PhD Students
More information on the department’s PhD program can be found here.
Recently Awarded PhDs
2012
- Paul Rollier “We’re not genuine Muslims”: spoken Islam, Shi‘i mourning and morality in urban Pakistan ( Dr Magnus Marsden)
2011
- Reza Gholami 'Who Needs Islam?': 'Non-Islamiosity' and the Production of Diaspora among Iranian Shi`a in London (Dr Paru Raman)
- Debojyoti Das Contested Development: Problems and Dilemmas in Sustainable Jhum Redevelopment in Nagaland (Dr David Mosse)
- Shireen Mirza Embodying Pasts: Ritual and memory of Shi’a practices in India’s Deccan (Dr Stephen Hughes)
- Priya Das (Prof D Mosse)
- Annekarijn De Jong The Silent Voice: Palestinian And Israeli Nonviolent Activism And Resistance (Dr G Vom Bruck)
- Ole Martin Gaasholt (Dr Trevor Marchand)
- Ashraf Hoque Generation Terror: Muslim Youth, Being British, And Not So British (Dr Paru Raman)
- Miki Kawabata (Dr D Martinez)
- Mahnaz Marashi Devout Intellects: Knowledge and Scholarly Practice in an Islamic Academy in Malaysia (Prof J.D.Y. Peel)
- Monica Mottin Rehearsing For Life: Theatre For Social Change In Kathmandu, Nepal (Prof D Mosse)
- Alice Tilche Broken Frames: tribal museums, representation and marginality in contemporary India (Prof D Mosse)
- Debbie Whelan (Dr Trevor Marchand)
2010
- Paul Simon Hansen Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Change, Otherness, And The Search For Security. (Dr D Martinez)
- Julie Soleil Archambault Cruising Through Uncertainty: Mobile Phone Practices, Occulted Economies And The Politics Of Respect In Southern Mozambique. (Prof H West)
- Eduardo Zachary Albrecht Rising South: Music, Body, And Politics In A Naples Nightclub (Prof J Pottier)
- Emma Elizabeth Cook Failing Freeters: Young Men, Masculinity And Adulthood In Japan (Dr D Martinez)
- Dorota Szawarska Kinship- An Ambivalent Relation: The Case Of Sakhalin Korean Repatriates. (Dr C Osella)
- Jill Singer The Eve Complex: A Feminist Approach To Psycho-Sexual And Social Development (Dr D Martinez)
- Mira Juhi Mohsini Becoming An "Asli Karigar": The Production Of Authenticity Among Old Delhi'S Muslim Artisans. (Dr C Osella)
- Wing-Fai Leung Image, Performance And Identity: An Exploration Of The Cultural And Social Meanings Of Multi-Media Stardom In Hong Kong 1980-2005 (Dr K Latham)
- Roberta Zavoretti (Dr C Osella)
2009
- Mari Hirano The Aids Epidemic Among Haemophiliacs In Japan: The Mother's Experience (Dr D Martinez)
- Jane Alaszewska The Music Of Shamans, Weavers And Exiles: An Ethnomusicological Study Of The Performing Arts Of The Southern Izu Islands (Dr S Hughes)
- Nuno Miguel Rodrigues Domingos Football In Colonial Lourenco Marques: Bodily Practices And Social Rituals (Prof H West)
- Yuen Fun So The Making Of Inabilities: Governance And The Strategies Of Social Actors In A Development Project In An Ethical Minority Community In Southwest China (Dr J Klein)
- Luke Alexander Hallett Robinson Xianchang: On Location With China's New Documentary Film Movement (Dr K Latham)
- Ritu Verma Inside The Development Machine: Culture, Science And Discontent In The Central Highlands Of Madagascar (Prof J Pottier)
- Patrik Meier People Of The Suq: Identity, Practice, And Place-Making In Aleppo's Old City Market. (Prof T Marchand)
- Silke Niehusmann Manga - Lost In Translation? (Dr D Martinez)
- Nacim Pak Shiism And Film: Religion And Spirituality In Iranian Cinema (Dr G Vom Bruck)
2008
- Herbert Samuel Gayle Urban Poverty And Violence: A Study Of Selected Inner City Communities In Jamaica And Britain (Dr J Campbell)
- George Joseph Kunnath From The Mud Houses Of Magadh: Dalits, Naxalites And The Making Of A Revolution In Bihar, India (Prof D Mosse)
- Katia Fabbri Family Medicine From Counter-Culture To Role-Model: An Anthropological Look Into The Teaching And Practice Of Family Medicine In The United States (Dr C Davis)
- Sandra Fahy Tales From The Bottom Of The Well: Famine Survivor Testimonies From North Korea (Prof J Pottier)
- Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen Young Soka Gakkai Members' Support For Kompito: The Interpellation Of Religious Idealism And Political Reality In Contemporary Japan (Dr D Martinez)
- Alex Cockain An Anthropological Study Of Youth In New Millenium China. (Dr K Latham)
- Lindi Renier Todd What's In A Name? The Politics Of The Past Within Afrikaner Identifications In Post-Apartheid South Africa (Dr C Davis)
2007
- Nicholas Ivo Walton Gray No Tree Is Untouched By The Wind: Aspects Of Composition And Improvisation In Balinese Gender Wayang (Dr S Hughes)
- Panagiotis Geros When Christianity Matters: The Production And Manipulation Of Communalism In Damascus, Syria (Dr D Martinez)
- Kwok-Shing Chan In Search Of Welfare And Security In Contemporary Hong Kong: An Ethnographic Perspective From A Chinese Lineage Village (Mr S Thompson)
- Virginia Noel Whiles Manoeuvering Miniatures: Tradition And Subversion In Pakistani Contemporary Art (Dr P Raman)
- Ilana Van Wyk Profit Prophets And God's Money: The Making And Unmaking Of Riches In The Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God In Durban, South Africa (Prof H West)
- Meera Venkatachalam Slavery In Memory: A Study Of The Religious Practices Of The Anglo-Ewe (Prof J Peel)
- Anna Odland Portisch Kazakh Syrmaq-Production In Western Mongolia: Learning And Skill In A Domestic Craft Tradition (Prof T Marchand)
2006
- David Kurt Herold Education And Progress: The Decisions Of A Chinese Minority (Mr S Thompson)
- Ingeborg Hovland Distance Destroys And Kills: An Anthropological Inquiry Into The Nature Of Faith In A Lutheran Norwegian Missionary Society (Prof J Peel)
- Makiko Taniguchi Jackie Chan Fights Lei Feng? An Anthropological Consideration Of The Televisual Representation Of Heroes In Contemporary Urban China (Mr S Thompson)
- Eleni Sideri The Greeks Of The Former Soviet Republic Of Georgia. Memories And Practices Of Diaspora. (Dr P Raman)
- Daisuke Murakami National Imaginings, Ethnic Tourism And Contested Tibetan Identities In Contemporary Lhasa, Tibet (Prc) (Dr D Martinez)
- Satoshi Ota The Ambiguous Lightness Of Being: Taiwanese Youth, Identity, And The Consumption Of Japanese Youth Culture (Dr D Martinez)
- Sheila Anne Fish Children, Media And Class In Post-Suharto Indonesia (Prof M Hobart)
2005
- Wing Chung Ho Managing Changes In A Socialist "Model Community": The Reminiscences Of The "Revolutionary Vanguards" In Urban Shanghai In The Late 1990s (Dr K Latham)
- Kristopher Paul Chapman Inside The Dojo: Participation And Performance In The Japanese Martial Arts (Dr D Martinez)
- Yu Cheng Xian Old Music In New China: "Living Fossil" Or "Flowing River"? (Dr S Hughes)
- Rebecca Marsland Ethnographic Malaria: The Uses Of Medical Knowledge In Tanzania (Dr C Davis)
2004
- Matthew Alexander Gillan Multiple Identities In Yaeyaman Folk Music (Dr S Hughes)
- Jakob Akiba Klein Reinventing The Traditional Guangzhou Teahouse: Caterers, Customers And Cooks In Post-Socialist Urban South China (Dr K Latham)
- Bina Desai Local Brokers: Knowledge, Trust And Organisation In The Practice Of Agricultural Extension For Small And Marginal Farmers In Rajasthan, India (Prof D Mosse)
- Khek Gee Francis Lim Imagining The Good Life In The Himalaya (Prof J Peel)
Luigi Achilli
Does the political bore? The denial and camouflage of the “political” in a Palestinian refugee camp.
- Email: 208947@soas.ac.uk
Karin Ahlberg
(working title) Cairo Crossings: a study of how Egyptians and foreigners in the Egyptian capital come to know, learn about and feel for ‘others’ in a world of inequalities
- Email: Karin.ahlberg@soas.ac.uk
Antonia Baum
Performing and Transforming Identities in Israel-Palestine (working title)
- Email: ab127@soas.ac.uk
Zofia Boni
Children and Food in Warsaw: Discourses, Practices and Negotiations around the Process of Feeding (working title).
- Email: zofia_boni@soas.ac.uk
Kathrine Ann D Cagat
Changing grounds: understanding dynamic processes in the management of the Ifugao Rice Terraces.
