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
Arka Chakraborty
The Reception History of Bob Dylan in Indian Popular Music
- Email: arka_chakraborty@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
Jun Feng
Paiziluo Shawm and Percussion Bands in Hubei Province (China) and Social Changes
- Email: 673657@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
William Rees Hofmann
Singing Sufis in Text: Indo-Persian Music and Sufi Poetics 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
Music as a Method for Sustaining and Revitalising the Ainu Language and Identity
- Email: 129513@soas.ac.uk
Tom Peterson
Archives of Sri Lanka's Vocal Arts: The Lyrical Genres of the Nevill Collection as Refractions of Sri Lanka, Past and Present
- Email: 656021@soas.ac.uk
Charlotte Schuitenmaker
Activism and Urbanism in Contemporary Indigenous Music-Making in Australia.
- Email: 687587@soas.ac.uk
Vicky Tadros
Listening, Khaleeji-Style
- Email: v_tadros@soas.ac.uk
Helen Anahita Wilson
Indian Rhythm and Life Writing in Cross-Sensory Composition (Practice Research)
- Email: h.a_wilson@soas.ac.uk
School of Arts
Arka Chakraborty
The Reception History of Bob Dylan in Indian Popular Music
- Email: arka_chakraborty@soas.ac.uk
Kexin Ma
Portraits of Objects: Emperor Yongzheng's 'Guwan tu' and the Agency of Artefacts across Media
- Email: 655906@soas.ac.uk
Helen Anahita Wilson
Indian Rhythm and Life Writing in Cross-Sensory Composition (Practice Research)
- Email: h.a_wilson@soas.ac.uk
Department of History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts
Panggah Ardiyansyah
Heritage as accumulated meaning: Transactions, appropriation and biographies of Hindu-Buddhist materials in pre-modern Indonesia (working title)
- Email: 642001@soas.ac.uk
Arjmand Aziz Ahmad
Exhibiting Australian Aboriginal Contemporary art in Britain: the case of two galleries in London
- Email: 556328@soas.ac.uk
Annwen E Bates
(The Buchu Edit: Representations of Africa and residues of empire in the wellness and wellbeing industry with special reference to the Cape of Good Hope)
- Email: 657334@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
Jennifer Chih-Chieh Chang
Intertextual Presentation of Individuality in Qing Biography Landscape: A Reinvention of Ming Wu School Sobriquet Painting (working title)
- Email: jennifer_chang@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
Choi, Min Young
Artists and Cultural spaces in Kyŏngsŏng (Seoul) during the 1930s
- Email: 576646@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
Yingbai Fu
Dressing up the Manchu Way: Visual Representations of Women’s hair and dress in China and Beyond, 1850s-1940s
- Email: 665234@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
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
Pipad Krajaejun
Deconstructing the Historical Metanarrative of Thai Art and Archaeology: The Emergence of Artistic Styles in the Pre-Ayutthaya Period, or ‘Uthong Art,’ during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- Email: 634173@soas.ac.uk
Phyllis SY Lau-Casson
Revisiting the 'Prakhon Chai' Hoard, an enigmatic group of ‘bronzes' that came to light in current-day Northeast Thailand since mid-1960s
- Email: 614097@soas.ac.uk
Kexin Ma
Portraits of Objects: Emperor Yongzheng's 'Guwan tu' and the Agency of Artefacts across Media
- Email: 655906@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
Hoang Huong Duyen Nguyen
Issues in the curation of Champa art in Vietnam: On stylistic chronology, museum identity and object authenticity
- Email: 615371@soas.ac.uk
Agneta Niklasson
Tracing Visual Evidence of Esoteric Buddhism in the Sculptures of Swat, Gilgit and Kashmir in the mid-6th to the mid-9th century
- Email: 605990@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: Contemporary art within the political landscape of 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
Katy Shahandeh
Rising from the Ashes: The Semiotics of Subversion in the Works of Contemporary Iranian Women Artists of the "Burnt Generation" (working title).
- Email: 657214@soas.ac.uk
Jess SON
Visual Representations of the Korean Nation State in the 1880s-1910s
Sonetra Seng
Beyond the Masterpiece: Function and Design of Divine Adornment in Angkorian Cambodia (9th-14th c.).
- Email: 664859@soas.ac.uk
Saw Tun Lin
The significance of glazed ceramics in the economic life and trade networks of the Buddhist kingdoms of Myanmar in the 14th to 18th century
- Email: 615596@soas.ac.uk
Nicole Valentova
Art as a Tool: Comparative Study of the Centralisation and Manipulation of the Art Scene in Japan in the 1900s and in Korea in the 1920s
- Email: 565757@soas.ac.uk
Mark Womersley
Post Medieval Monastic and Vernacular Architecture within Northern Ethiopia
- Email: 676969@soas.ac.uk
Yuet Heng (Janet) Wong
The Public Disseminations of Chao Shao-an (1905-1998)’s Art and the Construction of Geographical Identities among Cantonese communities across Asia-Pacific, c. 1950s-2010s.
- 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 Global Portrait: Subject, Site and Temporality in Portraiture of the Long Seventeenth Century in China (working title)
- 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
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
Joseph Owen Jackson
Kahlil Joseph, New Media and the Audiovisual Atlantic: Music and Moving Images between Africa, America and Europe
- Email: 643069@soas.ac.uk
Akiko Nagata
An Analysis of Family and Gender Roles in Japanese Television Drama
- Email: 577560@soas.ac.uk
Craig Ryder
Algorithms @ Work: How are digital technologies reimagining media production in Sri Lanka?
- Email: 667212@soas.ac.uk
Centre for English Studies
Gromyko Dumuje
Fragmented Memory In an Invented Land: The Absence of History in the Abacha Dictatorship of Nigeria
- Email: 645704@soas.ac.uk
Sana Goyal
“Awarding Africa” from the Caine to the Commonwealth: First Books, First Prizes, & Women Writers
- Email: 633321@soas.ac.uk
Katarzyna Kubin
Affects of Shame: Questions of Authorial Ethics in Contemporary Postcolonial Writing and Film
- Email: k_kubin@soas.ac.uk