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Anthropology Research Students

Anthropology and Ethnomusicology

PhD students enrolled 2013-2014

Diane Atkinson, 'Rivalry and Locality: Protestant Marching Bands in Ballymoney'

Renato Castro, Tuning In To the Past: The Viola and its Representations in 19th Century Rio de Janeiro

Yuencheng Ding,

Hilary Foye, Christianity, Conflict and Community: Expressions of Faith, Identity and Personhood in the Contemporary Church

Malcolm Franklin,

Lauren Guyer, All(ability) in Dance: Redefining Social Roles among Physically Disabled Adults

Ranmalie Jayawardana, Forum Theatre in post-conflict Sri Lanka

David Kanter , 'Transcending Our Differences: Building Peace Through Musical Transcendence. ' 

Vanita Malhotra, ‘Distance’ Makes the Heart Grow Fonder?   Transnational Intimacy: Contracting Indian Marriage in Northern Ireland

Naoko Maehara,  'Multiple Identifications and Emotional Processes: Women, intermarriages and Transnational Families'

Evanthia Patsiaoura, Constructing Selves in a Musical Diaspora: Experiencing Music as a Nigerian Immigrant in Athens.

Amelia Seifert, Nez Perce Indian Horse Culture in 21st Century

Shawn Reming,

Maneka Tohani,

Sha Wang, ‘The Future of Chinese Families Abroad, An Ethnography of Chinese Students at Chinese Language Schools in Northern Ireland’

Gavin Watters,  'An Exploration of Tokyo Youth Identity as Symbolically and Emotionally Expressed Through Popular Sub-Culture'

 

Institute of Cognition and Culture enrolled 2013-2014

Katherine O'Lone

Mary Louise Boyle

Lauren Swiney

  

Institute of Irish Studies enrolled 2013-2014

Nancy Anderson, Re-Imaging Belfast: Art and Policy in Post- Conflict Northern Ireland

Cristina Carnevali, Bloody Sundy Post-Saville: Transformations of Memory and Identity

Frances Harkin, The Irish Diaspora and the Gaelic Athletic Association in London

Lorraine Hartigan, Language and Identity in Dingle

Stephen Herron: The Role and Effect of Violence on the Ulster Defence Regiment in South Armagh

Karen Kettner, 'What's News? Nothing But Bonfires: Bonfires as Ritual and Performance'

Mary-Kathryn Rallings, Your Space or Mine?: The Politics and Policy of Negotiating ‘Shared’ Space in Belfast

Pawel Romanczuk,  Interface Cultures: Dynamics of Social Relations in Belfast

 

PhD Completions in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology 2009 - 2013

Gabril Hoskin (2013) Music and Identity: The Construction of Communities among Brazilian Migrants in Madrid, Spain

Yan Hu (2013)  'Frontier people’s Bazaars in Ruili City'

Theodore Konkouris (2013) 'Heroes, Gunpowder, Cassettes and Tape Recorders: Production, Distribution and Transmission of Hunters' Musical Tradition in Mali, West Africa'

Paul McCreary (2013) How it feels to hunt: The embodied feelings and sensations of hunting in Alaska

Raymond Casserly (2012) 'The Snare Drum in Northern Ireland'

Bryanna Hocking (2012)

Beatrice Prentiss (2012) Teaching and Learning Salsa in the UK

Jaime Rollins-McColgan (2012)

Elina Rowley (2012) 'The Management of Shack Populations in the Townsville, Old, Australia'

Ioannis Tsioulakis: (2011) 'Working or Playing?: Power, Aesthetics and Cosmopolitanism among professional musicians in Athens '

Siun Carden (2010) 'Belfast’s Gaeltacht Quarter'  

Marta Kempny(2010) 'Polish Imigrants in Belfast'

Noomi Mozard (2010) 'Cultural Representations of Nature in Venezuela'

Barbara Graham (2009) 'The Materiality of Death: the uses of objects to immortalise the dead;their changing form and symbolic value.'