- Email: k_cagat@soas.ac.uk
Nattaka Chaisinthop
"The Power of Good: Giving and Volunteering in Thailand" (working title)
- Email: 161598@soas.ac.uk
Andre Chappatte
" 'Sini be Allah bolo' (Tomorrow is in God's hands): destinies, blessing practices, and popular piety or the making of personal goals and ambitions among Muslims in the town of Bougouni in Southwest Mali."(working title)
- Email: 181137@soas.ac.uk
Jessica M Chu
The cultural economy of 'land grabs' in Zambia (working title).
- Email: jessica_chu@soas.ac.uk
Niamh Jane Clifford Collard
Weaving Experience, Intelligent Hands: A Cross-Cultural Study Of Apprenticeship And Skilled Work
- Email: 211318@soas.ac.uk
Mary-Anne Decatur
Examining HIV Prevention in Tanzania: Promoting Male Circumcision while Eradicating Female Genital Cutting
- Email: 538753@soas.ac.uk
Brendan Donegan
Spaces for negotiation and mass action: an anthropological study of Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (People’s Health Movement), the National Rural Health Mission and the right to health movement in India
- Email: 209530@soas.ac.uk
Jamila Dorner
Enskilment in a South Indian classical dance form Knowledge transmission and improvisation skills in Bharatanatyam
- Email: 329706@soas.ac.uk
Špela Drnovšek Zorko
Tracing the gendered ‘home’ through diasporic family stories of Yugoslavia.
- Email: 583004@soas.ac.uk
Katharina Graf
Domestic Cooking in Morocco: Skill, Knowledge Transmission and Social Change (working title)
- Email: k_graf@soas.ac.uk
Diana Ibanez-Tirado
“Multiple temporalities, identity and subjectivity in southern Tajikistan” (working title)
- Email: 221087@soas.ac.uk
Jessica Kendall
(Working Title) 'African Fever'; the politics of race in the international circus arena
- Email: cirquebella@yahoo.com
Amit Kisku
State, Forest and People: The Changing Relationship and its Impact on the Modern Forests of India
- Email: 500213@soas.ac.uk
Gabriel Klaeger
Rush and relax: Intricate movements, fleeting encounters and the dilemmas of speed on a Ghanaian road (working title)
- Email: g.klaeger@soas.ac.uk
Herby Lai
Chinese student migrants in Japan: cosmopolitanism, quality and individualism (working title).
- Email: herbylai@soas.ac.uk
Seamus Murphy
'Power, Development Discourses, and Food Security; the changing entitlements of Lake Chilwa’s resource-users'.
- Email: 272301@soas.ac.uk
Ayaz Qureshi
Pakistan's response towards HIV/AIDS: institutional complexity and the politics of policy
- Email: ayaz.qureshi@soas.ac.uk
Caitlin Robinson
Beauty Works: Cosmetic Surgery and Narratives of the Body Beautiful in Beirut (working title).
- Email: 278738@soas.ac.uk
Carl Rommel
The Cultural Work that Football Does: Exploring emotionality and masculine sociality along circulations of the global game in Cairo
- Email: carl.rommel@soas.ac.uk
Shirley N. A. Sackey
Collective Agency: Transnational Social Organization Amongst Ghanaians in London and New York
- Email: ss144@soas.ac.uk
Sunari Senaratne
The Post Tsunami Dynamic: 'Reconstruction' in coastal Sri Lanka
- Email: 123334@soas.ac.uk
Cristiana Strava
At Home with Modernity: Exploring Place-making in a Casablanca Slum.
- Email: C_strava@soas.ac.uk
Ms Minori Suzuki
Traditional Japanese music in Germany: transnational cultural space for gagaku music and the idea of national culture.
- Email: minorisuzuki@soas.ac.uk
Dorota Szawarska
Kinship – an ambivalent relation: the case of Sakhalin Korean Repatriates
- Email: 162118@soas.ac.uk
Daria Trentini
A study of spiritual healing in northern Mozambique (provisional title).
- Email: dt34@soas.ac.uk
Mr Sahil Khan Warsi
Cultivating Hambastagi and Hamdardi: Personhood and Relatedness among Afghans in India (Working Title)
- Email: 286010@soas.ac.uk
Pei-chien Wu
Chinese Muslim in Malaysia: the shaping of identity and ethnic boundaries
- Email: pcwu@soas.ac.uk
Willa Zhen
Knowledge Transmission in Cantonese Cooking Schools (working title)
- Email: wzhen@soas.ac.uk
