Currently Enrolled Thesis Students
| Dept. | Degree | Name |
Thesis Title | |
| AMST | MA | Maya |
Acharya |
Which Side Are You On? : Pete Seeger and the Intellectual Left of the 1930s and 1960s |
| AMST | MA | Fiona | Blakely | Pain and Vituality as Liminal Spaces |
| AMST | MA | Yanyan (Carrie) | Zhang | ‘Airing Dirty Laundry': Chinese and Chinese-American Responses to Amy Tan |
| AMST | PhD | Diane | Comer | Narratives of Migration, Transition, Identity and Storied Selves |
| AMST | PhD | Daniel | McKay | Looking to the Far North/East |
| AMST | PhD | Hossein | Nazari | TBA |
| AMST | PhD | Kim | Parrent | TBA |
| AMST | PhD | Kathryn | Yeoman | Therapy as resistance |
| ARTH | MA | Geraldine | Lummis | The collectors and the collection of ukiyo-e held by the Canterbury Museum |
| ARTH | MA | Rachel | McConnell | The Allegories of Pierre Paul Prud'hon |
| ARTH | MA | Daniel | Rumbold | Imagining Ophelia: Ophelia in French Art, c.1800-1914 |
| ARTH | MA | Alison | Rutherford | The Illustrations of the NZ School Journal 1940-1960: their contribution to New Zealand's emerging visual culture |
| ARTH | MA | Lydia | van der Pump | Architectural Conservation |
| ARTH | MA | Margaux | Warne | The Architect and the Artist: The Architectural Studies of Thomas Cane (1830-1905) |
| ARTH | PhD | William | Cottrell | Domestic Design and Style in New Zealand 1830-1910. An Analysis and Interpretation of the Cabinetmakers' Pattern Book and Warehouse Catalogue in New Zealand: 1830-1910 |
| ARTH | PhD | Irvine | Forgan | Rehearsal as the Promise of Meaning in Muralism and Performance Art |
| ARTH | PhD | Barbara | Garrie | ImageSpace: Exploring the Photo-Installations of Roni Horn |
| ARTH | PhD | David | Khan | T.B.A. |
| ARTH | PhD | Caroline | Lord | A forgotten contribution: Rediscovering the production and significance of the official and unofficial New Zealand war artists of the First World War (1914-18) |
| ARTH | PhD | Hilary | Scothorn | Samoan Siapo: Essential Design Components and the Continuation of Culture |
| ARTH | PhD | Cristina | Silaghi | Plenitudes of Painting. Wilhelm Worringer and the Interplay of Abstraction and Representation in European Painting at the Turn of the Twentieth Century |
| ARTH | PhD | Murray | Williams | Yesterday's Schools' Buildings |
| ARTH | PhD | Andrew | Wood | The Pencil Case Painters: Place, Language, Identity, and Artistic Strategies in Context |
| ARTH | PhD | Chikako | Yamauchi | Talking Story about Art and Living: Narratives of Contemporary Oceanic Artists and their Work. |
| CLAS | MA | Tony | Dijkstra | Attitudes to the Tribunes of the Plebs in our sources for the late 2nd and early 1st centuries BC |
| CLAS | MA | Elizabeth | Lochhead | Phaedrus' the fabulist and the servus callidus of Plautine comedy |
| CLAS | MA | Jeremy | Purton | Imagery and Description in Erotic Elegies of Propertius, Tibullus and Ovio |
| CLAS | MA | Andrew | Wong | T.B.A. |
| CLAS | PhD | Sonia-Ingrid | Anderson Marshall | Romanization, Christianization and Patronage in the Paleochristian Art of North Africa |
| CULT | MA | Erin | Harrington | A Socio-cultural Analysis of Female Monstrosity in Contemporary 'Gyno-horror' and Body Films |
| CULT | MA | Jovian | Parry | The New Visibility of Slaughter in Popular Gastronomy |
| CULT | PhD | Suzana | Chang | Cross-Cultural Communication and the Key Factors Influencing Business Outcomes: The Experiences of New Zealand SME's in South Korea |
| CULT | PhD | Sarah | Forgan | Reconsidering Meaning: Performing The Spaces Between The Unameable, Uncertainty and Signification |
| CULT | PhD | Yin (Musique) | Huang | Feminist or Not: Investigating the Female Protagonists in Chinese Post-Fifth Generation Films. |
| CULT | PhD | Shen (Ginger) | Jiang | How Do Postmodernist Elements in Chinese Films Since the 1990's Relate to Contemporary Chinese Society? |
| CULT | PhD | Andre | Krebber | Animals as Objects of Knowledge 1600-1800 |
| CULT | PhD | Sally | Provan | The Uncanny Place of the Bad Mother and the Innocent Child at the Heart of "New Zealand's Cultural Identity" |
| CULT | PhD | Robert Jr | Smith | TBA |
| ENGL | MA | Sharon | Biddington | The function of animal imagery in four novels that treat of the Holocaust |
| ENGL | MA | Grant | Cattermole | Masculinity in NZ Literature |
| ENGL | MA | Annabel | Finnie | Animality and Anthropomorphism in human-animal narratives: The Case of Janet Frame |
| ENGL | MA | Erica | Godfrey | Whale Narratives and the Postcolonial Unconscious |
| ENGL | MA | Mitchell | Head | Shylock's Bond and the Treaty of Waitangi |
| ENGL | MA | Christopher | Humphreys | TBA (Re)Writing the End: Apocalyptic Narratives in the 20th Century Novel |
| ENGL | MA | Hadassa | Prattley | The Representation of Animal Captivity in Recent Zoological Fiction |
| ENGL | MA | Ben | Richardson | Hooded Hordes and Modernist Revolutionaries: Russia in the Works of Lawrence, Eliot and Lewis, 1917-1939 |
| ENGL | MA | Peter | Ward | Animals in the Writing of John Irving, Haruki Murakami, and Keri Hulme |
