Higher Degree Research Students in the ACRC
The ACRC has a large cohort of students undertaking Higher Degree (Postgraduate) Research by thesis (PhD or MPhil). These students research projects across the fields covered by the ACRC, supervised by Centre members, and collaborate with Centre members on research projects.
If you are interested in undertaking PhD or MPhil research in the ACRC, click here
HDR students currently supervised by ACRC members are listed below.
| Name | Degree | Supervisor | Thesis Title |
| Agaiby, Elizabeth | PhD | Choat, Malcolm | History and Monastic Space: A study on the First Christian Monastic Settlement in the World |
| Arden-Wong, Lyndon | PhD | Mikkelsen, Gunner | Inner Asian architecture of the 8th and 9th centuries in relation to the Uighur Khanate's power on the steppe |
| Baker, Alice | PhD | McKechnie, Paul | Founding in the Life of Antony: A literary analysis of the Athanasian Life of Antony as Greco-Roman founding narrative |
| Barnes, Bruce | MPhil | Choat, Malcolm | Personhood within Coptic hagiography: strategies of characterisation and rhetoric |
| Bennett, Cassandra | PhD | Ghica, Victor | The religious beliefs of the pre-Islamic Bedouin of North Arabia |
| Brown, Ian | PhD | Ockinga, Boyo | A Prosopographical Study of Priests of the Mansions of Millions of Years of the Ramesside Period |
| Burchfield, Richard | PhD | Choat, Malcolm | Networks of the Theban Desert |
| Burn, John | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | Climate Change and Regime Change: An Investigation into the Changing Ecology of Late Old Kingdom Egypt |
| Choi, Hyung | PhD | Nobbs, Alanna | The Bible and spiritual guidance in the correspondence of Barsanuphius and John of Gaza |
| Clarke,Therese | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | Interrelations between the Provinces and Memphis during Egypt's Old Kingdom |
| Cooper, Julien | PhD | Ockinga, Boyo | The Eastern Desert, Red Sea and Beyond: Toponyms, Ethnonyms and Cosmography |
| Darlow, Steven | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | A Chronological Analysis of Middle Kingdom Tombs at Meir |
| De Souza, Aaron | PhD | Tristant, Yann | C-Group? Or Pan Grave: Establishing relationships in the Ceramic Traditions of the C-Group and Pan Grave Cultures |
| Debenham, Ian | PhD | Hillard, Thomas | The Roman Shipbuilding Industry |
| Dosoo, Raymond Korshi | PhD | Choat, Malcolm | Context and Development of the PGM/PDM |
| Downes, Alan | PhD | Mikkelsen, Gunner | Xixia Script |
| Dowton, Joshua | PhD | Welborn, Laurence | Subverting Empire: The Book of Revelation as the Most Powerful Piece of Political Resistance Literature in the Early Empire |
| Drummond, Amanda | PhD | Hillard, Thomas | Writing the Emperors: Plutarch's and Suetonius' Treatment of Rome's Leaders |
| Dunnicliff, Samanatha | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | Sport and Games in the Old and Middle Kingdoms |
| Eiszele-Evans, Suzanne | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | The Influences and Life of Mereruka Using Tomb Art |
| Evans, Natasha | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | Djedkare to Unis: The Development of Artistic Traditions |
| Farquharson, Paul | MPhil | Nobbs, Alanna | Investigation of Natural Phenomena in Historical Sources |
| Ferber, Jenny | PhD | Ghica, Victor | Muslim-Byzantine Interactions in the 7th-9th Centuries: Letters, Gifts and Cultural Shifts |
| Ford, Graeme | PhD | Mikkelsen, Gunner | Persian Texts from the Ming Court |
| Gillett, Miriam | PhD | McKechnie, Paul | Inventing Identities: Graeco-Roman Constructions of the Etruscans |
| Gosbell, Louise | PhD | Welborn, Laurence | Disability in the Gospel of Luke |
| Gulesserian, Elizabeth | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | Artistic and Architectural Innovations in the Teti Cemetery at Saqqara |
| Halaka, Mervat | MPhil | Choat, Malcolm | Confessors - Late Antique Egypt |
| Harding, Raymond | PhD | Parry, Kenneth | Byzantine theatre - the missing link in the western cultural tradition |
| Hardtke, Frederick | PhD | Tristant, Yann | Early Egyptian Culture and Society: Gleanings from Rock Art in the Environs of the Upper Egyptian Nile Valley |
| Hartley, Mary | PhD | Tristant, Yann | Pause in the sand: dog burials in Egyptian archaeological record |
| Hong, Andrew | PhD | Chan, Shirley | An Ideal Leadership - a Comparative Study of the Confucian Classics and the New Testament |
| Hreszczuk, Adam | PhD | Choat, Malcolm | Ritual, Religion, And Magic: A Neurobiological and Cognitive Approach To Religious Practice In Roman Egypt |
| Jones, Paul | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | Animal Husbandry During the Old Kingdom to Middle Kingdom in Ancient Egypt |
| Keith, Michelle | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | Fish and Fishing in Old Kingdom Tombs |
| Kepreotes, James | PhD | Parry, Kenneth | A Diachronic Study of Greek Paideia: Plato, Photios and Nicodemos the Athnite |
