Research projects

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Current projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Strangers: Migration and Multilingualism in Early Modern London Leverhulme Trust 1 August 2024 31 July 2026
The Ethics of Medical Photography: Past, Present, and Future Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 July 2024 30 June 2026
A Cultural History of Disability in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200 Wellcome Trust 23 May 2022 22 May 2025
Fragmented Geographies: Japanese and German Fieldwork on the New Colonial Peripheries of Northeast Asia, 1925-1950 Academy for Korean Studies; Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute 1 October 2018 31 January 2025

Past projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Re-archiving the Individual: British Army Officers, 1790-1820 Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 August 2022 31 July 2024
The Western Indian Ocean in the First Millennium CE British Academy/Wolfson Fellowship 31 March 2020 30 June 2024
Epistolary Lives and the Making and Re-Making of First World War Archives British Academy 1 June 2022 31 May 2024
The Other From Within: Indian Anthropologists and the Birth of the Nation Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 September 2019 31 March 2024
Digital Explorations: Opening the Medieval Manuscript Fragments from the Ripon Cathedral Library UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Research England 1 February 2023 31 July 2023
Stigma and Shame? Challenging Menstrual Taboo Through Time Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute 1 October 2022 31 July 2023
Maternal mortality in East Africa Global Challenges Research Fund; University of Leeds Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account 1 February 2018 31 January 2023
The Sacred Landscapes of Medieval Monasteries: An inter-disciplinary study of meaning embedded in space and production Arts and Humanities Research Council 2 January 2019 1 January 2023
Crime, Punishment and Colonial Soldiers Gerda Henkel Foundation 1 January 2021 31 December 2022
Reform and Clerical Authority: Comparative Perspectives, c. 1000-1200 Leverhulme Trust; Internal funding 1 October 2016 21 May 2022
The Weight of the Past in Franco-British Relations Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 June 2018 31 December 2021
Living with Dying: Everyday Cultures of Dying within Family Life in Britain, c.1900-50 The Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 December 2016 30 December 2020
Men, Women and Care: Formal and Informal Caregiving in Interwar Britain European Research Council Starting Grant 1 September 2015 30 October 2020
Masculinity and Military Medicine Wellcome Trust 1 January 2017 31 December 2019
Pirate printers? Printing and copying in the French book trade during the wars of religion. British Academy 31 August 2017 30 August 2019
Death in Early Modern Venice Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies 24 January 2011 31 July 2019
Legacies of War Internally funded 1 September 2014 31 December 2018
Rethinking the Medieval Frontier 1 April 2017 31 May 2018
Not The Final Frontier: The World of Medieval Islands Newton Trust Mobility Award 25 March 2017 24 March 2018
Cultures of Intelligence: Military Intelligence Services in Germany, GB, and the USA, 1855-1947 (Britain, 1918-1947) Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 November 2012 30 June 2016
Men, Masculinity and Maternity in Britain, from the 1950s to the Present University of Leeds Arts Engaged Fellowship 1 October 2012 30 April 2016
Agents of Future Promise: The ideological use of children in culture and politics (Britain and France, c. 1880-c. 1950) Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 October 2014 30 September 2015
You Are What You Ate Wellcome Trust 30 June 2010 29 December 2014
Soldiers and soldiering in Britain, c.1750 to 1815 Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 July 2010 30 December 2011
Peaceful, Bloodless and Anti-Slavery Commerce? The British India Society and the Ethics of East India Trade, 1833-1857 British Academy - -
Writing British Asian Cities AHRC Diasporas, Migrations and Identities Programme 2006 2009
Women, Gender, Sexuality & the Archive - -
The Utopian City: India’s urban futures and alternative histories Arts and Humanities Research Council and Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR) - -
The Lives of Kenya’s White Insane - -
The History of Identity in Colonial and Post-Colonial Uganda - -
Social responses to large-scale state directed violence. The Galician case (1936-1939) in comparative context Xunta de Galicia - -
Settler Soldiers: Military Service and the Construction of Identity in French Algeria, 1830-1939 - -
Public Information Centres, corruption and citizenship: The Janta Suchna Kendra - -
Imitation: Mechanisms of a cultural principle in the Middle Ages The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (German Research Foundation) 2014 2019
Identity, Performance and the State: India's Denotified Tribes over Independence - -
From Subjects to Citizens Arts and Humanities Research Council - -
Before HIV: Sexuality, Fertility and Mortality in East Africa, 1900-1980 AHRC, the British Academy, the British Institute in Eastern Africa, and the ESRC. - -