Research projects

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Current projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Correspondance générale de Benjamin Constant Multiple funders 1 January 1993 31 December 2099
Spectacular Subjects: Modernism, Gender and Visuality in Interwar Japan Leverhulme (January – July 2019 only) 1st August 2018 31 December 2099
The Senses and the Meanings of Modernity in East Asia Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant LCS Strategic Research and Development Grant 01 June 2018 31 December 2099
What is History on Film? The Case of Italian Cinema 1911-2010 Internally funded 1 January 2015 31 December 2099
Of Comradeship and Sisterhood: A Political History of 'Die Gleichheit', 1891-1917 Leverhulme Foundation 1 April 2022 31 March 2025
Moving Mountains: Memory, Identity, and the Geological Imaginary after Landslide Disasters AHRC, British Council, Newton Fund 1 January 2018 1 December 2024

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 Joust as Performance: Pas d’armes and Late Medieval Chivalry AHRC 1 October 2021 30 September 2022
Concepts of ‘honour’ in Islam and Muslim communities, and their impact on Muslim women: perceptions, praxis and new modalities WRoCAH 1 October 2016 30 November 2021
Laughter from the Grassland: Humour and Comedy in Amdo Tibet Internally funded 1 January 2013 1 June 2021
Hematopolitics: A Comparative Study of Reciprocity and Exclusion in the Blood Economy Wellcome Trust 1 June 2020 31 May 2021
Framing the Lyric Subject Matter: Prose Headings in Italian Books of Poetry (c.1450-c.1650) Humboldt Fellowship 1 November 2019 30 April 2021
The Other City: Social Exclusion and Care in Urban Japan Multiple funders 1 May 2009 31 August 2020
Vital Circulations: Bodily Fluids in Bioeconomy Internal 1 September 2019 31 July 2020
Heritage with and without the State Internally funded 1 September 2017 1 January 2020
Creating/Curating the Decolonial Classroom LAHRI 1 September 2018 31 August 2019
The Hercules Project: A hero for all ages AHRC-supported 1 September 2016 31 December 2018
Soft Power, Cinema and the BRICS AHRC 1 December 2015 31 May 2018
Writing the Revolution. The Construction of '1968' in Germany Internally funded 1 January 2010 31 December 2016
Using Film to Examine Heritage, Identity and Global Citizenship: supporting the work of the Bautzen Memorial to Engage New Audiences AHRC 1 September 2015 31 December 2015
Using Digital Tools to Challenge Xenophobia and Support International Development in South Africa AHRC 3 October 2016 1 January 2018
Using digital tools in heritage AHRC 1 March 2014 31 July 2016
Unheard Voices: The Poetry of the Gallipoli Campaign AHRC 20 June 2017 20 June 2017
Skipton’s First World War Prisoner-of-War Camp Ignite Funding 2015-16; HLF 2017-19; Erasmus 2017-18; First World War Network 2019; University of Leeds Q-Step (summer 2019); University of Leeds Laidlaw Scholarship (2020-22). 01 September 2015 01 September 2099
Screening European Heritage: History on Film, the Heritage Industry and Cultural Policy AHRC 1 February 2013 31 December 2013
Love Letters and Erotic Letters: Antiquity and Beyond Riksbankens Jubileumsfond: The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (for the first conference, 2018) 2018 Ongoing
Digital Tools in the Service of Difficult Heritage: How Recent Research Can Benefit Museums and their Audiences AHRC 1 September 2016 31 December 2017