Current Grad Students
PhD Students
PhD Program in Social-Cultural Anthropology, DCV, FCTUC
Raoni Lourenço ARRAES
Role: Supervisor
PhD Project Title: “O ofício do fotógrafo. Etnografia digital e experiência artística dos fotógrafos em Belém (Pará), Brasil” (The Métier of the Photographer. Digital Ethnography and Artistic Experience of Photographers in Belém (Pará), Brasil)
Ernst LORETO
Role: Supervisor
PhD Project Title: “A ontologia analogista nas pinturas de paisagem chinesas” (The Analogist Ontology in Chinese Landscape Paintings)
Andrea DAPRA
Role: Co-Supervisor
PhD Project Title: TBA
HUANG Huiyi
Role: Supervisor
PhD Project Title: “Birth activism in China: the unmaking and remaking of childbirth care”
Inês SUBTIL
Role: Co-Supervisor
PhD Project Title: TBA
Luís VALE
Role: Supervisor
PhD Project Title: “Novas Ruralidades em Trás-os-Montes: Dinâmicas e Processos, Repovoamento e Políticas Territoriais, no século XXI” (New Ruralities in Trás-os-Montes: Dynamics and Processes, Repopulation and Territorial Policies in the 21st Century)
Luiz Gustavo ALVES
Role: Co-Supervisor
PhD Project Title: “Coleções, restituições e reparação: Um estudo comparativo entre o Museu Nacional (UFRJ) no Brasil e o Museu da Ciência (UC) em Portugal” (Collections, Restitutions, and Reparations: A Comparative Study Between the National Museum (UFRJ) in Brazil and the Science Museum (UC) in Portugal)
Roberto HALLAL
Role: Co-Supervisor
PhD Project Title: “Experiences of vulnerability and resilience in Lisbon: Ethnography, narratives, and survival practices among dyads of homeless people and dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) in the municipality of Lisbon”
DENG Kehui
Role: Supervisor
PhD Project Title: “Social Reproduction, Urban inequality, and Paid Filial Piety: Life Experiences of Care Workers in Chinese Nursing Homes”
Nadine LOBNER
Role: Co-Supervisor
PhD Project Title: “Material Representations, Social Networks and Worldviews of the Ecumene: The Building of the EU and ASEAN as International Regions”
Ana Isabel PÁDUA
Role: Supervisor
PhD Project Title: “Perspectivas de desenvolvimento no quotidiano feminino na ilha do Príncipe” (Development Perspectives in the Daily Life of Women in Príncipe Island)
ZHAO Zihan
Role: Supervisor
PhD Project Title: “From caregiver to care recipient: Challenges Faced by Senior Rural Women in the Context of Family-based Elder Care in Sichuan”
PhD Program in Architecture, DA, FCTUC
Sílvia COSTA
Role: Co-Supervisor
PhD Project Title: “(Re)habi(li)tar a Aldeia Comum. Situação, Práticas e Futuro no Baixo Mondego” ((Re-)Habi(li)tate the Common Village. Situation, Practices and Future in the Lower Mondego Region)
Master Students
Master Program in Anthropology, Globalization and Climate Change, DCV, FCTUC
Andreia TEIXEIRA
Role: Supervisor
Master’s Project Title: “Sexo e Contraceção. Responsabilidades contracetivas no trabalho sexual em Portugal” (Sex and Contraception. Contraceptive responsibilities in sex work in Portugal)
Elodie LEVERGHEM
Role: Supervisor
Master’s Project Title: “Inovando a indústria têxtil através da reciclagem de sobras de peixe” (Innovating the Textile Industry through Fish By-Products Recycling)
João Silva OLIVEIRA
Role: Supervisor
Master’s Project Title: TBA
Jorge VAZ
Role: Supervisor
Master’s Project Title: “Os dilemas morais dos cientistas portugueses na vanguarda da revolução de tecnologias de edição genética” (The moral quandaries of Portuguese scientists at the forefront of the genetic editing technology revolution)
Lilian Mishel Almeida SAÁ
Role: Supervisor
Master’s Project Title: “Desastre ambiental e mineração do ouro na Amazónia Equatoriana: Ecofeminismo e as lutas das mulheres indígenas face ao extrativismo capitalista”
Lívia HUMAIRE
Role: Supervisor
Master’s Project Title: TBA
Tiago CALADO
Role: Supervisor
Master’s Project Title: TBA
Former Grad Students
University of Coimbra
Bruna COELHO
Role: Supervisor
Master’s Project: Public Bathrooms in the Feminine: Analysis of the International Movement for the Adoption of Gender Directives in Public Bathrooms
Ernst LORETO
Role: Supervisor
Master’s Project: The Technological Vitalism of Leroi-Gourhan: Towards an Ethnology of the Depths
Marianne FAULSTICH
Role: Supervisor
Master’s Project: An Ethnographic Analysis of Coming Out of the Evangelical Closet Stories in Brasil
University of Hong Kong
James WRIGHT
Role: Supervisor
PhD Dissertation: “Techno-Welfare in Japan: Personal Care Robots and Temporalities of Care” (2018)
Jingyi TIAN
Role: Supervisor
MPhil Thesis: “Redefining the ‘Self’ through Martial Arts. Ethics, Honor, and Moral Bodies in Transnational Kendo in Hong Kong” (2019)
Xie XIN
Role: Supervisor
Jack L. XING
Role: Supervisor
MPhil Thesis: “Technological Choice of Taxi Drivers under E-Hailing: Conventional Occupation Groups under the Pressure of Sharing Economy and Post-Fordism” (2019)
Yishan ZHONG
Role: Supervisor
MPhil Thesis: “Mothering with Mobile Communication Technologies in Urban China” (2019)
London School of Economics and Political Science
Selected Master Theses
E. DWYER, “Unequal sex ratios, bride shortage, and marriage migration” (2010)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
T. HU, “The Relationship between Bureaucracy and Private Entrepreneur in Post-socialist Era: China and Russia in Comparative Perspective” (2010)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
D. NOMEIKAITE, “Collectivisation and coercion: A comparative study of Stalinist and Maoist models and their impact on the peasantry” (2010)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
