For a list of past students since 2008 please see PhDs Awarded
Research Title: Outreaching the State: Grassroots Initiatives of Covid Community Care in a Working-Class Neighbourhood of Madrid
Supervisor: Professor Sian Lazar
Research title: Ethnicity, intimacy, and Northeast Indian youth becoming in Bengaluru
Supervisor: Dr. Perveez Mody
Research title: Somewhere between laughter and tears: Maaori in Pursuit of the Good Life at Waahi Paa
Supervisor: Professor Sian Lazar
Research Title: Algorithms, Platform Economies, and the Voices of a Chinese-African Future
Supervisor: Dr. Mike Degani
Research Title: Governing Elephant Habitats in Northeast India: A study of Bureaucracy, Indigeneity and More-than-human Landscapes.
Supervisor: Dr. Liana Chua
Research Title: The Afterlives of a Disaster: Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Spiritual Life in Bhaktapur, Nepal
Supervisor: Professor Susan Bayly
Research title: Contesting the City: Urban belonging and political participation in Delhi
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Sanchez
Research Title: Bootlicking politics. An ethnography of affects in relational clientelism in Colombia
Supervisor: Dr. Natalia Buitrón
Research Title: Living In a Postcard: toward a critical understanding of contemporary rurality in England
Supervisors: Professor Matei Candea and Dr Paola Filippucci
Research Title: Autonomy and sovereignty in northern Amazonia
Supervisor: Dr Natalia Buitron
Research Title: Soils and Symbiosis: Ecology, Intimacy, and Place in Eastern Ontario.
Supervisor: Dr Perveez Mody
Research Title: Ancestors and demons: exploring the therapeutic value of possession states in contemporary Uganda
Supervisor: Joel Robbins
Research title: Re-activating Indigenous Australian Collections from the Pastoral Frontier in UK Museums
Supervisors: Professor Rupert Stasch and Professor Nicholas Thomas
Research Title: Social Science on the Finnish Radical Right
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Sanchez
Research Title: Collaboration and translation between environmental initiatives and indigenous peoples in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
Supervisor: Dr Natalia Buitron
Research Title: Reproductive Governance and Infrastructures of Care in Post-Conflict Belfast
Supervisor: Dr Perveez Mody
Research Title: Knowing about pollution in Baltimore
Supervisor: Dr Marta Magalhães Wallace
Research Title: Acting Brazilian: street performances, citizenship practices and political chaos
Supervisor: Professor Sian Lazar
Research title: Undocumented Latinos & Community Building: Hope, Futures, and Legal Consciousness in an Urban Borderland
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navaro
Research Title: A projected failure? an ethnography of individual investors (sanhu) in Chinese stock market
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research title: Empathy on the peace lines: Autism and belonging in a socially divided city
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navaro
Research title: Living with Ambiguous Plants: a Political Economy of Uncertainty and Emotional Life in the Central Asian Walnut Trade
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Sanchez
Research Title: An aesthetics of memory in indigenous Central Brazil: an ethnography of the Bororo mortuary ceremonies.
Supervisor: Professor Rupert Stasch
Research Title: Becoming peacemakers: An ethnography of the Christian engagement with North Koreans
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: "Responsibility for those in need" - an ethnography of emergency food provision in New York City, USA
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Working title: Boundaries, Mediation, and Mediumistic Consciousness Among British Spiritualists
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: Between Normalization and Normal Lives: Israeli Development Strategies in Occupied East Jerusalem
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navarro
Research title: Disappearing in Amazonia. Indigenous narratives from the Papurí River
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research title: “One nation is too few, Two nations are too many”: Self and Relations in Repatriation between the two Koreas
Supervisor: Professor Uradyn Bulag
Working Research Title: In Time’s Shadow: Undocumented Lives, Affective Chronopolitics and Care for Kin among Pakistani Young Men in Greece
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navarro
Research Title: Liberal Dilemmas: Re-thinking Liberalism through an Ethnographic Study of Contemporary Chinese Liberal Intellectuals
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title: Constructing a Nation on the Sacred Mountain: The Politics of Religion, Ethnicity and Heritage at Mount Wutai
Supervisor: Professor Uradyn E Bulag
Research Title: 'Walls tell stories': The production and use of heritage in contemporary India.
