Marta Agosti Pinilla
The Female Protestor and the making and unmaking of the State: Egypt in the aftermath of January 25
- Email: 565304@soas.ac.uk
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Current Research (MPhil/PhD) Students
Karin Ahlberg
"They are destroying the image of Egypt": Tourism, Egyptian nationhood and infrastructures of image making.
- Email: Karin.ahlberg@soas.ac.uk
Alyaa Ahmed Ebbiary
A Palimpsest of Pedagogies: Making Mullahs in Modern Britain
- Email: alyaa_ebbiary@soas.ac.uk
Jawaher Ali Reda
Living Outside State Law: How Stateless Women in Kuwait Access Justice and Pursue Human Rights
- Email: 233106@soas.ac.uk
Luba Ampleva
The Beautiful Other: What Lies Behind the Image of Russian Fashion Models in Contemporary Japan. (working title)
- Email: 542735@soas.ac.uk
Alina Apostu
Variations on an Anglican Theme: A London-based Comparative Ethnography of Sound, Music, and Christian Bodies (working title)
- Email: alina_apostu@soas.ac.uk
Keren Bhujel
The Catholic workers: An ethnography of an organisation
- Email: 280762@soas.ac.uk
Hannah Bennett
Golf Course Culture in China: An Exploration of Gender, Class, and Social Stratification
- Email: 602343@soas.ac.uk
Valeria Bevilacqua
Care And The City: Urban Art Residency Projects As Sites Of Collective Practices And Resistance (working title)
- Email: 595737@soas.ac.uk
Anna Cohen
Ridley Road and Broadway Market: Food markets, social change, and the construction of community in Hackney’s ‘Urban Village’ (working title)
- Email: 603655@soas.ac.uk
Hanming Cai
Identification in Contemporary Hong Kong: Ethnographic Exploration on the Politics of Cantopop and Its Lyrics
- Email: hanming_cai@soas.ac.uk
Ilaria Callegari
Tibetan Buddhism Went Global: Tibetan Buddhists’ Responses to Modernization Tendencies (working title)
- Email: 645703@soas.ac.uk
Theodore Charles
Crossing Borders; The Evolution of Food Traditions in Post-Ottoman Thrace
- Email: 655805@soas.ac.uk
Ze Chen
Marrying the other: Marrying the other: Local ethnic boundaries and the politics of inter-ethnic marriage on Hainan Island
- Email: 289602@soas.ac.uk
Jessica M Chu
The cultural economy of 'land grabs' in Zambia (working title).
- Email: jessica_chu@soas.ac.uk
Anna Colquhoun
Food and tourism in Istria: Local specialities and the construction of a region (working title)
Mukta Das
Spicing the China Dream: South Asians, Food and Belonging in Guangzhou, Macau and Hong Kong
- Email: 108040@soas.ac.uk
Mary-Anne Decatur
Medicalization and Meaning: Male Circumcision, Female Genital Cutting and HIV in Northern Tanzania (working title)
- Email: m_decatur@soas.ac.uk
Nora Katharina Faltmann
Food Safety in Vietnam’s changing Urban Foodscape – Of Body Politics, Access and ‘Beautiful’ Carrots in Ho Chi Minh City
- Email: nora_faltmann@soas.ac.uk
Franziska Fay
Contesting the Ordinary: Children's Perspectives on 'Child Protection' in Educational Settings in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
- Email: 266044@soas.ac.uk
Marcello Francioni
Onee-kotoba. Language, Masculinities and Sexuality in contemporary Japan
- Email: 632287@soas.ac.uk
Jonathan Galton
The Politics of Belonging and Difference in a Mumbai Chawl
- Email: 616638@soas.ac.uk
Lyman Gamberton
'How to be Trans in Japan': Gender, Nation-Work, and the Material Self
- Email: 606246@soas.ac.uk
Megan Gaventa
Imagining an 'Empowered Woman' in the UK Development Landscape: An Ethnographic Exploration (working title)
- Email: megan_gaventa@soas.ac.uk
Priyanka Hutschenreiter
Being Muslim in Dhaka: Dhormo, Ethics and Ambiguity in the Everyday
Imran Jamal
Developing Moralities: An ethnographic study of elite development workers working in development in Bangladesh.
