Art & Archaeology PhD Theses Completed since 2005
2005
Christian Boehm
The Concept of Danzo: ‘Sandalwood Sculpture’ in Japanese Buddhist Art, 8th to 14th centuries
Supervisor: John Carpenter
Keith Godfrey
Pots of Gold? The representation of identity in contemporary South African art at the end of the Rainbow Nation
Supervisor: John Picton
Alfred Haft
Patterns of correspondence between the Floating World and the classical tradition: a study of the terms Mitate, Yatsushi and Furyu in the context of Ukiyo-e
Supervisor: Timon Screech
Man-Yee Ng
Ling Fenmian (1900-1991): figure painting and hybrid modernity in twentieth-century Chinese art.
Supervisor:
Helen Philon
Religious and royal architecture of the early Bahmani period (748/1347-825/1422).
Supervisor: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
2006
May Ahmad Al-Ibrashy
The Southern Cemetery of Cairo from the 14th century to the present.
Supervisor: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Charlotte Horlyck
The Significance of Bronze Mirrors in Graves of the Koryo Period (AD 918-1392).
Supervisor: Youngsook Pak
Gehan Samir Ali Ibrahim
The Role of Architectural Representations in the Context of Islamic Decoration.
Supervisor: Anna Contadini
Thalia Kennedy
Sultanate architecture of South Asia 1398-1526.
Supervisor: Giles Tillotson
I-Mann Lai
The Famensi Reliquary Deposit: Icons of Esoteric Buddhism in Ninth-century China.
Supervisor: Wang Tao
Chao-Hui Liu
Ritual concepts and political factors in the making of the Tang Dynasty Princess Tombs in the 7th and 8th centuries.
Supervisor: Wang Tao
Adriana de Miranda
Water Architecture in the Lands of Syria: the Water-Wheels.
Supervisor: Anna Contadini
Ariane Perrin
Pathway to the afterlife: The Cosmological elements in the Koguryo painted tombs, 4th to 7th centuries AD.
Supervisor: Youngsook Pak
Piu Yin Wong
The ‘Siling’ (Four Cardinal Animals) in Han Pictorial Art.
Supervisor: Wang Tao
2007
Ambra Calo’
Transitions of a Feathered World: The Distribution of Bronze Drums in Early Southeast Asia.
Supervisor: Elizabeth Moore
Reem Tariq El-Mutwalli
Changes in women’s traditional dress in the United Arab Emirates during the late twentieth century.
Supervisor: Geoffrey King
Yu-Chin Huang
National Identity and Ideology in the Design of Postage Stamps of China and Taiwan, 1949-1979.
Supervisor:
Hamed Mazaherian
The influence of Shi’ite Islam on the Design and Decoration of Religious Buildings in the Safavid Period: a study based on the extant mosques of Isfahan.
Supervisor: Geoffrey King
Jennifer Oram
Freetown ‘Lantans’: Tradition, Art and Performance in Sierra Leone, 1895-1997
Supervisor: John Picton
Khau Ming Rubin
The Buddhist Sculpture of Yanqi (Karashahr): context, analysis and dating.
Supervisor: Craig Clunas.
Peter Sharrock
The Buddhist Pantheon of the Bayon of Angkor: An Historical and Art Historical Reconstruction of the Bayon and its Religious and Political Roots.
Supervisor: Elizabeth Moore.
Shun-ling Irene Tsang
Archaeology of performance and gender in Ancient China.
Supervisor: Wang Tao
Yoshie Yoshiara
Art Museums in a Diverse Society: a Visitor Study at the South African National Gallery.
Supervisor: Tania Tribe
2008
Olivier Chow
The cruel imagination: Visual politics of cruelty in contemporary culture.
Supervisor: Tania Tribe
Clarence Eng
The Use of Ceramic in Chinese Late Imperial Architecture.
Supervisor: Stacey Pierson
Monique Fowler-Paul
Growing Pains: Gender and the Legacy of Black British Art.
Supervisor: John Picton
Fatemeh Jazayeri
The Two Buyid, Kakuyid and Hasnuyid Hoards in the National Museum of Iran
Supervisor: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Manuela Tenreiro
Military Encounters in the 18th Century: Racial Representations in the work
of Carlos Juliao and Colonial Discourse in the Portuguese Empire.
Supervisor: Tania Tribe
2009
Marjo Alafouzo
The Iconography of the Drinking Scene at Alchi, Ladakh.
Supervisor: Philip Denwood
Pui Pedith Chan
The Making of a Modern Art World: The Institutionalism of Guohua in Shanghai, 1929-1937.
Supervisor: & John Carpenter
Shinya Maezaki
Qing-Style Porcelain In Meiji Japan: The Ceramic Art Of Seifu Yohei III.
Supervisor: John Carpenter
Jane Oksbjerg
Religious Imagery of Middle Yayoi Settlements: An Iconology of Engraved Drawings on Kinai Pottery and Bronze Bells.
Supervisor: John Carpenter
Malini Roy
Idiosyncrasies in the late Mughal painting tradition of Awadh: The artist Mihr Chand, son of Ganga Ram (fl. 1759-86).
Supervisor: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
John Glass
Artistic legacy: modern Burmese painting and graphics in their historical context
Supervisor: Elizabeth Moore
2011
Melanie Gibson
The enigmatic figure - Glazed ceramic sculpture from Iran and Syria Twelfth-thirteenth centuries
2012
Elena Bernadini
Interrogating Installation Art from India
Supervisor: Elizabeth Moore
Alyson Wharton
Building the Tanzimat: the Power of the Balyan Family in the Age of Re-Organizations
Supervisor: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Emily Shovelton
Sultanate painting from the North Indian subcontinent: three fifteenth century Persian illustrated Manuscripts
Supervisor: Anna Contadini
Anna McSweeney
The Green and the Brown: a study of Paterna ceramics
Supervisor: Anna Contadini
Alison Ohta
Covering the Book: Bindings of the Mamluk period, 1250-1516 CE
Supervisor: Anna Contadini
Selen Etingu
Carved headgear on Ottoman Tombstones: A marker of status within three administrative departments in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Supervisor: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
