Titles of Ph.D. Dissertations in Asian Literature, Religion & Culture
2023-2024 | |
Hua, Liyu | Savouring the Flavour of the Commentarial Ocean: Consistency and Diversity in the Early Buddhist Commentarial Tradition |
Shirley, Bruno | A Study of Buddhism, Gender, and Politics in Early Second Millennium Sri Lanka |
Siriwan, Sirithorn | Between Lives: Livingness and Remnants of Rice Ontology in Northern Thailand |
Yoon, Nari | Worlding Korea: (Post)Colonial Aesthetics of the Park Chung Hee Era |
2022-2023 | |
Dharmasinghe, Geethika | Third Wave Politics: Violence and Buddhists in Sri Lanka |
Sireerat, Tinakrit | Looking North: Hokkaido's Farms, Lanna's Forests, and the Colonial Natures of Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Japan and Siam |
2021-2022 | |
Akepiyapornchai, Manasicha | Voices of Self-surrender: Religious Multilingualism in Medieval South India |
Awasthi, Tarinee | The Possibilities and Impossibility of History: Writing Srividya in the Late Second Millennium |
2020-2021 | |
Harding, Andrew | The Figure of Zainichi: Resident Korean Fiction and Post-Imperial Subjectivity in Japan |
McQuade, Paul | Departures: The Work of Tawada Yoko |
Park, Jahyon | Webtoons and Masculinity: Melodrama and Sympathetic Imagination in Contemporary South Korean Digital Media |
Tran, Hoai Khai | Poetry and Prophecy of Reclusion: The Life and Writings of Vietnamese Scholar Nguyen Van Dat (A.K.A. Nguyen Binh Khiem), 1491-1586 |
2019-2020 | |
Nag Chowdhuri, Yagna | Assembling the Figure: Gurus, Seekers and the Pedagogy of Self-Transformation |
Thomas, Dexter | Nigger and Japs: Right-wing hip-hop and the black model minority in Japan |
2018-2019 | |
Buyco, Ryan | Islands of Entanglement: Reading a Transpacific Okinawa in the Philippines and Hawai'i |
Kunigami, A. Keiji | Of Clouds and Bodies: Film and the Dislocation of Vision in Brazilian and Japanese Interwar Avant-gardes |
Lee, I-Zhuen | Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan |
Mendoza, Andrea | Akarui Uncanny: Race, Sex Work, and Knowledge Under Occupation; Transpacific Nonencounters: Race, Literature, and Thought at the Ends of Area |
2017-2018 | |
Chen, Xiangjing | The Untamed Outside: Imagination and Practice of Agrarian Commune in People's Republic of China |
Golovkova, Anna | A Goddess for the Second Millennium: Trangression and Transformation in the Hindu Tantric Worship of Tripurasundari |
Grillo, Tyran | Cats, Dogs, and Cyborgs: Transcending the Human-Animal Divide in Contemporary Japanese Literature |
Kinjo, Masaki | Internal Revolution: The Postwar Okinawan Literature of Kiyota Masanobu and Medoruma Shun |
Polmuk, Chairat | Atmospheric Archives: Post-Cold War Affect and the Buddhist Temporal Imagination in Southeast Asian Literature and Visual Culture |
2016-2017 | |
Mendoza, Andrea | Akarui Uncanny: Race, Sex Work, and Knowledge Under Occupation |
Vo, Eileen Nho | Problematizing the Ambivalent Role of Interpreters and Translation in Colonial Vietnam 1862-1945 |
Zhang, Ning | Sisterly Same-Sex Sentiment: Non-erotic Female Relationships in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society |
2015-2016 | |
Chen, Pei Jean | The Transnational-Translational Modernity: Language and Sexuality in Colonial Taiwan and Korea |
Higgins, Carter | Saintly Investments: Pilgrimage Development and Contemporary Hinduism in India |
Huang, Junliang | The Politics of "Storytelling": Schemas of Time and Space in Japan's Traveling Imagination of Semi-colonial China and Beyond, 1920s-1980s |
Lim, Wah Guan | Performing ‘Chinese-ness’: Articulating Identities-of-Becoming in the Works of Four Sinophone Theatre Director-Playwrights in the 1980s |
Titles of M.A. Theses in Asian Studies
2023-2024 | |
Cui, Junko | Temporalizing the Enclave: Desire Smuggling in Chinese Genderswap Fan Fiction |
Li, Rui | Playable Love: Otome Games in Japan and China |
Robinson, Casey | Nāgārjuna and Hegel: A Dialectic Discussion |
Shen, Jiahui | Manifest the Hidden: Wen 文 and Zhi 質 as Conceptual Pair in Early Chinese Thought |
Tran, Katherine | The Anatomy of a Fujoshi: Rethinking the Rotten Woman through Media and Mediated Practices |
