Primary Supervisor: Dr Morier-Genoud

Secondary Supervisor: Dr Sophie Cooper

Currently researching the life and times of Alexander Brown; Ulster émigré and founder of the first indigenous investment bank in the new United States. I am particularly interested in the local, regional and transatlantic networks that enabled the incredible economic growth of the Brown Dynasty. 

My research spans the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and places equal focus on archival material from both Ireland and the United States. 

Primary Supervisor: Prof Peter Gray

Secondary Supervisor: Prof John Turner

Sinead is a PhD candidate at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosphy, and Politics. Sinead graduated from Queen's University Belfast with a BA (Hons) (First Class) in History 2018 and with an MA (Distinction) in History in 2020. In 2019, Sinead was awarded a funded PhD studentship from the Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland).

Secondary Supervisor: Prof Sean O'Connell

Primary Supervisor: Dr Nik Ribianszky

Secondary Supervisor: Dr Jamie Hagen

I am a PhD candidate in History at Queen's University Belfast. My research focuses on American History, specifically gender, racism, and anti-communism in the 1950s and 1960s. This thesis is a continuation of my MA dissertation on McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare in the United States, which sparked my interest in conservatism in the Cold War. My PhD thesis focuses on the activities and ideology of two right-wing women's organisations in this period; the Women of the Ku Klux Klan and the Minute Women of the USA. In looking at these two organisations this thesis analyses the different forms of female activism on the Right, examining the implicit and explicit connections between the Women of the Ku Klux Klan and the Minute Women at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.

Primary Supervisor: Dr Keira Williams

Secondary Supervisor: Prof Paul Corthorn

I am a PhD candidate in History in the School of HAPP. I recently completed a Visiting Student Fellowship at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. I have a BA in History from Balliol College, Oxford and an M.Phil in Modern Irish History from Trinity College, Dublin.

My current project is the first comprehensive study of female republican experiences of imprisonment during the Second World War. It compares the Northern and independent Irish states' handing of female political prisoners and explores the gendered nature of their activity and resistance. It also establishes how networks of feminist activism built during Ireland's revolutionary period remained central to prisoner support work throughout the 1940s.

More broadly, I am interested in women’s and gender history with a particular focus on activism, labour and associational culture; Irish political and social history and histories of imprisonment and institutions. 

Primary Supervisor: Prof Fearghal McGarry

Secondary Supervisor: Prof Marie Coleman

Primary Supervisor: Prof Paul Corthorn

Secondary Supervisor: Dr Jack Taggart

Primary Supervisor: Dr Aglaia De Angeli

Secondary Supervisor: Dr Rosalind Silvester

A Comparative Study of the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain

Suzanne Jobling is a PhD candidate in the School of History, Anthropology, Politics and Philosophy. She graduated from Dublin City University with a BSc Honours in Analytical Science and built a career in IT consultancy and Business Analysis. She holds a diploma in Business Analysis from the British Computer Society. She returned to third-level education in 2018, graduating from Queen's University Belfast with an MA in History in 2019. Suzanne is a member of the Women's History Association of Ireland.

Suzanne’s research interests include the the history of women's employment, equal pay and discrimination in the late 20th century, particularly in relation to the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain.  

Her current research focus is a comparative study of the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, looking at women's employment and equal pay and the influence of the European Community upon national legislation.

Primary Supervisor: Prof Diane Urquhart

Secondary Supervisor: Prof Marie Coleman

My research focuses on male homosexuality in the Irish Diaspora, c. 1884-1967 with a focus on the movement of queer Irish men between Ireland, London, and New York. In particular, I focus on the experiences of queer emigration from Ireland and the role of Irish in London and New York's queer subcultures in the early- to mid-twentieth century.

Primary Supervisor: Dr Tom Hulme

Secondary Supervisor: Dr Keira Williams

Primary Supervisor: Prof Crawford Gribben

Secondary Supervisor: Dr Ian Campbell

Primary Supervisor: Prof Paul Corthorn

Secondary Supervisor: Dr Peter McLoughlin

Primary Supervisor: Dr Keira Williams

Secondary Supervisor: Dr Nik Ribianszky

Primary Supervisor: Dr Tom Hulme

Secondary Supervisor: Prof Sean O'Connell

Primary Supervisor: Prof Peter Gray

Secondary Supervisor: Prof Paul Corthorn

Naomi Petropoulos is a PhD candidate in the School of History, Anthropology, Politics and Philosophy. Naomi graduated from Queen’s University Belfast with an MA in Public History. She also graduated from Ulster University with a BA Honours in History with English and a Postgraduate Diploma in Research in the Arts. Naomi holds a Certificate in Teaching and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Further Education). She is a Member of the Royal Historical Society and Oral History Network of Ireland. Naomi’s research interests include Oral History, gender and de-industrialisation in Derry, the Troubles of Northern Ireland and the Civil Rights movement in Northern Ireland. Her current research focus is an exploration of the women shirt factory workers of Derry between 1951 and 1971.

Primary Supervisor: Prof Sean O'Connell

Secondary Supervisor: Dr Peter McLoughlin

The multifaceted reasons for minimal historical representation and public commemoration of disguised female American Civil War Soldiers

Primary Supervisor: Dr Nik Ribianszky

Secondary Supervisor: Dr Keira Williams

Research Focus

Primary Supervisor: Prof Marie Coleman

Secondary Supervisor: Dr Diane Urquhart

Primary Supervisor: Dr Alexander Titov

Secondary Supervisor: Dr Aglaia De Angeli

Primary Supervisor: Dr Hiroki Shin

Secondary Supervisor: Leonie Hannan