Hannah Bates
Tocando Tumbao: performance perspectives on Cuban pianism
- Email: 245982@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 Creative Industries, Media and Screen Studies
- Centre for English Studies
Department of Music
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
James Anthony Gardner
The Course of the Hand: Formulas, Creativity and Processes of "Improvisation" in Mande Kora Music
- Email: 218004@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
Hugo Hadji
Listening to New Raï: Algerian identities in the 21st century.
- Email: 657252@soas.ac.uk
Ros Hawley
A Reflexive Study of Music Practice in a UK Paediatric Hospital Setting
- Email: 247626@soas.ac.uk
Taichi Imanishi
Evaluate Takemitsu Approaches for Integrating World Music's - Portable Music & Non-Portable Music
- Email: 543607@soas.ac.uk
Saeid Kordmafi
Rhythmic Organization in the Classical Music of the Arab Mashriq: an Analytical-Historical Study of the Theory and Practice of Īqā‘
- Email: 632298@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
Cholong Sung
The Music and Culture of the Korean Diaspora in the UK
- Email: 638689@soas.ac.uk
Vicky Tadros
Listening, Khaleeji-Style
- Email: v_tadros@soas.ac.uk
Clara Wenz
Arab-Jewish Musical Memories of Aleppo, Syria
- Email: 546417@soas.ac.uk
School of Arts
Department of History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts
Arjmand Aziz Ahmad
Contemporary Indigenous Australian art and private display histories in London
- Email: 556328@soas.ac.uk
Helena Cantone
Decolonising the Visual Archive of Salvatore Fiume (1915-1997): Italian Encounters with Postcolonial Africa
- Email: 102961@soas.ac.uk
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
Jasdip Singh Dhillon
Changes beyond the surface: Tracking the relationship between paper-making and human change in the Indus river basin region from 1000-1947 through a study of historical paper specimens
- Email: 177440@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 Japan: 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
Vivek Gupta
Wonder Reoriented: Manuscripts and Experience in Islamicate Societies of South Asia (ca. 1450--1600)
- Email: vivek_gupta@soas.ac.uk
Shiori Hiraki
Onari: Art, Ritual and Power in Early Modern Japan
- Email: 634937@soas.ac.uk
Udomluck Hoontrakul
The Development of Political Economy and Social Formation of the Marginal Polities on the Salween River Basin, Northwestern Thailand During the first millennium CE to the mid-second millennium CE
- Email: 630498@soas.ac.uk
Elizabeth Kelly
A Study of the Zoomorphic Incense Burners of Medieval Khurasan
- Email: 561947@soas.ac.uk
Yijin Kim
Art for the people and democracy: Socio-political Art Movements in Japan from the 1920s to the early 1930s
Xiaoxin Li
Rethinking Guang shi jia ju (Cantonese style furniture): A Design History of Mid 18th Century to early 20th Century
Chun-I Lin
Ceramic Tomb Figurines in the Chang’an Area from the 4th to the 7th Century: A Critical Study of Classification, Origins and Functions
- Email: 543448@soas.ac.uk
Vera Mey
Signs of a region: in search of the aesthetic imagination of Southeast Asia after 1948 (working title)
- Email: 642375@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
Alexandre Claude Ouairy
Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Art Practices of Resistance in China, 2007-2018.
- Email: 676233@soas.ac.uk
A Ram Park
A Comparative Study of Women's Buddhist Patronage in Joseon Korea and Edo Japan
- Email: 657195@soas.ac.uk
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: 622349@soas.ac.uk
Sonetra Seng
Beyond the Masterpiece: Function and Design of Divine Adornment in Angkorian Cambodia (9th-14th c.).
- Email: 664859@soas.ac.uk
Aisha Stoby
Art Movements their regional Cross-Currents in the GCC (Working Title)
- Email: A_Stoby@soas.ac.uk
Yuet Heng (Janet) Wong
The Global Construction of the Concept of “Lingnan Culture” in the 20th Century: Chao Shao-an (1905-1998)’s Arts, their Replicas, and Public Representations
- Email: 655815@soas.ac.uk
Hyesook Yang
Utopia, Nostalgia and Escapism: Art in South Korea during the Korean War, 1950-53
- Email: 655625@soas.ac.uk
Mariana Zegianini
The Unbounded Self: Subject, Site and Temporality in Seventeenth-Century Portraiture
- Email: 611154@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 Creative Industries, Media and Screen Studies
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
Laurence Green
From score to song - The rise of the ‘star composer’ and the role of music in contemporary anime
- Email: 644706@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
Joseph Owen Jackson
Contemporary Representations of the African Diaspora in the Films, Music Videos and Commercial Works of Kahlil Joseph
- Email: 643069@soas.ac.uk
Akiko Nagata
An Analysis of Family and Gender Roles in Japanese Television Drama
- Email: 577560@soas.ac.uk
Centre for English Studies
Sana Goyal
“Awarding Africa” from the Caine to the Commonwealth: First Books, First Prizes, & Women Writers
- Email: 633321@soas.ac.uk
Poonkulaly Gunaseelan
‘Breaking taboos (?)’: Representations of rape in post 1970s Indian-English literature
- Email: 602582@soas.ac.uk
Katarzyna Kubin
Affects of Shame: Questions of Authorial Ethics in Contemporary Postcolonial Writing and Film
- Email: k_kubin@soas.ac.uk
Jade Lee
Women of the British Colonial Service: Contested Identities and Liminal Lives, 1936 – 1961
- Email: 269052@soas.ac.uk
Jaya Shakira Madhvani
The representation of urban space in contemporary London narratives
- Email: 566819@soas.ac.uk