| ENGL | MFA | Mellina | Grace | A Spark From the Ashes |
| ENGL | MFA | Jonathan (Guy) | Mulinder | Child's Play |
| ENGL | PhD | Lloyd | Carpenter | 150 years of riches: the influence of the Central Otago gold rush on New Zealand culture, literature and society |
| ENGL | PhD | Carol | Dawber | Voices of the West Coast: an Investigation into the Creation, Development and Expression of a Distinctive West Coast Character in New Zealand Literary Fiction. |
| ENGL | PhD | Veronica | Hoyt | Constructions of Englishness in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell |
| ENGL | PhD | Melissa | Reimer | Colonial Impressionist: Katherine Mansfield's relationship to Painterly and Literary Impressionism." |
| ENGL | PhD | Hamish | Win | The lost animal saga |
| GEND | MA | Evan | Matthews | TBA |
| HAPS | MA | Rosalie | Hosking | Untitled |
| HAPS | MA | Teneille | Humphris | Towards a Scientific Understanding of Disease: Concepts of Syphillis in Early Modern and Modern Europe |
| HAPS | MSc | Daniel | Robertson | "Shut Up and Calculate" Tunneling through the quantum Barrier |
| HAPS | PhD | Rebecca | Priestley | Nuclear New Zealand: The Big Picture |
| HIST | MA | Christopher | Boniface | Slavery in America |
| HIST | MA | Melinda | Brown | ‘A Man Ain't a Godamn Ax': Black Masculinity in Reconstruction |
| HIST | MA | Robyn | Curtis | Diseases of Confinement: Leprosy and syphilis in the Madras presidency, 1860-1900 |
| HIST | MA | Helena | Dillon | Rogernomics and Rupture: The effects of corporatisation on small town New Zealand |
| HIST | MA | Laura-Margaret | Kamau | Maori Sovereignty |
| HIST | MA | Benjamin | Kingsbury | Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony |
| HIST | MA | Halie | McCaffrey | Michael King's approach to New Zealand identity |
| HIST | MA | Andrew | McNaughton | The Debate on the Practice of British Imperialism in India 1813-1858 |
| HIST | MA | Gerard | Morris | Always On Time: the Rationalisation of Time Keeping in New Zealand, 1840 - 1946 |
| HIST | MA | Alison | Stedman | Public Discourse on the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s |
| HIST | MA | Rachael | Wilson | Enlightenment, Ideology and the Cold War in America |
| HIST | PhD | Rosemary | Baird | Oral Histories of New Zealand Migration To and From Australia: late 1960s to Early 1990s |
| HIST | PhD | Helen | Bones | The Duality of Exile: New Zealand Literature from 1890 to the 1940's |
| HIST | PhD | Bernadette | Devonport | The History of Accounting Standards in New Zealand" |
| HIST | PhD | Michael | Harland | Creative Destruction is our Middle Name: The Intellectual Origins of "Democratic Vanguardism' in the Bush Doctrine's Middle East Democratisation Policy |
| HIST | PhD | Claire | Le Couteur | Medical Research at the Otago Medical School 1909 - 1959: Its Role in Forming Public Health Policy in New Zealand and the Contribution of its Chief Proponent, Sir Charles Hercus |
| HIST | PhD | John | Stack | The New Zealand Army Officer Corps: 1909-1945 |
| HIST | PhD | Gary | Whitcher | More than just American - Some New Zealand Responses to American Culture 1945-1965 |
| PHIL | MA | Eli | Davenport | Berkeley, Leibniz, and the Origins of Idealism |
| PHIL | MA | Elliot | Dawber | The Demands of Impartial Morality |
| PHIL | MA | Lesley | Knight | The Role of Metaphor in Artistic Discourse |
| PHIL | MA | Joanna | Nicholls-Parker | Philosophy by 'Setting the Stage for Heroes' |
| PHIL | MA | Mark | Roberts | TBA |
| PHIL | MA | Mark | Saunders | Animals and the Sphere of Justice |
| PHIL | MA | Ryan | Thompson | The Meeting Point of Aesthetics and Ethics, As Well As the Impact Ethics Can Have on Our Evaluation of Aesthetics and Art |
| PHIL | MA | Catriona | Watt | The Ontology of Persons |
| PHIL | MSc | Iain | McMahon | Check with Science |
| PHIL | PhD | Gregory | Armfield | The Development of Reasoning in the West Until the Time of Aristotle |
| PHIL | PhD | Parker | Bright | TBA |
| PHIL | PhD | Michael | Couch | Rawlsian Instrumentalism - Education As Understanding: Pedagogic and Philosophical Foundations For Introducing Philosophy Into The New Zealand Secondary School System |
| PHIL | PhD | Paul | Dennington | Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Cognition |
| PHIL | PhD | John | Eggleston | Taking Practice Seriously in Philosophical Ethics: A Comparative Investigation of the Theory-Practice Relationships in Environmental, Biomedical and Theoretical Ethics |
| PHIL | PhD | Alex | Ferguson | Creativity and Patterns |
| PHIL | PhD | Carolyn | Mason | Internal and External Accounts of Normative Reasons |
| PHIL | PhD | Diane | Proudfoot | TBA |
| PHIL | PhD | Daniel | Thomson | The Implications of Moral Psychology and the Evolution of Morality for Ethics |
| PHIL | PhD | Patrick | Whittle | The Implications of Evolutionary Theory for Political Theory, with Particular Focus on Equality and the Work of Peter SInger. |
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