Ms Aliya Abdukadhir-Ali
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Marsham
Thesis topic: Networks of power in Iran and Iraq under the Umayyads
Mr Mohammed Ahmed
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Marsham
Thesis topic: Early Muslim-Jewish Relations through Late Texts: An Analysis of Al-Tabari's Tafsir on the Medinan Period
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
Mr Thomas Booth
Supervisor: Professor Mikael Adolphson
Thesis topic: Understanding the Causes and Motivations of the Tokusei Protests 1428-1467
Miss Maria Bugno
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
Mr Yusuf Chaudhary
Supervisor: Dr Assef Ashraf
Thesis topic: Islamic Intellectual History in the Mongol Ilkhanate (1258-1358); Theological Works of Rashid al-Din al-Hamadhani; Ilkhanid Intellectual Networks
Miss Zi Chen
Supervisor: Dr Adam Yuet Chau
Thesis topic: Paper-offerings craftsman households in contemporary rural Shandong Province
Ms Mi Kwi Cho
Supervisor: Professor Barak Kushner
Thesis topic: Post-war immigration and discrimination in Japan, focussing on zainichi Koreans.
Mrs Hajnalka Elias
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 Rashaad Eshack
Supervisor: Professor Barak Kushner
Thesis topic: Japanese migrant, Nikkei, diasporic identity in the Americas
Mr Ahmed Ezzat
Supervisor: Professor Khaled Fahmy FBA
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
Thesis topic: Jāmi's Poetics of Vision and Poetry of the Eye in Salāmān va Absāl
Mr Frederick Feilden
Supervisor: Dr Laura Moretti
Thesis topic: From A to B and Back Again? Picturebook Adaptations in Nineteenth-Century Japan
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
Miss Alexandra Forrester
Supervisor: Dr Adam Yuet Chau
Thesis topic: Constructing authenticity in the case of Chinese Zhengyi Daoist priests
Miss Maria Gajewska
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Marsham
Thesis topic: Networks of Trust in the First Global Economy
Jiankang Gao
Supervisor: Dr Adam Yuet Chau
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
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 Choongil (Peter) Han
Supervisor: Dr John Nilsson-Wright
Thesis topic: North Korea’s Unification Policy
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 FBA
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 Kan Lee
Supervisor: Professor Hans van de Ven FBA
Thesis topic: Ho Hsi-lai and the China Mission to SCAP (Supreme Command of the Allied Powers) in Tokyo
Miss Yizhuo Li
Supervisor: Dr Noga Ganany
Thesis topic: Unfeminine Heroines: The Woman Warrior on Stage in Nineteenth Century China
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
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 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.
Mr Rishi Rajpopat
Supervisor: Dr Vincenzo Vergiani
Thesis topic: Reworking Notions of the Structure and Functioning of Pāṇinian Sanskrit Linguistics
Paul Rodrigue
Supervisor: Dr Michael Rand
Thesis topic: Working title: Jerome’s translation of the Book of Daniel
Ms Avital Rom
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 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
Mr Samir Saad
Supervisor: Professor Khaled Fahmy FBA
Thesis topic: Arabism, Islamism and legislative politics in Jordan, 1950-1978
Polina Serebriakova
Supervisor: Professor Mikael Adolphson
Thesis topic: Sources of legitimacy for warrior leaders in medieval Japan
Mr Iqan Shahidi
Supervisor: Dr Assef Ashraf
Thesis topic: The concept of decline and decadence in the writings of the contemporary intellectuals of Iran.
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
Nick Stember
Supervisor: Dr Heather Inwood
Thesis topic: Low Culture Fever: Chinese Comic Books after Mao 1976-1983
Miss Jun Tham
Supervisor: Professor Mikael Adolphson
Thesis topic: Spirit pacification was a practice that reinforced the ruler’s role as protector of the polity from all threats, including the supernatural, and in Japan, also served to put blame for societal ills on the ruler’s enemies. Due to questions of terminology within and between the fields of scholarship on spirit pacification in China and Japan, the persistent and important link between spirit pacification practice and regime legitimation in the years c.1350-1650 has been overlooked. By setting aside terminology and redefining spirit pacification according to the core features of the practice, the proposed dissertation seeks to write a history of spirit pacification as a mentality and an ideology. In doing so, it has two aims: to investigate how spirit pacification played into regime legitimation, and how its role changed, but did not disappear entirely across the late medieval and early modern periods; and to explore the existence of a common, regional imaginary regarding the dead in East Asia.
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
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
Miss Xiran Wang
Supervisor: Dr Adam Yuet Chau
Thesis topic: Foodie Culture (吃貨) in Contemporary Chinese Media Landscape
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."
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 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 Weijun Xu
Supervisor: Dr John Nilsson-Wright
Thesis topic: Regime Legitimacy, Nationalism, and Foreign Policy Choices in Disputes
Mr Sheung Chun Jonathan Yeung
Supervisor: Professor Barak Kushner
Thesis topic: Sino-Japanese interactions in the context of early 20th-century Chinese students in Japan
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