Recently Awarded PhDs

• Philip Alexander Sounding Jewish in Berlin: Klezmer Musical Practice, Historical Memory and the Contemporary City
• Ruard W. Absaroka Hidden Musicians and Public Musicking in Shanghai
• Morgan Davies Musical Knowledge of the Langas and Manganiyars
• Deirdre A. Morgan Speaking in Tongues: Music, Identity, and Representation in Jew's Harp Communities 
• Gavin Walker Communicating Crisis: Musical Effervescence in South African HIV/AIDS Interventions
• Nan Ma A Case Study of Chinese (Mainland China) Music Industries' Revenue Protection within The Digital Environment
• Violeta Ruano-Posada "Sahara Ma Timbah" ("The Sahara Is Not for Sale") Music, Resistance, and Exile in Saharawi Culture
• Cassandre Balosso-Bardin The Mallorcan Bagpipes (Xeremies): An Anthropological Portrait of an Instrument
• Great Lekakul Prachan: Music, Competition, and Conceptual Fighting in Thai Culture
• Manuel Jiminez Bamboo Power: Performance in Gamelan Jegog and comparisons with UK gamelan performance
• Sheng-Shih Chi The Role of Popular Music in the Negotiation of Taiwanese Identity
• Joseph Browning Cosmopolitan Natures: Music, Materiality and Place in the Global Shakuhachi Scene
• Flora Henderson Contemporary composition for shakuhachi and western instruments: timbral gesturality in the analysis of cross-cultural music
• Hyun Seok Kwon Cultural Globalization and the Korean Promotion Policy for Music Based on Tradition: A Study of the Activation Plan and Its Background
• Hyelim Kim Winds of Change: Tradition and Creativity in Korean Taegum Flute Performance
• Min Yen Ong Kunqu in 21st Century China - Musical Change and Amateur Practices
• Chloe Alaghband-Zadeh Analysing thumri
• Jutamas Poprasit The role of music in Thai funeral rituals in contemporary Bangkok: its history, performance and transmission
• Kiku Day  Remembrance of Things Past: The Archaic Shakuhachi in Contemporary Contexts
• Nicoletta Demetriou  The Fones Discourse: Ideology and Practice in Greek Cypriot Folk Music
• Saida Daukeyeva Dombra Performance, Meaning and Memory among Mongolian Kazakhs
• Jyotsna Joanne Latrobe Red Earth Song: Marai Kirtan of Rarh: Devotional singing and the performance of ecstacy in the Purulia District, Bengal, India
• Hyelim Kim Winds of Change: Tradition and Creativity in Korean Taegum Flute Performance
• Hyun Seok Kwon Cultural Globalization and the Korean Promotion Policy for Music Based on Tradition: A Study of the Activation Plan and Its Background
• Cloris Lim Nanyin Musical Culture in Southern Fujian, China: Adaptation and Continuity
• Sara McGuinness  Grupo Lokito: A practice-based investigation into contemporary links between Congolese and Cuban popular music
• Christian Mau Situating the Myoan Kyokai: A Study of Suizen and the Fuke Shakuhachi
• Moshe Morad  Music as a ‘Space’ of Identity, Interaction and Escapism, among Gay Men in Special-period Havana
• Min Yen Ong Kunqu in 21st Century China - Musical Change and Amateur Practices
• Sung-Hee Park Patronage and Creativity in Seoul: The Late 18th to late 19th Century Urban Middle Class and Its Vocal Music
• Jutamas Poprasit  The role of music in the Thai funeral ritual in contemporary Bangkok: its history, performance and transmission
• Sabina Rakcheyeva  Music as Cultural Diplomacy: A Personal Journey Using Improvisation as a Creative Tool
• Jung Rock Seo Ancient Korean and Japanese Court Dance: Historical Relationship and Transmission: Case of Ch'oyongmu and Nasori
• William Sumits The evolution of the maqam tradition in Central Asia: from the theory of 12 maqam to the practice of shashmaqam
• Shzr Ee Tan  Ecosystems of Amis Aboriginal Song in Taiwan
• Ilana Webster-Kogen  The Azmari Paradox: Ethnicity, Identity, and Migration in Ethiopian-Israeli Music
• Anna Yates-Lu P'ansori Today: Reconciling Tradition and Creativity in Modern Society
• Sun Zhuo  The Chinese Zheng Zither: 20th - 21st Century Transformations