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GRADUATE STUDENTS
List of current MPhil/PhD Students and Thesis Titles

Biological Anthropology

Name Title Supervisor Subject
Aalaa Al-Shamahi   Christophe Soligo Biological Anthropology
Katharine Balolia   Christophe Soligo Biological Anthropology
Anna Barros The Ontogeny of the Primate Shoulder Girdle Christophe Soligo Biological Anthropology
Claire Bedelian Community conservation in the Maasai Mara in Kenya Katherine Homewood Anthropology
Khurshida Begum A comparative study of ovarian reserve and reproductive aging in Bangladeshi and white woman Sara Randall Ecology
Farid Belbachir Aspects of large felid ecology and interactions with human communities in the Algerian Sahara, with particular reference to North-African Cheetah Katherine Homewood Anthropology
Alexander Bjarnason Phylogenetic signals and adaptive diversification in the skull of New World monkeys Christophe Soligo Anthropology
Christine Carter   Katherine Homewood Biological Anthropology
Heidi Colleran Influences on reproductive decision-making and reproductive norms in rural Poland; ecological, cultural and social network effects Ruth Mace Biological Anthropology
Helen Cross Small-Scale Coastal Marine Fishing (SSCMF)- A case study from the island of Uno in the Bijagos Archipelago, Guinea Bissau Katherine Homewood Biological Anthropology
Cara Evans Family, fertility and child development in modern British families Ruth Mace Biological Anthropology
Olivier Hymas   Katherine Homewood Biological Anthropology
Shakti Lamba   Ruth Mace Evolutionary Anthropology
Eric Lewitus   Christophe Soligo Biological Anthropology
Kesson Magid Human ecology of migration, hormones and health of Bangladeshi men Ruth Mace Biological Anthropology
Nicolas Montalva Rivera Cultural and Genetic Evolution of lactose tolerance in relation to practices of production and consumption of goat's milk in rural communities from central-northern Chile Ruth Mace Biological Anthropology
Marie-Annick Moreau The Role of Aquatic Resources in Rural Livelihoods on Tanzania's Rufiji River Floodplain Katherine Homewood Ecology
Norman Rosen African Ape Sanctuaries: A window into the bushmeat trade and implications for conservation Volker Sommer Biological Anthropology
Björn Schulte-Herbrüggen The Role of Bushmeat within Livelihoods of Cocoa Farmers in the Sefwi Wiawso District Katherine Homewood Ecology
Taniya Sharmeen Menopausal symptom experience at midlife Among Bangladeshi immigrants, sedentees, and white London neighbours: A cross-cultural study Ruth Mace Evolutionary Anthropology
Sandra Tranquilli Insectivory in Nigerian Chimpanzees Volker Sommer Anthropology
Gretchen Walters Savannas on Fire: Changing Resource Use in the Bateke Plateau of Gabon Katherine Homewood Ecology
Adaoma Wosu   Katherine Homewood Biological Anthropology


