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Anthropology Research Students

PhD students currently enrolled

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

Ranmalie Jayawardana, 'Forum Theatre in post-conflict Sri Lanka'

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

PhD successes in Anthropology since July 2009


Barbara Graham:  'The Materiality of Death: the uses of objects to immortalise the dead;their changing form and symbolic value.'
Marta Kempny:  'Polish Imigrants in Belfast'
Lindsay Sprague: Living Well Around the Clinic: An Ethnography of Agency and Disclosure in the Lives of those with HIV/AIDS
Imtiaz Mahmud:  'Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh'
Jennifer Sinnamon :  'Musical Repertoires of the Funerals of Palestinian Victims of Conflict'
Gemma Wieberg:  'Relative Relations: Notions of Communtiy and Belonging Amongst the Hmong Community of North Queensland'
Jackie Witherow:  'Protestant Flutes Bands in Northern Ireland'

ANTHROPOLOGY PhDs, 2001-2008

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

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.

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

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stewart, Emma
The cognition of spirit possession in an. Afro-Brazilian religious tradition

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

MPhil

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Michael Clendinning:   'Egyptian Nubians'

Siun Carden:   'Belfast’s Gaeltacht Quater' 

Raymond Casserly:     'The Snare Drum in Northern Ireland'

Sean Corcoran:   'Singing “Old Songs” in West Fermanagh'

Jessica Golden:   'Linguistic Anthropology as Relates to Politics and Symbols'

Stephen Herron:   'The Impact of memories of the Troubles Amongst Post Conflict South Armagh Protestants'

Yan Hu:  'Frontier people’s Bazaars in Ruili City'

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

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

Noomi Mozard:    'Cultural Representations of Nature in Venezuela'

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

Jaime Rollins:    'Anthropology of Music'

Elina Rowley:   'The Management of Shack Populations in the Townsville, Old, Australia'

Ioannis Tsioulakis: 'Working or Playing? Professional Musicians in Athens '

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'