PhD Students
More information on the department’s PhD programme.
Recently Awarded PhDs
2011
- Gregory Deacon The socio-economic role of Pentecostal Churches in Kibera, Nairobi (Prof Gifford)
- Lewis Doney Transforming Tibetan Kingship: The portrayal of Khri Srong lde brtsan in the early Buddhist Histories (Dr Ulrich Pagel)
- Gwendolyn Heaner Destroying the Destroyer of Your Destiny: the Role(s) of Pentecostalism in Post-War Liberia (Prof Gifford)
- Satomi Horiuchi Expressing Emotions: Practices of Caring for the Dead in Contemporary Japanese Christianity (Dr L Dolce)
- Fumi Ouchi The Somatic Nature of Enlightenment: Vocal Arts in the Japanese Tendai Tradition (Dr L Dolce)
- Benedetta Lomi The Precious Steed of the Buddhist Pantheon: Ritual, Faith and Images of Bato Kannon in Japan (Dr L Dolce)
- Ligeia Lugli The Conception of Language in Early Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism - With Special Reference to the Laṅkāvatārasūtra (Dr U Pagel)
- Masaaki Okada Nature in the Healing and Farming Practices of Okada Mokichi of Sekai Kyusei Kyo (Dr L Dolce)
- Rupinder Kaur Pamme The Pilgrimage To Takht Hazur Sahib and its Place in the Sikh Tradition (Prof Shackle)
- Emily Welty Faith-based NGOs, Peacebuilding and Development: the Mennonite Central Committee's work in East Africa (Prof Gifford)
2010
- William Henry Taylor Narratives of Identity: the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of England 1895-1914. (Dr Hunter)
- David Edward Azzopardi Religious Belief and Practice Among Sri Lankan Buddhists in the Uk (Dr K Crosby)
- Kuan Guang Wutai Shan During the Ming Dynasty (Prof Barrett)
- Stefania Travagnin The Madhyamika Dimensions of Yin Shun: A Restatement of the School of Nagarjuna in 20Th Century Chinese Buddhism (Prof Bocking)
- Robert William James Wilfred Cantwell Smith's theory of Scripture Related To the Use of the Bible in African Anglicanism (Prof Gifford)
- Christine Bodewes Civil Society in Africa: the Role of A Catholic Parish in A Kenyan Slum (Prof Gifford)
- Christopher Allen Daily From Gosport To Canton: A New Approach To Robert Morrison and the Beginnings of Protestant Missions in China. (Prof Barrett)
2009
- Karel Peter Leonard Gerard Kersten Occupants of the Third Space: New Muslim intellectuals and the Study of Islam (Hasan Hanafi, Mohammed Arkoun, Murchilish Madjid). (Prof Shackle)
- Uranchimeg Borjigin Ujeed Indigenous Efforts and Dimensions of Mongolian Buddhism - Exemplified By the Mergen Tradition (Dr T Skorupski)
- Hasan Ali Khan Shia-Ismaili Motifs in the Sufi Architecture of the indus Valley 1200 - 1500 (Prof Shackle)
- James Alexander Kapalo Text, Context, Performance: the Lay institutions of Gagauz Orthodoxy (Prof Gifford)
2008
- Catherine Sarah Newell Monks, Meditation and Missing Links: Continuity, "Orthodoxy" and the Vijja Dhammakaya in Thai Buddhism. (Dr K Crosby)
- Katherine Louise Wharton Philosophy As A Practice of Freedom in Ancient india and Ancient Greece (Dr T Proferes)
- Adil Hussain Khan Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and the Construction of the Ahmadiyya Identity. (Prof Shackle)
2007
- Joanna Elizabeth Marie Sadgrove The Condom Culture Is Not the Kingdom Culture': Dissonant Discourses & Secret Sex Amongst Born-Again University Students in Uganda (Prof Gifford)
- Gianpaolo Vetturini The Bka' Gdams Pa School of Tibetan Buddhism (Dr T Skorupski)
- Sian Melvill Hawthorne Origins, Genealogies and the Politics of Mythmaking: Towards A Feminist Philosophy of Myth (Prof Gifford)
