Graduate Student
Ariel Monzon Dela Cruz
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028/2029
Committee Chair/Advisor: Christine Balance
Discipline: Performing and Media arts
Primary Language: Tagalog
Research Countries: Philippines
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Yuxin Jia
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028
Committee Chair/Advisor: Malte Ziewitz
Discipline: Science and Technology Studies
Primary Language: Chinese, English, German
Research Countries: Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Singapore
Research Interests: Infrastructure Studies
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Eric Goh
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2027
Committee Chair/Advisor: Iftikhar Dadi and Kaja McGowan
Discipline: History of Art
Primary Language: Malay, Indonesian, Mandarin
Research Countries: Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore
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Geronimo Cristobal
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2027
Committee Chair/Advisor: Kaja McGowan
Discipline: History of Art
Primary Language: Tagalog, Cebuano, Indonesian
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Aura Gonzalez
Graduate Student
Degree: PhD, Government
Language: Hindi
Research Interests: climate change, development, electoral politics, identity, migration, political economy.
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Jessie Hughes
Graduate Student
Degree: PHD, Natural Resources
Language: Nepali
Research interests: drivers of human migration, social-ecological systems, South Asia relations, natural resource management and climate change, urban development, bioculture, and 21st-century land ethics
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Roderick Wijunamai
Graduate Student
Roderick Wijunamai is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. His PhD research focuses on forms of plantation, and its impact on Indigenous people in the Indo-Myanmar borderlands.
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2027
Committee Chair/Advisor: Sarah Besky
Discipline: Anthropology
Primary Language: Konyak, Nagamese
Research Countries: Myanmar
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Joshua Umansky-Castro
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2025-26
Committee Chair/Advisor: Mason Peck
Discipline: Aerospace Engineering
Primary Language: English, Spanish
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Anke Wang
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2026
Committee Chair/Advisor: Mara Du
Discipline: History
Primary Language: Chinese, Vietnamese
Research Countries: Vietnam, Thailand
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Song Han
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: Spring 2026
Committee Chair/Advisor: N/A
Discipline: Comparative Literature
Primary Language: Cantonese, Mandarin, Classical Chinese
Research Countries: Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore
Research Interests: Maritime capitalism and Sinophone/Anglophone literature in Asia