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PhD candidates

NameThesis title and supervisor
Alasia, Sam

Weaving waves on land: Political parties and governance in the Solomon Islands (Chair of Panel: Prof Brij Lal)

Alston, Dane

The life and thought of Yangch'on Kwon Kun (1352-1409)(Chair of panel: Dr Benjamin Penny)

Ansori, Siaan

How the Australian Government promoted an image of Australia in Southeast Asia? (Chair of panel: Prof. Anthony Milner)

Apcymru, Bryn

A Climate of Reprisal: US Armed Intervention in the Pacific and Asia 1834 - 1850 (Chair of panel: Dr Paul D'Arcy)

Barham, Tony

Late Quaternary Geoarchaeology of the Torres Strait Islands, NE Australia (Chair of panel: Prof. Atholl Anderson)

Beilby, Mark

Nationalist appropriation of epic/puranic discourses (Chair of panel: Dr McComas Taylor)

Berger, Dominic

Political Pluralism in Indonesia (Chair of panel: Dr Marcus Mietzner)

Bichard, Valerie

60° South: A conceptual dialogue between Oceania and Antarctica (Chair of panel: Dr Chris Ballard)

Black, Philippa

New Caledonian Nickel Industry, 1873 - 1918 (Chair of panel: Dr Chris Ballard)

Braga, Stuart

Making Impressions: Adaptation of a Portuguese family in Hong Kong to change, 1750-1950 (Chair of panel: Prof John Minford)

Brownell, Paul

The Authorial Hermeneutics of 'A Commentary on Differentiating the Middle from the Extremes,' (Tib. dbus dang mtha' rnam par 'byed pa'i 'grel pa), A Meditative Analysis (Chair of panel: Prof John Powers)

Burrows, Mark

A new Late Quaternary palaeohydrological record for the Atherton Tableland, north Queensland, Australia (Chair of panel: Dr Simon Haberle)

Casas Ruiz, Roger Pedro

Transforming the sacred self: Buddhist monastic discipline, morality, and the production of locality among the Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna (P.R. China) (Chair of panel: Dr Philip Taylor)

Chareonsonthichai, Thararat

The fragrance of the frangipani: an analysis of the calendrical rites and Buddhist practices of Luang Prabang (Chair of panel: Dr Philip Taylor)

Chau, Christina

Translator in the making, with reference to Professor David Hawkes and Professor John Minford in the making of the story of the stone (Chair of panel: Prof John Minford)

Che, Wai Lam (William)

A Dictionary of the Chinese Language: Traditions Behind and Road Ahead (Chair of panel: Prof. John Minford)

Cheang, Ka Ian Justina

Collective Memory and the History of Macao (Chair of panel: Prof. John Minford)

Chen, Liang

Culture of workers in urbanizing China (Chair of panel: Dr Andrew Kipnis)

Chin, Hahjung

Reconstructing forest-grassland dynamics in Tasmania during the Holocene (Chair of panel: Dr Simon Haberle)

Chou, Meiyin

Moral education and Qing clan rules: Ideal and reality (Chair of panel: Aat Vervoorn)

Chua, Wei Boon

Singapore - US relations in the 1960s and 70s (Chair of panel: Professor Robert Cribb)

Churchman, Cathy

"The Two Rivers": The Pearl and Red Rivers drainage area in the Fifth to Sixth Centuries (Chair of panel: Dr Tana Li)

Coates, Jamie

Recent Chinese migration and affective practice in Tokyo, Japan (Chair of panel: Dr Andrew Kipnis)

Cone, Tiffany

Charismatic embodiment and the role of a Sufi order in a Chinese Muslim community (Chair of panel: Dr Andrew Kipnis)

Connelly, Andrew

Indigenous and Colonial Historicities in the Trobriand Islands (Chair of panel: Dr Chris Ballard)

Corbett, Jack

Politics as a Vocation in the Pacific (Chair of panel: Professor Brij Lal)

Cottet, Fanny

A phonological description of Mbaham, a Papuan language of West Papua (Chair of panel: Dr Mark Donohue)

Crocker, John

George Coedes and the EFEO (Chair of panel: Professor Robert Cribb)

Croft, Adam

The image of the Samurai in popular media during the Taisho (1912-1926) (Chair of panel: Professor Li Narangoa)

Dickson, Gregory Francis

Documentation of Marra (Chair of panel: Prof. Nick Evans)

Dierikx, Benjamin

TBA (Chair of panel: TBA)

