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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
Claudia Amphlett Climate change, drought impacts and the coexistence of people and large carnivores in East African rangelands Katherine Homewood and Sarah Durant Ecology
Katharine Balolia Sexual dimorphism, extended cranial and mandibular growth and life history in the genus Homo Christophe Soligo Biological Anthropology
Anna Barros Ontogeny of the shoulder girdle in hominoid primates Christophe Soligo Biological Anthropology
Claire Bedelian Community conservation in the Maasai Mara in Kenya Katherine Homewood Biological Anthropolog
Farid Belbachir Aspects of carnivore ecology and interactions with human communities in the Algerian Sahara, with particular reference to North-African Cheetah Katherine Homewood and Sarah Randall Biological Anthropolog
Sarah Brooke   Katherine Homewood Ecology
Kathleen Bryson The cognitive and adaptative roots of prejudice and discrimination in humans and other apes Volker Sommer Biological Anthropology
Christine Carter Conservation and development; the search for synergies around an MPA on the coast of Kenya Katherine Homewood Biological Anthropology
Heidi Colleran The evolution of reproductive decision-making and the spread of low fertility: ecological, cultural, kin and social network effects Ruth Mace and
Sara Randall 		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
Emily Emmott Allomaternal Care and Child Outcomes in modern developed populations Ruth Mace and
Jonathan Wells 		Biological Anthropology
Myrtille Guillon The evolution of human cooperative and punitive behaviours: A phylogenetic comparative approach. Ruth Mace and Tom Currie Biological Anthropology
Olivier Hymas   Katherine Homewood Biological Anthropology
Bram van Leeuwen The role of individual factors and the social environment in shaping adolescent behaviour Ruth Mace Biological Anthropology
Nicolas Montalva Rivera Evolution of Lactase Persistence and Milking Practices in Goat Herders of the Semi-Arid Region of Chile Ruth Mace and Dallas Swallow  Biological Anthropology
Marie-Annick Moreau The Role of Aquatic Resources in Rural Livelihoods on Tanzania's Rufiji River Floodplain Katherine Homewood Ecology
Gemma Price Environmental, ecological and phylogenetic correlates of cranial shape variation in strepsirrhine primates Christophe Soligo and Anjali Goswami Biological Anthropology
Antonio Silva
 The Costs of Inter-Cultural Interaction – A Case Study on Protestant and Catholic Communities in Northern Ireland Ruth Mace Biological Anthropology
Matthew G. Thomas A comparative study of human kinship variation  Ruth Mace Biological Anthropology
Sandra Tranquilli African great apes distribution, abundance and conservation efforts effectiveness Volker Sommer Biological Anthropology
Caroline Uggla The Human Behavioural Ecology of Public Health Ruth Mace and David W. Lawson Biological Anthropology
Adaoma Wosu Effects of Tourism and Conservation on Intertidal Resource Users Katherine Homewood Biological Anthropology
Anas Yahaya Quantification of Differences in the Levels of Facial Asymmetry of Hausa Ethnic Group in Nigeria, Correlation between Socioeconomic Status and Medical History Christophe Soligo and Ruth Mace Biological Anthropology

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Material Culture

Name
 		Title Supervisor Subject
Gabrielle Ackroyd Financial and symbolic intersections of the house in the Irish Republic Victor Buchli and Adam Drazin
 Material Culture
Pwyll Ap Stifin The Aural Culture of 9/11 Victor Buchli Material Culture
Ana Carolina (Carol) Balthazar

 The notion of experience in second hand consumption activities in Margate, UK. Daniel Miller and Martin Holbraad Material Culture
Arsim Canolli Behind open doors; social significance of food in Kosova Chris Tilley Material Culture
Timothy Carroll Shifting Ontologies of Fabric: Textile, Material and the Making of Heaven in the Holy Orthodox Church

