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List of current MPhil/PhD Students and Thesis Titles
Biological Anthropology
| Name | Title | Supervisor(s) |
| Aalaa Al-Shamahi | Christophe Soligo | |
| Megan Arnot | Evolution of the Menopause | Ruth Mace |
| Paul Barnes | People, parks and Attenborough's echidna: The political ecology of conservation in the Cyclops Mountains, Papua | Katherine Homewood and Samuel Turvey (Institute of Zoology, ZSL) |
| Sarah Brooke | Katherine Homewood | |
| Michael Hanks | A model of human evolution in Europe | María Martinón-Torres |
| Sahil Nijhawan | Human-animal relations and the role of cultural norms in tiger conservation in the Idu Mishmis of Arunachal Pradesh, India | Katherine Homewood and Jerome Lewis |
| Ally Palmer | Ethical questions in orangutan conservation | Volker Sommer and Marc Brightman |
| Sarah Peacey | Cooperation, reputation and belief | Ruth Mace and Nichola Raihani |
| Kristen Steele | Eel fisheries from local to global: Drivers of exploitation and prospects for sustainability | Caroline Garaway and Katherine Homewood |
| 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 |
| Hanzhi (May) Zhang | Diversification and Extinction Processes in Cultural Evolution | Ruth Mace |
Material Culture
| Name | Title | Supervisor |
| Gabrielle Ackroyd | Financial and symbolic intersections of the house in the Irish Republic | Victor Buchli and Adam Drazin |
| Jo Aiken | Making Martians: Creating otherworldly personhood and subjectivity | Susanne Küchler, Victor Buchli, Adam Drazin, and Christina Wasson (USA-UNT) |
| Rosalie Allain | 'The gold is gone': Techniques of resource making and value transformations amongst the Gbaya of Cameroon | Ludovic Coupaye and Jerome Lewis |
| Maria Angel | Colombia's digit@l orph@ns and childless p@rents: Maintaining sentiments across national borders | Rodney Reynolds and Susanne Küchler |
| Ana Carolina (Carol) Balthazar | The consumption of time and the regeneration of lives in Margate, UK | Daniel Miller and Martin Holbraad |
| Vindhya Buthpitiya | Photography, citizenship and the Tamil imagi-Nation in post-war Sri Lanka | Christopher Pinney and Tariq Jazeel (UCL Geography) |
| Jennifer Cearns | 'Peering into the future': Sharing, materiality and the internet between Cuban Miami and Cuba | Daniel Miller and Mette Berg |
| Timothy P.A. Cooper | Moving images and images in movement: The circulation and materiality of Pakistani film in Lahore | Christopher Pinney and Haidy Geismar |
| Jack Davy | Miniaturisation: A study of a material culture practice among the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest | Ludovic Coupaye and Jago Cooper |
| Pauline Destrée | Fashioning the 'Dumsocracy': Light, power and race in Ghanaian electrical infrastructure | Christopher Pinney, Hannah Knox and Stephanie Newell (Yale) |
| Nick Gadsby | Presence, absence and transcendence: The digital materiality of MMOs | Daniel Miller and Lane Denicola |
| Chih-I Lai | Crafting Taiwan through design | Michael Rowlands |
| Louisa Sherman | Designing Hong Kong: Building on a 'barren island', dwelling in a 'good-place land' | Chris Tilley |
| Juliano Spyer | The effects of social networking sites related to class mobility in Brazil | Daniel Miller and Lucia Michelutti |
| Camilla Sundwall | Material relationships: From industrial design to every day life | Susanne Küchler and Adam Drazin |
| Hannah Swee | Susanne Küchler | |
| Saffron Woodcraft | Void potential: Absence, imagination and the making of community in East London | Victor Buchli and Hannah Knox |
| Yunchang Yang | Photography and social life: An ethnography of Chinese amateur photography online | Christopher Pinney and Hannah Knox |
Medical Anthropology
| Name | Title | Supervisor(s) |
| Caroline Ackley | Negotiations of intimacy and morality in Hargeysa, Somaliland | Sara Randall and Jo Cook |
| María Ignacia Arteaga Pérez | Care as a world-making project: Everyday experiences of colorectal cancer treatments in London | Sahra Gibbon and Jo Cook |
| Jesse Bia | Sunshine technology and dream biology: Perceptions of regenerative medicine in Japan | Sahra Gibbon and Joseph Calabrese |
| Along the roads. An ethnography of the Waorani sensorial ‘living well’ | Sara Randall and Marc Brightman | |
| Elizabeth Elliott | A medical landscape in Laos | Joe Calabrese, Michael Heinrich (Pharmacy) and David Napier |
| Rebecca Irons | Planning Quechua families: Indigenous subjectivities, inequality and kinship within the Peruvian family planning landscape | Sahra Gibbon and Jennie Gamlin |
| Caitlin O'Grady | HIV/AIDS in India: Western-oriented health care and traditional schemas of spiritual pollution | David Napier and Sahra Gibbon |
