Postgraduate student profiles
Postgraduate students
Tomi Bartole
Email: tb46@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Transforming Bodies, Transforming Social Relations: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Sense of Touch, Papua New Guinea
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Christina Basso
Email: cb746@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Afro-colombian communities of Ararca and Punta Baru
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Stephanie Bobeldijk
Email: sb865@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Promotion and Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Kingdom of Tonga
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Carolina Borda Nino
Email: cb544@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: When does incest matter? Ethnic, Class and gender discourses and experiences about father-daughter incest among Quechua and Aymara female patients in a Psychiatric hospital in Bolivia.
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Vahe Boyadjian
Email: vb95@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Border guarding, Praying and Smuggling: Muslim Life in Sarhadd, Iranian Baluchistan
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Katarzyna Bylow-Antkowiak
Email: kb477@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Landscapes of Exile in a Tibetan Children's Village in India. Lived Human Landscapes, Ontogeny of Ideas, Knowledge, Schooling
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Arran Calvert
Email: ajc29@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Durham Cathedral: Space, Performance, Perception and Remembering History
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Daniela Castellanos
Email: dc362@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Locations of Envy. An Ethnography of Aguabuena Potters (submitted October 2012)
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Shuhua Chen
Email: sc943@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Making home on the move: an anthropological study of migration in China
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Giuseppe Ciancia
Email: gc246@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Reconsidering 'Cultural Astronomy': a re-assessment of the Western Interpretation of Andes Astronomy through the 'Practise of Astronomy' in a Contemporary Andean Society.
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Victor Cova
Email: vc84@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: God's Shuar, the Devil's Shuar, and the Inkis missionaries in Makuma, Lowland Ecuador
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Tone Danielsen
Email: td29@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Applied anthropology and methods; cohesion; education; egalitarianism; elites; masculinity; military rituals and symbols; narratives; Special Operation Forces; warrior cultures.
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Andreza de Souza Santos
Email: aadss@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Urban ethnography, urban planning and architecture, Brazilian cities, political and social theories and legal studies
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Susan Eldred
Email: se28@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: New media, fashion, consumption, urban anthropology, personhood and the presentation of self, London
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Christiane Falcao
Email: cf45@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: “I live in the forest” A study on selfhood and sociality in the Brazilian Amazon
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Sandra Fernandez
Email: sasf@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Assessing the production and transmission of social norms in a (post)revolutionary Egypt
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Kirsty Ferrier
Email: krcf@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: 'Natural' horsemanship: human-animal interactions
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Sara Friend
Email: sf342@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Sustainability in Scotland: A Quest for a Viable Future
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Pablo Garcia
Email: pg28@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Social change brought about by tourism in Chinchero (peru), as reflected in the landscape and in the archaeological and material heritage.
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Lisa Grund
Email: lg29@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Aspects of Travelling among the Makushi in the Rupununi, Guyana. Sociality, Perceptions of Time and Place, Myths, Knowledge, Modern Forms of Movement
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Anna Gustafsson
Email: ag682@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Crafting the community together: An ethnography of everyday life, personhood and material culture among Lulesámi people in Norway.
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Rosie Harrison
Email: crh29@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Street children in Bolivia
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Christopher Hewlett
Email: ch628@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Peruvian Amazon; Myth; History; Kinship; Mobility and Perceptions of Time.
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Elizabeth Holzhauser
Email: eh427@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: A study of Edinburgh's tourist industry, focusing on ghost stories, tour structure, and death as a spectacle.
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Fiona Hukula
Email: fskh@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Gender based violence & masculinity in an urban PNG settlement
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Robin Irvine
Email: ri24@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: A multi-species ethnography rooted in the horse-bull-human relationships on bull-breeding ganaderías in Andalusia but from there tracing connections with veterinary perspectives, the ferias and activist discourse.