Dilokvidhyarat, Tamthai

The State Collection of Information on the Population in Thailand 1892 to 1932 (Chair of panel: Dr Craig Reynolds)

Dobson, Graeme

Pre-European Aquaculture in Northern Australia (Chair of panel: Professor Sue O'Connor)

Doehler, Christian

A Grammar of Kómnjo (Chair of panel: Prof. Nick Evans)

Downes, Meghan

Tradition and modernity: Negotiating constructed binaries in Indonesian popular culture (Chair of panel: Dr Ariel Heryanto)

Driver, Adam

The Other Side of Sinology Prof (Chair of panel: Geremie Barme)

Dyt, Katie

Vietnamese History (Chair of panel: Dr Li Tana)

Fachruddin, Faried

Beyond authenticity: Local-level Islamic practices in contemporary (South Sulawesi) Indonesia (Chair of panel: Prof. Kathryn Robinson)

Farrelly, Paul

New religious movements and religious innovation: the flow of religious and spiritual ideas from Taiwan to China (Chair of panel: Dr Ben Penny)

Finn, Janet

Holocene environmental change and variability in the western Pacific, Torres Strait and the Arafura Sea A diatom analysis (Chair of panel: Dr Geoff Hope)

Gamble, Ruth

Traveling Songs: the Third Karmapa's Tibetan acculturation of the Indian doha tradition (Chair of panel: Prof. John Powers)

Godfrey, Gary

Being Christian in Eastern Indonesia (Chair of panel: Dr Andrew McWilliam)

Griffiths, Thomas

Ming Dynasty Landscapes in Text (Chair of panel: Dr Duncan Campbell)

Halim, Wahyuddin

Pesantren As'adiyah and socio-cultural transformation in South Sulawesi, Indonesia (Chair of panel: Prof Kathryn Robinson)

Halter, Nicholas

Australian travel writing about the Pacific islands from 1880-1940 (Chair of panel: Professor Brij Lal)

Hammer, Mathais

Land Conflict and Political Violence in Indonesia During the 1960s (Chair of panel: Prof. Robert Cribb)

Harrington, Juliette

Late Holocene sea level change in the Indian Ocean and the implications for human maritime migration in the region (Chair of panel: Dr Simon Haberle)

Haughton, James

Cooperatives and community development in SE Asia (Chair of panel: TBA)

Hawkins, Stuart

A zooarchaeological approach to the Vanuatu archaeological record (Chair of panel: Dr Stuart Bedford)

Heinzmann, Lena

Muslim identity among young adults in Berlin (Chair of panel: Prof Alan Rumsey)

Herawati, Erna

"Warga Peduli Aids": A Community Based Organization for HIV and Aids in Bandung, Indonesia (Chair of panel: Prof Kathryn Robinson)

Hinchy, Jessica

Illicit Sex, Criminal Gender: The Deviant Subjects of the British Raj (Chair of panel: Dr Peter Jackson)

Hoenigman, Darja

Language Variation and Social Identity in Kanjimei, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (Chair of panel: Dr Alan Rumsey)

Honeyman, Tom

Reported Speech and Thought in Fas PNG (Chair of panel: Prof. Nick Evans)

Hongsaton, Preedee

Transitions in Thai Leisure Culture: 1920s - 1950s (Chair of panel: Dr Peter Jackson)

Hope, Michael

The influence of Shamanism upon the Islamic beliefs and practices of the Ilkhan (Mongol) Dynasty of Iran at the start of the 14th Century (Chair of panel: Professor Li Narangoa)

Hopf, Felicitas

Palaeonenvironmental change in the Lake St Clair area, Tasmania (Chair of panel: Dr Simon Haberle)

Howe, Brian

Rationalist and People's Science Movements in Kerala, South India (Chair of panel: Dr Assa Doron)

Hughes, Kirrilee

Australia's Asia Literacy: Knowledge to serve what ends? (Chair of panel: Dr Ariel Heryanto)

Hurle, Robert

Mobilising the Vietnamese People: Viet Minh Propaganda and the end of French Colonialism (Chair of panel: Dr Li Tana)

Hutagalung, Stella

Islam in Kupang: How do Muslims practice Islam in Kupang? (Chair of panel: Prof. Kathryn Robinson)

Iacobelli, Pedro

Okinawan migration to Bolivia (Chair of panel: Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki)

Jacob, Cecilia

Human Security Approaches to Security in Southeast Asia with Specific Reference to Children (Chair of panel: Dr Bina D'Costa)

