Department of Anthropology
Current PhD Theses
Recent Doctoral Research Submissions
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| SUMANT BADAMI | The Ant Knows its Way: Paniya negotiations with death, place and belonging |
| MONICA DALIDOWICZ | Learning Kathak: Apprenticeship in the Guru-Shishya Parampara |
| NIPHATTRA HARITAVORN | Why do they call me Khiya?: Gender and identity construction amongst people injecting drugs in Thailand |
| VICTORIA LOBLAY | Embodied Encounters with Reproductive Technologies: Constellations of sexual difference and the boundaries of knowledge in the clinic |
| PAUL MASON | Fighting for peace of mind: A cross-cultural survey of fight-dancing in Indonesia and Brazil |
| DOUANGPHET SAYANOUSO | Changing lives: Development and reproductive health amongst the Akha, an Ethnic minority group in Northwest Laos |
| GUY THRELFO | They don't look like refugees: The presentation of "refugeeness" among Liberians in exile |
| JUAN ZHANG | Paradoxical perceptions and inchoate identities: Chinese cross-border migration in the Greater-Mekong sub-region |
Current Doctoral Research
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Bilal, Muhammad | Politics of Islamic Fundamentalism and Cultural Imperialism: A Study of Identity Politics and its Impact on Institutional Development |
| Bowan, Gillian | Becoming Cosmopolitan: Transformations of Identity Among Indian University Students |
| Durage, Anton Piyarathne Deegalla | Ethic identities vs "National identites": The problems and dynamics of national identity creation in Sri Lanka. |
| Deng, Rui | Dynamics of Social Change and HIV Vulnerability in SW China. |
| Fisher, Sheree | The Rise of Rollergirl: Community and the Global Imagery of Sex, Gender and the Self in Flat Track Roller Derby |
| Grillot, Caroline | Trans-frontiers marriages between Vietnamese women and Chinese men |
| Herlijanto, Johanes | Chinese Politics of Development in Post-Cold War Indonesia. |
| Lennon, Jillian | The Effect of Climate Change on Indigenous Peoples. |
| Li, Yunxia | A "Proper" Cultivation of Akha ?- A Study of Rubber Tree Plantation in China/Loas border area. |
| McDougall, Lindy Joan | Reproductive medical innovations, desire, and gender in multicultural Australia |
| MacGregor, Casimir | Ideologies of the Body: An Ethnography of Biotechnology Governance and Bioethics in Human Embryonic Stem Cell and Cloning Research in Australia. |
| Morcom, Kara | Voicing Grace: An exploration of the Place of the Voice in States of Grace in India. |
| Rickson, Joseph | Practices Of Power And The Politics Of Difference: Jinghpaw Wunpawng (Essence)On The Thai/Burma Border |
| Roy, Anupom | Biomedicine and chronic illness: Insight into the experiences of Bangladeshi sufferers with chronic respiratory illness |
| Sharma, Nila | Developing a demographic and social profile of South Asian Communities in Sydney since the 1960s |
| Stockey-Bridge, Michaela | Australian Intended Parents and Commercial Surrogacy in Northern India |
| Uy, Melanie | Centralizing the margins: The construction of identity and the ethnic at the border zones |
| Varrall, Merriden Louise | Chinese Development Aid in Venezuela |
| Worthley, Benjamin | Ritual Traditions in South Asia: 'Meaning' in Rutual Action |
Recent Theses
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| BOXALL, Fiona | The New Age of Corporate Management: Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine.' |
| COHEN, Anjalee | Youth Culture in Northern Thailand |
| DEGER, Jennifer | 'Shimmering Screens: Mimesis, Media and a Vision of a Yolngu Aboriginal Modernity' |
| EVERETT, Kristina | 'Impossible Realities: Indigenous and Non-indigenous Relationships in a Sydney Aboriginal Community' |
| GIBSON, Lorraine | Articulating Culture(s): Being Black in Wilcannia |
| HADDON, Malcolm | The Nectar of Translation: Conversion, Mimesis and Cultural Translation in Krishna Consciousness'. |
| LYNCH, Tim | Memories of Ritual Child Abuse in Satanic Cults in Australia |
| Maud, Jovan | The Sacred Borderland: The State, a Buddhist Saint and Transnational Religion in Southern Thailand |
| MOLLAND, Sverre | Economic pleasures and pleasure economies: purchasing sex along the Melcong |
| MONCHAMP, Anne Marie | Memory, Categorization and Language: Cognition and Culture in Bilingual Wallpiri Aboriginal Children |
| ONNUDOTTIR, Helena | Claiming Inheritance Aboriginal People, Native Title and Cultural Heritage: a Story from Dubbo New South Wales |
| Sakboon, Mukdawan | Citizenship and Education as the Basis for National Integration of Ethic Minorities in Northern Thailand |
| SPENCER, Rochelle | 'Encountering Development, Rethinking Tourism: The Convergence of Development and Tourism' |
| WARDELL, Martina | Indigenous Education, Christianity, and Community at Woolaning Homeland Christian College |
| WISS, Rosemary | Tryst Troppo sex, tourism, relationships (Puerto Galera, The Philippines) |