- Eamon Francis Adams Towards the Reform of Korean Buddhism During the Japanese Colonial Period, 1910-1935 (Prof Bocking)
2006
- Hugh James Osgood African Neo-Pentecostal Churches and British Evangelicalism 1985-2005; Balancing Principles and Practicalities (Prof Gifford)
- Ho Young Lee Dai Zhen's Philosophy of Ethical Human Being (Prof Barrett)
- Ornella Corazza Consciousness and Place': the Phenomenology of the Near-Death Experience (Nde) and Similar States induced By Dissociative Anaesthesia (Dr C Zene)
- Annette Benaim Judeo-Spanish Testimonies in 16th-Century Responsa (Dr Stern)
- Felix Jere Phiri Local Muslim Associations As A Contemporary Way of Isla,Mization in Zambia (Prof Gifford)
- Jane Elizabeth Clifford Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power: A Study of Charismatic Christianity in Accra, Ghana (Prof Gifford)
- Sharmina Mawani The Construction of Identities Amongst Young Adult Nizari Ismailis in Toronto and Mumbai (Prof Shackle)
- Oliver Paul Scharbrodt Reconciling Religious Dissidence in Early Baha'Ism and in the Salafiyya: A Comparative Study of 'Abdul-Baha 'Abbas (1844-1921) and Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905) (Prof Shackle)
- Abdollah Guivian Religion, Television and Culture in Post-Revolutionary Iran (Dr C Zene)
2005
- Vena Radha Ramphal A Word On Movement: Thinking Approaches To the Dancing Body (Dr C Zene)
- Matthew Muriuki Karangi The Sacred Mugumo Tree: Revisiting the Roots of Gikuyu Cosmology and Worship. A Case Study of the Gicugu Gikuyu of Kirinyaga District in Kenya (Dr C Zene)
- Chengzhong Pu Kindness Towards Animals in Early Chinese Buddhism (Prof Barrett)
- Anastasia Karaflogka Religious Discourse and Cyberspace (Prof Bocking)
- Chi Ho Ivan Hon Chinese intellectuals' Reconstruction of Confucianism in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century China (Prof Bocking)
- Senevi Aturupana Saddha: An Analytical Study of its Role in theravada Buddhism (Dr T Skorupski)
- Jonah Avriel Cohen Religious Appreciation and the Mundane-Sacred: A Neglected Area of Philosophy (Dr C Zene)
- Elena Moreddu Sacred Places in Sardinia - Cumbessias Villages, Sacredness, and the Dialectic of the Work of Art (Dr C Zene)
- Ci Yuan The Bodhisativa Ideal in Selected Buddhist Scriptures (its theoretical and Practical Evolution) (Dr T Skorupski)
- Fang-Long Shih Dead Maidens in Taiwan: Breaking Down Chinese Religious Tradition (Dr C Zene)
- Susan Elizabeth Prill The Sant Tradition and Community formation in the Works of Guru Nanak and Dadu Dayal (Prof Shackle)
Thomas Alberts
Indigenous Modernity: Shamanism, Discourse and the Study of Religions
- Email: Thomas.alberts100@gmail.com
Husam Almallak
Post-Secular Islamic Religiosity: A Nietzschean Reading of Ibn ‘Arabi’s Hermeneutics of Transvaluation
- Email: halmallak@gmail.com
Barakatullo Ashurov
Tarsākyā: an analysis of Sogdian Christianity based on Archaeological, Numismatic, Epigraphic and Textual Sources.
- Email: 235548@soas.ac.uk
Alexandra Buhler
Historical analysis of the role which Zoroastrians played during the institutional revolution in Iran (1905-11).
- Email: 235321@soas.ac.uk
Hannah Bartos
Organizing Transnational Yoga in the UK & India: Institutionalization, Globalization & Complexity.
- Email: 247013@soas.ac.uk
Afework Beyene
Jews and Jerusalem in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church: A Reassessment.
