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Department of Social Anthropology

 

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
 Alex  Archer (2018)
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
 Mohammed Uzair Belgami (2018)
Research Title: 'Al-Ulama Warith Al-Anbiya' The Constitution of Islamic Scholars in Mauritania
Superviser: Professor Joel Robbins
 Tim  Pöhlmann (2018)
Research Title: Cultivating Lost Land: Livelihood and Depopulation in São Jorge Island, Portugal
Supervisor: Dr Rupert Stasch
 Kasia  Buzanska (2017)
Research Title: Networked Youth: Navigating the Sea of Schooling, Citizenship and the World-Wide Web in Cochabamba, Bolivia and Warsaw, Poland
Supervisor: Professor Sian Lazar
 Devi  Chakrabarti (2019)
Research Title:  The Afterlives of a Disaster: Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Spiritual Life in Bhaktapur, Nepal
Supervisor: Professor Susan Bayly
Research Title: What does it mean to be a farmer? Knowledge and ethics on Fife farms
Supervisor: Professor Matei Candea
Research Title: ‘A World Where People No Longer Fear Cancer’: An Anthropology of Barrett’s Oesophagus in the UK
Supervisor: Dr Maryon McDonald
Research Title: Soils and Symbiosis: Ecology, Intimacy, and Place in Eastern Ontario.
Supervisor: Dr Perveez Mody
Research Title: Democracy, Morality and Imagination: the Importance of Elections in a Chewa Village in Rural Malawi
Supervisor: Professor Harri Englund
Eleanor Foster
Research title: Re-activating Indigenous Australian Collections from the Pastoral Frontier in UK Museums
Supervisors: Rupert Stasch and Nicholas Thomas
Research Title: Belonging, Alienation, and the 'Political' in Protestant Marching Bands in Derry, Northern Ireland.
Supervisor: Professor Matei Candea
Research Title: Environmental cooperation in Senegal : knowledge encounters, power and translations
Supervisor: Professor Harri Englund
Research Title: Life in the Carceral State: An Ethnographic Exploration of Legal Cynicism and Economic Harms in Everyday Palestine
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navaro
Faculty Advisor: Professor Sian Lazar
Research Title: Acting Brazilian: street performances, citizenship practices and political chaos
Supervisor: Professor Sian Lazar
Adaiah Hudgins-Lopez
Research title: Undocumented Latinos & Community Building: Hope, Futures, and Legal Consciousness in an Urban Borderland
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navaro
Research Title: A social life of water: water, ownership, and social complexity in a Nyinba village
Supervisor: Dr Hildegard Diemberger
 Jan  Jensen (2018)
Research Title: Clear Message: Christian dialogics of morality in the Faroe Islands
Supervisor: Dr Rupert Stasch
Research Title: A projected failure? an ethnography of individual investors (sanhu) in Chinese stock market
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Nat Jobbins
Research title: Empathy on the peace lines: Autism and belonging in a socially divided city
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navaro
Research title: Working lives and environmental change in the Central Asian walnut trade
Supervisor: Andrew Sanchez
J Kelmer
Research Title: An aesthetics of memory in indigenous Central Brazil: an ethnography of the Bororo mortuary ceremonies.
Supervisor: Dr Rupert Stasch
Research Title: Zeal for Missions: An Ethnography of Evangelical Missionary Life of South Korea
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: Between Normalization and Normal Lives: Israeli Development Strategies in Occupied East Jerusalem
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navarro
Daniel
Research title: Disappearing in Amazonia. Indigenous narratives from the Papurí River
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: Agency through time among unaccompanied children from Pakistan in Greece
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navarro
 Xinying (Tracy)  Liu (2019)
Research Title: Fo Guang Shan Humanistic Buddhism in the PRC
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": “Corporate Care” in Hong Kong: Responsibility, Personhood and Subjectivities
Supervisor: Dr. Iza Kavedžija
 Sarthak  Malhotra (2018)
Research Title: 'Walls tell stories': The production and use of heritage in contemporary India.
Supervisor: Professor Susan Bayly
Research Title: Startup Agency and World-making in Neoliberal Finland
Supervisor: Professor Sian Lazar
Research Title: Living on a Rock in the Ocean: The Political Ecologies of Belonging on Lord Howe Island
Supervisor: Dr Perveez Mody
 Ellen  Myers (2019)
Research Title: Dance Festivals and Multicultural Nationalism among indonesian University Students
Supervisor: Dr Rupert Stasch
Research Title: Vocations to the Secular: An Ethnography of Opus Dei Britain
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title: 'Illegality', race and subjectivity: being an undocumented migrant in contemporary Italy
Supervisor: Dr Perveez Mody
Iris Pakulla
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: 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: Dr Rupert Stasch
Research Title:  Movements and emotional geographies of displacement and emplacement among recent migrants and refugees from Turkey in Greece
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navaro
Research Title: Career Choice and the Good Life for Labor Entrants in Precarious Japan
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
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: Pedagogies of Frontistíria within the Image-World of Metapolítefsi Greece (Working Title)
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navaro
Arnav
Research title: Exploring Psychotic Expressivity: Ethnographic Reflections on Psychiatric Music Therapy Practise in the UK
Supervisor: Dr. Iza Kavedžija
 Tuya  Shagdar (2019)
Research Title: The postsocialist elites in Mongolia." Research interest: Elites, political economy, distinction, postsocialim and wealth.
Supervisor: Professor David Sneath
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: Secular-Sacred Hybridity in Chinese Buddhist Philanthropy: Ethical, Organisational and Political Strategies of The Loving Benevolence Foundation.
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Rotem Steinbock
Research title: Otherness and Belonging among Jewish Israeli Visual Artists Immigrants in Berlin
Supervisor: Dr Rupert Stasch
 Jasmin  Tabakovic (2018)
Research Title: Nervoza: Archival-to-Everyday Affectual Entanglements in Post-War Sarajevo
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navaro
Jenny Tang
Research Title: Contemporaneity across landscapes: Art and development in Mongolia today
Supervisor: Professor Uradyn E Bulag, Faculty Advisor: Professor David Sneath
Title: Intellectual Virtues: navigating academic and confessional demands at a Theology Faculty
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Gol Tengis
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: Time, power and women’s lives in Singapore
Supervisor: Dr Perveez Mody
Lyndsey West
Research title: Farmers’ livelihoods in upland Wales
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Sanchez
 Erin  Williamson (2018)
Research Title:  Hope, values and temporality among migrants in Samos, Greece
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research title: Crafting Wellbeing: Ceramic-making and quarter-life mobility in anxious China
Supervisor: Dr. Iza Kavedžija
Lucas 2022
Research title: Timely Work: Labour through the prism of temp-work in France
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Sanchez
Research Title: How to understand “work” in the tech industry?
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
Research Title: At the Interstices of States: A Study of Chinese Workers in Mongolia
Supervisor: Professor Uradyn Bulag