Affiliated graduate students
| Student | Phd Project | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Shara Ali | The political origins of the Caste War in Yucatán, 1847-53 | Will Fowler |
| Melissa Boyd | Mariano Otero, Mexican ideologue and politician | Will Fowler |
| The Bolero de Caballería and Bolivian Nationalism | Tristan Platt | |
| Giuseppe Ciancia | Amerindian Astronomy | Tristan Platt |
| Rosie Doyle | The pronunciamientos of Jalisco, 1821-1876 | Will Fowler |
| Lucas Dreier | The Kogi experience of reality | Nigel Rapport |
| Juan Manuel Espinoza | Utopian components of the Bolivian Revolution | Tristan Platt |
| Conrad Feather | The shape changers of
the forest: Coping with an unstable world in the Peruvian Amazon My research focuses on the attitudes and techniques of the Nahua, an Amazonian people of South Eastern Peru, that enable them to deal successfully with continuous change and instability. |
Peter Gow |
| Paolo Fortis | An interpretation of the production of
ritual objects among Kuna people from Panama Through the analysis of shamanism, mythology and aesthetics I approach some issues of Kuna worldview and of their social life. |
Peter Gow and Joanna Overing |
| Shelene Gomes | Practices and ideals of Caribbean Rastafarians in Ethiopia | Huon Wardle |
| Veronika Groke | Inhabiting the Land: A Study of a Bolivian Guarani Community | Tristan Platt |
| Rosie Harrison | Street Children in Bolivia: A Child-centred Approach | Tristan Platt |
| Stacey Hope | Amerindian and Creole dimensions of Wapichannao 'Guyaneseness' | Huon Wardle |
| Margherita Marghotti | My thesis, currently in process, is an ethnography that combines the description of several aspects of Kuna social life with an analysis of their ideas about personhood, corporeality, kinship and human condition. | Joanna Overing and Peter Gow |
| Kerry McDonald | The pronunciamientos of San Luis Potosi, 1821-1876 | Will Fowler |
| Soledad Montañez | The work of the Uruguayan poet María Concepción Silva Bélinzon | Gustavo San Román and Eleni Kefala (support supervisor) |
| Cornelia Nell | Imbetween people: inhabiting and representing transitional space in North Potosí (Bolivia) | Tristan Platt |
| Leticia Neria | Humour and politics in 1970s Mexico | Will Fowler |
| Juan Pablo Sarmiento | Healing Wounds:
Quotidian Reconciliation in Postwar Peru The focus of my research is the process of reconciliation Ashaninka communities in Peruvian Amazonia are living after the Peruvian Civil War (1980-2000). |
Tristan Platt and Peter Gow |
| Ana Romero Valderrama | The Candidacy of General Manuel Gomez Pedraza in the 1828 Presidential Elections |
Will Fowler |
| Rodrigo Villagra | My thesis explores the narratives - both historical and mythological- of the Angaite people of the Paraguayan Chaco and how they evoke and obliterate transformations lived since the nationalization process of their land to the present. | Peter Gow |