- Email: 244712@soas.ac.uk
Graham Burns
Philosophical study on ways in which Vedic Upanishads present reality.
- Email: 245343@soas.ac.uk
David Cohen
Abrabanel’s Commentary on the Biblical Book of Genesis: Selected Translation and Stylistic Analysis.
- Email: 554259@soas.ac.uk
Aristotle Dy
Marginal Buddhists: Religion, Social Work, and Cultural Identity of the Chinese in the Philippines
- Email: 245254@soas.ac.uk
Ahmet Riza Emiroglu
The Exploration of the Idea of Emanation through the Comparison between the Islamic and Indian Philosophies with Special Reference to Ibn Sīnā and Abhinavagupta.
- Email: 103204@soas.ac.uk
Federico Filippi
The Ontological Positions of the Buddha in the discourses of the Pali Nikayas.
- Email: 170468@soas.ac.uk
Richard Godwin
Late Sassanian Persia, the Culture of the Church of the East and Tang Imperial Patronage.
- Email: 258191@soas.ac.uk
Jennifer Griggs
Language of spiritual love in Sufism and Eastern Christianity.
- Email: 216086@soas.ac.uk
Eleanor Tiplady Higgs
Women-centred theology in practice? A study of the theology and ethics of the Young Women's Christian Association in Kenya. (WORKING TITLE)
Prabhjap Singh Jutla
Hindutva and the Construction of Sikh Identity: A Political and Intellectual History, c. 1877-2004.
- Email: 108032@soas.ac.uk
James Kimball
The soteriological role of the ṛṣi Kapila in the Yuktidīpikā: the production and transmission of liberating knowledge in classical Sāṃkhya.
- Email: jaskimball@hotmail.com
Man Shik Kong
A Study of Attitude to Food in Canonical and Commentarial Texts of Theravada Buddhism.
- Email: 316586@soas.ac.uk
Pyi Kyaw
A Living Tradition of Paṭṭhāna: A Study of the Roles of The Conditional Relations (Paṭṭhāna) in the context of Contemporary Burmese Buddhism.
- Email: pk12@soas.ac.uk
Jennifer Langer
Exile from Exile: The Representation of Cultural Memory in Literary Texts by Contemporary Exiled Iranian Jewish Women Writers.
- Email: 249243@soas.ac.uk
Samantha Langsdale
Damaged Bodies: Gendering Identity in Religious Discourse.
- Email: 146013@soas.ac.uk
Karen Liljenberg
A Critical Study of the "Thirteen Later Translations" of the Dzogchen Mind Series
- Email: karenliljenberg@yahoo.co.uk
Jennifer Loh
Exploring the Construction of 'Political' Identity Among the Kinnars of Madhya Pradesh, India.
- Email: j.ung.loh@soas.ac.uk
Yaara Morris
The Cult of Tenkawa Benzaiten – her rituals, texts, and mandalas.
- Email: 143701@soas.ac.uk
Bhikkhu Nagasena
The significance of the Sima (Buddhist Monastic Boundary) in Burmese Theravada: Authority and Practice
- Email: 173954@soas.ac.uk
Janine Nicol
Daoxuan and the Shijia fangzhi: The Creation of a Buddhist Sacred Geography of China.
- Email: 105504@soas.ac.uk
Sayam Patthranuprawat
Literary analysis of the narrative methods of stories in the Maharbatha.
- Email: 547617@soas.ac.uk
Zara Ramsay
Religion, Gender and Development: Women’s Empowerment in South India
- Email: zararamsay@gmail.com
Niranjan Saha
Philosophy of Advaita as Presented in the Gitagudharthadipika of Madhusudana Sarsavti
- Email: 214970@soas.ac.uk
Shi Longdu
Buddhism and the State in Medieval China: A Case Study of Three Persecutions of Buddhism in Chinese History, 446-845
- Email: 241201@soas.ac.uk
Kazumi Taguchi
Beyond Tokugawa Confucianism: Soseki and Neo-Edo taste in the Meiji Bun'jin Community
- Email: 136926@soas.ac.uk