Susanne Küchler and Martin Holbraad

  Material Culture
Jane Dickson Roofscapes: Housing, Governance and The Materialisation of Sustainability Victor Buchli and Yvonne Rydin Material Culture
Erica Farmer Delicious enigmas:  An exploration of legal geographical indication regimes in Bordeaux and the United Kingdom Michael Rowlands Material Culture
Nick Gadsby Presence, Absence and Transcendence: The Digital Materiality of MMOs. Daniel Miller and Lane Denicola 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 The material culture of ethical and sustainable fashion
 Susanne Kuechler and Chris Pinney Material Culture
David Jeevendrampillai An historical spatial-ethnography and ‘auto-ethnography’ of suburban commercial practices Victor Buchli and Sam Griffiths Material Culture
Iestyn Jones   Ludovic Coupaye and Susanne Kuechler Material Culture
Hala Kilani Hima, a way of Being Mike Rowlands Material Culture
Aleksi Knuutila Subjects of the worldly kingdom: Agency, economy and generosity in Evangelical churches in Central Texas Daniel Miller and Susanne Küchler Material Culture
Alesya Krit Lifestyle migration: the processes of interaction with architecture of houses and redefining kinship relations in the case of the British in Spain Victor Buchli and Daniel Miller Material Culture
Yang-Yi Kuo Lost Home(lands) Reinvented: Material Culture of the Chinese Diaspora and Their Family in Taiwan Chris Tilley Material Culture
Chih-I Lai Crafting Taiwan through Design Michael Rowlands Material Culture
Simone Mangal The Real Life of Things: Social and Environmental Values of Commodities Daniel Miller Material Culture
Fiona McDonald Charting Material Memories: an ethnography of visual and material responses to woollen trade blankets in Pacific North West of North America and Aotearoa/New Zealand Susanne Kuechler, Chris Pinney Material Culture
Tom McDonald

Configurations of comfort: pleasure, place and persons in a south-western Chinese town

 Daniel Miller and Rebecca Empson Material Culture
Urmila Mohan
 Dressing (for) God: Clothing as “Krishna Consciousness” in India Susanne Kuechler and Chris Pinney Material Culture
Razvan Nicolescu Boredom and the technology of boredom in rural Romania Daniel Miller Material Culture
Peter Oakley The Creation and Destruction of Gold Jewellery
 Susanne Kuechler Material Culture
Hyun-Jung Oh An Ethnography of the Use of Video Games in Residential Care Susanne Kuechler Material Culture
Vita Peacock The last big-man standing: hierarchy and personhood in the Max Planck Society Susanne Kuechler and Martin Holbraad 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
Sumiko Sarashima Intangible Cultural Heritage: Bingata, a traditional textile dyeing technique in Okinawa Chris Tilley 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
Michael Shea Growing Old with Robots: Assistive Technologies and the Care of the Elderly in Japan Victor Buchli and Susanne Kuechler Material Culture
Louisa Sherman
 Designing Hong Kong: building on a ‘barren island”, dwelling in a ‘good-place land’. Chris Tilley Material Culture
Elizabeth Stanfield Inside the American Dream: An Ethnography Daniel Miller and Victor Buchli Material Culture
Juliano Spyer The effects of Social Networking Sites related to class mobility in Brazil Daniel Miller and Lucia Michelutti Material Culture
Hanna Swee   Susanne Kuechler Material Culture
Tiziana Traldi Dual earning families and their paid housewives: negotiating boundaries between ‘blood’ and ‘fictive’ kinship. Daniel Miller and Suzanne Kuchler Material Culture
Shu-Li Wang

The Poetics and Politics of China's Yinxu Archaeological Park in the Making

 Michael Rowlands and
Christopher Tilley
 Material Culture
Sarah Wilkes Materials, Morals and Circulating Knowledge: An Ethnography of the UK Materials Industry Susanne Kuechler Material Culture
Saffron Woodcraft Another failed utopia? What does social sustainability mean for the planning, development and formation of new urban communities? Victor Buchli and Laura Vaughan  Material Culture

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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
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
Alexandra S. Antohin An Ethnography of Orthodox Christianity and Religious Pluralism in Wollo, Ethiopia Charles Stewart and Rebecca Empson Social Anthropology
Alessandra Basso Ortiz Performing ethics in socialist Cuba: a case study of Afro-Cuban religions in Perico Martin Holbraad Social Anthropology
Eitan Buchalter An ethnographic account of ideas in science David Napier Social Anthropology
Meixuan Chen Place-Making in SW China Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Elena Cingolani
   David Napier and Joe Cain Medical Anthropology
Ulrike Cokl Cultural Hospitality Practices, Tourism and the Economy of Relationships in Bhutan. A View from a Bhutanese Village David Napier, Joe Calabrese and Geoffrey Samuel  Social Anthropology
Razvan Dumitru Regulating the Post-Socialist Market: Moldova Michael Stewart (co) Social Anthropology
Georgia Efremova Alternative social movements in the Czech Republic Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Alice Elliot

The outside inside, the inside outside: emigration and the imagination of life in Central Morocco

