For a list of past students since 2008 please see PhDs Awarded
Research Title: Between “Islamic Piety” And “Britishness”: Ethical Self-Making
Among Devout British Muslim Women
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title The Politics of Affective Coordination: A Study of Contemporary Spanish Constitucionalismo
Supervisor: Dr Sian Lazar
Research Title: Men out standing in their field: An ethnography of the flock and the fell in the English Dales and Lakes
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title: Christianity, Gendered Imaginaries and Changing Ni-Vanatu Notions of Personhood
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: 'Al-Ulama Warith Al-Anbiya' The Constitution of Islamic Scholars in Mauritania
Superviser: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: Schooled Bodies & Voices: The Making of Plurinational Citizens in Cochabamba's Zona Sur
Supervisor: Dr Sian Lazar
Research Title: Monologic technologies among Jehovah's Witnesses: Working out sameness in Satan's system of things
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: The Afterlives of a Disaster: Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Spiritual Life in Bhaktapur, Nepal
Supervisor: Professor Susan Bayly
Research Title: Telling Tales: Struggles of power, discourse and epistemology in southern Africa
Supervisor: Prof Harri Englund
Research Title: Perceptions of Cancer and Competing Hierarchies of Risk Among Members of Socially Disadvantaged Groups in the UK
Supervisor: Dr Maryon McDonald
Research Title: The empirical study of consciousness by cognitive neuroscientists in Denmark
Supervisor: Dr Maryon McDonald
Research Title: Practices of Innovation & Ethics at the Intersection of Art, Science and Technology in Barcelona.
Supervisor: Dr. Matei Candea
Research Title: Democracy, Morality and Imagination: the Importance of Elections in a Chewa Village in Rural Malawi
Supervisor: Professor Harri Englund
Research Title: Changing Nationalisms and Affective Afterlives of ‘The Troubles’ in Derry, Northern Ireland
Supervisor: Dr Matei Candea
Research Title: We don’t know what we’re saying: Irony, community, and resistance politics among the ultras of CS Lebowski football club in Florence, Italy
Supervisor: Dr Matei Candea
Research Title: Environmental cooperation in Senegal : knowledge encounters, power and translations
Supervisor: Prof Harri Englund
Research Title: Imaginal Selves, Complexities of Personhood, and Multiplicities of Narrative: Religious Pluralism and Changing Environmental/Ecological Awarenesses in Uttarakhand
Supervisor: Dr Francoise Barbira-Freedman
Research Title: The science of cities: an ethnography of evidence-based approaches to urban design, the politics of data and scientific thinking in Scandinavia
Supervisor: Dr Maryon McDonald
Research Title: A study on political street performers and the exercise of citizenship
Supervisor: Dr Sian Lazar
Research Title: The Politics and Ethics of Progressive Muslim Activists in Java
Supervisor: Dr. Paolo Heywood
Research Title: Miracle grain: Indigeneity and the globalisation of quinoa from the Bolivian Altiplano
Supervisor: Dr Sian Lazar
Research Title: Water in the Indian Himalayas
Supervisor: Dr Hildegard Diemberger
Research Title: Clear Message: Christian dialogics of morality in the Faroe Islands
Supervisor: Dr Stasch
Research Title: Suzhi education and moral evaluation in the People's Republic
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title: A projected failure? an ethnography of individual investors (sanhu) in Chinese stock market
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title: Time, History and Divinity amongst Serbian Orthodox Christians
Supervisor: Prof Joel Robbins
Research Title: Beyond Ethical Borders, Achieving Self-transformation: Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Movement in Catholic Philippines.
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title: Liberal Dilemmas: Re-thinking Liberalism through an Ethnographic Study of Contemporary Chinese Liberal Intellectuals
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title: Discovering Epic, Constructing Culture: Culture-Politics on China’s Western Frontier
Supervisor: Professor David Sneath
Research Title: Homeless Mothers' Experience of Caregiving in Dublin, Ireland
Supervisor: Dr Perveez Mody
Research Title: 'Walls tell stories': The production and use of heritage in contemporary India.
Supervisor: Professor Susan Bayly
Research Title: "Good Migration": Navigating Catholic and State Visions for Migrants in Singapore
Supervisor: Prof Susan Bayly
Research Title: Between ‘Repairing the Self’ and ‘Repairing the World’: The Practice of Insight Meditation among Israeli Jews
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title: Slaves to Righteousness: How do British conservative Evangelicals produce and practice their ethics?