Material Culture

Name Title Supervisor Subject
Alexandra Antohin   Charles Stewart Material Culture
Pwyll Ap Stifin The Aural Culture of 9/11 Victor Buchli Material Culture
Arsim Canolli Behind open doors; social significance of food in Kosova Chris Tilley Material Culture
Iside Carbone Reception and Perception of Images of China in Italy Michael Rowlands Material Culture
Matthew Cochran A Reluctant Heritage: Operationalizing Thematic Space and the Production of Locality in the Arundel Mills Mall and the Annapolis Historic Chris Tilley Material Culture
Elena (Magda) Craciun Fake Branded Clothing: An Exploration of its "Presence" in a European Periphery Daniel Miller Material Culture
Elizabeth D'Antonio- Stansfield   Daniel Miller Material Culture
Oliver Deepwell An Anthropology of the Kabala Susanne Kuechler Material Culture
Damon Dennis Scribes and the Second-hand Book Trade in Morroco Susanne Kuechler Material Culture
Elizabeth Dickson The Material Culture of Sustainability Victor Buchli Material Culture
Erica Farmer Cultural Property and Cultural Politics: Looking for consensus between Anthropological, Legal and indigenous approaches to the protection of cultural heritage Michael Rowlands Material Culture
Gen Fujii Material Culture and Housing in Post-Socialist Albania Victor Buchli Material Culture
Fabio Gygi Clutter in Japan: On Cognitive, Cosmological, and Mental Disorders Susanne Kuechler Material Culture
Anna Hoare Making Space: Architectures amd Settlements of Post-Normadic Irish Travellers Victor Buchli Material Culture
Kohar Hokdanian-York   Daniel Miller Material Culture
Shisachila Imchen The Megaliths of the Naga of Northeast Chris Tilley Material Culture
Phyllida Jay   Daniel Miller Material Culture
Konstantinos Kalantzis Visualizing Identity on the Margins of Europe: Photography and the Geographies of Imagination in contemporary Sphakia, Crete Chris Pinney and Charles Stewart Material Culture
Peter Klemen Dartmoor A Landscape Study Chris Tilley Material Culture
Alesya Krit Architecture, Property, Lifestyle Migration. Case Study: British Expatriates in Spain Victor Buchli Material Culture
Yang-Yi Kuo Lost Home(lands) Reinvented: The Chinese Diaspora and their Material Culture in Taiwan Chris Tilley Material Culture
Chih-I Lai   Michael Rowlands Material Culture
Nicola Levell The Globalization of Museum Culture Representing Macau in Democratic Portugal Mike Rowlands Material Culture
Panayota Malkogeorgou The Ethics of Conservation Practice Michael Rowlands Material Culture
Amar Mall The Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge: the Kolam of South India Susanne Kuechler Material Culture
Simone Mangal The Real Life of Things: Social and Environmental Values of Commodities Daniel Miller Material Culture
Fiona McDonald Testmonies and Textiles: A Material Exploration of Trade Blankets Susanne Kuechler, Chris Pinney Material Culture
Thomas McDonald   Daniel Miller Material Culture
Erin Mell-Taylor   Michael Rowlands Material Culture
Wallis Motta Media and Networking in the Cambridge region Daniel Miller Material Culture
Razvan Nicolescu   Daniel Miller Material Culture
Peter Oakley The meanings and agency of gold amongst goldworkers Susanne Kuechler Material Culture
Hyun Oh   Daniel Miller Material Culture
Panarai Ostapirat Practical Modernity: the Materiality of Wealth and Heritage in Champassak, Lao Daniel Miller Material Culture
Vita Peacock   Susanne Kuechler Material Culture
Stella Pilavaki Recording and Interpreting a Rock Art Complex Lacking any Known Cultural Context: a Post-Structuralist and Phenomenological Approach Chris Tilley Material Culture
Thomas Rodgers Hot and Cold, Fast and Slow: Making and Eating Food in Guatemala and Abroad Daniel Miller Material Culture
Juan Rojas The Materiality and Visual Culture of Mesoamerican Petates Michael Rowlands Material Culture
Devorah Romanek Re-remembered: the collaborative creation of a digital catalogue Susanne Kuechler Material Culture
Edward Ross   Daniel Miller Material Culture
Rafael Schacter Images, Illegality and the Public Sphere Michael Rowlands Material Culture
Francesca Simon Millar Digital Heritage: The Networked Technology of the Digital Image Graeme Were Material Culture
Julie Shackleford The Effect of World Heritage Discourse on the Commodification of Antiquities Daniel Miller Material Culture
Joseph Trapido Congolese Migrants in the European Union Michael Rowlands Material Culture
Shu-Li Wang Heritage on Display - A study of archaeological sites and museums in China Michael Rowlands Material Culture
Sarah Wilkes   Susanne Kuechler Material Culture