Supervisor: Professor Susan Bayly
Research Title: Lived Economies in Times of Crisis: Value, Work and the Shifting Boundaries of Illegality in Argentina
Supervisor: Professor Sian Lazar
Research Title: Startup Agency and World-making in Neoliberal Finland
Supervisor: Professor Sian Lazar
Research Title: Dance Festivals and Multicultural Nationalism among indonesian University Students
Supervisor: Professor Rupert Stasch
Research Title: 'Illegality', race and subjectivity: being an undocumented migrant in contemporary Italy
Supervisor: Dr Perveez Mody
Research Title: Environmental rights and global governance in Mongolia: a study of conflictual relations and land tenure in the Southern Gobi mining belt.
Supervisor: Professor David Sneath
Research Title: Performance of Innovation - charisma, affect, and mimetic resonances mobilizing technology in Nairobi’s Silicon Savannah
Supervisor: Dr Michael Degani
Research title: Hombre Camión: clientelism, city-making, and the social reproduction of public bus infrastructures in Mexico City
Supervisor: Professor Sian Lazar
Research title: The linguistic economy of looking : production of values and creative subjectivities in the illustration industry in New York.
Supervisor: Professor Rupert Stasch
Research title: Digital Dreams and Lived Entrepreneurial Realities: Examining the Aspirations of Young Online Labourers in Rwanda's Digital Economy
Supervisor: Professor Sian Lazar
Research Title: Not Here and Not There: The Narratives of Belonging among Second-generation Georgian Migrants in Moscow (Working Title)
Supervisor: Professor Matei Candea
Research Title: Human Rights in a Pre-Human World: Performative Restructurings of Human Rights Law in Vernacular Traditions
Supervisor: Professor Harri Englund
Research title: ‘Tourist Go Home’: A Visual Ethnography of Housing Precarity and Protest in Valencia, Spain
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Sanchez
Research Title: Pedagogies of Frontistíria within the Image-World of Metapolítefsi Greece (Working Title)
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navaro
Research Title: Single in the City: Women Navigating Work, Family and Marriage in Urban India
Supervisor: Dr. Perveez Mody
Research title: Exploring Psychotic Expressivity: Ethnographic Reflections on Psychiatric Music Therapy Practise in the UK
Supervisor: Dr. Iza Kavedžija
Research title: Selling Paradise: Wealth and Luxury Imaginaries’ Construction in Tourism
Supervisor: Andrew Sánchez
Research Title: Down to the Countryside and Towards the Future: Reconfigurations of Space, Place and Identity within China's Eco Cities
Supervisor: Professor Caroline Humphrey
Research Title: Dharma and Difference in Dar: a Chinese Buddhist Mission in Tanzania
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research title: Otherness and Belonging among Jewish Israeli Visual Artists Immigrants in Berlin
Supervisor: Professor Rupert Stasch
Research Title: Movements of the Setgel: An Ethnography of Contemporary Art in Post-socialist Mongolia
Supervisor: Professor Uradyn E Bulag
Title: Intellectual Virtues: navigating academic and confessional demands at a Theology Faculty
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: A Study of the Inner Mongolian Dance in Socialist China
Principal Supervisor: Professor Uradyn Bulag
Research TItle: Social changes in Saudi Arabia
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title: Heritage, Time, Inequality, and Industrial Change in the Rural British Idyll
Supervisor: Dr Paola Filippucci, Advisor: Professor Matei Candea
Research title: Economies of watching: A multi-relational ethnography of exclusion and care among Moroccan-background young men in an Antwerp neighbourhood
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navaro
Research Title: Exploring the Borders: Movement, Magic, and Liveability in Nkambeni, South Africa
Supervisor: Professor Harri Englund
Research title: Childhood and Value education in American Conservative Judaism
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research title: Farmers’ livelihoods in upland Wales
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Sanchez
Research Title: Tea in Kenya: Histories of Global Entanglements and Local Societal Transformations
Supervisor: Professor Harri Englund
Research title: Crafting Wellbeing: Ceramic-making and quarter-life mobility in anxious China
Supervisor: Dr. Iza Kavedžija
Research title: Timely Work: Labour through the prism of temp-work in France
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Sanchez
Research title: Investigating a ‘Provincial Beijing’ at a Crossroads of the Silk Route. The Case of Bayanhot in Inner Mongolia
Supervisor: Professor Uradyn Bulag