Jessica Golden (2009) 'Linguistic Anthropology as Relates to Politics and Symbols'

Imtiaz Mahmud (2009)  'Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh'

Julissa Ossorio-Bermudez (2011):   'Negotiating Gender Amongst Muslim Girls Through Popular Music in Northern Ireland'

Gordon Ramsey: (2009) 'Music, Emotion and Identity in Ulster-Scots Communities'

Lindsay Sprague (2009): Living Well Around the Clinic: An Ethnography of Agency and Disclosure in the Lives of those with HIV/AIDS

Gemma Wieberg (2009)  'Relative Relations: Notions of Communtiy and Belonging Amongst the Hmong Community of North Queensland'

Jackie Witherow (2009)  'Protestant Flutes Bands in Northern Ireland'

 Jennifer Sinnamon (2008)  'Musical Repertoires of the Funerals of Palestinian Victims of Conflict'

 

Institute of Cognition and Culture completions 2009 - 2013

Renatas Bernunias (2011)

Natalie Emmons (2011)

Hilary Lenfesty (2011)

Michal Fux (2011)

Keith Hodge (2010)

Christopher Holbrook (2009) Unconscious vigilance: worldview defense without adaptations for terror, uncertainty or coalition

Gordon Ingram (2009) Young children's reporting of peer's behaviours'

 

Institute of Irish Studies completions

Elisabetta Vigiani (2010) Talking Stones: The Politics of Memorialisation in Post-conflict Northern Ireland

Mary Kate Coghlan (2010)

Liam Kelly (2012)

 

ANTHROPOLOGY PhDs, 2001-2008

Sinnamon, Jennifer (2008): Songs of grief and grievance : music, emotion, and Palestinian martyrdom.

Cummings, Colin (2007) Bays, Berths and Sunsets :Environmental Debate in a Mediterranean Coastal Town.

Walmsley-Pledl, Sara R. (2007)
Playing A-Part Together: Negotiating Participation, Practice and Meaning in Voluntary Music Associations in East Bavaria.

Ferrandez, Luis Fernando Angosto (2006)
Negotiating Politics, Ethnicities and Citizenship in the Pemon Community of Tuauken: An Analysis of the Relations Between the Bolivarian Revolution and Indigenous Peoples in Venezuela.

Alex Hall (2006)
Secure borders, safe haven? Suspicion and humanity in the British immigration...

McDonnell, Roberta (2006)
Shaping Selves in the Midst of Modernity: An Ethnography of the Personal Process in a Contemporary Irish Context. 

McIntosh, Jonathan (2006)
Meaning through Tradition: Children’s Practice and Performance of Dance, Music and Song in South-central Bali. 

Powell, Mark (2006)
'We all one': Belonging and masculine identity in a Caribbean context

Bayles, Ruth (2005) Science in its local context : The Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society.

Kristiansen, Ingvill (2005)
Gender and Conflict? The Relationship between Women and Man on Tanna.

McCaffery, Nick (2005)
Global Hopi: Local Hippie : An Anthropological Study of Hopi Identity in Relation to the New Age.

O'Kane, David John (2005)
Peasant Nationalism in Embaderho: Land and National Identities in an Eritrean Village.

Schiller, Rina (2005)
The Lambeg and the Bodhrán : drums of Ireland

Stewart, Emma (2005) The cognition of spirit possession in an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition

Lanier, Sara C. (2004)
Playing with Time: ‘Storying’ the Folk Harp in California.

Marranci, Gabriele (2004)
The Adhan among the Bells: Studying Muslim Identity in Northern Ireland.

Nagle, John Michael (2004)
The Transmission and Reception of Irish Traditional Culture in a London-Irish Arts Centre.

O’Shea, Stephen (2004)
The "Third force in world affairs" 

Bell, Kathryn (2002)
Any news? : An anthropological investigation of political journalists in Northern Ireland.

Bruhns, Martin (2002)
Pub-lore-culture: An Ethnographic Study of Alcohol Consumption in County Cork.

Radford, Katy (2002), Loyal Sounds. Music as a Marker of Identity in Protestant West Belfast

Michael Reinsborough: 'Silent Valley Reservoir 1923 -1932 Water Technology'

MPhil

Hisschemoller, Anita (2002) Ritual and Change in a Tibetan Community in Northern Nepal.