For a list of past students since 2008 please see PhDs Awarded
Research title: Disappearing in Amazonia. Indigenous narratives from the Papurí River
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: Between “Islamic Piety” And “Britishness”: Ethical Self-Making
Among Devout British Muslim Women
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
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: 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: Cultivating Lost Land: Livelihood and Depopulation in São Jorge Island, Portugal
Supervisor: Dr Rupert Stasch
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
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: Living with Barrett’s Oesophagus: When Risk Becomes Disease
Supervisor: Dr Maryon McDonald
Research Title: Down to Earth: Ecological Care in 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
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: Nationalizing Intimacy? A legal Ethnographic Cartography of Gender, Sexuality and Nationalism among Palestinians in Israel
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navaro
Faculty Advisor: Professor Sian Lazar
Research Title: A study on political street performers and the exercise of citizenship
Supervisor: Professor Sian Lazar
Research title: Creating Community on and at the Border: Community Identity Formation and the Experience of Immigration Law among Undocumented Latinos in the Detroit-Windsor Transborder Area
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navaro
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 Rupert Stasch
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: Precarious work and environmental change in the Kyrgyz walnut trade
Supervisor: Andrew Sanchez
Research Title: Verbal art and material agency in Bororo ritual life (Central Brazil)
Supervisor: Dr Rupert Stasch
Research Title: Between Normalization and Normal Lives: Israeli Development Strategies in Occupied East Jerusalem
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navarro
Research Title: Agency through time among unaccompanied children from Pakistan in Greece
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navarro
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": “Corporate Care” in Hong Kong: Responsibility, Personhood and Subjectivities
Supervisor: Dr. Iza Kavedžija
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: Startup Agency and World-making in Neoliberal Finland
Supervisor: Professor Sian Lazar
Research Title: ‘Normal’ Bodies in Pain: Menstruation, Dysmenorrhea and Endometriosis among Women in Sydney
Supervisor: Dr Perveez Mody
Research Title: Sentinels of the “Plastiocene” - Seabirds, Scientists, Citizens, and the Marine Afterlives of Plastic
Supervisor: Dr Perveez Mody
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: The Intersubjective Foundations of Temporal Experience in China
Supervisor: Professor Uradyn Bulag
Research Title: Labour, Life, and the Lord: Opus Dei in Kyoto
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title:‘Very Sumba’: New Cosmopolitan Collectives of Local Cultural Appreciation and Branding in eastern Indonesia
Supervisor: Dr 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: Hombre camión: labour formalisation, collective organisation, 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: 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: Professor Yael Navaro
Research Title: Being Good Women: The Performance of Femininity and Euro-American Counterpublics
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research Title: Career Choice and the Good Life for Labor Entrants in Precarious Japan
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: From the hacienda to the uprising: community, memory and historical narrative among indigenous leaders in Simiatug - Ecuador
Supervisor: Professor Sian Lazar
Research Title: After/before an Ebola outbreak: waiting for a new epidemic 'emergence' in Forest Guinea
Supervisor: Dr Maryon McDonald
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: 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: Professor Matei Candea
Research Title: Pedagogies of Frontistíria within the Image-World of Metapolítefsi Greece (Working Title)
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navaro
Research title: Exploring Psychotic Expressivity: Ethnographic Reflections on Psychiatric Music Therapy Practise in the UK
Supervisor: Dr. Iza Kavedžija
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: Secular-Sacred Hybridity in Chinese Buddhist Philanthropy: Ethical, Organisational and Political Strategies of The Loving Benevolence Foundation.
Supervisor: Professor James Laidlaw
Research title: Otherness and Belonging among Immigrant Artists in Berlin
Supervisor: Dr Rupert Stasch
Research Title: Nervoza: Archival-to-Everyday Affectual Entanglements in Post-War Sarajevo
Supervisor: Professor Yael Navaro
Research Title: Contemporaneity across landscapes: Art and development in Mongolia today
Supervisor: Professor Uradyn E Bulag, Faculty Advisor: Professor David Sneath
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: Othering, identity and home-space: experiencing diasporic community in the global gateway of Hong Kong
Supervisor: Professor Susan Bayly
Research Title: Heritage, Time, Inequality, and Industrial Change in the Rural British Idyll
Supervisor: Dr Paola Filippucci, Advisor: Professor Matei Candea
Research Title: Epistemic virtue and authority at a Nashville church
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: “Farmers’ livelihoods in upland Wales after Brexit”
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Sanchez
Research Title: Hope, values and temporality among migrants in Samos, Greece
Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins
Research Title: Unjust profit: moral economies of recycling work and migration in urban Turkey
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Sanchez
Research title: French temp-work agencies, antiwork strategies, and struggle over being and time
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