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History Research Students

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Robyn Atcheson, 'Poverty, poor relief and public health in Belfast and its region c.1800-1851' (Prof. Gray)

Maxwell Barrett, 'The role of Queen-consort in the 20th century' (Dr Corthorn)

Mark Benson, 'Abortion and Northern Ireland' (Prof O’Dowd)

Victoria Black, 'Lookin’ kinda lonely: Civil rights, sexuality, and African American music in New Orleans Since 1918' (Dr Stanonis)

Lisa Bogert, ‘Transatlantic Tastes:20th-Century Irish American identity, foodways, and tourist experience’ (Dr Stanonis)

Leanne Calvert, 'Gender and the Ulster Presbyterian community, 1780-1844' (Prof. O'Dowd)

Derek Crosby, 'A crowded urban space: conflict and identity in an English Town, 1300-1800' (Dr Davis)

Ruairi Cullen, 'The Medieval period in nineteenth-century Irish historiography' (Prof. Gray)

Jennifer Davison, 'Black heroism in the American imagination: How 19th-century constructs of Black heroism continue to shape modern perceptions of African American masculinity' (Prof. Clinton)

Barry Henderson, 'The forgotten tycoon: James McHenry, The Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, and the gilded age of robber barons (1858-91)' (Prof. Clinton)

Karst De Jong: 'The Irish in Jamaica during the long eighteenth century (1700-1840)' (Prof. Hayton)

Tim Donnachie: 'Irish Covenanters & Politics 1798 - 1892' (Dr Holmes)

Jeffrey Donnelly, 'John II Komnenos’s policy towards Antioch' (Dr Smythe)

Lauren Ferguson: 'Emyr Estyn Evans and the cultural identity of Ulster, c.1929 - 1969' (Prof. Gray)

Stephen Goss, 'Northern Ireland, de-colonisation and the Cold War' (Dr Corthorn)

Emily Haire, 'Anglo-French intelligence liaison, 1909-39' (Prof. Jeffery)

Paul Huddie: 'Ireland's responses to the Crimean War 1854-6' (Prof. Gray)

Paul Hughes, 'The republican activism of Laurence Ginnell, 1916-23' (Dr Coleman)

Stuart Irwin, 'Belfast Corporation, 1880-1914: managing a mature industrial city' (Prof. Connolly)

Catherine Jamieson, 'Masculine identity and missionary calling: British male Protestant missionaries in India and China, c.1830-1910' (Dr Morier-Genoud)

Aoife Laughlin, 'Electing colour: race and ethnicity in the 1848 US election'. (Dr Stanonis)

Peter Leary, 'The role of the Border in the shaping of 20th century Ireland' (Dr McGarry)

Pamela Linden, 'Jewish identity and community in Belfast, 1916-53' (Prof. Gray)

Conall MacMichael, 'Media reaction to and portrayal of the Black Power movement in the United States' (Prof. Clinton)

Chris Magill, 'The Irish Revolution in Counties Antrim and Down, 1919-21' (Dr McGarry)

Sam Manning, 'Post-war cinema-going in the United Kingdom: a comparative analysis of Belfast and Sheffield' (Dr O'Connell)

Jeremy Maxwell, 'African Americans in the military: "From unwanted to needed:  African Americans in combat, WWII through Vietnam"' (Prof. Clinton)

Robin McCallum, 'Towns and the monarchy, 1272-1350' (Dr Davis)

Kirsty McCluskey, 'Revolutionary stories of childhood and youth: a comparative study of Trotsky and Castro' (Dr Turton/Dr Kowalsky)

Marcus McComb, 'Hit songs and their significance in seventeenth-century England' (Prof. Marsh)

Anthony McCoubrey, 'Women and leisure in Belfast, 1945-69' (Dr O'Connell)

Grace McGrath, 'Power, profit and plantocracy: the second earl of Belmore and Jamaican slavery' (Prof. Clinton)

Sandra Millsopp, 'The transformation of Bangor from 1831 to 1914' (Prof. Kennedy)

Fergal O'Leary, 'Soldiers, politics and Empire: Ireland, Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-1900' (Prof. Jeffery)

Kerron Ó Luain, 'The Fenians of 19th-century South Ulster and their antecedents' (Prof. Connolly)

Jim O'Neill, 'Military strategy and tactics in the Nine Years War' (Prof. Connolly)

Burak Ozdemir, 'Confessionalism and toleration in Ireland c. 1660-1750, in theory and practice' (Prof. Hayton)

Daniel Ritchie, 'The public career of the Revd Isaac Nelson' (Dr Holmes)

Patrick Speight, 'Irish Argentines from Peron to the Dirty War and the fall of the generals' (Prof. Jeffery)

Ruth Thorpe, 'Elite women and material culture in Ireland 1760-1860' (Prof. O'Dowd)

Chih-Hui Tsai, 'Robert Hart and the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs' (Dr Reisz/Prof Jeffery)

Neil Watt, 'Pawns or Partners? Upper-class women and marriage in Ireland, 1860-1920' (Dr Coleman)

Timothy Watt, ' Order and disorder in Ireland, 1692-1735' (Prof. Hayton)

For completed theses since 1993, click here.