PhD Supervision

Cwiertka supervises PhD theses on the topics related to material culture, consumption and waste in East Asia, in both contemporary and historical contexts.

PhD projects

Candidate		Project	Phase
Kyoung-Hee Park		State and Food in South Korea: Moulding the National Diet in Wartime and Beyond	Defended on 2013-02-21
Ruobing Han		The “Characterization” of Japan: From Merchandising to Identity	Defended on 2017-03-21
Andrea Giolai		Decentering Gagaku: Exploring the Multiplicity of Contemporary Japanese Court Music	Defended on 2017-05-03
Rebecca Tompkins		“The Waste of Society as Seen through Women’s Eyes:” Waste, Gender, and National Belonging in Japan	Defended on 2019-03-21
Yun-An Olivia Dung		'Recycling the past' Tzu-chi waste recycling and the cultural politics of nostalgia in Taiwan	Defended on 2021-09-08
Chelsey Wong		Chelsey Wong holds an MA degree from Kansai University, Osaka, where her research focused on the causes underlying the changing image of deer in contemporary Japan. Aside from her interest in food production and consumption, both their history and contemporary practices, Chelsey is also interested in ethics, particularly environmental ethics, which she studied as an undergraduate and postgraduate majoring in cross-cultural studies. Her PhD research project focuses on the production, consumption and marketing of beef in Japan.	Ongoing