Postgraduate Students
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Name: Achim Edelmann
CRSID: ae272
College: King's College
Supervisor: Dr B. Burchell
Thesis Title:The transition from military to civilian life – a social network approach focusing on service personnel and their partners.
Research interests: social networks; social theory; modernisation and development.
Homepage: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ae272
Name: Lara Eschler
CRSID: Lpe20
College: Darwin
Supervisor: Professor Melissa Hines
Thesis Title: Individual variation in female orgasmic capacity, socio-sexuality, and phenotypic masculinity.
Research interests: Evolutionary and developmental influences on variation in female sexual response. Human sexual behaviour and mating/reproductive strategies from an evolutionary perspective. The interrelations between hormones, fertility status and sexual behaviour in humans.
Homepage: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/lpe20
Name: Lazaros Goutas
CRSID: Lg315
College: Hughes
Supervisor: Professor Christel Lane
Thesis Title:Autonomy and Control in German Mittelstand Firms: Control Strategies of Owners, Top Managers and Other Stakeholders
Research interests: Varieties of Capitalism, Corporate Governance, Business Strategies and Structural Characteristics of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).
Homepage: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/lg315
Name: Erhardt Graeff
CRSID: eg319
College: Darwin
Supervisor: Georgina Born
Thesis Title:Rural Internet Use and the Strengthening of ‘Weak Ties’
Research interests: Internet Use and Social Computing, International Development, Digital Divides, Social Capital, Public Sphere Theory, Russian Society and Culture, American Politics and International Relations
Homepage: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/eg319
Name: Maruta Herding
CRSID: mh525
College: Girton College
Supervisor: Prof. Göran Therborn
Thesis Title: “Pop-Islam”: The Emergence of an Islamic Youth Culture in Western Europe
Research interests: Islamic youth culture in Western Europe. The emerging integration of Islam into a young sub-cultural scene developing its own forms of expression in music, fashion, magazines or websites. In Frankfurt, Marseille and Birmingham I will do an ethnography of these places and conduct interviews with members – consumers and producers – of Islamic youth culture.
Homepage: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/mh525
Name: Elizabeth Iskander
CRSID: Ei211
College: St Catharine’s
Supervisor: Dr Glen Rangwala
Thesis Title:Coptic Media Discourses of Belonging: Negotiating Egyptian Citizenship and Religious Difference in the Press and Online
Research interests: I work on politics, society and law in the Middle East, with particular reference to Egypt. My research interests include Arabic media, the relationship between discourse, power, ideology and representations of truth, civil society, human rights culture, identity politics, social and political inclusion in the public sphere and conflict prevention.
Homepage: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ei211
Name: Joachim Krapels
CRSID: Jk414
College: Darwin
Supervisor: Prof. Göran Therborn
Thesis Title: Institutional Upheaval: social mechanisms of institutional change
Research interests: The development of institutions in modern society. The processes and dynamics of institutional change. Various theoretical strands: sociological theory, philosophical anthropology and social philosophy.
Homepage: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/jk414
Name: Lynn Kuok
CRSID: lcsk2
College: St Edmund’s
Supervisor: Pieter van Houten
Thesis Title:Nation building, inter-ethnic peace? An examination of nation building in the multi-ethnic societies of post-colonial Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia
Research interests: Nation building; ethnic (racial and religious) relations; Southeast Asia.
Homepage: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/lcsk2
Name: Hala W. Mahmoud
CRSID: hwm21
College: Wolfson
Supervisor: Dr. Gerard Duveen
Thesis Title:The Use of Cultural Resources by Sudanese Refugees in Cairo
Research interests: Psychosocial issues of refugees and forced migrants, psychosocial issues of childhood cancer, psychology and cultural issues in the Middle East and North Africa, community mental health, and the interplay of culture, narrative, and identity.
Homepage: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/hwm21
Name: Jonathan Corpus Ong
CRSID: jo296
College: Corpus Christi College
Supervisor: Dr Mirca Madianou
Thesis Title: Cosmopolitanism, Media and Morality: How Audiences Relate with Distant Others in and Around the Media
Research interests: My main research interest concerns the significance of the media for people’s reflection of identity and responsibility. Specifically, I examine how representations of otherness in the media enable/disable different forms of sociality and solidarity in everyday life. Key fields of interest include media ethics, media and migration, mediated public participation, and postcoloniality.
Homepage: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/jo296
Name: Megan Rivers-Moore
CRSID: mr413
College: New Hall
Supervisor: Sarah Radcliffe
Thesis Title: Sex tourism in San José, Costa Rica
Research interests: Tourism; sex tourism; sex work; Central America; Costa Rica; nations and national identity; migration; feminism and transnationality;
Homepage: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/mr413
Name: Brady Wagoner
CRSID: bw249
College: Corpus Christi
Supervisor: Gerard Duveen
Thesis Title: Remembering in the Dialogical Dimension
Research interests: He is a cultural psychologist interested in the history of psychology, sociogenetic thought (e.g. Bartlett, Janet, Mead, Vygotsky, etc.), various psychological philosophies (e.g. existentialism and pragmatism) and the experimental study of perceiving and remembering. He is the co-founder of the F.C. Bartlett Internet archive [make link here to www-bartlett.sps.cam.ac.uk] and is currently editing Symbolic Transformation: the mind in movement through culture and society (Routledge, 2009).
Homepage: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/bw249
Name:Osama Wahba
CRSID: ow218
College: Fitzwilliam
Supervisor: Glen Rangwala
Thesis Title: Middle East Politics
Research interests: Arab World: Transitions to democracy; state-formation; regime change; political liberalization; social movements; media & social change; civil society; modernization; pan-Arab nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism; ethno-cultural, national, and religious minorities; Islamist movements, opposition, confrontations & containments; Arab-Israeli conflict.
Homepage: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ow218
Name: Susan Walker
CRSID: shw31
College: Jesus
Supervisor: Prof. Juliet Mitchell
Thesis Title:The Effect of Gendered Body Image upon Successful Contraceptive Use
Research interests: Sociology of the body, Gender theory, Psychoanalytical theory, Contraceptive practice and provision, Feminist theory
Homepage: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/shw31
Name: Pei-Jung (Annie) Yang
CRSID: Pjy23
College: Darwin
Supervisor: Michael E. Lamb
Thesis Title: The regulating effect of individual, relational, contextual characteristics during the transition to school
Research interests: Social, emotional development; trauma and resiliency
Homepage: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/pjy23