Research Students

Elise Adams

Thesis title: TBA

Anggraeni

Thesis title: TBA

Debbie Argue

Thesis title: Who’s related to whom in early Pleistocene Homo?

Jennifer Badstuebner

Thesis title: Bewitching practices: withcraft and bewitchment in urban townships in South Africa

Justin Barker

Thesis title: Homeless youth in Canberra: an ethnography

Bree Blakeman

Thesis title: Outstation Life and Intercultural Relations in Remote North East Arnhem Land

Zazie Bowen

Thesis title: Play and childhood in rural Orissa

David Brooks

Thesis title: Aboriginal land tenure in the Western Desert

Hannah Bulloch

Thesis title: The cultural-politics of ‘progress’: a view from Siquijor Island, Philippines

Rosemary Butler

Thesis title: TBA

Anna Campbell

Thesis title: TBA

Simon Cann-Evans

Thesis title: "Learning to walk before we run". What is Good Design: Lessons for Practitioners and Policy Makers in International Development

Chris Carter

Thesis title: TBA

Khalid Chauhan

Thesis title: TBA

Lisa Cornish

Thesis title: The usefulness of moving from two-dimensional to three-dimensional reconstruction in archaeological research: a case study of Roman domestic space

Lisa Cougle

Thesis title: Dress and gender in Iron Age Italy

Georgia Curran

Thesis title: Warlpiri songs

Cathy Day

Thesis title: Mate choice in rural England in the 18th and 19th centuries

Anne Decobert

Thesis title: TBA

Julie Dibden

Thesis title: The pigment art of the Woronora Plateau: a study of the graphic construction and archaeological context

Thanh Dong

Thesis title: Ecology, social organisation and conservation of the Tonkin snub-nosed langur

Virginia Esposito

Thesis title: Aspects of 19th century ceramics in S.E. NSW.

Kamal Fadzil

Thesis title: TBA

Chun-Wei Fang

Thesis title: TBA

Rayyar Farhat

Thesis title: TBA

Catherine Fitzgerald

Thesis title: Modelling Decomposition as a Taphonomic Process

Rosemary Foster

Thesis title: Socio-cultural factors in Aboriginal health in settled Australia

Philip Fountain

Thesis title: Partnership in development among religious NGOs

Phoenix Freeman

Thesis title: TBA

Ian Gilligan

Thesis title: Ice Age climates and clothing

Diadem Gonzales

Thesis title: TBA

Tony Gonzalez

Thesis title: The Pariah Case: Some notes on the origin and evolution of primitive dogs – an introduction

Jacqueline Gould

Thesis title: The implications of legislation regarding sites of significance for Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory

Klara Hansen

Thesis title: The Riddu Riddu Festival and Sami identity in Sapmi, Northen Norway

Mark Haradine

Thesis title: TBA

Jarvis Hayman

Thesis title: Establishing the post mortem interval in Australian forensic cases

Damien Huffer

Thesis title: The Ties that Bind: Population Dynamics as Approached Through Mobility and Family Structure during the mid-Holocene in Northern Vietnam

Nelia Hyndman-Rizik

Thesis title: Home and Place: Migration, Cultural (Re)production and Return between Sydney and Hadchit, North Lebanon

Jessie Jacob

Thesis title: TBA

David Jagger

Thesis title: Anthropological perspectives on community development in Central Australia

Bentley James

Thesis title: Time and Tide in the Crocodile Islands: Yan-nhangu History, Society and Marine Identity

Jeff Kinch

Thesis title: TBA

Thomas Knight

Thesis title: Aboriginal sacred landscapes in southern New South Wales

Magne Knudsen

Thesis title: On place, community and transformation of livelihoods in a coastal location on a Philippine Island

Anika König

Thesis title: Tradition Reinvented: Headhunting in the Context of Ethnic Conflict in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Kathryn Lawry

Thesis title: TBA

Heather Leasor

Thesis title: Effects of ecotourism on the Proboscis monkeys and other primates in the Kinabatangan Conservation Area, Sabah

Oliver Macgregor

Thesis title: Reduction mechanics and stone artefact variability

Alex Mackay

Thesis title: Examination of technology and settlement in South Africa during the Late Pleistocene

Sherry Marchand

Thesis title: Culture and negotiation: a process towards joint land management in the Wet Tropics World Heritage tree

