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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: 2029

Committee Chair/Advisor: Natalie Melas

Discipline: English Literature 

Primary Language: Tagalog

Graduate Student, Jesse F. and Dora H. Bluestone Peace Studies Fellowship recipient

Nicole T. Venker is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment. Her research examines livelihoods, labor, and land relations along transnational routes of migration from Myanmar (Burma) to the United States.

Graduate Student

Darren Wan is a PhD student in the History Department. His research focuses on the ways South Chinese and South Indian migrant workers articulated claims to citizenship in the early postcolonial states of Burma and Malaya.

Degree Pursued: PhD

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2026

Committee Chair/Advisor: Mara Du

Discipline: History

Primary Language: Chinese, Vietnamese

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: MPA

Anticipated Degree Year: 2025

Primary Language: Indonesian, Chinese

Research Countries: Indonesia

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

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: MA

Anticipated Degree Year: 2025

Committee Chair/Advisor: Keith Weller Taylor

Discipline: Asian Studies

Primary Language: Vietnamese, Chinese

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: Juno Parreñas

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027-2028

Committee Chair/Advisor: Tamara Loos

Discipline: History

Primary Language: Chinese, Malay

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: TBD

Primary Language: Chinese, English

Research Countries: Singapore