- Email: 271155@soas.ac.uk
Mustafa Khan
Making them look the Other way! The (Ir)rationality of road building in the Sindh Borderlands of Pakistan
- Email: 600994@soas.ac.uk
Tung-Yi Kho
In Search of the “Good Life” in Contemporary China: Stories from Shenzhen.
- Email: kho.tungyi@yahoo.com
Victoria Klinkert
- Email: 292629@soas.ac.uk
Maiko Kodaka
GIRLS’ PLEASURE : pornography as a cultural commentary in modern Japan with reference to female friendly Adult Videos (working title)
- Email: 601882@soas.ac.uk
Xinru Li
Mango TV as Youths’ CCTV - An Ethnography of Youths, Media and Nation
- Email: 644582@soas.ac.uk
Yun Miao
Being Tibetan in Shangri-La: Tibetans' interactions with development projects in Southwest China
- Email: 259721@soas.ac.uk
Petra Matijevic
On the Fringes of the European Union: Food Self-sufficiency and the Eurozone Crisis in Slovenia
- Email: petra_matijevic@soas.ac.uk
Maria Nolan
China's Zhai: Exploring the Use of a Social Label among Young Urban Chinese (working title)
- Email: 295660@soas.ac.uk
Leo Pang
An Ethnographic Study of Ecological Food Entrepreneurs in China (Working Title).
- Email: leo_pang@soas.ac.uk
Nafsika Papacharalampous
The Metamorphosis of the Greek Cuisine: National identity, tradition, heritage and memory as narratives of change from the Athens Market (working title).
- Email: 542550@soas.ac.uk
Hannah Roberson
Food movements in the ‘Big Society’
- Email: 130451@soas.ac.uk
Alexx Salazar
Embodying Neang Seda and Preah Ream: Balancing Dominant Global and Local Discourses on Gender and Heritage in Contemporary Cambodian Shadow Puppet Theatre (Lakhon Sbaek Thom)
- Email: 655816@soas.ac.uk
Michele Serafini
Playing at Football: Time, Pleasure and Identity Politics in Transnational Nepal.
- Email: 569299@soas.ac.uk
Ruth Simister
Mediating Public Health Messaging during the Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone
- Email: r_simister@soas.ac.uk
Robert Simpkins
Playing in Kōenji: making street music in a Tokyo neighbourhood (working title).
- Email: 235964@soas.ac.uk
Eric Smith Vintner
A World of Our Own: The Negotiation of Cosmology in Contemporary Japanese Animation(Working Title)
- Email: 666766@soas.ac.uk
Emily Rose Stevenson
The Postcolonial Consumption of Colonial Legacies: The Contemporary Social Life of Postcards from British India.
- Email: 252269@soas.ac.uk
Elisa Tamburo
"Anthropology of Moving House: the re-making of home among the mainlanders’ diaspora in Taiwan"
- Email: 275099@soas.ac.uk
Till Jakob Frederik Trojer
Shadow Caravans - The Ethos of the 'Afar Salt Trade in North East Ethiopia
Helen Underhill
- Email: 287995@soas.ac.uk
Francesca Vaghi
The Food Practices of Young Children in Childcare and at Home: A Cross Context Approach in a Multi-ethnic London Region [working title]
- Email: francesca_vaghi@soas.ac.uk
Mikal Woldu
A Cross-national and Inter-generational Investigation of Eritrean Migrants in London and Milan (Working title)
- Email: 616542@soas.ac.uk
Nora Wuttke
Architecture and Aspirations: An Ethnographic Exploration of Hospital Infrastructure in Myanmar
- Email: 141121@soas.ac.uk
Chenjia Xu
- Email: 311438@soas.ac.uk
Hannelore van Bavel
Tracing the construction and diffusion of the concept of 'harmful traditional practices' - a multi-sited ethnography of international efforts to eradicate 'FGM' and 'early marriage' in Kenya [working title]
Thomas van der Molen
Affecting the Wheel of Time: Tibetan Migrant Engagements with Time and Documentation
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