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Department of Anthropology and Sociology

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
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Does the political bore? The denial and camouflage of the “political” in a Palestinian refugee camp.

Karin Ahlberg
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(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



Antonia Baum
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Performing and Transforming Identities in Israel-Palestine (working title)


Zofia Boni
Zofia Boni

Children and Food in Warsaw: Discourses, Practices and Negotiations around the Process of Feeding (working title).


Kathrine Ann D Cagat
Kathrine Cagat

Changing grounds: understanding dynamic processes in the management of the Ifugao Rice Terraces.

Nattaka Chaisinthop
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"The Power of Good: Giving and Volunteering in Thailand" (working title)


Andre Chappatte
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)


Jessica M Chu
Jessica Chu

The cultural economy of 'land grabs' in Zambia (working title).

Niamh Jane Clifford Collard
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Weaving Experience, Intelligent Hands: A Cross-Cultural Study Of Apprenticeship And Skilled Work


Mary-Anne Decatur
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Examining HIV Prevention in Tanzania: Promoting Male Circumcision while Eradicating Female Genital Cutting


Brendan Donegan
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

Jamila Dorner
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Enskilment in a South Indian classical dance form Knowledge transmission and improvisation skills in Bharatanatyam


Špela Drnovšek Zorko
Spela Drnovsek Zorko

Tracing the gendered ‘home’ through diasporic family stories of Yugoslavia.


Katharina Graf
Katharina Graf

Domestic Cooking in Morocco: Skill, Knowledge Transmission and Social Change (working title)


Diana Ibanez-Tirado
Diana Tirado

“Multiple temporalities, identity and subjectivity in southern Tajikistan” (working title)



Gunvor Jónsson
Gunvor Jonsson

The Migration Processes of Young Women in Mali


Jessica Kendall
Jessica Kendall PhD Student

(Working Title) 'African Fever'; the politics of race in the international circus arena


Amit Kisku
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State, Forest and People: The Changing Relationship and its Impact on the Modern Forests of India

Gabriel Klaeger
Gabriel Klaeger

Rush and relax: Intricate movements, fleeting encounters and the dilemmas of speed on a Ghanaian road (working title)


Antonie Kraemer
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Encountering Corporate Social Responsibility


Herby Lai
Lai Herby

Chinese student migrants in Japan: cosmopolitanism, quality and individualism (working title).

Sandra Manuel
Sandra Manuel

Changing notions of sexuality in Mozambique


Seamus Murphy
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'Power, Development Discourses, and Food Security; the changing entitlements of Lake Chilwa’s resource-users'.




Ayaz Qureshi
Ayaz Qureshi

Pakistan's response towards HIV/AIDS: institutional complexity and the politics of policy

Hannah Roberson
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Food movements in the ‘Big Society’


Caitlin Robinson
Caitlin Robinson

Beauty Works: Cosmetic Surgery and Narratives of the Body Beautiful in Beirut (working title).


Carl Rommel
Carl Rommel

The Cultural Work that Football Does: Exploring emotionality and masculine sociality along circulations of the global game in Cairo

James Russell
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Cultural Property and Heritage in Japan


Shirley N. A. Sackey
Shirley Sackey

Collective Agency: Transnational Social Organization Amongst Ghanaians in London and New York


Sunari Senaratne
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The Post Tsunami Dynamic: 'Reconstruction' in coastal Sri Lanka


Sylvia Simpson
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Japanese Women in the UK and their Media (working title)


Cristiana Strava
Cristiana Strava

At Home with Modernity: Exploring Place-making in a Casablanca Slum.

Ms Minori Suzuki
Minori Suzuki

Traditional Japanese music in Germany: transnational cultural space for gagaku music and the idea of national culture.


Dorota Szawarska
Dorota Szawarska

Kinship – an ambivalent relation: the case of Sakhalin Korean Repatriates


Daria Trentini
Daria Trentini

A study of spiritual healing in northern Mozambique (provisional title).


Mr Sahil Khan Warsi
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Cultivating Hambastagi and Hamdardi: Personhood and Relatedness among Afghans in India (Working Title)


Pei-chien Wu
Pei-Chien Wu

Chinese Muslim in Malaysia: the shaping of identity and ethnic boundaries

Willa Zhen
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Knowledge Transmission in Cantonese Cooking Schools (working title)