Postdoctoral Fellows

Name<EmailProjectFunderResearch interests
Nathaniel Boyd  nathaniel.boyd@york.ac.uk Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique  Leverhulme Trust History of political and constitutional thought, with a focus onn Hegel's political, legal and constitutional thought
Pinar Dokumaci  pinar.dokumaci@york.ac.uk Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique   Leverhulme Trust  Indentity-building aspect of feminist activism; politico-religious conflict within the feminist movement; Western and non-Western feminist critiques of the civil society 
Thomas Dolan  tommy.dolan@york.ac.uk Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique   Leverhulme Trust   Conceptually-driven and comparative approaches to the study of history and thought; ideas of history – Irish and otherwise, ancient and modern – and their influence upon the key architects of the Northern Ireland Peace Process; ideas of civil society within twentieth-century Catholic thought. 
Kieran Durkin kieran.durkin@york.ac.uk The Marxist Humanist Tradition: From the 1844 Manuscripts to the Present Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Experienced Individual Fellowship Humanist Marxism, Marxism, Social Theory, Sociology, Critical Theory
Mark Hutchinson mark.a.hutchinson@york.ac.uk Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique Leverhulme Trust Modern intellectual and cultural history: religious division and the shaping of modern political thought and vocabulary in different cultural and linguistic contexts; Protestants' use of vocabulary of natural and customary law to speak meaningfully about civil society
Jan Rybak jan.rybak@york.ac.uk Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique Leverhulme Trust Nation-Building in war and revolution (focus on everyday Zionism in East-Central Europe, 1914–1921); relations between civil society, state, and nation in Weimar Germany
Rudabeh Shahid rudabeh.shahid@york.ac.uk Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique Leverhulme Trust Ethnic identity formation in South Asia; minority issues; refugee communities; Muslims in South Asia and Bangladesh; civil society in post-Partition India and South Asia