Wiriyapanlert, Sompassorn | Same Same But Different: Chinese Identity Among Ethnic Chinese Indonesian, Malaysian, Singaporean And Thai Former Undergraduate Students in Beijing |
Xing, Wanhan | Building Space, Building Identity: Gardens in Luoyang during the Eleventh Century |
2022-2023 | |
Loebell, Daniel | Nepal: The BIT-less Holdout among India’s Belt-and-Road Neighbors |
Luo, Jiaxin | The Thirty-two Manifestations of Guanyin: A Guide on Meditation |
Qu, Yingchuan | Mapping "zheng nengliang": the affective circulation of positive energy on the Chinese Internet |
2021-2022 | |
Jing, Yuanxue | Post-Shōjo: Women in Josei Manga after 2010 |
2020-2021 | |
Dong, Jiacheng | Transcendence Through Elixir Ingestion: A Comparative Analysis of Du Guangting and Huang Xiufu |
Jin, Cordelia | From Kokugo to Nihongo in the Context of the History of the Japanese Language; Maintaining International World Peace through Racial Hierarchy as determined by English Fluency |
Tang, Lishu | Swallowing an Iron Moon and Eating a Persimmon: Chinese Supaltern Poets in Documentary Films |
Xu, Yixin | From Painting to Decorative Art - Chinese Export Wallpaper |
2019-2020 | |
Chen, Keyu | The Effects of Reducing Parent-Child Information Frictions on Students' Academic Performance: Evidence from a Field Experiment |
Elliot, Claire | From Lanka to Lan Na: Regional Bhikkhuni Identity and Transnational Buddhist Networks |
Gong, Qingyi | The Wei-Jin Spirit as Exhibited by Women in the Shishuo Xinyu in the Private Family Space |
Tritrakarn, Ornwara | Negotiating multiple identities: Becoming and un-becoming "Thai" Muslims |
Vongagsorn, Kittipong | A Study of the Composition, Transmission, and Development of the KASYAPAPARIVARTA |
Wang, Yuanping | Writing Roads: Worker Storytelling, Karmic Haunting, and the Management of Construction in China |
Zhang, Xinwen | The Rural Video Influencers in China: On the New Edge of Urbanization |
2018-2019 | |
Chia, Kim Chwee | Measuring Islamisation in Indonesia: The Practice of Islam in Central Java and West Sumatra During Reformasi |
Dai, Qiao | A Study of Burmese History and Language within the Southwestern Silk Road Regional Sphere |
Durand, Katherine | Habitual Silence: Absenting (Trans)National Memories in Postwar Japan |
Gagrat, Jeh | An Examination of the Executive Tools used to influence judicial appointments to the Supreme Court of India and the High Courts in the context of the Indian Emergency (1975-77) |
Hu, Yinyin | Ancestor worship, supernaturalism, and Gia Long's court: landscape of religious institutions in Gia Dinh at the beginning of the Nguyen Dynasty |
Liang, Yuan | Two Cases of Chinese Internet Studies |
Matsuda, Michael | Fear Factor: Food Safety and Visual Media in Post-Fukushima Japan/Revising Tenzo Kyokun |
Nott, Lavanya | The RTE Act in Bengaluru: A Study in the Contradictions of Neoliberal Welfare |
Wang, Anke | Translating the Vietnam War: Cultural Networks between China and Vietnam (1964-1966) |
2017-2018 | |
Sajjapala, Kritapas | Thailand-Vietnam Relations in the 1990s |
Sun, Mengxi | Rediscovering Cotton Breeding in the Beiyang Era: The Cruciality of Human Capital |
Wang, Mingxuan | Constructing the Chan Tradition: The Two-way Transmission Between Jingschan Temple and Kencho-ji Temple |
2016-2017 | |
Emmanuel, Kaitlin | Lionel Wendt: Between Empire and Nation |
Lax, James | Modern Religious Movements of Colonial South Asia: The Origins of Revival and Reform |
Seiler, Nils Andrew | Silver and Mother-of-Pearl: Some Comments on Perception and Doubt in Pre-Modern South Asia |
Suwanto, Harry | The Bald Eagle and the Garuda: A History of American Encounters with the East Indies in the 18th and 19th Centuries |
Thant, Aye Min | Choosing to be LGBT: Gender and Sexuality Activism in Contemporary Myanmar |
Weintraub, Jonathan | Factors Influencing the Movement of Southeast Asian Fighters to Isis: A Comparison of Indonesia and Malaysia |
2015-2016 | |
Akepiyapornchai, Manasicha | Vedantadesika's Interpretation of Ramanuja's Prapatti: A Study Based on the Nikseparaksa |
Croteau, Chantal | Competing Modes of Remembrance: Tsunami Commemoration in Takuapa, Thailand |