Mellon Students

2005-06

Visiting student

D’Maris Coffman, University of Pennsylvania
Research topic: Early modern British state formation, with an emphasis on late Stuart public finance

History and Economics student

Amanda Behm, Dartmouth College
Research topic: British imperial history and the role of imperial ideas and perception within the international sphere, and C19-C20 South Asian social and political history

Associated Student

Gabe Paquette, Trinity College
Research topic: Intellectual history of Spain and Spanish America in the
late 18th century

2006-07

Visiting students

Angus Burgin, Harvard University
Research topic: An examination of the intellectual development of American conservatism between 1947 and  1964, focussing on the membership of the Mount Pelerin Society

Anne Friedrichs, University of Leipzig
Research topic/working title:  “Historiographies of Empires. A Comparative Analysis of France and Britain, 1918-1970”

Huei-chun Su, University of Exeter
Research topic/working title:  ‘Economic Justice and Liberty: The Social Philosophy in John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism’

History and Economics students

Philipp Lehman, Princeton University
Research topic/working title: ‘Diamonds and Civilisation: Southwest Africa under German Administration’

Pernille Roge, Queens’ College
Research topic/working title: ‘The Reinvention of France’s Colonial System 1763-1793’

Ezra Siller, Yale University
Research topic: Late 18th century attitudes toward the social, political and moral implications of the expansion of capitalist commercial activity, both domestically in Britain and internationally

2007-08

Visiting students

Isaac Nakhimovsky, Harvard University
Research topic: History of eighteenth-century political thought and nineteenth-century foundations of modern social theory. Dissertation investigates J.G.Fichte’s Closed Commercial State (1800) and its contribution to a set of wide-ranging debates in political thought and political economy

David Mervart, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
Research topic:  Japan’s early modern political thought and the comparative material it offers in terms of reflecting the phenomena connected with the rise of commercial society

Christian Müller, University of Heidelberg  (post-doctoral project)
Research topic: Transfer of European political, legal and social concepts in the 1860s

Jennifer Regan, Queen’s University Belfast  (post-doctoral publication)
Research topic: The exchange of political ideas between Irish and Indian nationalists in late-Victorian London; the influence of the American abolitionist movement on Irish nationalists (working title: Ireland and India: the cosmopolitan politics of Alfred Webb)

History and Economics students

Alexander Bevilacqua, Trinity College
Research topic: A central contradiction of French liberal nationalism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries: the challenge of reconciling global citizenship with national allegiance

Associated Student

Julia Stephens, Harvard University
Research topic: Intellectual and cultural history of nineteenth-century South Asia; especially the role of South Asia in the transnational circulation of political, legal, and economic ideas through print culture and associational life