Order in southeastern Poland, 1594-1648.
Alexander Sutherland PhD
The Brahan Seer: the making of a legend (2005) Dr Sutherland currently teaches history at the University of Aberdeen.
Andrew Watson PhD
Constantine Ionides and the British collecting of French art (2002) (History of Art). Dr Watson teaches at Loretto School, Musselburgh.