| Cristina Perez | Childlessness and parenthood in Colombia: Exploring changing family forms in a context of socio-demographic transition | Sara Randall and Lucio Vinicius |
| Rebecca Williams | The limits of care: Border implementation at the end of life | Sahra Gibbon and James Wilson (Philosophy) |
Social Anthropology
| Name | Title | Supervisor |
| Toyin Agbetu | The gentrification of protest? A study of activism in East London | Haidy Geismar, Michael Stewart and Catalin Brylla (UWL) |
| Tess Altman | The unfair go: Fairness, neighbourliness and humanitarianism among volunteers supporting people seeking asylum in Australia | Ruth Mandel, Kimberly Chong, David Napier and Ghassan Hage (Uni of Melbourne) |
| Charles Beach | Frontera Combustible: Conceptualising sovereign powers through the experiences of petrol smugglers on Colombia's border with Venezuela | Lucia Michelutti and Rebecca Empson |
| Lindsay Bishop | Smoke, smell and skins: Hierarchy in heavy metal | Susanne Küchler, Allen Abramson and Titus Hjelm |
| Linguistic Anthropology of Uzbekistan | Alexandra Pillen | |
| Gwen Burnyeat | Communicating the Colombian peace policy: An ethnography of state bureaucrats | Lucia Michelutti and Michael Stewart |
| Giulia Cavicchioli De Togni | Surviving the disasters: An ethnographic account Of Japan 3.11 survivors' coping strategies with the risk of radiation | Alexandra Pillen, Ben Rampton (KCL) and Ito Kimio (Kyoto University) |
| 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 |
| Gill Conquest | Designs for the pluriverse? Assembling power and knowledge in extreme citizen science | Jerome Lewis and Marc Brightman |
| Alonso Zamora Corona | Time and power among the K'iche' Maya | Martin Holbraad |
| Sabine de Graaf | A future in the making: Waiting, hoping and networking. A research project on Syrian refugees in Greece navigating the uncertainties of their situation | Ruth Mandel and Henrietta Moore (IGP) |
| Georgia Efremova | Alternative social movements in the Czech Republic | Michael Stewart |
| Dominic Esler | Catholicism among Sri Lankan Tamils | Alex Pillen and Rebecca Empson |
| Stefan Fa | Voices of joy and regret: Sound, performance and listening in contemporary Turkish Shī'ism | Ruth Mandel and Martin Stokes (KCL) |
| Tobia Farnetti | The Blur of Modernity: Essentialism, Affect and Everyday Life in Tokyo | Martin Holbraad and Rebecca Empson |
| Liz Fox | Rebecca Empson and Alex Pillen | |
| Izzy Gibbin | Alex Pillen and Nick Wilson | |
| Lydia Gibson | Politics of propriety: Accompong Maroon use of Cockpit Country forest | Katherine Homewood and Hannah Knox |
| Katrina Holland |
Human-dog relationships at the nexus of dog training and scientific research | Sahra Gibbon and Rebecca Empson |
| Farhana Hoque | The journal of cultural identity in Chittagong Hill Tracts: A transgenerational approach | Roland Littlewood and Susanne Küchler |
| Maria Iancu | Ada Kaleh tales: Topographies of displacement, memory and translocal imaginaries | Charles Stewart and Ger Duijzings |
| Alexia Liakounakou | Austere beauty: Cosmetic medicine in Greece during the financial crisis | Charles Stewart and Joe Calabrese |
| Charlotte Loris-Rodionoff | Syrians in revolution and exile: An ethnography of the everyday life on the Syrian-Turkish Border | Martin Holbraad and Charles Stewart |
| Rebecca Lynch | Cosmologies of control: Self, spirits and agency in contemporary Trinidad | Roland Littlewood and Allen Abramson |
| Lorna Mumford | An ethnographic exploration of nonreligious 'cosmic and social imaginaries' and notions of the 'good' | Charles Stewart and Allen Abramson |
| Aeron O'Connor | Syntheses of knowledge and networks of cultural production in and through Tajik cities | Alex Pillen and Victor Buchli |
| Salim Aykut Öztürk | Armenians between Istanbul and Armenia: An ethnography of communal identity in transnational contexts | Ruth Mandel and Susan Pattie |
| Johanna Perez | The spirits' power: Violence and magic in Colombia Eastern Plains region | Lucia Michelutti and Martin Holbraad |
| Ellen Potts | The UK Climate Camp movement towards radical solutions to climate change | Jerome Lewis |
| Adam Runacres | Engaging conservation: Forest-employed villagers and intervention bureaucracies in central India | Katherine Homewood and Jerome Lewis |
| Kaya Uzel | Why Burkina hasn’t existed yet. Revolutionary Paradoxes and the Political Imagination in Burkina Faso | Martin Holbraad and Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (UCL African Studies) |
| David Whyte | Cold water relations: Surfing waves and weather on Ireland's Atlantic coast | Allen Abramson and Charles Stewart |
| Kakanang Yavaprabhas | The values of ordination: The bhikkhuni, gender, and Thai society | David Napier and Joanna Cook |