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Ziji Jiao
Email: zj7@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Societal and Individual Perception of Musical Language of Er’hu
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Edwin Jones
Email: ecfj2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Tako/Lavo’ kinship and oral tradition in highland Fiji
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Philip Kao
Email: pk97@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Caregiving, Ageing, Personhood, Kinship, and 'Nursing Home' Ethnography
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Panagiotis Karampampas
Email: pk29@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: The contemporary Athenian Goth Scene
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Simon Kenema
Email: sk486@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Mineral resource development and the nature of economic, social and political relations between host communities, the governance institutions and other special interest groups in PNG
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Katharina Krimmer
Email: kpk@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Ethics, Economic and Political Anthropology, Anthropology of Consciousness, Pacific Region, Europe
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Karolina Kuberska
Email: kk34@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Meanings of sobreparto in Bolivia
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Margaret Loney
Email: ml67@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Children’s experiences of ‘Mexican-ness’ in Northern California
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Luz Martínez Santamaría
Email: lhms@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Peruvian Andes; notions of Life; Fertility; Procreation; Childhood; Kinship; Ethnohistory.
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Lauren McGough
Email: lmm21@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Intersecting Interests: indigenous knowledge, practices and western society in the role of falconry among Turkic peoples of Central Eurasia
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Cornelia Nell
Email: cn84@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Peoples of the chawpirana of Bolivia
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Máire Ní Mhórdha
Email: mnm6@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: "The impact of an NGO program to end excision (female genital cutting) on gender relations in southern Senegal"
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Laura Obermuller
Email: ljo@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Guyana's plan to mitigate climate change through forest preservation, a socioeconomic disaster or green economic solution
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Adom Philogene Heron
Email: aph7@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Masculinities, Fatherhood, Relatedness, Feelings and Emotions in Dominica
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Anthony Pickles
Email: anthonypickles@hotmail.com
Thesis/research: The Pattern Changes Changes: Gambling Value in Highland Papua New Guinea (Submitted 14th September 2012)
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Hannah Rehberg
Email: hr30@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Political Movements and Mobilization, Religion, Identity studies, Sex and Gender, North Africa, Europe
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Antonio Reyes Valdez
Email: jarv@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Becoming a shaman: Initiation and the learning process among the Southern Tepehuan of northern Mexico
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Juan Rivera Acosta
Email: jmra2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Ethnic resistance in the Nueva Vizcaya; indigenous revolts and alternatives to war in the northwestern frontier territories of the Nueva España.
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Raluca Roman
Email: rr44@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: ‘Gabor Evangelism’?: Religious conversion and community life among Gabor Roma families in Transylvania
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Priscila Santos da Costa
Email: psdc@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: The Rhetoric of Porigi in Community Building at Karimui
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Linda Scott
Email: lcs5@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Teenage Transitions: Adolescent Behaviour and Identification in Scotland
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Pardis Shafafi
Email: ps454@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Iranian Diaspora, urban ethnography, gender relations, social networks, oral history and narrative
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Elena Sischarenco
Email: es93@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: The changing face of Italian corruption: entrepreneurial strategies, politics and public perception
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Emilia Skrzypek
Email: ees7@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility and Agreement-Making at the Frieda River Copper Mine, Papua New Guinea
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Simone Toji
Email: st68@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Bom Retiro, São Paulo: migration, cosmopolitanism, urban anthropology in Brazil
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Jonathan Tracey
Email: jmt26@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Vernacular Adaptations to Climate Change: An Anthropological Study in the Solomon Islands
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Michele Wisdahl
Email: mw537@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Private education as a project of the emerging middle class in Northeast Brazil
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Jing Yang
Email: jy225@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Construction and representation of identity: a comparative study on football museums
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QingQing Yang
Email: qy6@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Concept of living space in Hutong (traditional courtyard) and High-rise Apartment conducted in Beijing, China
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Former postgraduate students
Giovanna Bacchiddu
Thesis title: 2007. Gente de Isla - Island People. An Ethnography of Apiao, Chiloe, Southern Chile
Eleni Bizas
Thesis title: 2010. Moving through Dance between New York and Dakar: Ways of Learning Senegalese Sabar and the Politics of Participation.
