Research students
Get to know more about our current PhD students. Click on their name to read more about the details of their research projects.
![Muhamed Agush](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/untitled-1_6.jpg)
Muhamed Agush
The Turkish Question Revisited: US-EU Relations with Turkey Since 9/11
![Francesca Akhtar](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/pgr_francesca_akhtar.jpg)
Francesca Akhtar
The Pentagon's Spies: A Critical History of the Defense Intelligence Agency, from JFK to Trump
![Javiera Arce Riffo](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/javiera_arce_riffo_cropped_165x200.jpg)
Javiera Arce Riffo
The Internal Organisation of Political Parties in South America and its Effects on Democracy
![Daniela Belmar Mac-Vicar](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/daniela_belmar_165x200.jpg)
Daniela Belmar Mac-Vicar
Love experiences and expectations of men and women in Santiago de Chile (1880-1940)
![Carlos Cardenas Escutia](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/carlos_cardenas_escutia.jpg)
Carlos Cárdenas Escutia
The history of the Mexican Conditional Cash Transfer programme
![Camila Cea Moore](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/camila-cea_picture_-_165x200.jpg)
Camila Cea Moore
Upsetting inequality? An analysis of Bachelet's Higher Education Reforms in Contemporary Chile
![Francesca Chappell](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/f_chappell_0.jpg)
Frankie Chappell
Autonomy and Solidarity: The Intellectual and Activist World of Black Women for Wages for Housework, 1970s-2000s
![Emilia Curatola](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/picture_-_emilia_curatola_1.jpg)
Emilia Curatola Fernández
Cultural production, ideology and struggle in Peru, 1956-1989
![Thomas Cryer](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/thomas_cryer_-_165x200.jpg)
Thomas Cryer
‘Walking the Tightrope’: John Hope Franklin and the Dilemmas of African American History in Action
![fernando_gutierrez_hernandez.jpg](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/fernando_gutierrez_hernandez.jpg)
Fernando Gutiérrez Hernández
Attachment and memory: urban regeneration and the Alameda Central in Mexico City's historic centre
![Josephine Harmon](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/jh_profile_pic_may_2022_.jpg)
Josephine Harmon
Coalition between Diverse Conservative Interest Groups and Gun Politics
![chris_hoekstra.jpg](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/chris_hoekstra.jpg)
Christopher Hoekstra
US Special Operations Strategy in South Vietnam, 1954-65
![Horrill, Mallory](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/horrill_mallory_1.jpg)
Mallory Horrill
Victorian Image of Canada: English Gentlewomen and their Perceptions of Canada 1830-1900
![Shodona Kettle](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/s_kettle_recent_-_165x200_0.jpg)
Shodona Kettle
Reparative histories and healing contemporaries: A comparative investigation into transnational movements for reparations in the Americas
![John Lawrence](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/john_lawrence_-_copy.jpg)
John Lawrence
Explaining corporate compliance with the 2013 Peruvian governance code
![Sailin Li](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/sailinli_-_165x200.jpg)
Sailin Li
Anglo-American relations and arms sales to China (1972-1989)
![Yifei LI](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/yifei_li_165x200.jpg)
Yifei Li
A carefully constructed unintended consequence: Development of Medicare as a patchwork system, 1965-1997
![Thomas Maier](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/tmaier2_165x200.png)
Thomas Maier
The Shape of the State to Come: Transnationality and the Social Imaginary of the Welfare State in Argentina, 1930-1952
![staff silhouette](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/staff_silhouette_-_copy_-_165x200.png)
Digby Ogston
Demand-side Challenges to Building Direct Taxation in Developing Economies: Evaluating the Potential of Informality in Redressing Low Tax Burdens of Latin America and the Caribbean
![Luis Orlando Pérez Jiménez](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/luis_orlando_perez_foto_-_copy.jpg)
Luis Orlando Pérez Jiménez
Social mobilisation and enforced disappearances in Mexico
![William Ranger](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/will_ranger_165x200.jpg)
Will Ranger
Society, Patriotism and American Civil Religion: A Contribution to the History of Mentalities
![Remy Roberts](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/rroberts_v1_165x200.jpg)
Remy Roberts
Postmemory and Political Action: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Argentina and Guatemala
![Christopher Sarjeant](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/csarjeant_-_165x200.jpg)
Christopher Sarjeant
The Forgotten Culture War: The Roots, Structures and Implications of Intellectual Divergence on the American Left During the ‘Long' 1990s
![Matthew Schlachter](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/matthew_schlachter_-_copy.jpg)
Matthew Schlachter
The Role of Moderates in the US Republican Party, from 1980 to the Present Day
![Cosimo Stahl](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/cosimo-stahl_165x200.jpg)
Cosimo Stahl
Claiming and framing for anti-corruption? Assessing the mobilising effects of Brazil's Public Federal Ministry's communication campaign during the Lava Jato investigations (2014-21)
![Midou Tian](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/midou_tian_-_165x200.png)
Midou Tian
Promoting Peace? US Soft Power towards China, 1989-2016
![Pablo Uchoa](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/pablo_uchoa_2023_portrait_165x200.jpg)
Pablo Uchoa
Chavismo and civil-military relations in Venezuela
![Marieta Constanza Valdivia Lefort](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/sites/americas/files/m_valdivia_lefort_2022.jpg)
Marieta C. Valdivia Lefort
Nationalism, public policies, and decision-making: Debates on the 'national decline' in Chile during the first half of the twentieth century and policies to mitigate it