Department of the History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts
PhD Theses Completed since 2005
2017
Marine Cabos Seeing Through Landscape: French Photographic Archives of China (1840s-1930s) Supervisor: Shane McCausland
Malcolm McNeill Narrative Agency in Thirteenth-Fourteenth Century Chan Figure Painting: A Study of Hagiography - Iconography Text-Image Relationships Supervisor: Shane McCausland
2016
Rose Ojo The role of Movement and Migration in the Photographic Work of Carrie Mae Weems, Joy Gregory, Rotimi Fani Kayode, Albert Chong, Yinka Shonibare and Renee Cox Supervisor: Charles Gore
Doreen Mueller Documenting Disaster in Japanese Painting - The Case of the Tenpo Era Famine (1833-39) and its Legacy Supervisor: Timon Screech
Phoebe Hirsch Masijids in South Africa Supervisor: Charles Gore
Jacopo Gnisci The Passion of Christ in Ethiopian Gospel Illumination (1270-1527) Supervisor: Tania Tribe
Mami Hatayama Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891): His Sources of Inspiration and the Cultural Milieu of Late Edo to Early Meiji Japan Supervisor: Timon Screech
Malcolm Corrigal A History of the Chinese Camera Club of South Africa Supervisor: Charles Gore
John Johnston Jiangxi Landmarks on Jingdezhen Porcelain With Special Reference to Tengwang Ge Supervisor: Stacey Pierson
Tianshuang Liang Remodelling Modern Chinese Art: The Agency of the Syncretism in 1908-1936 Supervisor: Shane McCausland
Sami Luigi De Giosa The revival of architecture and of the decorative arts in Cairo and the Mamluk provinces during the reign of Sultan Qaytbay (1468-1496) Supervisor: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
2015
Rosalia Genovese The Plain of Jars of Laos - Beyond Madeleine Colani Supervisor: Elizabeth Moore
Nikolaos Vryzidis A study on Ottoman Christian aesthetic: Greek-Orthodox vestments & ecclesiastical fabrics, 16th to 18th centuries Supervisor: Anna Contadini
Hee Na Youn Objects of Popular Devotion: Longquan Ceramic Religious Figures during the Song-Yuan-Ming Period Supervisor: Stacey Pierson
Jung-taek Lee The Birth of Modern Fashion in Korea: Sartorial Transition between Hanbok and Yangbok and Colonial Modernity of Dress Culture. Supervisor: Charlotte Horlyck
Mimi Savitri Surakarta: Islamic and Colonial city-planning in Java Supervisor: Elizabeth Moore
Preeti Khosla A Study of the Visual Language of the Indigenous Styles of Book Painting in North India during the Sultanate perios (1414-1525 AD) Supervisor: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Chengxi Dong Early Museums in China Supervisor: Tao Wang
2014
Emma Martin Charles Bell, a collector in Tibet Supervisor: Crispin Branfoot
Tanja Tolar Islamic enamelled glass and its connections with Byzantium and Venice Supervisor: Anna Contadini
2013
Yin Hwang The Depiction of War and Rebellion in the Print and Visual Culture of Late Qing China, 1884-1901 Supervisor: Shane McCausland
Bora Keskiner Sultan Ahmed III (c.1703 – 1730) as Calligrapher and patron of Calligraphy Supervisor: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Chen Li-Kuei The Siwei Boddhisattva: The Contemplating Image in Popular Buddhism of sixth Century China Supervisor: Lukas Nickel
Shuchi Shen Marketing the artist: the art of Qi Baishi (1864 – 1957) in the Peking Art World Supervisor: Shane McCausland
Eriko Tomizawa-Kay Hishida ShunsÅ (1874-1911): Breaking Boundaries in Modern Japanese Art Supervisor: Timon Screech
Farouk Yahya Magic and Divination: the Malay Tradition in Illustrated Manuscripts Supervisor: Anna Contadini
2012
Elena Bernadini Interrogating Installation Art from India Supervisor: Elizabeth Moore
Alyson Wharton Building the Tanzimat: the Power of the Baylan Family in the Age of Re-Organizations Supervisor: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Anna McSweeney The Green and the Brown: a study of Paterna ceramics Supervisor: Anna Contadini
Alison Ohta Covering the Bok: 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
Angela Chiu The social and religious world of northern Thai Buddha images: art, lineage, power and place in Lan Na monastic chronicles (Tamnan) Supervisor: Elizabeth Moore
Sophie Mew Rethinking heritage and display in national museums in Ghana and Mali Supervisor: Charles Gore
Jenny Preston Nishikawa Sukenobu: the engagement of popular art in socio-political discourse Supervisor: Timon Screech
Yi-hsin Lin Tradition, Transmission and Transformation: Art Collecting and Gentry identity of the Pan Family in Nineteenth century Suzhou Supervisor: Wang Tao
Nicole Chiang Ter-chuang Reconsidering the Collection of the Imperial household during the Qianlong Reign (1735 – 1796) Supervisor: Stacey Pierson
Ching-yi Huang John Sparkes Ltd: Art dealer and Chinese Art in Britain, 1900 – 1950 Supervisor: Wang Tao
2011
Melanie Gibson The enigmatic figure – Glazed ceramic sculpture from Iran and Syria Twelfth – Thirteenth Centuries
Rosalind Anne Wade Haddon Fourteenth century fine glazed wares produced in the Iranian world, and comparisons with contemporary ones from the Golden Horde and Mamluk Syria/Egypt Supervisor: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Jeoung-eun Kim Sabangbul during the Choson dynasty: regional development of Buddhist images and rituals
Mehreen Chida-Razvi The Imperial Mughal Tomb of Jahangir: history, construction and production Supervisor: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Joona Repo The Buddhist architecture of the Tibetan diaspora in India Supervisor: Elizabeth Moore
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
Shinya Maezaki Qing-Style Porcelain in Meiji Japan: The Ceramic Art of Seifi 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
Valerie Jurgens The Karlbeck Syndicate 1930 – 1934: collecting and scholarship on Chinese art in Sweden and Britain Supervisor: Wang Tao
George Manginis Hagia Koryphe (Jabal Musa) at Sinai, Egypt 2010 Supervisor: Geoffrey King
Stephen Murphy The Buddhist boundary markers of northeast Thailand and central Laos, 7th – 12th Centuries CE: towards an understanding of the archaeological, religious and artistic landscapes of the Khorat Plateau Supervisor: Elizabeth Moore
Francois Tainturier The foundation of Mandalay by King Mindon
2008
Oliver 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
Emily Shovelton Sultanate painting from the North Indian subcontinent: three fifteenth century Persian illustrated Manuscripts Supervisor: Anna Contadini
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
Chien Li-Kuei The Siwei Bodhisvatta: The Contemplating Image in Popular Buddhism of Sixth Century China
Shu-chin Wang Realist agency in the art field of twentieth-century China: realism in the art and writing of Xu Beihong (1895 – 1953) Supervisor: Lukas Nickel
2007
Ambra Calo Transitions of a Feathered World: The Distribution of Bronze Drums in Earl 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
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