New PhD candidates

This year, at least 15 new PhD candidates will start their training with the RSPH. A warm welcome to them all. A number of them learned more about their training during the opening of the academic year in September. Read more about the topics of their research.


José Cerejido AltranRUG (extern)The Thoreauvian Disobedience – a u-topical disposition for social democracy
Andrés Takeshi Castillo RorresRUG (extern)Liberalism and its Political Implications in Contemporary Mexico
Jasper DekkerUURetoriek in de Republiek
Martijn van EtteULThe Chinese Diaspora, Race and US Foreign Policy
Bryony HarrisUUFighting Pandemics from Below. Global North-South Public Health Cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa, 1792-1942
David HuijsUM (extern)Two Spains? The Spanish Memory Debate and the (De)-Construction of National Identity (1996-2022)
Lars JanssenUUImperial Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere: The Latin American Ad Hoc Courts as a Security Tool, 1829-1914
Brandon JohnsonRUG (extern)Ottoman Violence and the Forging of U.S. Foreign Policy: Missionary Diplomats in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1880–1900
Wietse de JongeUUConservation before conservationism: Resilient environments in Dutch East Indies in the 19th century
Behzad KehdriVU (extern)Woman, Life, Freedom: Kurdish resistance and complexity of solidarity in Iran
Paul KrijnenRUGLeven en werk van de patriot en Bataaf Pieter Ondaatje (1758-1818): Een gedreven politieke radicaal tijdens de politiek-staatkundige transitie van Nederland rond 1800
Nuri KurnuzUvAIdeas about imperialism as a collective European endeavour within the ranks of the Pan-European Union and the League of Nations, 1929-1939
Jelle Lammerts van BuerenUUContesting Restrained Democracy: The Continuing Challenge of Referendums in Postwar Western Europe (1945-2018)
Amanda de LannoyRUt.b.a.
Catherine WoodULModernization and U.S. Service Programs