Yumin Ao
Institution: University of Otago
Discipline: Chinese Literature, Comparative Literature
Degree: PhD
Department/School: School of Languages and Cultures
Research topic: Study of Traditional Chinese Theatre
Region(s) of Asia: China
Date of completion: September 2010
Email address: aoyu6671@student.otago.ac.nz

Jung-hsuan (Chanel) Chen
Institution: University of Auckland
Discipline: Comparative Literature
Degree: PhD
Department/School:
Research topic: Women's Creative Journeys: Complexity and paradox (six creative women writers and artists from Taiwan and New Zealand)
Region(s) of Asia:
Date of completion: March 2008
Email address: chanel.chen@xtra.co.nz

Richard Donovan
Institution: Victoria University
Discipline: Translation Studies
Degree: PhD
Department/School:
Research topic: Issues in the Stylistics of Japanese-to-English Literary Translation
Region(s) of Asia: Japan
Date of completion: April 2011
Email address: donovanrichardn@hotmail.com

Aiqun Li
Institution: Massey University
Discipline: Linguistics
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Language studies
Research topic: Identity and agency among Chinese students in China and New Zealand
Region(s) of Asia: China
Date of completion: December, 2009
Email address: aigun.li@hotmail.com

Che-Lan (Claire) Tung
Institution: University of Auckland
Discipline: Japanese Literature
Degree: PhD
Department/School: School of Asian Studies
Research topic: Female kanshi poets in the late Edo period
Region(s) of Asia in which you specialise: Japan
Region(s) of Asia: Japan
Date of completion: July 2008
Email address: ctun013@ec.auckland.ac.nz

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Asian Studies

Tonghong Cai
Institution: University of Auckland
Discipline: Chinese Studies
Degree: PhD
Department/School: School of Asian Studies
Research topic: Contemporary Chinese Films
Region(s) of Asia: China
Date of completion: April 2009
Email address: tonghongcai@yahoo.com

Brett Gallagher
Institution: University of Otago
Discipline: Asian Studies
Degree: MA
Department/School: Languages and Cultures
Research topic: The History of Japanese perceptions of Korean residents in Japan
Region(s) of Asia: Japan
Date of completion: November 2008
Email address:: galbr195@student.otago.ac.nz

Dave Feickert
Institution: Victoria University of Wellington
Discipline: Asian Studies
Degree: MA
Department/School:
Research topic: An investigation into the tensions of transition: the safety problem of the Chinese coal industry
Region(s) of Asia:
Date of completion: June 2007
Email address: dave.feickert@gmail.com

Yihua Hong
Institution: University of Auckland
Discipline:
Degree: MA
Department/School: School of Asian Studies
Research topic: Being more Chinese or Korean: Identity transformations
of Korean Chinese migrant brides in South Korea
Region(s) of Asia: South Korea, Manchuria
Date of completion: November 2008
Email address: yihua725@yahoo.com

Phoebe Hairong Li
Institution: University of Auckland
Discipline: China Studies
Degree: PhD
Department/School: School of Asian Studies
Research topic: Window into the New Settlers' Community - a Critical Study of the Chinese Language Media in New Zealand
Region(s) of Asia: New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Date of completion: the end of 2008
Email address: phoebe.h.li@gmail.com

Sally Liangni Liu
Institution: University of Auckland
Discipline: Asian Studies
Degree: PhD
Department/School: School of Asian Studies
Research topic: Homeland on the Move - New Chinese Immigrants of New Zealand as Transnationals
Region(s) of Asia: People's Republic of China
Date of completion: May 2010
Email address: liangni.liu@auckland.ac.nz

Mudiyati Rahmatunnisa
Institution: University of Western Australia
Discipline: Asian Studies
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Social & Cultural Studies
Research topic: Decentralization and democratization in Indonesia
Region(s) of Asia: Indonesia
Date of completion: March 2009
Email address: rahmam01@student.uwa.edu.au

Gillian Skyrme
Institution: Massey University
Discipline: China studies
Degree: PhD
Department/School: School of Language Studies
Research topic: Chinese international students within a New Zealand university: expectations, emerging issues and change
Region(s) of Asia: New Zealand
Date of completion: 2009
Email address: g.r.skyrme@massey.ac.nz

