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Graduate Students

Graduate students with a minor field in Southeast Asian studies come from diverse disciplines—including city and regional planning, anthropology, science and technology studies, art history, architecture, comparative literature, music, global development, Asian studies, history, government, and many more.

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Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2028

Committee Chair/Advisor: Malte Ziewitz

Discipline: Science and Technology Studies

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2026

Committee chair/advisor: Chiara Formichi

Discipline: Asian Studies

Graduate Student

Anna Koshcheeva researches visual culture of Cold War Laos. She focuses on cultural theories, visual representations of time, and temporality of Asian modernities - socialist, Buddhist, and others.

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Committee Chair/Advisor: Anne Blackburn

Primary Language: Chinese, French, Thai 

Research Countries: Myanmar

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: N/A

Discipline: Development Studies

Primary Language: Indonesian/Malay

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2025

Committee chair/advisor: Kaja McGowan

Discipline: History of Art and Visual Studies

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2028

Committee Chair/Advisor: Vida Maralani

Discipline: Sociology

Primary Language: Burmese

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: MA

Anticipated Degree Year: 2026

Committee Chair/Advisor: Shaoling Ma

Discipline: Asian Studies

Primary Language(s): Malaysian

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2025

Discipline: Plant Breeding and Genetics

Primary Language: Thai

Research Countries: Thailand

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2025

Committee Chair/Advisor: Renata Leitao

Discipline: Apparel Design

Primary Language: Mandarin, English