Luba Ampleva
The Beautiful Other: What Lies Behind the Image of Russian Fashion Models in Contemporary Japan. (working title)
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Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Current PhD Students
Khadija Alia Bah
Impact of Crisis as a Condition on Individual and Intergenerational Aspirations (working title)
- Email: 687568@soas.ac.uk
Hannah Bennett
Golf Course Culture in China: An Exploration of Gender, Class, and Social Stratification (working title)
- Email: 602343@soas.ac.uk
Cherry Briggs
The politics and ethics of climate change adaptation in Sri Lanka's Dry Zone (working title)
- Email: 666392@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
Theodore Parker Charles
Crossing Borders; The Evolution of Food Traditions in Post-Ottoman Thrace
- Email: 655805@soas.ac.uk
Anna Colquhoun
Food and tourism in Istria: Local specialities and the construction of a region (working title)
Felicity Davies
Riding The Seoul Train: An Ethnographic Exploration Of The British K-Pop Fandom (working title)
- Email: 674818@soas.ac.uk
Lyman Gamberton
'Each Life Has Its Place': Transgender Experiences in Contemporary Japan
- Email: 606246@soas.ac.uk
Himalay Gohel
Caste Genealogies: Myths and Histories of Dalit Communities from Saurashtra, India
- Email: 312785@soas.ac.uk
Pauline Harlay
Tea, Taste and Traders: Cultural Mediators and the Reinvention of the Chinese ‘Traditional’ Beverage (working title)
- Email: 677271@soas.ac.uk
Flora Hastings
Jews Becoming Public: Emergent Practices Within Casa Adret, a Jewish Cultural Centre in Barcelona
- Email: 675265@soas.ac.uk
Priyanka Hutschenreiter
Being Muslim in Dhaka: Dhormo, Ethics and Ambiguity in the Everyday
Emily Imamura
Power, Identity, and Audiences in Indigenous Tourism: Ainu Entanglements in Hokkaido and Beyond (working title)
- Email: 264374@soas.ac.uk
Victoria Klinkert
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Maiko Kodaka
'Embrace me as I am’: Japanese Pornography for Women and the Fan community Surrounding Male Pornstars
- Email: 601882@soas.ac.uk
Pooja (Jo) Krishnakumar
Social Space and the Sex Worker: Family, Networks and Collectivisation in the Indian Sex Workers' Movement (Working Title)
- Email: 674557@soas.ac.uk
Wanlin Lu
Food, care and the digital sphere: Community group buying (shequ tuangou) in urban China
- Email: 676232@soas.ac.uk
Marie Launay-Smirnov
Around the Monastic Table: The Experience of Monastic Food for Retreat Participants in France (working title)
Xinru Li
Mango TV as Youths’ CCTV - An Ethnography of Youths, Media and Nation
- Email: 644582@soas.ac.uk
Amir Massoumian
Perceptions of cultural preservation, race, gender, hierarchy, nationhood, and immigration in London pub culture
- Email: 667688@soas.ac.uk
Abhishek Mohanty
Blurred Imaginaries: Future-making and digital health in Delhi
- Email: 676326@soas.ac.uk
Lu Qiao
Chinese Cosmetic Surgery Tourism in Seoul: Body Politics, Transnationalism and Decentralised Centralism
- Email: 687147@soas.ac.uk
Cornelis Rijneveld
High Fun: An ethnography of HIV risk and stigma among queer men in urban India (working title)
- Email: 656793@soas.ac.uk
Alexx Salazar
Tradition, to preserve or innovate?: The Many Adaptations and Interpretations of Cambodian Shadow Puppets
- Email: 655816@soas.ac.uk
Teesta Sengupta
Elizabeth Carla Smith
Cosmopolitan Creatives: Asian Self-Making and Consumption in London (working title)
- Email: 544341@soas.ac.uk
Eric Smith Vintner
A World of Our Own: The Negotiation of Cosmology in Contemporary Japanese Animation
- Email: 666766@soas.ac.uk
Cas Sutherland
Queer Feminist Kinship: An Intersectional Approach to Activism and Community in Chengdu, China (working title)
- Email: 529873@soas.ac.uk
Vidya Venkat
India’s Democratic Revolution: The Right to Information and the Anti-Corruption Discourse
- Email: vidya_venkat@soas.ac.uk
Yuqi Wang
Between secularity and religiosity: a Buddhism-oriented town in Mainland China (working title)
- Email: 676303@soas.ac.uk
Kiara Wickremasinghe
Innovation in Psychiatric Crisis Care: An Ethnographic Investigation into Peer-Supported Open Dialogue (POD) in Inner London (working title)
- Email: 644916@soas.ac.uk
Nora Wuttke
Architecture and Aspirations: An Ethnographic Exploration of Hospital Infrastructure in Myanmar
- Email: 141121@soas.ac.uk
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