| Kidson, Lyn | PhD | Nobbs, Alanna | Proclaming Christ as King without an Apostle in 1 Timothy |
| Kirk, Emma | PhD | Mikkelsen, Gunner | Chinese and Biblical Creation Myths |
| Kooyman, Milena | PhD | Ockinga, Boyo | The Title "Elder of the Portal"(smsw hzy.t): Its Meaning, Function and Significance in Ancient Egyptian Society |
| Kulikovsky, Mark | PhD | Welborn, Laurence | The Relation Between Truth and Love in the Letters of John |
| Lashien, Miral | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | The Nobles of El-Qusiya in the Sixth Dynasty: Archaeological and Historical Study |
| Lee, Daniel | PhD | Chan, Shirley | Confucian Poetics - a Study of the Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts in the Shanghai Museum Collection |
| Loftus, Susan | PhD | Nobbs, Alanna | The Construction of Episcopal Authority in Late Antique Gaul: A Case Study of the Role of Canon Law from the Sixth Century |
| MacDonald, Seumas | PhD | Nobbs, Alanna | A Comparative Study of Hilary of Poitiers and Basil of Caesarea |
| Mackay, George | PhD | Evans, Trevor | Ancient Greek Documentary Papyri: The Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Third Century B.C.E. Egypt |
| Mair, Christine | PhD | Ghica, Victor | The condition of women in the oases of the Western Desert of Egypt in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Period |
| McClymont, Alice | PhD | Ockinga, Boyo | The Classification and Interpretation of Inscriptional and Pictorial Erasures in Tombs of the Theban Necropoli |
| Michie, Ian | PhD | Parry, Kenneth | Paideia and Askesis: Training for Virtue |
| Mourad, Anna-Latifa | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | Rise of the Hyksos |
| Murphy, Edwina | PhD | Welborn, Laurence | Cyprian's Use of Paul |
| Nasoraia, Brikha | PhD | Mikkelsen, Gunner | A Critical Edition of the Secret Mandean Nasoraean Scroll |
| Orucu, Ferim | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | Funerary Rites in Old-Middle Kingdoms |
| Parker, Robert | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | A History and Chronology of the Governors of Beni Hassan during the Middle Kingdom |
| Petrakis, Vicki | PhD | Parry, Kenneth | St Gregory the Theologians Doctrine of the Logos and its Antecedents |
| Pitkin, Melanie | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | Egyptian False Doors and Funerary Stelae of the First Intermediate Period: A Typological Analysis |
| Price, Rebecca | PhD | Nobbs, Alanna | Temple Inscription as Evidence for the Population of Dura Europa in Seleucid, Parthian & Roman Periods |
| Robinson, Alexandra | PhD | Welborn, Laurence | A Linguistic Analysis of the Greek Text of the Epistle of Jude |
| Rowling, Giles | PhD | McKechnie, Paul | How was Roman Law Received Into the Province of Arabia |
| Ryan, Ellen | PhD | Ockinga, Boyo | Threats and Benefits: The Development of the Appeal to the King from Middle Kingdom to the end of New Kingdom |
| Scott, Timothy | PhD | Dzino, Danijel | Constructing the 'Germanic' Barbarian in Contemporary German Language Scholarship |
| Senn, Heidi | PhD | McKechnie, Paul | Military Organisation and Defence in Subordinate Poleis of Archaic Greece |
| Shannahan, John | PhD | McKechnie, Paul | The Reign and Influence of Artaxerxes II |
| Shin, Min Seok | PhD | McKechnie, Paul | A Historical Re-Examination of the Persecution of 303 to 313 |
| Shiner, Rory | PhD | Welborn, Laurence | History, Epistemology and the Resurrection Tradition |
| Smith, William | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | The Egyptian Monarchy and the End of the Old Kingdom |
| Sowden, Laura | PhD | Mikkelsen, Gunner | Political Women in Early Imperial China |
| Spalding-Stracey, Gillian | PhD | Ghica, Victor | Coptic Crosses: A Window into Egyptian Christianity |
| St Demiana, Antonia | PhD | Ghica, Victor | The Sahidic Coptic Text of Leviticus: A Study and Edition Based on Pierpont Morgan Manuscript M566 and Other Sahidic Witnesses |
| St Shenouda, Anthony | PhD | Choat, Malcolm | The Development of Coptic Hagiography |
| Staring, Nico | PhD | Ockinga, Boyo | Beyond the Grave: New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara, Egypt as Shrines of Cultural Memory |
| Theodoridis, Ioannis | PhD | Parry, Kenneth | The Introduction of Coenobitic Monasticism on Mount Athos |
| Thorn, Alexander | PhD | Ghica, Victor | The Acts of Thomas: A Model for Early Syrian Christianity? |
| Turner, Susan | PhD | Ockinga, Boyo | The Introduction, Nature, Role and Impact of the Horse in New Kingdom Egypt |
| Unwin, James | PhD | Welborn, Laurence | Death, Identity, and Self-Presentation: A Conversation Between Seneca and Paul |
| Wade, Janet | PhD | Parry, Kenneth | Maritime Culture of Constantinople from 330CE to 565CE |
| West, Glennise | PhD | Kanawati, Naguib | The Teknu |
| Rev Youkhanis, Narsai | PhD | Parry, Kenneth | Ecclesiastical Architecture of the Assyrian Church of the East |