Simon Jackson

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I offer postgraduate supervision in the colonial, international and global history of modern France and its empire, on empire in the twentieth century Mediterranean and in the comparative history of European empire, with an emphasis on environmental history and the history of political-economy. <br/><br/>Current PhD students: <br/><br/>Claire Porcher (Feeding the Earth: Histories of Fertiliser in Modern Morocco). <br/><br/>Masato Tanaka (external advisor -University of Heidelberg, for a project titled 'Men of Business and Money: The Middle Class, Empire, and the Political Economy of the Everyday (or Mundane) in Lebanon, 1860s–1930s') <br/><br/>Tomoki Yamada (The League of Nations Mandates System as a Trans-imperial Arena of (Anti-)Colonialism).<br/><br/>Haixing Wang (co-supervision with SUS-Tech University, China, for a project titled 'Modern Beekeeping Practices and Knowledge Production in Twentieth-Century China')<br/><br/>Yanfeng Wang (From Rochdale to Empire: Labor Perspectives on the Global Outreach of British Co-operatives, 1900-1950)<br/><br/>Completed PhD Students include:<br/><br/>Eliana Hadjisavvas (Jewish displacement at the end of the Second World War and the internment of Jewish refugees in British-run camps in colonial Cyprus)<br/><br/>Andrew Searle (Amnesty International's Opposition to Torture: Norms, Advocacy, Agnotology and the Domestication of Human Rights, 1961-79)<br/><br/>Mustafa Coban (Turkish Foreign Policy on its Borders: The Balkan and Saadabad Pacts and their Domestic Determinants, 1934-1941).<br/><br/>Gemma Jennings (Patriarchy and Poverty? A Transnational Analysis of the Social Implications of the Oil Industry between France and Algeria)<br/><br/>Khalid Abdullah Krairi (John Philby and his political roles in the Arabian Peninsula, 1917-1953).