# CECS StaffFunded Research Projects

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# CECS Staff Funded Research Projects

**HELEN COWIE (History)\
‌\** [**Integrating ecological and cultural histories to inform sustainable and equitable futures for the Colombian páramos**](https://www.york.ac.uk/igdc/research/colombian-p%C3%A1ramos-project/) (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)**\
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 MARY FAIRCLOUGH, JON FINCH & JON MEE (English)\** [**Peterloo at 200**](https://www.york.ac.uk/english/news-events/events/2019/peterloo/)(project investigators)\
 Romantic Bicentennials award and YIAF (York Impact Accelerator Fund – AHRC-Aligned) \
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**JON FINCH (Archaeology)**\
[**European Network for Country House and Estate Research**](http://encounter.network/) (participant) \
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**JON FINCH & JASPER HEINZEN (Archaeology & History)\
[War and Captivity in Modern Conflicts](https://sites.google.com/view/war-and-captivity/home)**(co-investigators)\
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**JASPER HEINZEN (History)\****In search of civilised war: Prisoners of war and military honour, 1789-1918**(principal investigator) Leverhulme Research Fellowship\
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 **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**](https://www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene-biodiversity/)(Associate Director) CECS Member: Helen Cowie. Leverhulme Trust \
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**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**](https://www.york.ac.uk/english/research/research-projects/)(principal investigator) \
 The British Academy (Jan 2019 – Dec 2020)\
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## **Recently completed projects**

**HELEN COWIE (History)\
 Fashion Victims. Animal Commodities in Britain, 1800-1914**\
 Leverhulme Trust (2018-2019) \
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 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**](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/101761/factsheet/en) (co-investigator) \
 European Commission York**\****\
 CATRIONA KENNEDY (History)**\
 Making war, mapping Europe: militarized cultural encounters, 1792-1920 \
 Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) \
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 **JASPER HEINZEN (History)** \
 [**In search of civilized war: prisoners of war and the concept of military honour in Western Europe, 1789-1918**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVEzIas_XZ0)(principal investigator) \
 The British Academy\
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 **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**](https://www.york.ac.uk/english/news-events/news/ba-for-ejm/)(principle investigator)\
 The British Academy\
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 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](https://www.york.ac.uk/english/news-events/news/professorjonmeeawardedbritishacademyseniorresearchfellowship/)**(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**](https://jerusalems.wordpress.com/)(co-investigator) **\** AHRC

**CHLOE WIGSTON SMITH\** [**The Story of Things**](http://www.fairfaxhouse.co.uk/education/story-of-things/)(principal investigator) **\** York Impact Accelerator Fund – AHRC-Aligned**\**

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