Current Doctoral Research Students
Laura De Becker (MA Sainsbury Research Unit 2008, University of Ghent 2007 ). The visual representation of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Marie Durand (MA Ecole du Louvre, Paris)
The materiality of the kitchen house: histri, laen mo kakae on Mere Lava, northern Vanuatu.
Matthew Helmer (MA Louisiana State University)
Performance and Enclosed Lifestyles at the Coastal Center of Samanco, Nepeña Valley, Peru
Katrina Igglesden (MPhil University of Cambridge)
Traditionally Contemporary?: The Transformation of Meaning, Use and Significance of Fijian Barkcloth, 1800 to Present
Kiprop Lagat (MA University of East Anglia)
The Nairobi Memorial Park as a site of memory.
Joanne Lai (MA University of East Anglia)
Harvesting Kaamatan: Recontextualising Ritual, Art and Identity Among the Contemporary Dusun of North-Eastern Borneo
Stéphanie Leclerc-Caffarel (MA Ecole du Louvre, Paris)
Pre-colonial exchanges between Fijians and Euro-Americans (1770s-1870s), with reference to museum collections.
Laurie Martiarena (MA Sainsbury Research Unit)
'The social life of death: Mortuary Practice in the North-Central Andes AD.1000-1610'.
Malorine Mathurin ( MA Sainsbury Research Unit)
Self-representation of Native Americans within the media of film at North American film festivals.
Lisa McDonald (MA University of Melbourne)
Contemporary Art of Vanuatu: Contexts, Creativity, Forms and Markets
Meg Pinto ( MA Sainsbury Research Unit ).
Indigenous cultural memory and museum policy and practice in Canada and New Zealand.
Carlos Rengifo ( Licentiate in Archaeology, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Peru)
Specialises in Moche society and Peruvian north coast archaeology.
Mary Katherine Scott ( MA Art History, Northern Illinois University ). Thesis project on categorization of tourist art and perceptions of Maya identity in Yucatan.
Abubakar Sule (MA University of Maiduguri, Nigeria). Thesis project (working title) An Archaeological Investigation of Southern Bauchi State, Nigeria.
Vicky van Bockhaven (MA Sainsbury Research Unit, MA Katholieke University, Leuven).
Colonial representation and history of leopard-men societies of the eastern Congo(c.1890-1935).
Julia Zumstein ( MA Sainsbury Research Unit)
Material culture of Formative Period North Peru.
Fragment of an oliphant. West Africa, Sierra Leone (?). 18th century (?). Elephant ivory. h 12 cm. UEA 271