Ignacio Agrimbau
Discourse about performance practice among Iranian santur players and Ghanaian gjyil players.
- Email: 553479@soas.ac.uk
School of Arts
School of Arts PhD Students
- Department of Music
- School of Arts
- Department of History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts
- Centre for Media and Film Studies
Department of Music
Rasika Ajotikar
Feminisms in Performance: protest music and caste in Maharashtra, India
- Email: rasika_ajotikar@soas.ac.uk
Patrick Allen
Excellence and Inclusion in Music Education: Working with Chagossian Teenagers in an English Comprehensive School
- Email: 608998@soas.ac.uk
Hannah Bates
Tocando Tumbao: performance perspectives on Cuban pianism
- Email: 245982@soas.ac.uk
Billeri Francesca
Interrelations Among Genres in Traditional Khmer Music and Theatre: Phleng Kar, Phleng Arak, Lkhaon Yiikee and Lkhaon Bassac
- Email: 573194@soas.ac.uk
Robbie Campbell
Dyslexia, Sensory Ethnomusicology, and Chopi timbila Xylophone Music in Mozambique
- Email: r_campbell@soas.ac.uk
Lorenzo Chiarofonte
Songs for the Nats. Constructing identities and conveying meaning through hsaing waing music in Natkana Pwe Ceremonies of Central Burma
- Email: 643172@soas.ac.uk
Michael Davidson
Growing Through Music: Developing Teaching For Personal and Social Outcomes within Instrumental Music Teaching in UK
- Email: 608567@soas.ac.uk
Xuejiao Fu
Women and Western Art Music in Shanghai during the Republic of China
- Email: 629719@soas.ac.uk
Sam Grant
Metal Music and its Relationship to Folk Music and National Identity in the Middle East
- Email: 616601@soas.ac.uk
William Rees Hofmann
The Life of Persianate Music in South Asia: Tracing The History of Hindustani Music ca. 1250 - 1600
- Email: wr_hofmann@soas.ac.uk
Taichi Imanishi
Evaluate Takemitsu Approaches for Integrating World Music's - Portable Music & Non-Portable Music
- Email: 543607@soas.ac.uk
Georgette Nummelin
Using Music to Sustain and Revitalise Ainu Language and Identity
- Email: 129513@soas.ac.uk
Christian Poske
Continuity in Change: A Restudy of Arnold Adriaan Bake’s research on the devotional and folk music and dance of Bengal 1925-1956
- Email: christian_poske@soas.ac.uk
Maria Rijo Lopes Da Cunha
The Contemporary Revival of Naḥda Music in Lebanon: Politics of Remembrance and Representation
- Email: 181477@soas.ac.uk
Crispin Robinson
Technicians of the Sacred: Generating transcendence in Afro-Cuban orisha worship. An ethnography of praxis in bata drumming.
- Email: 148551@soas.ac.uk
Emily Sayers
Cognitive Aspects of North Indian Classical Music: How Children Learn to Compose and Improvise in an Oral Tradition
- Email: 643949@soas.ac.uk
Cholong Sung
The Music and Culture of the Korean Diaspora in the UK
- Email: 638689@soas.ac.uk
Vicky Tadros
Listening, Khaleeji-Style
- Email: 567108@soas.ac.uk
Clara Wenz
Arab-Jewish Musical Memories of Aleppo, Syria
- Email: 546417@soas.ac.uk
Maya Youssef
A Musical Intervention with Syrian Refugee Children at the Camps
- Email: 575865@soas.ac.uk
School of Arts
Gregory Bilotto
The Context of Fāţimid Metalwork
- Email: 615685@soas.ac.uk
Sana Goyal
“Awarding Africa” from the Caine to the Commonwealth: First Books, First Prizes, & Women Writers
- Email: 633321@soas.ac.uk
Xiaoxin Li
Rethinking Guang shi jia ju (Cantonese style furniture): A Design History of Mid 18th Century to early 20th Century
Department of History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts
Daphne Ang
The Production and Patronage of Portraiture in Colonial Singapore
- Email: dm36@soas.ac.uk
Eva Bentcheva
Cultural Politics of British South Asian Performance Art, 1960-present
- Email: 294548@soas.ac.uk
Gregory Bilotto
The Context of Fāţimid Metalwork
- Email: 615685@soas.ac.uk
Miranda Bruce-Mitford
From Natural History to Wayang: The Collections and Collecting Practices of Thomas Stamford Raffles
- Email: 542210@soas.ac.uk
Helena Cantone
White Skin, Black Masks: The African art projects of Salvatore Fiume (1915-1997).
Ivy Chan
Collecting Chinese Art in Hong Kong during the 20th Century: Appropriation and Location
- Email: 544789@soas.ac.uk
Chih-En Chen
The Origin, Development and Classification of Trompe L’oeil Porcelain in High Qing China
- Email: 656581@soas.ac.uk
Tara Desjardins
Studies on Mughal Glass.
