Past research students

Katharine Ault - ‘Giotto and Non-Giotto in Nineteenth-Century Britain’ (2025). Funded by the AHRC CHASE Consortium

Allan Norris - ‘On Figuration in the Work of Post-Conceptual British Women Painters’ (2025). Funded by the AHRC CHASE Consortium

Emma Hardy - ‘A Modern but Useful Art: William Morris, Jeffrey and Co. and the Morris & Co. Wallpapers, 1864-c. 1928’ (2024). Funded by the OOC Collaborative Doctoral Award with Sanderson

Dawn Kanter - ‘Collecting and Connecting Portrait Sittings: a Re-evaluation of Portrait-Sitting Accounts in Enhancing Knowledge and Understanding of British Portraiture, 1900-1960’ (2024)

Bonnie Emmett - ‘Housing for Single Working Women in Inter-War London, 1919-1939’ (2023)

Margaret Leeson - ‘The Image of the Beggar in Britain c. 1760 to 1815’ (2022)

Amanda Stevens - ‘Home on the Rails: The design, fitting and decoration of train interiors in Britain, c.1920-1955’ (2022). Funded through an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, with the Science Museum Group (National Railway Museum, York)

Jane Lamb - ‘The Commodification of the Celebrity Portrait: An analysis of photographic business practice in relation to image mass production in London, c. 1855-1865’ (2019)

Nick Garrard - ‘Ecclesiastical Art of the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries from a Contextural/Liturgical Perspective’ (2019)

Siobhan McDermott - ‘Irish Travelling Artists: Ireland, Southern Asia and the British Empire 1760-1850’ (2019)

Antonio Fiore - ‘The Artist as an Instrument of Propaganda: Giulio Rosso and the Decorative Arts in Italy during the Fascist Ventennio’ (2017)

Nick Baker - ‘A Market of Reputations: The British Art-World 1975-90 and the Marketing of the 'New British Sculpture'’ (2015)

Mandy Bentley - ‘The Unknown Florine Stettheimer: Fame, Femininity and 'Salon Space'’ (2015)

Kevin Parker - ‘Elusive Translation: Film and Video in the work of Isaac Julien, Zineb Sedira and Alia Syed’ (2015)

Ben Pritchett - ‘British Neo-Constructivism between 1956 and 1978: Art and the Politics of Technoscientific Modernisation’ (2015) 

Laura Bolick - ‘Culture, Humanism and Intellect: Cardinal Bessarion as Patron of the Arts’ (2014)

Marjorie Corner - ‘The Work of William Giles (1830-1913): his Paintings and Photographs’ (2013)

Gilda Williams - ‘Modern Gothic’ (2012)

Heather Hanna - ‘Framing Hair: Serial Strategies in Contemporary' (2012)

Melody Mobus - ‘The Burford Masons, c. 1630-1730’ (2012)

Clare Taylor - ‘‘Figured Paper for Hanging Rooms’: The manufacture, design and consumption of wallpapers for English domestic interiors, c.1740-c.1800’ (2010)

Mahnaz Shah - ‘The Venice Hospital: an Investigation into its Structural Formulations’ (2010)

Stella Lewis - ‘El Greco and Colour’ (2009)

Nicolette Duckham - ‘Pride or Prejudice? Sir Herbert Baker’s Architectural Work in South Africa’ (MPhil) (2009)

Gwendolen Webster - ‘Kurt Schwitters’s Merzbau’ (2008)

Ekaterina Morozova - ‘American Art Criticism and the Crisis of Art History Writing, 1962-1967’ (2008)

Atta Kwami - ‘Modernist and Street Painting in Kumasi, 1950-2000’ (2007)

Mike Belshaw - ‘Art, Writing and Autobiography’ (2006)

Anna Green - ‘Growing up with Modernité: Representations of Childhood and Adolescence in French Painting, 1848-1886’ (2003)

Juan Jose Gomez Gutierrez - ‘Italian Communist Party Cultural Policies during the Post-war Period, 1944-1951’ (2003)