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Department of the History of Art and Archaeology

History of Art & Archaeology Research Students

Mastaneh Afshari-Ebtehaj
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The Qajar Gulistan palace and its decoration

Daphne Ang
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Cosmoplolitan Representations: Peranakans and Image making in Colonial and Postcolonial Singapore.


Massoumeh Assemi
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A Kalila wa Dimna of the Timurid Period.

Kaveh Bakhtiar
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Contemporary Islamic architecture in Britain


Paula Callus
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Sub-Saharan African animation

Angela Chiu
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The lives of images in fifteenth-century Thailand


Tara Desjardins
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Studies on Mughal Glass.

Lia Genovese
Rosalia Genovese

Madeleine Colani and the Plain of Jars of Laos


Melanie Gibson
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The Enigmatic Figure - Glazed Ceramic Sculture from Iran and Syria, twelfth-thirteenth centuries


Jack Hiscock
Jack Hiscock

World-Systems Analysis in the Horn of Africa: Trade systems and social changes in Ethiopia 600AD – 1300AD

Ching-yi Huang
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John Sparks Ltd: Art dealer and Chinese art in Britain, 1900-1950


Katherine Hughes
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Tajik identity and the Samanid past

Yin Hwang
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The Depiction of War and Rebellion in the Print and Visual Culture of Late Qing China, 1884-1901


Bora Keskiner
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Sultan Ahmed III (r.1703-1730) as a Calligrapher and Patron of Calligraphy

Preeti Khosla
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A Study of the Visual Language of the Indigenous Styles of Book Painting in North India during the Sultanate period (1414-1525 AD).


Radu Leca
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Feminine space and utopias in Edo art

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Jung-taek Lee
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Dress and Fashion in Korea 1876-1945: Hanbok, Yangbok and Colonial Modernity


Chien Li-Kuei
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The Siwei Bodhisattva: The Contemplating Image in Popular Buddhism of Sixth Century China

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Tianshuang Liang
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The Agency of Syncretism in Modern Chinese Art: Gao Qifeng and the New Republic


Yi-hsin Lin
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Tradition, Transmission and Transformation: Art Collecting and Gentry identity of the Pan Family in Nineteenth-century Suzhou


George Manginis
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Hagia Koryphe (Jabal Musa) at Sinai, Egypt

Emma Martin
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Charles Bell, a collector in Tibet


Malcolm McNeill
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Narrative Agency in 13th-14th Century Chan Figure Painting: A Study of Hagiography-Iconography Text-Image Relationships

Sophie Mew
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National Museums: Social memory and public access in Mali and Ghana


Elena Moreno
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Feeding the Ancestors: Form and Function in Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes

Doreen Mueller
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Documenting Disaster: Pictorial Records of the Edo Period


Stephen Murphy
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Buddhist boundary markers of Northeast Thailand, sixth to eleventh centuries CE

Rose Ojo
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The Role of Movement and Migration in the Photographic Work of Carrie Mae Weems, Joy Gregory, Rotimi Fani Kayode, Albert Chong, Yinka Shonibare and Renee Cox


Jenny Preston
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The Illustrated books of Nishikawa Sukenobu

Pascal Prigogine
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Popular African-Brazilian Culture since the 1980s


Lesley Pullen
Lesley Pullen

Dressed to Impress: A study of the textiles carved in relief on the Singosari sculptures of Late Classical Java

Mehreen Razvi
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Jahangir’s Tomb: an architectural and historical examination of imperial Mughal tombs


Joona Repo
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Contemporary Tibetan Architecture

Maria Sardi
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Mamluk textiles


Mimi Savitri
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Surakarta: Islamic and Colonial city-planning in Java

Kristin Scheel
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Ilkhanid and later Persian textiles and their impact on North European art

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Katrin Schulze
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The State and Development of Contemporary Arts in Northern Nigeria

Shuchi Shen
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Art, Commerce and Chinese Identities: Remapping the Beijing Art Circle (1911-1938)


Francois Tainturier
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The Burmese art of making cities: Mandalay 1857-1885

Nicole Chiang Ter-chuang
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Reconsidering the Collection of the Imperial household during the Qianlong Reign (1735-1796)


Ilse Timperman
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Mortuary Variation and Mobility in the Tarim Basin and surroundings

Tanja Tolar
Tanja Tolar

Islamic enamelled glass and its connections with Byzantium and Venice


Eriko Tomizawa-Kay
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The painting of Hishida Shunsô

Terumi Toyama
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The Replication of Sacred Spaces in Edo


Nikolaos Vryzidis
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Christian-Orthodox textiles in Ottoman Turkey

Shu-chin Wang
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Chinese Realism and Western Realism in the Early Art Criticism of Xu Beihong, 1918 -1930

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Karin Warch
Karin Warch

Causes and Expressions of Humor in Eighteenth-Century Korean Art

Farouk Yahya
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Magic and Divination: the Malay Tradition in Illustrated Manuscripts


Heena Youn
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Longquan Ceramic Figural Sculptures in the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties

Lindsay Zamponi
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'British Collectors and Collections of Tibetan Art and Artefacts, 1850-1960'