Mr Maan Aldabbagh
Supervisor: Professor Amira K Bennison
Thesis topic: The Scholarly Community of the Hijaz in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Ms Avetisyan Ani
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan
Thesis topic: Early Modern Judaeo-Arabic medical manuscripts
Miss Estara Arrant
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan
Thesis topic: Non-standard Hebrew Bible manuscripts from the Genizah
Mr Vincent Beiler
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan
Thesis topic: Masorah in the Hebrew Bible manuscripts from the Genizah
Miss Maria Bugno
Supervisor: Dr Laura Moretti
Thesis topic: Humour, sex education and intertextuality: erotic rewritings in Early-modern Japan
Mr James Char
Supervisor: Professor Hans van de Ven FBA
Thesis topic: Reassessing the Chinese Communist Party’s War Decision-making: Mao Zedong, the People’s Liberation Army and Strategic Risk Taking, 1935-1948
Ms Mi Kwi Cho
Supervisor: Professor Barak Kushner
Thesis topic: Post-war immigration and discrimination in Japan, focussing on zainichi Koreans.
Miss Magdalen Connolly
Thesis topic: Linguistic Variation in Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic folk tales and letters from the Ottoman period
Magdalen Connolly is now a post doctoral researcher at FAMES.
Mrs Hajnalka Elias
Supervisor: Professor Roel Sterckx FBA
Thesis topic: Sichuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 - 220 C.E.): A Study of Regional Identity and Memory in Material Culture and Textual Sources
Mr Ahmed Ezzat
Supervisor: Professor Khaled Fahmy
Thesis topic: History and politics of modern law in Egypt
Xi Fang
Supervisor: Dr Imre Galambos
Thesis topic: Cultural Impact of the Silk Road on the Lives of Women in Tang Dynasty
Ms Parwana Fayyaz
Supervisor: Dr Christine van Ruymbeke
Thesis topic: Jāmi's Poetics of Vision and Poetry of the Eye in Salāmān va Absāl
Ms Jing Feng
Supervisor: Dr Imre Galambos
Thesis topic: The Making of Codices: Codicological Research on Codices from Dunhuang and Turfan
Miss Elena Follador
Supervisor: Dr Laura Moretti
Thesis topic: Good to Eat, Good to Fight, Good to Think: A literary and cultural history of food fights in medieval and early-modern Japanese texts
Jiankang Gao
Supervisor: Dr Adam Yuet Chau
Thesis topic: Thesis Topic: Development of Chinese Clan Associations in Southeast Asia
Giulia Garbagni
Supervisor: Dr John Nilsson-Wright
Thesis topic: Japan's Postwar Envoy Diplomacy in Southeast Asia
Ms Melissa Gatter
Supervisor: Dr Paul Anderson
Thesis topic: 'A ''Nine-to-Five Emergency'': A politics of time and power in Azraq Refugee camp'
Mr Wiktor Gebski
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan
Thesis topic: The Arabic dialect of the Jews of Gabes (Tunisia)
Kelsey Granger
Supervisor: Dr Imre Galambos
Thesis topic: Gifts from Afar: The Creation of an Imperial Lapdog in Tang-Song China
Mr Joseph Habib
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan
Thesis topic: Accents, Vocalization, and Qere/Ketiv in Medieval Judaeo-Arabic Bible Commentaries
Mr Christoph Hess
Supervisor: Professor Hans van de Ven FBA
Thesis topic: Institutions and Small-Scale Industry in China: War, Revolution and Reform
Mr Calum Humphreys
Supervisor: Professor Khaled Fahmy
Thesis topic: Petitioning in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Mr Cody Kingham
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan
Thesis topic: Time and Verb Collocations in Biblical Hebrew: A Statistical and Constructional Study
Mr Charles Li
Supervisor: Dr Vincenzo Vergiani
Thesis topic: Limits of the real: A hypertext critical edition and translation of Bhartṛhari's Dravyasamuddeśa, with the commentary of Helārāja
Miss Huiruo Li
Supervisor: Dr Yaron Peleg
Thesis topic: Ideology in the Non-Ideology Age of Modern Hebrew Literature
Mr Ko-Hang Liao
Supervisor: Professor Barak Kushner
Thesis topic: Rethinking Defeat: Japan, Chiang Kai-shek and the 'White Group' in Taiwan, 1949-1969
Ms Zhenru Lin
Supervisor: Dr Adam Yuet Chau
Thesis topic: The commemoration of Kuomintang veterans in Mainland China.
