School of Arts PhD Students

Ignacio Agrimbau

Discourse about performance practice among Iranian santur players and Ghanaian gjyil players.

• Email: 553479@soas.ac.uk

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

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

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).

• Email:

Ivy Chan

Collecting Chinese Art in Hong Kong during the 20th Century: Appropriation and Location

• Email: 544789@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

• Email:

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

• Email:

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)

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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)

• Email: ht21@soas.ac.uk; 101614@soas.ac.uk

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

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