Professor Peter D. Thomas
Professor - History of Political Thought
Marie Jahoda 229
- Email: peterd.thomas@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267573
- Politics
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
Topics
- History of political thought
- History of philosophy
- Italian political philosophy
- Marxist philosophy and theory
- Contemporary political and social theory
- Contemporary emancipatory politics and social movements
Research supervision
Adam Fabry (Brunel University London): The construction, reformation and deformation of neoliberal hegemony in Hungary: from the “transition” of the 1980s to the crisis of 2007-2010; 2009–2013. Award of PhD: May 2014.
Daniel Hartley (Justus Liebig University Giessen): The Politics of Style: British and American Marxist Literary Theory; 2010–2014. Award of PhD (summa cum laude): May 2014.
Alen Suceska (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main): Language, Consciousness, Ideology. 2011–2014. Award of PhD (magna cuma laude): February 2015.
Nathaniel Boyd (Brunel University London): “Hegel’s Concept of the Estates”. 2011– 2015. Award of PhD: June 2015.
Aaron Bernstein (King’s College London): “From the Theses on Feuerbach to the Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Gramsci, Philosophy and Politics”. 2011–2015. Award of PhD: February 2016 (Elsevier Outstanding PhD Thesis Award).
Matthijs Krul (Brunel University London): “Markets, Institutions, Embeddedness: A Theoretical Study of the New Institutionalist Economic History of Douglass C. North”. 2012–2015. Award of PhD: March 2016.
Rodrigo Maia (Brunel University London): “The New Left in the European Union: History, Sovereignty and Democracy”. 2018-2021. Award of PhD: January 2022.
Yan Liu (Brunel University of London): “Global Disorders”. 2025-.