Social Anthropology

Name Title Supervisor Subject
Dafne Accoroni Islamic integration and social wellbeing in Paris: the Mouride brotherhood and the Malian foyer Roland Littlewood Medical Anthropology
Roberto Alzetta Moroccans' Migration to Italy: A Socio-Cultural Approach to an Increasing Mass Phenomenon Sandra Wallman Social Anthropology
Clementina Amankwaah Continuity and Change in the making of Elites: University Students in Post War Sierra Leone Barrie Sharpe Social Anthropology
Marian Anastasoaie Work, Knowledge and Value-Producing among Tobacco Growers in Cuba Michael Stewart (co) Social Anthropology
Anna Apostolidou Gay Art and Culture in Contemporary Greece Charles Stewart Social Anthropology
Alessandra Basso Ortiz Performing ethics in socialist Cuba: a case study of Afro-Cuban religions in Perico Martin Holbraad Social Anthropology
Natasha Brie Beranek Poverty Gender and the Romany in the Czech Republic Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Eitan Buchalter Enhancing creativity in scientific research: an Anthropologist's perspective   Social Anthropology
Meixuan Chen Place-Making in SW China Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Piergiorgio di Giminiani The Struggle of the People of the Land: land, state and tradition in a Mapuche community of Southern Chile. Mukulika Banerjee (co) Social Anthropology
David Downing Understanding Opposition to GM Food & Crops – Tracing Networks Constructing, Maintaining and Reproducing Oppositional Dispositions in Dorset , UK Nanneke Redclift Social Anthropology
Razvan Dumitru Regulating the Post-Socialist Market: Moldova Michael Stewart (co) Social Anthropology
Guergana Efremova   Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Alice Elliot Moroccan mothers, Italian daughters: an anthropological study of reproduction between Italy and Morocco Sara Randall Social Anthropology
Dia Flores   Ruth Mandel Social Anthropology
Julia Frajtag Sauma   Martin Holbraad Social Anthropology
Jennie Gamlin Environmental risks to child health: pesticides,reproduction and indigenous knowledge in Nayarit, Mexico Nanneke Redclift Social Anthropology
Michael Gibson The Cultural Basis of Moral Decision-Making: Examining the Micro-Politics of Emotion and Personhood in Oslo, Norway Charles Stewart Social Anthropology
Alessandra Giuffrida Structural fluidity, mobility and networks among the Kel Antessar and other Tuareg clans in north-west Mali Phil Burnham Social Anthropology
Sophie Haines Land, Citizenship and Development in southern Belize Nanneke Redclift and Barrie Sharpe Social Anthropology/Ecology
Claudia Ituarte Lima Negotiating cultural and environmental rights in the Amazon region David Napier Medical Anthropology
Livia Jaroka Creating a Gypsy national culture in the Budapest VIII district Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
David Jobanputra Tigers, Trees and Teleology: Religious Resistance and Resource Use in Alwar District, Rajasthan Mukulika Banerjee Social Anthropology
Eirini Kampriani Cultural Management of Genetic Knowledge in the Case of 'Female' Cancer. Embodied Risk and the Moral Landscape of Women's Health Roland Littlewood Medical Anthropology
Elisa Kelly Fairtrade Knowledge Networks and Agricultural Practice in Oaxaca, Mexico Nanneke Redclift Social Anthropology
Dimitra Kofti Processes of temporalisation in a Bulgarian industrial town Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Charalampos Kontarakis Islamic Spirits in Cairo, Egypt Martin Holbraad Social Anthropology
Mekhala Krishnamurthy India: An Ethnoarchaeological Study Mukulika Banerjee Social Anthropology
Flavia Leite Dias Authoritative Knowledge and the Politics of Childbirth in Sentos Roland Littlewood Medical Anthropology
Rebecca Lynch   Roland Littlewood Social Anthropology
Alison MacDonald   Mukulika Banerjee Social Anthropology
Inge Mascher Brizuela State and Illegality in Mexico. An Anthropology of people's encounters with the State Mukulika Banerjee Social Anthropology
Erin Mell-Taylor Message Transformation within a Neo-Liberal Organisation Allen Abramson, Martin Holbraad Social Anthropology
Athena Meselidou   Mukulika Banerjee Social Anthropology
Jessica Mozersky Ashkenazi Mutations' and the BRCA genes: genetics, disease and Jewish identity. Nanneke Redclift Social Anthropology
David Orr Mental health and culture in Peru Roland Littlewood Medical Anthropology
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic Divination and Citizenship among Sufi Turks in Macedonia Charles Stewart Social Anthropology
Livia Pagetti Romany 'nomads' in Rome Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Enrico Panizzo Predictive genetic knowledge, community and identity Nanneke Redclift Social Anthropology
Aaron Parkhurst   Roland Littlewood Social Anthropology
Manuela Pellegrino Language ideologies and policy: the case of Griko Charles Stewart Social Anthropology
Raluca Pernes   Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Natalie Pilato   David Napier Social Anthropology
Ellen Potts   Barrie Sharpe Social Anthropology
Ursula Read Christian prayer camps and therapy in Ghana Roland Littelwood Medical Anthropology
Ellie Reynolds   Roland Littelwood Social Anthropology
Stephanie Riak Akuei Trauma and Coping Amongst the Dinka of South Sudan Displaced by War Sara Randall Social Anthropology
Alessandra Saran     Social Anthropology
Matan Shapiro Affectionate Men, Contesting Women: Passion, Jealousy and Kinship Networks in Maranhao, Northeast Brazil Allen Abramson, Martin Holbraad Social Anthropology
Sebina Sivac-Bryant Memory, Commemoration and Politics in contemporary Bosnia Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Deborah Soothill Whose Chinatown is it anyway? Localising strategies, immigrants and local policy in Madrid Nanneke Redclift (co) Social Anthropology
Janine Su   Allen Abramson Social Anthropology
Victoria Sultana Body Rebuilding: On Flesh and Prosthesis David Napier Medical Anthropology
Beata Switek Indonesian migrants in Japan Ruth Mandel Social Anthropology
Catalina Tesar Accumulation of wealth, economy of prestige and politics of kinship in "traditional" Roma community in Romania Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Andrew Thurston Agriculture and Society in Postsocialist Romania Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Cathryn Townsend   Jerome Lewis Social Anthropology
Radu Umbres   Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Anna Witeska Passageways between the Underground and the Pantheon: a Gaze into One Memory Maze of Postsocialist Poland Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Besim Can Zirh Transnational Field of Social Relations and Networks of Alevi Communities in Europe Ruth Mandel Social Anthropology
Emiliano Zolla-Marquez Roads, mobility and indigenous territoriality in the Sierre Mixe, Mexico Nanneke Redclift Social Anthropology



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