Stuart Vogel
Institution: University of Auckland
Discipline: Translation
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Translation Studies and Asian Studies
Research topic: Analysis of Issues in the Translation and the Transference of Concepts and Ideas between China and the West:
Lessons from Presbyterian Missionaries in Taiwan, 1865-1934
Region(s) of Asia: Taiwan, China
Date of completion: July 2008
Email address: s.vogel@xtra.co.nz

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Anthropology

Samantha McCosh
See Gender Studies

Lorena Gibson
Institution: Massey University
Discipline: Social Anthropology
Degree: PhD
Department/School: People, Environment and Planning
Research topic: Projects of Hope: Grassroots Women Organising for Community Development in Kolkata (India) and Lae (Papua New Guinea)
Region(s) of Asia: West Bengal, India
Date of completion: March 2009
Email address: lorenagibson@yahoo.co.nz

Siân Halcrow
Institution: University of Otago
Discipline: Anthropology
Degree: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department/School:
Research topic: Study of infants in children from archaeological sites
Region(s) of Asia: Thailand
Date of completion:
Email address: sian.halcrow@anatomy.otago.ac.nz

Sally McAra
Institution: University of Auckland
Discipline: Social Anthropology
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Faculty of Arts
Research topic: Material culture of Tibetan Buddhism in Australia; convert Buddhists; Western Buddhism; Buddhist holy objects
Region(s) of Asia: Buddhism in Australasia
Date of completion: June 2008
Email address: sallymcara@gmail.com

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Business/Marketing

Development Studies

Rashmi Umesh Arora
Institution: University of Auckland
Discipline: Development Studies
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Centre for Development Studies
Research topic: Uttar Pradesh - Lagging State of India: Economic Development and Role of Banks
Region(s) of Asia: India, South Asia
Date of completion: 2007
Email address: rashmi_umesh@hotmail.com

Huyen Thi Thanh Do
Institution: University of Auckland, New Zealand
Discipline: Development Studies
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Centre for Development Studies
Research topic: When Global Water Policy Goes Local: Mainstream and Everyday Water Governance in Vietnam
Region(s) of Asia: Vietnam
Date of completion: 28 February 2008
Email address: dohuyen@gmail.com

Alok Misra
Institution: Victoria University of Wellington
Discipline: Development Studies
Degree: PhD
Department/School:
Research topic: Assessing Micro realities with Macro Policy – A study of SHG-Bank linkage programme (the microfinance initiative of NABARD in India) & the role of the informal sector in rural credit market.
Region(s) of Asia:
Date of completion: mid 2007
Email address: alok.misra@vuw.ac.nz

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Education

Vivienne Anderson
Institution: University of Otago
Discipline: Education/Anthropology
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Education/Anthropology
Research topic: The experiences of international and New Zealand women in higher education in New Zealand: a qualitative study
Region(s) of Asia: n/a
Date of completion: September 2008
Email address: vivienne.anderson@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

Wagheeh Shukry Hassan
Institution: Victoria University of Wellington
Discipline: Education/ICT/International Development
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Education
Research topic: ): Factors influencing the progression of adoption of Information Communications Technology (ICT) and teacher change in an Information Communications Technology Professional Development (ICTPD) Programme in Malaysian schools
Region(s) of Asia: Malaysia
Date of completion: 2009
Email address: shukry.hassan@vuw.ac.nz

Marilyn Innes
Institution: Massey University
Discipline: Education and Social issues
Degree: PhD
Department/School:
Research topic: research related to the social pressures and costs of education inside Korea and how this is perceived by Western countries such as New Zealand
Region(s) of Asia: Korea
Date of completion: 2010
Email address: mjinnes@xtra.co.nz

Adisorn Juntrasook
Institution: Victoria University of Wellington
Discipline: Education/Psychology/Sociology
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Education
Research topic: Public Discourse/Private Wisdom: A Narrative Inquiry of Awuso Intellectuals in Thailand
Region(s) of Asia: Thailand
Date of completion: December 2010
Email): adisorn.juntrasook@vuw.ac.nz

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Earth Sciences

Surin Onprom
Institution: Victoria University
Discipline: Earth Sciences
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Development Studies Program
Research topic: TRethinking Conservation: Politics of Participatory Biodiversity Conservation in Thailand
Region(s) of Asia: Thailand
Date of completion: December 2010
Email): onpromsuri@studetn.vuw.ac.nz, fforsro@ku.ac.th

