The University of Cambridge History Faculty is recognised as one of the world’s leading history departments and it is the largest amongst the humanities and social science faculties at Cambridge.
It is time to visualise the sheer diversity of the research being undertaken by History graduates. The map pins each student to their area of research and briefly outlines their thesis topic. Click here to discover who is reaching what and where.
Please note: locations are general and are at country or state level unless stated otherwise.
To get yourself on the map please leave a comment below, tweet us @CambridgeDHP, or comment via Facebook:
- Your name
- Level of study e.g.: MPhil or PhD
- Preliminary broad thesis title (we understand this constantly changes!)
- Location of fieldwork where you would like to be pinned (country or state level)
Thank you for your interest!
Doing History in Public 
Luis Almenar-Fernandez
MPhil in Medieval History
‘Tableware in the late medieval rural Valencian population. A consumer revolution? (1348-c.1500)’
Valencia (Spain)
Hello, I wanted to put myself on the map, but I wasn’t sure how, I’m an MPhil Studeny, with a dissertation title of ‘Paganism and Christianity in Scandinavian Emporia, c. 800-1000’, focused mainly on the modern regions of Denmark and Sweden. Many thanks!
Robert and Luis – you are now on the map!
Shiru Lim
MPhil in Modern European History
‘Frederick II, Catherine II, and Stanislaw August Poniatowski’s correspondence and encounters with men of letters, ~1760-1790’
My research clearly sprawls over a wide area, so let’s just say Prussia (Potsdam), Russia (St. Petersburg), and Poland (Warsaw).
P. MacKenzie Bok (Ph.D.), working in US intellectual history. Title is “The early Rawls and his path to A Theory of Justice”. Arrow should point to the state of Massachusetts.
Katherine Bruce-Lockhart
PhD History
The Prison in Uganda: 1894-1979
Uganda
Zachary Guiliano
PhD in History
Diss: ‘The composition, dissemination, and use of the Homiliary of Paul the Deacon in Carolingian Europe from the late eighth to mid-tenth century’.
Fieldwork: France, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy (mostly France & Germany).
Juan Cobo Betancourt
PhD
‘The reception of Tridentine Catholicism in the New Kingdom of Granada’
The arrow should point to the city of Bogotá, in Colombia.
Juan Cobo Betancourt
Ph.D., working on colonial Latin America.
‘The reception of Tridentine Catholicism in the New Kingdom of Granada’
The arrow should point at the city of Bogotá, Colombia.
Juan Cobo Betancourt
Ph.D., working on colonial Latin America.
‘The reception of Tridentine Catholicism in the New Kingdom of Granada’
The arrow should point at the city of Bogotá, Colombia.
Michelle Liebst
PhD
Workers, wealth and Christian missions in Tanzania 1864-1930
Tanzania
You have all been pinned on the map! Thank you for participating 🙂
Is it too late to be added to the map?
Giulia Galastro
PhD in History,
The Fabric of Early Modern Genoa, c.1550-c.1660
Genoa, in North-West Italy
Of course not! We will add you!