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
Jun Feng
Paiziluo Shawm and Percussion Bands in Hubei Province (China) and Social Changes
- Email: 673657@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
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
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
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 Musical Legacies: The Sindu, Kavi, and Sivupada Song Texts of the Nevill Collection as Refractions of Sri Lanka and its Musical Practices, Past and Present
- Email: 656021@soas.ac.uk
Tom Peterson
Archives of Sri Lanka's Musical Legacies: The Sindu, Kavi, and Sivupada Song Texts of the Nevill Collection as Refractions of Sri Lanka and its Musical Practices, Past and Present
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
School of Arts
Kexin Ma
Portraits of Objects: Emperor Yongzheng's 'Guwan tu' and the Agency of Artefacts across Media
- Email: 655906@soas.ac.uk
Denise Naicker
The Co-production of Nuclear Technology and Global Political Order
- Email: 677170@soas.ac.uk
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
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
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 in mid-1960s
- Email: 614097@soas.ac.uk
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
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
Panggah Ardinyansyah
Heritage as accumulated meaning: Transactions, appropriation and biographies of Hindu-Buddhist materials in pre-modern Indonesia (working title)
- Email: 642001@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
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
Aisha Stoby
Art Movements their regional Cross-Currents in the GCC (Working Title)
- Email: A_Stoby@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
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 Sexual Politics of Marriage on Screen in Walled Societies: A Comparative Study of Cinema of Iran and China since the Late 1990s
- 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
Joseph Owen Jackson
Contemporary Representations of the African Diaspora in the Films, Music Videos and Commercial Works of Kahlil Joseph
Akiko Nagata
An Analysis of Family and Gender Roles in Japanese Television Drama
- Email: 577560@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
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