VTP Students

STUDENTS AWARDED THE ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN 2023/24 AY: 

  • Mahmoud Barakat, Department of Medieval Studies, MA in Cultural Heritage Studies. Thesis title: “The Cultural Landscape of Ancient Villages of Northern Syria in the Memory of Displaced Locals" 
  • Sara Simic, Department of Gender Studies, MA in Critical Gender Studies. Thesis title: "(Un)Boxing the Gendered Silenced Past: Three Generations’ Search of Jewish Identity in (Post)Yugoslav Space" 
  • Shabnam Singla, Department of Philosophy. Project title: Quears
  • Claire Louise Bower, Department of Gender Studies, MA in Critical Gender Studies. Project title: Cuddle or Die  (long form documentary)  
  • Beatriz Gomes De Figueiredo, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology (2 years). Thesis title: "Solo la lotta paga": Building Migrant Solidarity in the Neapolitan Commons 
  • Bilal Hisam, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology (1 year). Project title: Temporary Homes (short documentary) 
  • Ioana Simina Popescu, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology (2 years). Project title: Se Vede Rec? (Is it Recording?)
  • Evgenia Trapeznicova, Department of Legal Studies, MA in Human Rights. Project title: Rights in Bloom: Belarus
  • Manuela Jose Novoa Villada, Department of Gender Studies, MA in Critical Gender Studies. Project title: Embodied Truths
  • Nhi Yen Le, Department of History, MA in Comparative History: History track. Project title: From the Gazes to the Walls 
  • Nerea González, Department of Gender Studies, MA in Critical Gender Studies. Thesis title: "Touching the Texture of the Other: the Slimy and Queer Embodiment" 
  • Petar Odak, Department of Gender Studies, PhD program. Thesis title: "Feeling Socialism Again: Affective Ambivalences of Socialist Legacies in the Context of the Experience Economy" 

STUDENTS AWARDED THE ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN 2022/23 AY: 

  • Iuliia Khabibulina, Department of History, MA in Comparative History. Thesis title: This Fiery Cemetery”: Analysis of the Soviet Visual Discourse around Moscow Crematorium in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Anastasia Karpovska, Legal Studies, LLM in Global Business Law and Regulation. Project title: Men’s World?
  • Joseph PurtellDepartment of Sociology and Social Anthropology, MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Project title: A City for People
  • Isabel ThomasDepartment of Medieval Studies, MA in Cultural Heritage Studies. Project title: How Musical Was My Valley: unexpected residues of the past in the South Wales ex-coalfields
  • Lukas Duncan, Nationalism Studies Program, MA in Nationalism Studies. Thesis title: An Exploration of Swedishness: A Mosaic of the Swedish Cultural Landscape Through the Lens of Children's Film

STUDENTS AWARDED THE ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN 2021/22 AY: 

  • Bret-Day Frederick David Lawrence, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Project title: Working Lives 
  • Korsten Thijs, Department of International Relations, MA in International Relations. Project title: 500 Days After the War
  • Shah Maryam, Department of Medieval Studies, MA in Cultural Heritage Studies. Project title: Preservation Through Memory-exhibition focusing on spreading awareness about the rock inscriptions in Chilas city.
  • Solazzo AriannaDepartment of Gender Studies. Project title: The Corpo-graphies of Water 
  • Myree Tayla, Department of History, MA in Comparative History. Thesis title: The Struggle for Holocaust Remembrance through Romani Activism; The German and Czech Case (1989-Present)

STUDENTS AWARDED THE ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN 2020/21 AY: 

  • Akinpelu Oluwafunmilayo Miriam, Department of History, MA in Comparative History. Project title: Oriseje: A Love (Hi)Story 
  • Basler Derek, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Project title: The Home is a Private Museum
  • Bochkov Dmitrii, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Project title: This is what I want to tell you
  • Majidova Chinara, Department of Medieval Studies, MA in Cultural Heritage Studies. Project title: My Neighborhood
  • Walters Kyra Elizabeth, Department of History, MA in Comparative History: History track. Project title: A View of the Führer through the Lens of Nazi Popular Cinema

STUDENTS AWARDED THE ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN 2019/20 AY: 

  • Bajic Mila, Department of Nationalism Studies. Project photo essay: Generation BombingVisual Memories of the 1999 NATO Bombing
  • Gang Lishu, Department of Nationalism Studies. Project photo essay: What does it mean to live in a city? 
  • Helmi Nadin, Department of Medieval Studies, Master of Arts in Cultural Heritage Studies -- Track: Cultural Heritage Management and Policy. Project video essay: Once there were Jews in Egypt (16 min.)
  • Tóth Lili, Department of Medieval Studies, Comparative History with a specialization in Late Antique, Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Thesis title: Painted textile from Riggisberg –An old testament cycle in the context of Hellenistic Jewish and Christian art
  • Zaretckaia Evangeniia, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Project photo essay-collage: Isolation Diary

STUDENTS AWARDED THE ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN 2018/19 AY: 

  • Abrahamyan Shushan, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Thesis title: The City and Its Walls: Street art, graffiti and the re-invention of public space in Yerevan
  • Abu Lail Dana, School of Public Policy. Thesis title: Advocacy Documentary about Human Trafficking in Jordan APP client
  • Asad Ifra, School of Public Policy. Thesis title: Women in Public Spaces for APP client Women Living Under Muslim Laws 
  • Atmore John, Department of Nationalism Studies. Project photo essay: Mapuche National Consciousness in Argentine Patagonia
  • Baquais David, Department of Gender Studies. Thesis title: The Affective Potential of Queer Shame on Screen
  • Chmielewska Marta, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Thesis title: The ‘Sign of the Cross’ Exhibition as a Polyphonic Political Statement in the 1980s Polish Art Field
  • Czeglédi Alexandra, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Thesis title: Micro-politics on red mud after the industrial accident near Ajka, Hungary
  • Gawkowski Jakub, Department of History. Thesis title: Exhibiting Rescued Works of Polish and Polish-Jewish Artists (1945-49)
  • Khassenkhanova Galiya, Department of History). Thesis title: Resident Perspective: The Evacuation of Soviet film studios in Kazakhstan, 1941-44
  • Nelson Mackenzie, School of Public Policy. Thesis title: Women in Public Spaces for APP client Women Living under Muslim Laws
  • Noronha de Araújo Vanbasten, Department of Gender Studies. Thesis title: A Queer Critique of the Narratives on Glitter Pollution
  • Pruchova Ivana, Department of History. Thesis title: Farce after Velvet: Satirical Programs in the First Years of Czech Public Television
  • Szemetova Lucia, Department of Nationalism Studies. Thesis title: »We Laugh with Tears it’s so Hungarian« – The Narratives of Hungarianness in Gábor Reisz’ Films and their Reception
  • Udvari Orsolya, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Thesis title: Ways of Seeing the Other. Migration in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema

Students who received the PILOT NON-DEGREE certificate in the 2017/18 AY

  • Baitsym Polina, Department of History, MA Program. Thesis title: Art, Defined in Struggle: Socialist Realism Inside the Ukrainian Union of Artists from the 1950s through Perestroika
  • Ignácz Judit, School of Public Policy, MPA Program. Applied Policy Project for Bellingcat and Synaps investigating the full range of digital tools available for the study of the Syrian conflict
  • Palandjian Nora, School of Public Policy, MPA Program. Applied Policy Project for Bellingcat and Synaps investigating the full range of digital tools available for the study of the Syrian conflict
  • Podnos Varvara, Department of History, MA Program. Thesis title: Construction of the Post-Soviet City Narrative Through the Toponymical Space: The Case of Kharkiv, 1991-2017