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

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

Ros Hawley

A Reflexive Study of Music Practice in a UK Paediatric Hospital Setting

Email: 247626@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: v_tadros@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

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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

Joe Jackson

Contemporary Representations of the African Diaspora in the Films, Music Videos and Commercial Works of Kahlil Joseph

Email: 643069@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:

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

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

Chih-En Chen

The Origin, Development and Classification of Trompe L’oeil Porcelain in High Qing China

Email: 656581@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:

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, 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

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

Biqing Ouyang

Mirror production in the Wu Kingdom (220-280AD)

Email:

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

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

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