Amanda Markham

Thesis title: Aborigines: landscape and national parks

Sai Maung

Thesis title: TBA

Kevin Mayo

Thesis title: An anthropological study of himalayan Pilgrimage

Juliet Meyer

Thesis title: Researching taphonomic processes and excavation techniques of contemporary mass graves

Jane Mollan

Thesis title: TBA

Rachel Morgain

Thesis title: Re-crafting the self: contemporary paganism, sociality and transformation

Mandy Mottram

Thesis title: Continuity versus cultural markers: results of the controlled surface collection of Tell Halula, North Syria

Stephen Munro

Thesis title: Human evolution and associated fossil mollusc remains

Kevin Murphy

Thesis title: Traditions of modernity: trans-Fly Papuans and the Torres Strait Treaty “traditional inhabitant” provisions

Nicole Murphy

Thesis title: TBA

Oona O'Gorman

Thesis title: Palaeopathology of Easter Island

Blair Palmer

Thesis title: Migration and entrepreneurialism in Buton, Indonesia

Gavin Perri

Thesis title: TBA

David Raftery

Thesis title: Growing less and growing better: An anthropological analysis of the Clare Valley wine industry

Hatta Ramlee

Thesis title: Distribution and Ecology of Four Sympatric Leaf Monkey Species in Baram Region, Sarawak

Benjamin Rawson

Thesis title: Behaviour, ecology and conservation of the yellow-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus gabriellae) and black-shanked douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus)

Daniel Rayner

Thesis title: Late Quaternary human evolution in Sri Lanka and its implications for Australasia

Christian Reepmeyer

Thesis title: The obsidian sources and distribution systems emanating from Gaua and Vanua Lava in the Banks Islands of Vanuatu.

Norma Richardson

Thesis title: Site formation processes, Kenniff Cave, Queensland

Phillip Roberts

Thesis title: TBA

Sarah Robertson

Thesis title: TBA

Bryan Rochelle

Thesis title: TBA

Steven Sager

Thesis title: The Sky is our Roof, the Earth our Floor: Orang Rimba Adat and Religion in the Bukit Duabelas Region of Jambi, Sumatra

Carmen Sarjeant

Thesis title: TBA

Sylvia Schaffarczyk

Thesis title: Anthropological perspectives on ethnographic collecting by Australian colonial administrators in Papua New Guinea and their contribution to museum collections

Lainie Schultz

Thesis title: TBA

Shio Segi

Thesis title: Conflict over marine resources and tenure in Philippines and Cebu Island

Faisal Shah

Thesis title: TBA

Lisa Solling

Thesis title: TBA

Angela Spitzer

Thesis title: TBA

Gretchen Stolte

Thesis title: Art and identity production among urban Indigenous artists in Cairns, Queensland

Fouzia Sultana

Thesis title: TBA

Victor J Taylor

Thesis title: The Woolgar Goldfield, NW Queensland: A study of technology transfer and ephemerality

Ching-Ying Tien

Thesis title: Cross-border love triangle between Taiwan and Vietnam

Lorna Tilley

Thesis title: Social and behavioural responses to pathology in prehistory

Trung Truong

Thesis title: Empowerment through Community-Driven Development in Vietnam.

Damian Tybussek

Thesis title: The archaeological identification of age, gender, and ethnicity: How history and archaeology converge and conflict at Kiandra, NSW.

Chriss Wallwork

Thesis title: TBA

Michael Westaway

Thesis title: The later stages of human evolution in Australasia: comparing Ngandong and the Willandra

John White

Thesis title: Seasonality, mutuality and interdependency: an historical anthropology of Indigenous engagements with the economy of the Eurobodalla.

Ross Wickham

Thesis title: Emergence of sedentary society

Anna Willis

Thesis title: TBA

Catherine Wohlan

Thesis title: TBA

Joyce Wu

Thesis title: TBA

Recent Completions:

Po-yi Chiang

Thesis title: Han cultural and political influences in the transformation of the Shizhaishan cultural complex

Fiona Crockford

Thesis title: Place, memory and Identity among East Timorese youth in the diaspora

Natasha Fijn

Thesis title: Khangai herds: domesticating ungulates in Mongolia

Nina Kononenko

Thesis title: Obsidian tool function and settlement patterns during the Middle-Late Holocene on Garva Island, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Stephan Lorenzen

Thesis title: ‘Between tradition and modernity in Balinese irrigated rice cultivation’

Daniel White

Thesis title: Field study of Sichuan snub-nosed monkey