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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: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: N/A

Discipline: Development Studies

Primary Language: Indonesian/Malay

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: MBA

Anticipated Degree Year: 2024

Committee Chair/Advisor: N/A

Primary Language: English

Research Countries: Vietnam

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2028

Committee Chair/Advisor: Vida Maralani

Discipline: Sociology

Primary Language: Burmese

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

Graduate Student

Aparajita Majumdar is a PhD candidate in history. Her research brings together ideas concerning matter, space, and ecology in the histories of resource extraction. She works primarily on the accumulation of "wild" rubber in the northeastern tracts of British India.

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2023-2024

Committee Chair/Advisor: Maria Cristina Garcia

Discipline: History

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2024

Committee Chair/Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo

Discipline: History

Primary Language: Indonesian, Dutch

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2023-2024

Committee chair/advisor: Holger Klinck

Discipline: Natural Resources

Primary Language: Indonesian

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2023-2024

Committee chair/advisor: Marina Welker

Discipline: Anthropology