Jones, Tristen

Disentangling the styles and chronologies of North Australian rock-art (Chair of panel: Prof Sue O'Connor)

Karashima, Masato

Recasting Asia-Japan (Chair of panel: Prof. Tessa Morris-Suzuki)

Kaur, Arunajeet

Political activism amongst Indians in Malaysia (Chair of panel: Professor Brij Lal)

Kawamura, Satofumi

Japanese modern political and social thought (Chair of panel: Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki)

Keaney, Benedict Seamus

Bogong Moth Aestivation Sites: A Pioneering Archive for Understanding the Floral, Faunal and Indigenous History of the Northern Australian Alps (Chair of panel: Dr Geoff Hope)

Kelly, Piers

History of the Eskayan auxiliary language and writing system of Bohol, Phillipines (Chair of panel: Prof Nick Evans)

Kilcline Cody, Mary Agnes

The Trial of Mrs Proudlock: Law, Government and Society, British Malaya, 1911 (Chair of panel: Professor Robert Cribb)

Kim, Dae Keun

Martial Arts, Nationalism & Orientalism (Chair of panel: Professor Li Narangoa)

Kim, Hyun Su

Interactional use of quotation markers in Korean (-nikka/-nuntay) and Japanese (-tte)(Chair of panel: Dr Duck-Young Lee)

Kobepa, Niko

A Grammar of Me, a Papuan language of Western New Guinea (Chair of panel: Prof Nick Evans)

Koleilat, Lina

Women and politics in South Korea (Chair of panel: Prof Hyaeweol Choi)

Lacrampe, Sebastien

A grammar of Lelepa (Chair of panel: Dr Wayan Arka)

Latai, Latu

A History of Samoan (LMS) Missionary Wives in the Evangelisation of the Western Pacific from 1839 to 1975 (Chair of panel: Prof Margaret Jolly)

Lawrence, Kelvin

Malay Thought at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: And the Music Plays On? (Chair of panel: Ronit Ricci)

Lawton, Ralph

Topics in Kiriwinan Lexicography (Chair of panel: Prof. Andrew Pawley)

Layton, Kelly

Refacing China's Cities: Urban Lives and Entangled Spaces (Chair of panel: Prof. Geremie Barme)

Le, Yen

The social and cultural construction of leprosy in Vietnam (Chair of panel: TBA)

Leary, Danton John

Performing the "Sacred Trust" - A Comparative Study of Japan and Australia's Experience with the League of Nations Mandates System (Chair of panel: Dr Tomoko Akami)

Lee, Minseon

Walls of Misunderstanding: Cross-Cultural Encounters Between Koreans and Westerners, 1882 - 1910 (Chair of panel: Dr Ruth Barraclough)

Li, Geng

Popular religious practice in urbanizing China (Chair of panel: Dr Andrew Kipnis)

Lio, Asrun

Identities: a case study in Routa sub district, Konawe regency, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia (Chair of panel: Prof Kathryn Robinson)

Liston, Jolie

The Monumental Earthwork Landscape of Palau, Western Micronesia (Chair of panel: Dr Geoff Clark)

Litster, Mirani

The archaeology of the Maldives indicating evidence of early human colonisation (Chair of panel: Dr Geoff Clark)

Lubcke, Antje

The Visual Conception of New Guinea on the Eve of Settlement (Chair of panel: Dr Chris Ballard)

Macdonald, Fraser

The indigenisation of christianity in PNG : a performative approach (Chair of panel: Dr Alan Rumsey)

Machrusah, Safira

Voicing Gender Jihad: Alternative Conception of Jihad from Indonesian Muslim Women (Chair of panel: Prof. Kathryn Robinson)

Makhasin, Luthfi

Transnational Sufism and Islamic Political Identity (Chair of panel: Dr Greg Fealy)

Maloney, Tim

Lithic technology in the Kimberley: technological analysis of reduction and changes in organisation (Chair of panel: Prof Sue O'Connor)

Mariner, Nicola

William Mariner: Life, history and Polynesian legacy (Chair of panel: Dr Bronwen Douglas)

Matthews, Rosalyn

Body and Nation in the fiction of KB Vaid: A Postcolonial Predicament (Chair of panel: Dr McComas Taylor)

McCarthy, Annie

Investigating the telling of 'traditional' stories to contemporary Indian children (Chair of panel: Dr McComas Taylor)

McClean, Nicholas

Rethinking cultural heritage- culture and nature in the Australasian region: a multi-media project (Chair of panel: Professor Sue O'Connor)

