Current Research (MPhil/PhD) Students

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

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

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

Liana Chase

Healing 'Heart-Minds': Shifting Ecologies of Care in Post-Earthquake Nepal

• Email: liana_chase@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

Mukta Das

Social Delicacies: South Asian Cooks and Food in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macau

• 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

Franziska Fay

Contesting the Ordinary: Children's Perspectives on 'Child Protection' in Educational Settings in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

• Email: 266044@soas.ac.uk

Matthew John Fish

• Email: 289332@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

• Email: priyanka_hutschenreiter@soas.ac.uk

Imran Jamal

Developing Moralities: An ethnographic study of elite development workers working in development in Bangladesh.

• Email: 271155@soas.ac.uk

Mustafa Khan

Development and Nation 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

• Email: 643817@soas.ac.uk; t_trojer@soas.ac.uk

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

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]

• Email: hannelore_vanbavel@soas.ac.uk

Thomas van der Molen

Affecting the Wheel of Time: Tibetan Migrant Engagements with Time and Documentation

• Email: thomas_van_der_molen@soas.ac.uk