Doctoral research in the department spans the period from late antiquity to the present day, and geographically ranges across Eurasia and beyond. Nelson Bennett, Ada Kök and Anastasiia Morozova all study late antiquity, whilst Julia Boechat Machado, Emilia Castelao, Marta Haiduchok and Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek work on the second half of the twentieth century.
In terms of geography, the department has particular strengths in the study of Central and Eastern Europe, and in the Eastern Mediterranean. However, student and faculty interests range wide, including Jack Wilson's deep interest in the Mongols, Emy Joy's work on early modern India, and Jonas Czaika on North African envoys. The range of methodological approaches is equally wide, from the history of emotions studied by Hakan Yerebakan and environmental history as studied by Daria Ageeva and Zsófia Nádai, to the increasing focus on digital humanities, for example in the work of Saranya Chandran.
Recent and ongoing major grants also shape and draw upon our students' research. These include Jelena Tešija's work as part of ZARAH: Women’s Labor Activism in Eastern Europe and Transnationally, from the Age of Empires to the Late 20th Century, and Mariia Golovina's EurAsian Transformations fellowship.
Over the next couple of weeks, we will finish interviews for next year's cohorts and decide to whom we wish to offer a place!