M. PALAU, “How do China and Brazil deal with water pollution challenges? A comparative perspective of two emerging countries’ approach to water pollution problems” (2010)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
A. RAJANATHAN, “China vis-à-vis Brasil: What Role Will These Emerging Markets Play In Tomorrows’ Global Economy?” (2010)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
J. TAM, “Approaches towards Iran’s Nuclear Programme: The United States of America and China in Comparative Perspective” (2010)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
J. WEI, “Comparing Administrative Reforms in China and the UK” (2010)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
A. WITT, “Economic Sustainability in China and Japan: a Look at the Evolving Role of Technology and Government Policy” (2010)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
B. CHEMOUNI, “The Diaspora as an Economic Asset: How China and India use their diaspora to support their economic development” (2009)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
S. DEVEREY, “Will China’s “middle-class” lead a democratic revolution? – a re-evaluation of Seymour Martin Lipset’s class based theory on democratic change” (2009)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
G. HUNTER, “The Legacies of Ch’ing and Tokugawa Scholarship: Education Modernization in the T’ung wen-Kuan and Meiji Charter Oath of 1867-1868″ (2009)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
S. GYE, “The China Economic Development Model in Comparative Perspective Versus the Washington Consensus and the East Asian Development Model” (2009)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
J. KARSH, “The Reflexive Impact of Foreign Affairs on Civil Rights: A Comparison between Early Cold War America and Contemporary Xinjiang” (2009)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
N. LI, “In Search of a Political Society in China: A Reflection on the Sources of China’s Democratization” (2009)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
I. NADAL ARBONA, “The social meaning of consumption in a globalised world: youth, mobile phones and social identity in China and India” (2009)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
D. OUELLET, “Post-Socialist Economic and Political Reform: China and Albania in Comparative Perspective” (2009)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
F. RADENBACH, “The Distribution of Pain – An Anthropological Comparison of Table Tennis Environments in China and Western Europe” (2009)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
D. REMMERT, “Filial Daughters Now and Then – Women´s Performance of Xiao in Contemporary Urban China and Taiwan” (2009)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
G. RIZZO, “Empire, Ethnicity and Nation-State: China and Russia in comparative perspective” (2009)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
J. SOONE, “Co-operative hegemony in East Asia: A comparative study of China and Japan” (2009)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
P. SRAMKOVA, “History education at the service of nation-building in China and India: a comparative study of secondary school history textbooks” (2009)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
M. TIDDIA, “Squares of Memories. A comparison of Tiananmen square, Ba Dinh and the Red square” (2009)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
D. WU, “The impact of kinship on the development of industrialisation: from the British industrial revolution to the Chinese industrialisation” (2009)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
T. BRACEY, “Double Happiness? Or: Will Prosperity Lead to Democracy in China?” (2008)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
J. P. CROCHET, “Thirty Years of Reforms and Still No Crisis. Is China’s Financial Future at Risk? Theory and Evidence” (2008)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
A. DALL’OCA, “Strategies for North East Asia. The role of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in American and Chinese foreign policy, a comparative analysis” (2008)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
V. HOWARD, “The Relationship between Consumerism and the Expression of Individuality among Chinese and Vietnamese Youth in the 1990s and Today” (2008)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
G. ILIEV, “Services Outsourcing to India and China” (2008)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
D. KWOK, “Chinese and Russian Privatisation in Comparative Perspective” (2008)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
A. LAJAM, “Incubating a Market for Innovation: Technology Policy and Science Parks in China & Singapore” (2008)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
S. LI, “A silent famine: study of China’s 1959-61 famine in comparative perspective with Ukraine and North Korea famines” (2008)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
D. SU, “Are political reforms possible in China in comparison with Taiwan?” (2008)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
M. TAYLOR, “On Ideology and Imperialism: An Exposition of Chinese and American Westward Expansion and the Interrelationship between Frontier Imperialism and the Idea of the Nation” (2008)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
Y. WU, “One Religion, Two Fates: a Comparative Study on Dissemination of Christianity in Korea and China” (2008)
MSc Degree in China in Comparative Perspective, Co-Supervisor
ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon
Marisa GASPAR
PhD Degree in Social-Cultural Anthropology, Co-Supervisor