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Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
My research interests have given me experience of and enthusiasm for a number of broader themes which I would be keen to supervise. These include aspects of early-modern Catholic reform, the Habsburg dynasty, early-modern politics, and the interaction between people and environment in early-modern Europe. Doctoral and MPhil students who I currently supervise or have supervised work on a range of topics:
PhD:
Thomas Wood (co-supervision with Simone Laqua-O’Donnell): Dragons in early modern German religious culture (in progress)
Yasmin Vetter (co-supervision with Jonathan Willis): The Elizabethan Church and Marian Exile (in progress)
Laverne Smith (co-supervision with Nathan Cardon and Tom Cutterham): Anglican Virginia And Regular Baptists: A Reflection On The Effects Of Government-Regulated Toleration (in progress)
Tayler Meredith (co-supervision with Jonathan Willis): Divine Disorder: Environmental Change, Natural Disaster and English Communities, c.1550-1650 (in progress)
Ruth Atherton (co-supervision with Simone Laqua-O’Donnell): Pedagogy and Persuasion: The Power of the Catechism in Germany, 1529-1597 (successfully defended in 2017)
Charles Byrd II (co-supervision with Allan Anderson): Pentecostalism’s Anabaptist Heritage? (successfully defended in 2017)
George Doukas: The World of Pierre Boaistuau: Man, Sin and Nature in Early Modern Europe (successfully defended in 2011)
MPhil:
Adrian Roberts: Truth is Unkillable: Non-Resistance and ‘The Sword’ in the Theology of Balthasar Hubmaier, 1523-1528 (passed in 2012)
Lesley Smith (co-supervision in History of Medicine): John Ince’s Leech Book (passed 2015)
Research activity per year