- Email: 268068@soas.ac.uk
Naama Eisenstein
Reshaping Ideals: Visualising the Genpei War (1180-1185) in Early Modern Japan
- Email: 582795@soas.ac.uk
Keramat Fathinia
Historical and aesthetical evolution of Siāh-Mashq in Persian calligraphy with a focus on the works of Mirzā Qulāmrizā over the Qājār period Iran
Yang Fu
Ritual Furniture from the Qing Imperial Mausoleum -- a Reinterpretation of a Miaojin Box Set from the Yongzheng Period (1723-35)
- Email: 528070@soas.ac.uk
Ayesha Fuentes
On the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects
- Email: 642377@soas.ac.uk
Ai Fukunaga
A Different Type of Tea? British Collecting of Ceramics for Tea Gatherings from Meiji-Era Japan, Focusing on the British Museum and Maidstone Museum Collections
- Email: 632812@soas.ac.uk
Helen Glaister
Collecting in Public and Private: The Ionides Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain, 1920-1970
- Email: 108095@soas.ac.uk
Shiori Hiraki
Onari: Art, Ritual and Power in Early Modern Japan
- Email: 634937@soas.ac.uk
Atsushi Ikeda
Portraying the Guru: Art and Identity in Sikhism
- Email: 604173@soas.ac.uk
Xiaoxin Li
Rethinking Guang shi jia ju (Cantonese style furniture): A Design History of Mid 18th Century to early 20th Century
Tian S. Liang 梁天爽
- Email: tl6@soas.ac.uk
David Malik
Urban Art Forms in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and their Roles in the Making of Diasporic Identities in Communities in London, United Kingdom
- Email: 310284@soas.ac.uk
Maeve Nolan
Early Silk Road photography: A case study of how and why Dr. Maynard Owen Williams, Litt. D. (1888-1963) photographed the Silk Road during the Citroen-Haardt Trans-Asiatic Expedition (1931-1932)
- Email: 253519@soas.ac.uk
Maurizia Onori
Neo-Mamluk and neo-Sicilian/Norman funerary monuments, nineteenth - twentieth century in Sicily
- Email: 608973@soas.ac.uk
Biqing Ouyang
Mirror production in the Wu Kingdom (220-280AD)
Kasia Ploskonka
Contesting convention? The politics of contemporary art in post-Soviet Central Asia
- Email: Kasia_Ploskonka@soas.ac.uk
Elizabeth Reid
An investigation into the meaning and significance of the exhibitions of Chinese art at the Whitechapel Art Gallery between 1901 and 1934
- Email: 622359@soas.ac.uk
Kristin Scheel
13th - 14th Century Yuan and Mongol Silk-Gold Textiles: Transcultural consumption and reception in the Mongol Empire and in Europe
- Email: 248142@soas.ac.uk
Saachi Sood
Mahabharata Painting in the Punjab Hills: A Study at the courts of Kangra, Guler and Garhwal
- Email: 263853@soas.ac.uk
Aisha Stoby
Art Movements their regional Cross-Currents in the GCC (Working Title)
- Email: A_Stoby@soas.ac.uk
Heidi Tan
Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar (2013-2016)
Stephanie Tredan
Stuck in Limbo: The Repatriation of Unprovenanced Australian Indigenous Ancestral Remains from UK and Australian Museums
- Email: st79@soas.ac.uk
Karin Warch
Causes and Expressions of Humor in Eighteenth-Century Korean Art
- Email: 298411@soas.ac.uk
Sinead Ward
The Kammavacca Manuscript in Burma
- Email: 145723@soas.ac.uk
Lia Wei
Rock-cut caves in the Upper Yangzi River: Identifying a stone working tradition (2nd to 3rd century CE)
- Email: liawei.mail@gmail.com
Lindsay Zamponi
'British Collectors and Collections of Tibetan Art and Artefacts, 1850-1960'
- Email: 116705@soas.ac.uk
Kulamitra David Zukas
Revealing the Religious Landscape at Bhaja, Bedsa and Karle, Buddhist Rock-cut Monasteries
- Email: 100975@soas.ac.uk
Centre for Media and Film Studies
Lois Barnett
An Investigation of Audience Responses To and Motivations for the Use of Western-Inspired Costume in Japanese Cinema (1923-39)
- Email: 276789@soas.ac.uk
Lawrence Carter
Going Global: Studio Ghibli, Anime and the Popularisation of a Global Genre
- Email: 574786@soas.ac.uk
Elaine Chung
Transnational Korean Stardom in Chinese Screen Media, 2000-2016
- Email: elaine_chung@soas.ac.uk
Tom Cunliffe
Lung Kong and Hong Kong Film History 1966-1979
- Email: 229623@soas.ac.uk
Kerstin Fooken
Camille in Crisis – Adaptation, Stardom and Scandal in La Dame aux Camélias on the Japanese Silent Screen
- Email: 120957@soas.ac.uk
Irene Gonzalez Lopez
Prostitution in Postwar Japanese Cinema
- Email: 572446@soas.ac.uk
Yunzi Han
Representing Sexuality on Screen: A Comparative Reading of Contemporary Arthouse Cinema from China and Iran
- Email: 657865@soas.ac.uk
Sareh Javid
The Traveller: A philosophical Journey through Cinema
- Email: 554721@soas.ac.uk
Akiko Nagata
An Analysis of Family and Gender Roles in Japanese Television Drama
- Email: 577560@soas.ac.uk
Jiratorn Sakulwattana
The Representation of Female Body and Romance in Thai Films after 1997
- Email: 618027@soas.ac.uk
Isaya Singpongsporn
Cultural Hybridity on Thai Television Drama
- Email: 600295@soas.ac.uk
Michael W. Thomas
Themes and Trends in Ethiopian (Amharic) Cinema: Pioneering Films of the Past and Popular Cinema of the Present-day.
- Email: 252260@soas.ac.uk