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Funded Research Projects

HELEN COWIE (History)Peterloo

Integrating ecological and cultural histories to inform sustainable and equitable futures for the Colombian páramos (project participant)
Natural Environment Research Council award (Aug 2018 – July 2021)

JASON EDWARDS & RICHARD JOHNS (History of Art)
Pantheons: Sculpture at St Paul's Cathedral, c.1795-1914
(principal investigator)
AHRC award (Oct 2019 – Sept 2022)

MARY FAIRCLOUGH, JON FINCH & JON MEE (English)
Peterloo at 200(project investigators)
Romantic Bicentennials award and YIAF (York Impact Accelerator Fund – AHRC-Aligned)

JON FINCH (Archaeology)
European Network for Country House and Estate Research (participant) 

JON FINCH & JASPER HEINZEN (Archaeology & History)
War and Captivity in Modern Conflicts 
(co-investigators)

JASPER HEINZEN (History)
In search of civilised war: Prisoners of war and military honour, 1789-1918 (principal investigator) Leverhulme Research Fellowship

HANNAH GREIG (History)
Possessions of the Crown: A Material History of the British Court, 1688-1832

Leverhulme Trust (2019-20)

MARK JENNER (History)
Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity(Associate Director) CECS Member: Helen Cowie. Leverhulme Trust

CATRIONA KENNEDY (History)
Master and Servant in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
(principle investigator) Leverhulme Research Fellowship

CHLOE WIGSTON SMITH (English)
Women and Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World(principal investigator)
The British Academy (Jan 2019 – Dec 2020)


Recently completed projects

HELEN COWIE (History)
Fashion Victims. Animal Commodities in Britain, 1800-1914

Leverhulme Trust (2018-2019)

JON FINCH (Archaeology)
EUROTAST, Marie Curie ITN: A European Initial Training Network on the History, Archaeology and New Genetics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (co-investigator)
European Commission York

CATRIONA KENNEDY (History)

Making war, mapping Europe: militarized cultural encounters, 1792-1920 
Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)

JASPER HEINZEN (History)
In search of civilized war: prisoners of war and the concept of military honour in Western Europe, 1789-1918(principal investigator)
The British Academy

MARK JENNER (History)
A plaque on both your houses, Exploring the history of urbanisation and infectious diseases through the study of archaeological dental tartar
(co-investigator)
Wellcome Trust

EMMA MAJOR (English)
Faithful Citizens 1789-1829(principle investigator)
The British Academy

JON MEE (English)

Networks of Improvement: British Literary Clubs and Societies, 1760-c.1840'  (Principal Investigator)
Leverhulme Trust

JON MEE (English) 
Literatures, Bodies, and Machines: Networks of Improvement, 1780-1840 (principle investigator) The British Academy 

ALISON O’BYRNE (English)
A History of the London Guidebook (principle investigator)
The British Academy

JIM WATT (English)
Imagining Jerusalem, 1099 to the Present Day(co-investigator)
AHRC

CHLOE WIGSTON SMITH
The Story of Things(principal investigator)
York Impact Accelerator Fund – AHRC-Aligned 

 

 

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