 Sara Randall and Rebecca Empson Social Anthropology
Elizabeth Elliott A Medical Landscape in Laos David Napier, Therese Hesketh Medical Anthropology
Dominic Esler
 Catholicism among Sri Lankan Tamils Alex Pillen and Rebecca Empson Social Anthropology
Tobia Farnetti Society after the state: collapse and transformation in northeastern Siberia Martin Holbraad and Rebecca Empson Social Anthropology
Dia Flores Debt of Gratitude, Shame, and Religion amongst Filipina Immigrants in London Ruth Mandel Social Anthropology
Julia Frajtag Sauma The Encantado: Maroon groups, politics and cosmology in the Brazilian Amazon Martin Holbraad Social Anthropology
Jennie Gamlin Environmental risks to child health: pesticides,reproduction and indigenous knowledge in Nayarit, Mexico Nanneke Redclift Social Anthropology
Maria Iancu
 Ada Kaleh Tales: Topographies of Displacement, Memory and Translocal Imaginaries Charles Stewart and Ger Duijzings 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
Dimitra Kofti Processes of temporalisation in a Bulgarian industrial town Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Flavia Leite Dias Authoritative Knowledge and the Politics of Childbirth in Sentos Roland Littlewood Medical Anthropology
Rebecca Lynch Cosmologies of Control: Self, Spirits and Agency in Contemporary Trinidad Roland Littlewood and Allen Abramson Social Anthropology
Alison Macdonald

Breast cancer survivorship among middle class women in Mumbai, India.

 Sahra Gibbon and Rebecca Empson Social Anthropology
Inge Mascher Brizuela State and Illegality in Mexico. An Anthropology of people's encounters with the State Mukulika Banerjee Social Anthropology
Athena Meselidou   Mukulika Banerjee Social Anthropology
Lorna Mumford An Ethnographic Exploration of Nonreligious ‘Cosmic and Social Imaginaries’ and Notions of the ‘Good’ Charles Stewart
and Allen Abramson 		Social Anthropology
Caitlin O'Grady HIV/AIDS in India: Western-oriented health care and traditional schemas of spiritual pollution David Napier and Sahra Gibbon Social Anthropology
Farhana Hoque The Journal of Cultural Identity in Chittagong Hill Tracts: A Transgenerational Approach Roland Littlewood and Susanne Kuechler  Social Anthropology

Salim Aykut Öztürk

Armenians between Istanbul and Armenia: An Ethnography of Communal Identity in Transnational Contexts Ruth Mandel and Susan Paul Pattie Social Anthropology
Aaron Parkhurst Genes and Djinni: Changing Perceptions of the Self in South-East Arabia Roland Littlewood Social Anthropology
Manuela Pellegrino Language ideologies and policy: the case of Griko Charles Stewart Social Anthropology
Raluca Pernes   Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Ellen Potts The UK Climate Camp movement towards radical solutions to climate change Jerome Lewis Social Anthropology
Ursula Read

Between chains and vagrancy: Living with mental illness in Kintampo Ghana

 Roland Littlewood and Barrie Sharpe Medical Anthropology
Ellie Reynolds Substance, Embodiment and Control in an Orgasmic Commune Roland Littlewood Social Anthropology
Alex Saran Domestic wilderness: exotic pet ownership in the UK. Allen Abramsona and Dr. B. Sharpe Social Anthropology
Matan Shapiro Plural Intimacies, Singular Passion: Affective Interconnectedness and the Semi-Stabilization of Kin Networks in Maranhão, Northeast Brazil Allen Abramson, Martin Holbraad Social Anthropology
Sebina Sivac-Bryant Memory, Commemoration and Politics in contemporary Bosnia Michael Stewart Social Anthropology
Daniele Stolfi Refracted Truths: Creative Practice in Post-Colonial Trauma Healing Experience Among Wasatch Front Native American Men. David Napier and Roland Littlewood Medical Anthropology
Janine Su

On Boys and Borders: Transgressive Masculinities and the Dilemma of Liminality in a Turkish Urban Centre

 Allen Abramson and Ruth Mandel Social Anthropology
Beata Switek Reluctant Intimacies. Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands Ruth Mandel, Allen Abramson Social Anthropology
Catalina Tesar Women married off to chalices. Gender, kinship and wealth among Romanian Cortorari Gypsies Michael Stewart and Rebecca Empson Social Anthropology
Cathryn Townsend Transformation in Egalitarian Societies: Examining the emergence of inequality amongst Baka hunter-gatherers Jerome Lewis Social Anthropology
Radu Umbres Folk Theories of the Social in a Romanian Village Michael Stewart and Luke Freeman Social Anthropology
Besim Can Zirh Transnational Field of Social Relations and Networks of Alevi Communities in Europe Ruth Mandel Social Anthropology

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