Jenny Cardenas
Thesis title: 2012. The Cavalry Bolero: Music, Politics and Social Confrontation in Bolivia. Shifting Meanings of a Musical Genre
Conrad Feather
Thesis title: 2010. Elastic selves and fluid cosmologies: Nahua resilience in a changing world
Jeanne Feaux de la Croix
Thesis title: 2010. Moral Geographies in Kyrgyzstan: How Pastures, Dams and Holy Sites Matter in Striving for a Good Life
Paolo Fortis
Thesis title: 2008. Carving Wood and Creating Shamans: An Ethnographic Account of Visual Capacity among the Kuna of Panama
Shelene Gomes
Thesis title: 2011. The Social Reproduction of Jamaica Safar in Shashamane, Ethiopia
Jan Grill
Thesis title: 2012. "On the Margins of the States: Contesting Gypsyness and belonging in the Slovak-Ukrainian-Hungarian Borderlands and in Selected Migration Contexts"
Veronika Groke
Thesis title: 2012. "'Es Una Comunidad Libre': Contesting the Potential of Indigenous Communities in Southeastern Bolivia"
Carina Hemmers
Thesis title: 2012. Nyungar Wiring Boodja:Aboriginality in Urban Australia
Stacy Hope
Thesis title: 2009. Polarities of Difference: How Wapichannao Negotiate Identities within a Creole State
Gemma John
Thesis title: 2009. Relations that Unite and Divide: A Study of Freedom of Information Legislation and Transparency in Scotland.
Ioannis Kallianos
Thesis title: 2012. The Subversion of Everyday Life: an anthropological study of radical political practices. The Greek revolt of December 2008
Hsin-Chieh Kao
Thesis title: 2012. "Labour, Life and Language: Personhood and Relations among the Yami of Lanyu"
Estelle Kennelly
Thesis title: 2007. Culture of Indifference: Dilemmas of the Filipina Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong
Daniela Kranz
Thesis title: 2009. Shades of Jewishness
Sonja Lenk
Thesis title: 2008. "By Being Human: An Anthropological Inquiry into the Dimension and Potential of Consciousness in the Context of Spiritual Practice".
Craig Lind
Thesis title: 2010. Placing Paamese: Locating Concerns with Place, Gender and Movement in Vanuatu.
Moises Lino e Silva
Thesis title: 2012. "Metafreedom? The Carnivalesque of Freedom in a Brazilian Favela"
Huw Lloyd-Richards
Thesis title: 2011. The place that words come from... : an ethnography of Quaker worship practices and their social enactment
Christos Lynteris
Thesis title: 2010. Epidemic events : state-formation, class struggle and biopolitics in three epidemic crises of modern China
Margherita Margiotti
Thesis title: 2010. Kinship and the saturation of life among the Kuna of Panamá
Efpraxia Pollatou
Thesis title: 2009. Sounds of Satire, Echoes of Madness: Performance and Evaluation in Cefelonia, Greece
Juan Pablo Sarmiento
Thesis title: 2011. KAMETSA ASAIKI: The Pursuit of the 'Good Life' In An Ashaninka Village (Peruvian Amazonia)
Griet Scheideman
Thesis title: 2006. Performing Diabetes: Balancing between 'Patients' and 'Carers', Bodies and Pumps, Scotland and Beyond'
Eileadh Swan
Thesis title: 2012. Traditional Authority Revisited: Ancestors, Development and an Alternative Tempo-morality in Ho, Ghana
Rodrigo Villagra Carron
Thesis title: 2009. The Two Shamans and the Owner of the Cattle: Alterity, Storytelling and Shamanism amongst the Angaite of the Paraguayan Chaco.