A list of the current doctoral students and their topics:
M Asante
Thesis Title: A rereading of the position of women in Plato's ideal state through the lens of Kwame Gyekye's moderate communitarianism
Supervisor: Prof P Bosman
S Chippendale
Thesis Title: The use and meaning of garlands and wreaths in Ancient Roman art between 200 BC and 79 AD
Supervisor: Dr S Masters
A Dyck
Thesis Title: 'To save' in the Hebrew Bible: A critical assessment of the current state of art in the light of insights from cognitive semantics.
Supervisor: Prof CHJ van der Merwe
EH Engelbrecht
Thesis Title: A Catholic literary response to Arianism during the Vandal kingdom in North Africa
Supervisor: Prof A Kotzé
E Fields
Thesis Title/Area: A Cognitive Linguistics Model for New Testament Discourse Analysis Applied to Selected Lukan Parables
Supervisor: Prof P Bosman
A Martin
Thesis Title/Area: Female poets of the Hellenistic era, with special attention to Erinna
Supervisor: Prof P Bosman
S Matthewson
Thesis Title: The Complementation of האר (r'h) in Biblical Hebrew
Supervisor: Prof CHJ van der Merwe
JC Meyer
Thesis Title: Vergil's Menagerie: Animal imagery in the
Aeneid
Supervisor: Dr A de Villiers
JH Park
Thesis Title: The psychagogical function of the
topos of anger in Greco-Roman moral philosophy
Supervisor: Prof JC Thom
G Payton
Thesis Title: A cognitive linguistic analysis of the uses of
toledoth in the Hebrew Bible – with special reference to its translation in the book of Genesis
Supervisor: Prof CHJ van der Merwe with Prof E Wendland as co-supervisor
BC Polson
Thesis Title: Cleopatra through the eyes of men: An ideology critique of Cleopatra VII from a feminist narratological perspective
Supervisor: Prof A Kotzé
D Sigrist
Thesis Title: Text as scribal product
Supervisor: Prof Gideon Kotze (NWU) with Prof CHJ van der Merwe as co-supervisor
DE Stein
Thesis Title: Assessing the extent of relational meaning of the noun
ʾīš in Biblical Hebrew
Supervisor: Prof CHJ van der Merwe
A Swart
Thesis Title: The Apadana reliefs at Persepolis: An iconographic analysis
Supervisor: Prof I Cornelius
T Welman
Thesis Title: Orphan artefacts: Investigating the place of classical objects in the Iziko collection, Cape Town
Supervisor: Dr S Masters
T Witthoff
Thesis Title: The relationships of the senses of
nephesh in the Hebrew Bible: A cognitive linguistic perspective
Supervisor: Prof CHJ van der Merwe