Mr Tongkun Liu
Supervisor: Dr Boping Yuan
Thesis topic: Interfaces in the Chinese ba Construction and Their Representations in Second Language Learners' L2 Chinese Mental Grammars
Miss Manyun Liu
Supervisor: Dr Boping Yuan
Thesis topic: Chinese Reflexive 'ziji' in Second Language Acquisition, Heritage Language, and First Language Attrition
Ms Di Liu
Supervisor: Dr Adam Yuet Chau
Thesis topic: Pristine Dignity in Troubled Times: The Connoisseurs and Connoisseurship of Ming Furniture in Peking from 1930 to 1950
Mr Johan Lundberg
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan
Thesis topic: Aspects of Syntactic change in Aramaic
Ms Helen Magowan
Supervisor: Dr Laura Moretti
Thesis topic: Nyohitsu - the construction of femininities through writing
Mina Marković
Supervisor: Professor Barak Kushner
Thesis topic: Imperial and Post-imperial Japan and population policies
Mr Marc Michaels
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan
Thesis topic: Towards a better understanding of the scribal manual Sefer Tagin.
Miss Dorota Molin
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan
Thesis topic: The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Dohok
Mr William Moriarty
Supervisor: Professor Hans van de Ven FBA
Thesis topic: Tuning In: Nationalist Radio in China
Mr Peter Myers
Thesis topic: Mr Myers has now completed his PhD.
The Text and Grammar of Hebrew/Aramaic Transcriptions in the Manuscript Tradition of 2 Esdras
Miss Aiko Otsuka
Supervisor: Professor Barak Kushner
Thesis topic: Postwar Narratives of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Asia-Pacific War
Miss Zhiyuan Pan
Supervisor: Professor Hans van de Ven FBA
Thesis topic: How Tintin met Zhang: The Sino-Belgian Catholic Network in the Early Twentieth Century
Miss Susannah Pearce
Supervisor: Dr Yaron Peleg
Thesis topic: Modern Hebrew Literature and the Environment
Rev Phra Kiattisak Ponampon
Supervisor: Dr Imre Galambos
Thesis topic: Dunhuang Manuscript Pelliot chinois 2078: A Study of Meditative Praxis and Visionary Experiences
Mr Nicholas Posegay
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan
Thesis topic: Relationships between medieval Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac in the fields of vocalization and phonology.
Miss Woramon Prawatmuang
Supervisor: Dr Boping Yuan
Thesis topic: Effects of positive evidence, indirect negative evidence and form-function transparency on second language acquisition: Evidence from L2 Chinese and L2 Thai
Mr Aslisho Qurboniev
Supervisor: Professor Amira K Bennison
Thesis topic: Organisation of Learning in Early Fatimid Ifriqiya 900-1000 CE: Networks, Institutions and Patronage
Mr Rishi Rajpopat
Supervisor: Dr Vincenzo Vergiani
Thesis topic: Reworking Notions of the Structure and Functioning of Pāṇinian Sanskrit Linguistics
Mrs Dorothea Ramahi
Supervisor: Dr Paul Anderson
Thesis topic: 'Conversion to Islam and Family Relations in Contemporary Britain'
Ms Avital Rom
Supervisor: Professor Roel Sterckx FBA
Thesis topic: Polyphonic Thinking: A Rereading of Early Chinese Texts Through the Lens of Music
Mr Ido Rosen
Supervisor: Dr Yaron Peleg
Thesis topic: The Influence of Social Media on Film Aesthetic and Production: A Paradigm Shift?