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title: Left-wing populism in Japan: Disturbing the hegemony of post-political citizenship
Supervisor: Dr Sian Lazar
Research Title: 'Normal' Bodies in Pain: Menstruation and Endometriosis among Women in the United Kingdom
Supervisor: Dr Perveez Mody
Research Title: The disability rights movement in Bunyoro, Uganda: human rights, value, and negotiations of belonging
Supervisor: Professor Harri Englund
Research Title: Affective interventions: volunteer humanitarianism in response to the 'refugee crisis'
Supervisor: Professor Harri Englund
Research Title: Generating Confianza: Trust relationship in rural El Salvador
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: The Metaphysics of Pakhangba: Kingship and ritual in Manipur
Supervisor: Dr Mark Elliott
Research Title: Dance Festivals and Multicultural Nationalism among indonesian University Students
Supervisor: Dr Rupert Stasch
Research Title: Mastering Time: Rhythms of Work and Celebration in a Chinese Village.
Supervisor: Dr Bulag
Research Title: Labour, Life, and the Lord: Opus Dei in Kyoto
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title: Local Travel Clubs on Sumba, Indonesia: Rootedness and Cosmopolitan Encounters
Supervisor: Dr 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: Ethical, political, and affective landscapes of South Korea after the Sinking of the Sewol Ferry
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title: The Discipline of Economics
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Sanchez
Research Title: Money, The State and Value in Javanese Neighborhood Communities
Supervisor: Dr Stasch
Research Title: Ritual Feasting and the Re/organisation of the Space and Time of Social Life in Asmat, Indonesian Papua
Supervisor: Dr Rupert Stasch
Research Title: Movements and emotional geographies of displacement and emplacement among recent migrants and refugees from Turkey in Greece
Supervisor: Dr Yael Navaro
Research Title: Being Good Women: The Performance of Femininity and Euro-American Counterpublics
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title: Historicity, Ethics and Change in a Chinese City
Supervisor: Prof Joel Robbins
Research Title: Huddled Masses: Citizenship, Death, and the unclaimed body in New York City
Supervisor: Dr Lazar
Research Title: From the hacienda to the uprising: community, memory and historical narrative among indigenous leaders in Simiatug - Ecuador
Supervisor: Sian Lazar
Research Title: After/before an Ebola outbreak: waiting for a new epidemic 'emergence' in Forest Guinea
Supervisor: Dr Maryon McDonald
Research Title: Manufacturing Contemporary Art: Craft and Automation in Carrara’s Workshops
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Sanchez
Research Title: Brothers and migrants: the homeland landscapes of Moscow’s Georgian migrants in the post-Soviet era
Supervisor: Dr Matei Candea
Research Title: Now We Are Going to Hygge’: Happiness, Values and Temporality in Odense, Denmark
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: ‘Like family, but not like family’: Striving for good care in an eating disorders treatment centre in Italy
Supervisor: Dr Maryon McDonald
Research Title: The postsocialist elites in Mongolia." Research interest: Elites, political economy, distinction, postsocialim and wealth.
Supervisor: Professor David Sneath
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: Nervoza: Archival-to-Everyday Affectual Entanglements in Post-War Sarajevo
Supervisor: Dr Yael Navaro
Research Title: Human anxieties, bovine solutions: a discourse on conservation of a native cattle breed in northeastern Siberia.
Supervisor: Dr Piers Vitebsky
Research Title: Future-proofing the Digital World: Data Centre Security and the Threats of Electromagnetic Pulse and Space Weather
Supervisor: Dr Christos Lynteris
Research Title: Traces of war, Eastern identities, and socio-political changes in rural Eastern Germany
Supervisor: Dr Paola Filippucci
Research Title: Othering, identity and home-space: experiencing diasporic community in the global gateway of Hong Kong
Supervisor: Professor Susan Bayly
Research Title:"Truth or Love?": Orthodoxy, pluralism and the ethics of relationships at a church in Tennessee
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: 'Like Ice Floes': Iñupiaq Sovereignty and Settler Migration on Alaska's North Slope
Supervisor: Dr Anita Herle
Research Title: Time, power and women’s lives in Singapore
Supervisor: Dr Perveez Mody
Research Title: Christian clerical formation as negation of the British secular
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: Hope, values and temporality among migrants in Samos, Greece
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: Entrepreneurship in Haifa: The Perpetual Quest for Innovation and the Israeli National Imaginary
Supervisor: Professor James Laidaw
Research Title - Unsettling Times: land, political economy and protest in the Bedouin villages of Central Jordan
Supervisor - Professor David Sneath
Research Title: La Sociale: An ethnography of distribution in Dakar, Senegal
Supervisor: Prof Harri Englund
Research Title: Entangled Ethnicity: The Drotsang Tibetans at China-Tibetan Frontier
Supervisor: Dr Hildegard Diemberger
Research Title: Forms of mobility in urban waste labour networks
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Sanchez
Research Title: The new sparks of Chinese middle-class tech-workers’ collective resistance to working overtime
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Sanchez
Research Title: "Action through Non-action”: Self-making and Citizen-making through the Wudang School Self-Cultivation Network in the PRC
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title: At the Interstices of States: A Study of Chinese Workers in Mongolia
Supervisor: Dr Uradyn Bulag