Currently Registered Doctoral Students

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Since the year 2000, nineteen PhDs and three MPhils have been awarded, and 29 PhD/MPhil students have been recruited into a thriving postgraduate community.


Currently Registered Doctoral Students

In the following list of Doctoral candidates where academic supervisors' names are included, click on the name to navigate to their staff profile page.

Tony Kushner 

  • Jan Láníček (Completed in 2010)
  • Hannah Ewence (Completed in 2010)
  • Agnes Pavule, (University Archive Studentship) 'Anglo-Jewish female philanthropy, 1880-1914', (started 10/06)
  • Hazel Starmes, 'Non-Jewish communities - the forgotten victims of the 'Jewish' Holocaust? (advisor Mark Levene; part time - started 10/03)
  • Jane Gerson - (AHRC) 'Food and Jewish Identity in Britain'. (Received her doctorate in 2009)
  • Greg Smart, ' "Strangers within our Gates": The Alien in Popular Print and Society, 1881-1906'
    (Research Studentship - University Funded)

Andrea Reiter
Diana Popescu: 'The contribution of post-Holocaust visual art to the shaping of Jewish and Israeli identities'
Jaime Ashworth: 'From Nazi Archive to Holocaust Memorial: The Auschwitz Album as Evidence and symbol in Britain and Poland'
Georg Burgstaller 'a socio-historical contextualisation of the Austrian Jewish music theorist Heinrich Schenker'
Meike Reintjes: 'German-Jewish Women Poets in British Exile'
Bettina Codrai: 'Contemporary German-Jewish Literature as a Counter Discourse'
Jonathan Leader: 'Being Political and the Reconstitution of Public Discourse:  Hannah Arendt on Experience, History and the Spectator' (Completed in 2011)
Michael Witcombe: (supervised jointly with Devorah Baum) working on Philip Roth.
Silke Schwaiger:  working on the Edition Exil in Vienna

Devorah Baum
Michael Witcombe (jointly supervised with Andrea Reiter) 'Sex in the work of Philip Roth'

Dan Levene

  • Michael Morris, 'Mediation to martyrdom: The emergence of inter-religious dialogue in late antiquity' (part time - started 01/03) (Received his doctorate in 2010)

Sarah Pearce

  • Philip Jewell, 'Jews and Magic in Jewish Hellenistic literature' (started 09/01)
  • Peter Batty, 'Concepts of Poverty in Second Temple Period Writings' (started 10/03) - Research Studentship - University Funded (Received his doctorate in 2008)

Joachim Schlör

  • Hannah Farmer
  • Tobias Metzler, 'Jews in the Metropolis : Urban Jewish Cultures in London, Berlin, and Paris, 1880-1940' (started 10/04) AHRC and Research Studentship - University Funded (t.metzler@soton.ac.uk) (completed in 2008)

Mark Levene

  • Anne Lloyd, 'The experience of members of the Jewish faith in the British Army during the First World War' (part time - started 10/02) (Received her doctorate in 2009)

Tim Bergfelder
Claudia Sandberg:  'Homeless By Choice - The Films of Peter Lilienthal'
Chris Penfold: researching the career of Jewish filmmaker, Elizaveta Svilova (1900-75). Svilova was one of the most prolific females working in the Soviet film industry during the Stalin era. She directed Oświęcim (1945) which was produced from footage recorded by the Red Army at the liberation of Auschwitz. Scenes from the film were subsequently used as evidence in the Nuremberg Trials.