PhD Theses Completed since 2007
2021
Aisha Stoby
Modern Art Movements in Oman, The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain (1953-2007)
Supervisor: Anna Contadini
Ayesha Fuentes
On the Use of Human Remains in Tibetan Ritual Objects
Supervisor: Christian Luczanits
Angela Cheung
China as Image, Object and Opportunity: A critical reassessment of John Thomson’s photography of China
Supervisor: Shane McCausland
Ivy Yi Yan Chan
Supervisor: Stacey Pierson
Ai Fukunaga
Supervisor: Stacey Pierson
2020
Heidi Tan
Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar
Supervisor: Louise Tythacott
Monique Filsnoël
Ogyen Choling in Bhutan. An Interpretation of the Temple and its Art
Supervisor: Christian Luczanits
Helen Glaister
Supervisor: Stacey Pierson
Chun-I Lin
Supervisor: Stacey Pierson
Xiaoxin Li
Supervisor: Stacey Pierson
2019
Gregory Bilotto
Fāţimid Metalwork in its Mediterranean Context
Supervisor: Anna Contadini
Ben Wreyford
Seeing the ‘foreigner’ in the art of early Southeast Asia c. 100 BCE - c. 800 CE
Supervisor: Ashley Thompson
Chin-chi YANG
Canon Formation: The Painting of Xu Wei and the Daxieyi Painting Lineage
Supervisor: Shane McCausland
2018
Stephanie Alexandra Westwood Tredan
Stuck in Limbo: The Repatriation of Unprovenanced Australian Indigenous Ancestral Remains from UK and Australian Museums
Supervisor: Louise Tythacott
Tara Desjardins
Mughal Glass: Indian Glass from the Late Modern and Early Colonial Period
Supervisor: Anna Contadini
Eva Bentcheva
The Cultural Politics of British South Asian Performance Art, 1960s to the Present
Supervisor: Tania Tribe
Kristin Scheel Lunde
13th - 14th Century Yuan and Mongol Silk-Gold Textiles: Transcultural Consumption, meaning and reception in the Mongol Empire and in Europe
Supervisor: Stacey Pierson
Maurizia Onori
Neo-Mamluk and Neo-Norman Funerary Architecture in Palermo 19th- 20th century
Supervisor: Scott Redford
Yang Fu
Ritual Furniture from the Qing Imperial Mausoleum: Reinterpretation of a Miaojin Box Set from the Yongzheng Period (1723-1735)
Supervisor: Shane McCausland
Biqing Ouyang
Modularity and Mass Production in Early Chinese Mirrors: The Wu Kingdom as a Case Study
Supervisor: Lukas Nickel
Daphne Ming Li
Constructing Singapore Art History: The Production and Patronage of Portraiture and the Development of Painting and Photography in Colonial Singapore (1819-1942)
Supervisor: Stacey Pierson
Lia Wei
A Comparative Study of Burial Caves South of the Yangzi River - Highland Routes and Fontier Communities at the Fall of the Han Empire (2nd to 3rd Century CE)
Supervisor: Charlotte Horlyck
Rebecca Bradshaw
Beyond Identity: The Socio-Economic Impacts of Archaeology on a Non-Descendant Community in Sudan
Supervisor: Tania Tribe
2017
Federica Gigante
Importing, Trading, and Collecting Islamic Artworks in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Cospi Museum
Supervisor: Anna Contadini
Anais Da Fonseca
Continuity and Change in Contemporary Cheriyal Paintings from Telangana, India
Supervisor: Crispin Branfoot
David L Houston
Liberated Zones, Spaces for Art and Change, New York City 1975 - 1995
Supervisor: Charles Gore
Hao Liu
The purpose, operation and impacts of art investment of the British Rail Pension Fund's collection of Chinese work of art from 1974 to 1989
Supervisor: Stacey Pierson
Ilse Timperman
Early Niche Graves in the Turfan Basin and Inner Eurasia
Supervisor: Lukas Nickel
In-Sung Kim Han
Islamic Material Culture in Medieval Korea and Its Legacy
Supervisor: Scott Redford
Lesley S Pullen
Representation of Textiles on Classical Javanese Sculpture
Supervisor: Christian Luczanits
Maria Sardi
Mamluk Textiles in Context
Supervisor: Scott Redford
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
Sara-Louise Peterson
Roses, Poppies and Narcissi: Plant Iconography at Tillya-tepe and Connected Cultures across the Ancient Worlds
Supervisor: Lukas Nickel
Terumi Toyama
The Significance of Copying: Replication of Kyoto's Sacred Spaces in Early Seventeenth Century Edo
Supervisor: Timon Screech
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
Tian S. 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
Katherine Hughes
Samanid material culture and identity formation in post-Soviet Tajikistan
Supervisor: Anna Contadini
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
Chen Qing
Mosques of the Maritime Muslim Community of China: A Study of the Mosques in the South and Southeast Coastal Regions of China
Supervisor: Shane McCausland
Paula Callus
Animation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trajectories of Ideas and Practice
Supervisor: Charles Gore
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
Julie Crooks
Alphonso Lisk-Carew: Early Photography in Sierra Leone
Supervisor: Charles Gore
Yin Hwang
Victory Pictures in a Time of Defeat - Depicting War in the Print and Visual Culture of Late Qing China 1884-1901
Supervisor: Shane McCausland
Kaveh Bakhtiar
Three London Mosques: Fragments of an Alternative Architecture
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 Shunsō (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