Department of Social Anthropology

PhD student profiles

PhD students

Cristina Basso

Cristina Basso

Email: cb746@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Stephanie Bobeldijk

Stephanie Bobeldijk

Email: sb865@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Vahe Boyadjian

Vahe Boyadjian

Email: vb95@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Katarzyna Bylow-Antkowiak

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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Daniela Castellanos

Daniela Castellanos

Email: dc362@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Shuhua Chen

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

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

Victor Cova

Email: vc84@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Francis Dakura

Francis Dakura

Email: fbd@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Andreza de Souza Santos

Andreza de Souza Santos

Email: aadss@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Lucas Dreier

Lucas Dreier

Email: ld288@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Susan Eldred

Susan Eldred

Email: se28@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Juan Manuel Espinoza Benza

Juan Manuel Espinoza Benza

Email: jmeb3@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis/research: Concealment, Negotiation and Revolution at the Margins: Coexisting States in Northern Potosi

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Pablo Garcia

Pablo Garcia

Email: pg28@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis/research: Andean textiles as living bodies and their relations with other organic bodies such as Inca architecture

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Jan Grill

Jan Grill

Email: jg334@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis/research: On the margins of the states: Contesting Gypsyness and belonging in the Slovak-Ukrainian-Hungarian Borderlands and in selected migration contexts

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Veronika Groke

Veronika Groke

Email: vg6@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis/research: Guaraní community in the lowland region of south-eastern Bolivia

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Lisa Grund

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

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

Rosie Harrison

Email: crh29@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis/research: Street children in Bolivia

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Carina Hemmers

Carina Hemmers

Email: ch538@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis/research: Relations to Land, Struggle for Land: Nyungar (Self-) Representation in the Tourism Industry

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Christopher Hewlett

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

Elizabeth Holzhauser

Email: eh427@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Fiona Hukula

Fiona Hukula

Email: fskh@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis/research: Gender based violence & masculinity in an urban PNG settlement

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Edwin Jones

Edwin Jones

Email: ecfj2@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis/research: Examining yaqona use in rural Fiji & local knowledge of the global kava industry

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Ioannis Kallianos

Ioannis Kallianos

Email: ik38@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Hsin-Chieh Kao

Hsin-Chieh Kao

Email: hk48@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis/research: Fish Classification among the Yami, Botel Tobago

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Philip Kao

Philip Kao

Email: pk97@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis/research: Caregiving, personhood and ritual in an American long-term care facility

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Lukasz Krokoszynski

Lukasz Krokoszynski

Email: lk287@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Karolina Kuberska

Karolina Kuberska

Email: kk34@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis/research: Meanings of sobreparto in Bolivia

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Moises Lino e Silva

Moises Lino e Silva

Email: mles@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis/research: "Metafreedom: An Anthropology of Freedom in a Brazilian favela"

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Margaret Loney

Margaret Loney

Email: ml67@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Douglas MacIntyre

Douglas MacIntyre

Email: dm49@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Lauren McGough

Lauren McGough

Email: lmm21@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Alexander McWhinnie

Alexander McWhinnie

Email: ajm322@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Cornelia Nell

Cornelia Nell

Email: cn84@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis/research: Peoples of the chawpirana of Bolivia

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Máire Ní Mhórdha

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

Laura Obermuller

Email: ljo@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Andrea Oliveira Castro

Andrea Oliveira Castro

Email: aoc1@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Adom Philogene Heron

Adom Philogene Heron

Email: aph7@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Anthony Pickles

Anthony Pickles

Email: anthonypickles@hotmail.com

Thesis/research: Gambling with Exchange: Calculating Transformations in Urban Goroka, Highland Papua New Guinea

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Antonio Reyes Valdez

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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Linda Scott

Linda Scott

Email: lcs5@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis/research: Teenage Transitions: Adolescent Behaviour and Identification in Scotland

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Eileadh Swan

Eileadh Swan

Email: es31@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Hermenegildo Viana

Hermenegildo Viana

Email: gv10@st-andrews.ac.uk

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QingQing Yang

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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