McDonnell, Siobhan

Maintaining a Customary Basis in Property Rights to Land: Lessons from Vanuatu (Chair of panel: Dr Chris Ballard)

Metuamate, Areti

Transforming values or eroding cultures? The impact of Christianity on Maori people, their customs, values and identity (Chair of panel: Prof Margaret Jolly)

Mishra-Vakaoti, Vanisha

Experiences and Pathways of Discontinuing School Children in Fiji (Chair of panel: Professor Brij Lal)

Mistica, Meladel

Indonesian Treebanking (Chair of panel: Dr Wayan Arka)

Ng, Tze Shiung

British conceptions of wealth and property in the East Indies and their influence on the governance and constitution of early Peninsula society, 1807-1824 (Chair of panel: Professor Anthony Milner)

Nguyen, Thy Tan Lan

Code Choice in Vietnamese Community in Sydney (Chair of panel: Bao Duy Thai)

Nisa, Eva Fahrun

Embodying the 'true' Islam: Cadan in contemporary Indonesia (Chair of panel: Prof. Kathryn Robinson)

Nizette, Mark

Traditional and Modern Forms of Leadership and Governance, Tanna, Vanuatu (Chair of panel: Dr Chris Ballard)

Nomura, Haruka

Reshaping the world from Shanghai (Chair of panel: Professor Narangoa Li)

Okabe, Yasuko

Formation of foreign policy elite from Bakumatsu to early Meiji (Chair of panel: Prof Narangoa Li)

Pan, Weizhen

Alice in China (Chair of panel: Dr Duncan Campbell)

Park, Hea-Jin

South Korean Government-sponsored Agricultural Emigration to South America (Chair of panel: Prof Tessa Morris-Suzuki)

Pawson, Simon

Tourism education in Cambodia: Past, present and future (Chair of panel: Dr Jane Ferguson)

Pingjai, Supawan

A likelihood-ratio based forensic voice comparison in stardard Thai (Chair of panel: Dr Shunichi Ishihara)

Pinthongvijayakul, Visisya

Memory, Identity, and Power: A Subnational Practice of Spirit Mediumship in Northeast Thailand (Chair of panel: Dr Jane Ferguson)

Ponsonnet, Maia

The semantics of personhood in Dalabon: mind, body and kin (Chair of panel: Prof. Nick Evans)

Posrithong, Nataneree

Representations of elite women in early modern Siam (Chair of panel: Prof Peter Jackson)

Premaratne, Dilhara

Script usage in contemporary Japan and China (Chair of panel: Dr Peter Hendriks)

Puas, Gonzaga

China's and USA interaction in the western Pacific: the case of the Federated States of Micronesia (Chair of panel: Dr Paul D'Arcy)

Racines, Misael

Trade, Traders and the State at the Philippine - Indonesian Border (Chair of panel: Dr Paul D’Arcy)

Raj, Ashwin

Indenture Law and its Constitution of Humanity: Juridico - political production of Indians in Fiji, 1879 - 1937 (Chair of panel: Professor Brij Lal)

Rambeau, Lihong

The story of the stone and Chinese language teaching (Chair of panel: Dr Fan Shengyu)

Rangkla, Prasert

Improvising the Borderland: Locality and Mobility of the Displaced Karen in Thailand-Burma Frontier (Chair of panel: Dr Philip Taylor)

Ringpapontsang, Tenzin Choephak

Advice to the King: An analysis of the Tibetan Lama 'Phags Pa's advice to Khubilai Khan (Chair of panel: Prof John Powers)

Ropi, Ismatu

The Politics of Regulating Religion: State and Administration of Religion in Modern Indonesia (Chair of panel: Dr Greg Fealy)

Sanderson, Daniel

Han Suyin and the Glamour of Revolution (Chair of panel: Prof. Geremie Barme)

Sawaki, Yusuf

A descriptive grammar of Wooi, an Austronesian language of Yapen Island, Western New Guinea (Chair of panel: Dr Wayan Arka)

Seikel, Katherine

Prehistoric socio-political structure on Pohnpei - perspectives from mortuary architecture (Chair of panel: Dr Geoffrey Clark)

Senge, Chikako

A grammar of Wanyjirra (Chair of panel: Prof. Nick Evans)

Seo, Bo Kyeong

The Landscape of Birth and Health Care Reform in Thailand (Chair of panel: Prof. Kathryn Robinson)

