RHPRG - Members

Members

Name	Dept	Research Interests
Richard Alston	Classics	History of the Roman Empire, Roman imperialism and provincial societies, the reception of Roman imperialism in modern political thought.
Humayun Ansari	History	British history and politics since 1880, race and ethnic relations, Muslims in Britain, Islam and modernity.
Sarah Ansari	History	History of Muslim South Asia with particular reference to migration and women since 1947.
Marco Cinnirella	Psychology	Psychological aspects of national identity (especially in Britain); Islamophobic prejudice.
Matthew Cohen	Drama	Southeast Asian theatre and performance from the nineteenth century to the present, transcultural and itinerant performance, world puppetry.
Philip Crang	Geography	Commodity culture and geographical knowledges.
Markus Daechsel	History	Historical sociology of middle-class development in north India, development and the state in South Asia, urban cultures in the Muslim world.
Vandana Desai	Geography	NGOs and Civil Society, Governance, Citizenship & Participatory Development, Gender and Cultural Change, Ageing in the developing world, Low-income housing.
Felix Driver	Geography	Cultural and historical geography, exploration and geographical knowledge, imperial cities.
Karen Fricker	Drama	Postcolonial and neocolonial theatre practice in Québéc and Ireland; globalisation and performance.
David Gilbert	Geography	Urbanism, imperialism and post-imperialism; imperial and post-imperial London.
Helen Gilbert	Drama	Postcolonial theatre in Australasia, Canada and the Caribbean; critical race theory, cross-cultural performance.
Robert Hampson	English	Fiction of empire; travelers and travel-writers; South-east Asia; postcolonial theory.
Yasmin Khan	Politics & IR	History of postcolonial South Asia.
Lina Khatib	Media Arts	Relationships between national identity, history and politics.
Zoë Laidlaw	History	Nineteenth-century colonialism and imperialism.
David Lambert	Geography	Trans-imperial webs and networks, Caribbean and Atlantic slavery, whiteness studies.
Tina K. Ramnarine	Music	The politics of performance: postcolonialism, nationalism, diaspora.
Amanda Rogers	Geography	Geographies of performance and the creative arts, South East Asia, transnationalism.
Taylor C. Sherman	History	Colonial and postcolonial South Asian history, state violence & punishment, migration, belonging & citizenship, communism, development, and democracy.
David Simon	Geography	Postcolonial urbanism, post-structural development theory (postmodernism, postcolonialism, post-development, and their interrelationships).

Co-Founder and Visiting Member

Elleke Boehmer

Oxford

Postcolonial theories of gender, nationalism and violence, comparative colonialisms.

Current Postgraduate Members and Theses Projects

Tamara Aberle	PhD candidate	Contemporary Indonesian Drama.
Alaa Ali	PhD candidate	The representation of Muslims within contemporary British and American drama.
Qi Chen	PhD candidate	The British Aesthetic Movement, when the Victorian Empire meets the East.
James Ellison	PhD candidate	British and European Productions of Michel Tremblay’s plays.
Jorge Pérez Falconi	PhD candidate	Festivals in Mexico, Brazil and Cuba.
Indera Grewal	PhD candidate	Toni Morrison, Motherhood and Feminism.
Daniel Haines	PhD candidate	Canal Construction and the ideology of modernity in Sind, 1900-1970.
Thomas Hilder	PhD candidate	Sámi Soundscapes: Music, Indigeneity and Environment in Northern Europe.
Lowri Jones	PhD candidate	Local knowledge, indigenous agency and the role of intermediaries in the history of exploration: studies from the RGS collections.
Charlotte Jorgensen	PhD candidate	Imperial Performance in the Three Imperial Durbars.
James Kent	PhD candidate	Constructions of Havana: The constant Re-identification of Havana’s Image and Identity.
Wei-Ting Liou	PhD candidate	Colonial palimpsest in the literature of Taiwan.
Royona Mitra	PhD candidate	Akram Khan: A Diasporic Agent in British South Asian Dance.
Daniel O’Gorman	PhD candidate	Postmodernism and the Post-9/11 Novel.
Emer O’Toole	PhD candidate	Rights of Representation in Intercultural Theatre Practice.
Brahma Prakash	PhD candidate	Towards a concept of Performance/Orature in Indian Lower Caste Performances.
Melissa Poll	PhD candidate	Globalization, Nation and Intermediality in Ex Machina’s Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Wei-min Seetoh	PhD candidate	Globalisation and the Postcolonial Paradigm: London and Singapore Literature, 1989-2005.
Daniel Whittall	PhD candidate	West Indians in Britain and the Politics of Empire .
Cristiana Zara	PhD candidate	Sacred journeys and profane travellers: visual experiences and spatial practices in Varanasi (India).