Miss Ria Roy
Supervisor: Dr John Nilsson-Wright
Thesis topic: Charismatic leadership; North Korea; religion versus secularism.
Colton Runyan
Supervisor: Professor Mikael Adolphson
Thesis topic: Ascending via Awase: Competitions in Heian Japan
Mr Philip Rushworth
Supervisor: Dr Paul Anderson
Thesis topic: An ethnographic study of Syrian refugees in Dresden, Germany, investigating themes of hospitality and citizenship
Mr William Ryle-Hodges
Supervisor: Dr Paul Anderson
Thesis topic: Islamic Ethics and 19th Century Egypt: Notions of Social Virtue and the Public Sphere in Muhammad Abduh's Newspaper Writings
Polina Serebriakova
Supervisor: Professor Mikael Adolphson
Thesis topic: Sources of legitimacy for warrior leaders in medieval Japan
Mr Daniel Sheridan
Supervisor: Dr Imre Galambos
Thesis topic: Masters of Ceremony: Studies in Chinese Primary Source Descriptions of Sogdian Customs and Ceremonies
Miss Bingbing Shi
Supervisor: Dr Heather Inwood
Thesis topic: Repeating and Recreating History: Adaptations of Literature in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Miss Nanase Shirota
Supervisor: Dr Brigitte Steger ブリギッテ・シテーガ
Thesis topic: The art of listening: An ethnographic investigation into the role of the listener in Japanese communication
Mr Mohammad Shomali
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan
Thesis topic: Arabic legal documents from the Fatimid period and their historical background
Nick Stember
Supervisor: Dr Heather Inwood
Thesis topic: Low Culture Fever: Chinese Comic Books after Mao 1976-1983
Mr Luigi Ivan Triola
Supervisor: Professor Mikael Adolphson
Thesis topic: The role of charisma in shaping New Japanese Religions
Mr Christopher Tso
Supervisor: Dr Brigitte Steger ブリギッテ・シテーガ
Thesis topic: A sociological investigation of businessman grooming practices and corporate masculinities in contemporary Japan
Miss Veronica (Jingyi) Wang
Supervisor: Dr Heather Inwood
Thesis topic: Coming from the People? Renegotiating the ‘Folk’ in 21st Century Chinese Urban Culture: case studies on 'folk' song, poetry and online short videos."
Miss Shuxi Wang
Supervisor: Professor Hans van de Ven FBA
Thesis topic: Ku Hung-Ming and his translation of Confucian classics
Ms Hsiaoching Wang
Supervisor: Dr Boping Yuan
Thesis topic: L2 Acquisition of Wh-indeterminants in Mandarin by English and Korean Speakers.
Jie Wang
Supervisor: Dr Adam Yuet Chau
Thesis topic: The Arabic Language and Transnationalism amongst the Chinese Muslims
Junfu Wong
Supervisor: Dr Imre Galambos
Thesis topic: Transethnical and Transcultural Patronage: Ethnic Interaction and Structural Organization in Local Communities of Guanzhong Region Northern Wei China
Miss Rong Wu
Supervisor: Professor Hans van de Ven FBA
Thesis topic: From constitutionalism to mass politics: confronting the 'European War' in Early Republican China
Miss Jingting Xiang
Supervisor: Dr Boping Yuan
Thesis topic: Definiteness and Specificity in L2/L3 Mandarin Grammars
Mr Chuanlong Xiang
Thesis topic: Sino-Korean Trade in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
Miss Lilong Xu
Supervisor: Dr Boping Yuan
Thesis topic: Chinese Null and Covert Arguments and their Behaviors in L2 Chinese Grammars
Mr Fei Yuan
Supervisor: Dr Boping Yuan
Thesis topic: The Third Language Acquisition of English Negative Polarity Items by Ethnic Koreans in China
Chenyang Zhang
Supervisor: Dr Boping Yuan
Thesis topic: L2 acquisition of empty verbs in Mandarin Chinese by English-speaking learners