Shedden, Rikardo

The Religions of Torcao: Aspects of Kalinga Spirit Mediumship and Religious Syncretism in Northern Luzon, Philippines (Chair of panel: Prof. Mark Mosko)

Si, Aung

The Ethnobiology and Traditional Medicine of the Solega of Southern India (Chair of panel: Prof. Nick Evans)

Sila, Adlin

Being Muslim in Bima (West Nusa Tenggara) Eastern Indonesia: Practices, politics and cultural diversity )(Chair of panel: Prof Kathryn Robinson)

Sombuk, Musa

Mining and Social Development in Indonesia (Chair of panel: Dr Chris Ballard)

Sos, Farib

Ethnic Chinese in Cambodia (Chair of panel: Professor Anthony Milner)

Spronck, Stef

Reported Speech and Thought in Ngarinyin, a Language from the Kimberley Region (Chair of panel: Prof. Nick Evans)

Stewart, Christine

Pamak na poofta: Criminalising consensual sex in Papua New Guinea (Chair of panel: Prof. Margaret Jolly)

Sung, Jin-Shiu (Jessie)

Cultures of pregnancy in Taiwan (Chair of panel: Prof Margaret Jolly)

Suva, Cesar

TBA (Chair of panel: Dr Paul D’Arcy)

Taguchi, Ayuko

Alternative teaching order for Japanese as a second language: Introducing the informal as a base level prior to the masu/desu style (Chair of panel: Dr Peter Hendriks)

Takahashi, Shinnosuke

Reconsidering local autonomy in the Post-war East Asia: Arasaki Moriteru and the meaning of anti-base movements in the Post WWII Okinawa (Chair of panel: Prof Tessa Morris-Suzuki)

Tamaira, Marata

Reframing kanaka maoli identity: Visual self-representation and contesting indigenous art practice in Hawaii (Chair of panel: Prof Margaret Jolly)

Tan, Noel Hidalgo

The Rock Art of Kulen Mountain, Cambodia (Chair of panel: Prof Sue O'Connor)

Tang, Yuen Ha

The Aesthetics of Chinese Classical Theatre (Kunqu and Jingju) (Chair of panel: Prof. John Minford)

Taufik, Yani

Livelihood sustainability: a case study in Routa sub district, Konawe regency, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia (Chair of panel: Prof Kathryn Robinson)

Temur, Gesar

Filling the Void: An examination of the revival of Buddhism in Contemporary Mongolia (Chair of panel: Prof. John Powers)

Toma, Masahiro

A study of refusals and apologies among learners of Japanese language (Chair of panel: Dr Duck-Young Lee)

Ton-That, Quynh-Du

The cultural heritage of the city of Hue, Vietnam (Chair of panel: Prof Narangoa Li)

Tran, Minh Hang

Sex-Selective Abortion in Vietnam (Chair of panel: Dr Philip Taylor)

Ussher, Ella

Agricultural development in Tongan Prehistory: An archaeobotanical perspective (Chair of panel: Dr Geoffrey Clark)

Wang, Xu

The poetry of Mu Dan (Zha Liangzheung) (Chair of panel: Prof. John Minford)

Wei, Shuge

Winning the West: China’s rivalry with Japan in China’s English language publicity, 1928 - 1941 (Chair of panel: Dr Tomoko Akami)

Wesley, Daryl

Baijini, Macassans, Balanda, and Bininj: defining the Indigenous past of Arnhem Land through Culture Contact (Chair of panel: Professor Sue O'Connor)

Whimp, Graeme

Writing the Pacific: Early Polynesian Society Ethnographies and their Representations of the Pacific (Chair of panel: Dr Paul D'Arcy)

Whitney, Justin

The Impact of Disasters on Civil Society - A Case Study of the Japanese Nonprofit Sector (Chair of panel: Prof. Kent Anderson)

Winarnita, Monika

Dance, gamelan and the politics of culture: Indonesian Australian families in intercultural marriage's expression of Indonesian-ness in Perth (Chair of panel: Prof. Kathryn Robinson)

Winter, Olaf

Colonization of the Mariana Islands and its Implications for Indo-Pacific Prehistory (Chair of panel: Dr Geoff Clark)

Yanagida, Tatsuya

A Grammar of Ata, a Papuan Language of New Britain (Prof. Nick Evans)

Zhu, Zhu

Acquisition of English Pragmatics by Chinese Students Living in Australia (Chair of panel: Dr Tim Hassall)

Zhu, Yayun

Nanjing in Late-Qing and Republican China (Chair of panel: Prof Geremie Barme)

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