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English Literature

Kathy Ooi
Institution: University of Auckland
Discipline: English Literature
Degree: PhD
Department/School:
Research topic: Constructions of Chineseness in New Zealand writings
Region(s) of Asia: New Zealand
Date of completion: September 2009
Email address: kat_ooi@yahoo.co.nz

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Film and Media Studies

Shen Jiang
Institution: University of Canterbury
Discipline: Chinese Film and Cultural Studies
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Cultural & Asian Language
Research topic: Postmodernism in the contemporary Chinese films Consermer culture, Nostalgia
Region(s) of Asia: Main land China
Date of completion: 2009
Email address: jiangshen6206@gmail.com

Mark Ellsworth
Institution: VUW
Discipline: Film Studies
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Film/SEFTMS
Research topic: The ‘Asianization’ of Hollywood: The Influence of Cross-over Sinitic Language Martial Arts Films on Hollywood’s Action Genre
Region(s) of Asia: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Diasporic Chinese Communities
Date of completion: December 2011
Email address: mark.ells@mac.com

Jing Shen
Institution: University of Auckland
Discipline: Arts
Degree: PhD
Department/School: School of Asian Studies
Research topic: Masculinity and the Nation: Chinese Films of the1930s and 1980s
Region(s) of Asia: China
Date of completion: December 2009 or December 2010
Email address: shenjingmail@yahoo.com.cn

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Gender Studies

Samantha McCosh
Institution: Univerisity of Otago
Discipline: Gender Studies, Social Anthropology, Japanese Studies
Degree: M.A.
Department/School: Department of Languages and Cultures
Research topic: ): Obstacles to Japanese Women Returning to Full-time Employment After Child-birth
Region(s) of Asia: Japan
Date of completion: November 2008
Email address: sam.mccosh@gmail.com

Sinith Sittirak
Institution: Victoria University of Wellington
Discipline: Women's Studies
Degree: PhD
Department/School:
Research topic: "Reclaiming the voices of rural women": aspects of the women movement in Thailand
Region(s) of Asia: Thailand
Date of completion: 2009
Email address: sinith-sittirak@yahoo.com

Geography

History

Robyn Curtis
Institution: University of Canterbury
Discipline: History
Degree: MA(by thesis)
Department/School: School of History
Research topic: Diseases of Containment: Leprosy and Syphilis in the Madras Presidency, 1860-1900
Region(s) of Asia: Southern India
Date of completion: March 2009
Email address: rcu12@student.canterbury.ac.nz

Samuel George Finnemore
Institution: University of Auckland
Discipline: History
Degree: MAin History (thesis)
Department/School: Department of History
Research topic: From China in the World to the World through China: English-Language Publications of the Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1950-1970
Region(s) of Asia: China, post 1949
Date of completion: 30 April 2008
Email address: sfin028@ec.auckland.ac.nz

Jennifer Harris
Institution: University of Adelaide
Discipline: Art History
Degree:
Department/School:
Research topic:
Region(s) of Asia: Asian art esp. Japan
Date of completion:
Email address: harsmith@internode.on.net / jennifer.harris@adelaide.edu.au

Hugh P. Kemp
Institution: Victoria University of Wellington
Discipline:
Degree: PhD
Department/School: School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies
Research topic: Conversion and religious identity amongst New Zealanders who convert to Buddhism
Region(s) of Asia: New Zealand
Date of completion: December 2007
Email address: h.kemp@xnet.co.nz

Joseph Lawson
Institution: Victoria University
Discipline: Chinese Studies
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Languages and Cultures
Research topic: Xikang, a Chinese province created in the Republican period and disestablished in 1955. Governance, colonization, and contemporary narratives
Region(s) of Asia: People's Republic of China
Date of completion: end 2010
Email address: joe.david.lawson@gmail.com

Linda Quayle
Institution: Massey University
Discipline: History
Degree: MPhil
Department/School:
Research topic: "Hedley Bull's International Society: A Different Approach to the ASEAN Regional Forum" (Research Exercise completed in 2002); "Globalization and Democratization in Thailand: Structural and Agential Roles in Political and Economic Change" (Masters thesis completed in 2004)
Region(s) of Asia: New Zealand
Date of completion: 2007
Email address: linda.quayle@clear.net.nz

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Information Systems

Nordin Mohamed
Institution: Victoria University of Wellington
Discipline: Information Science
Degree: PhD
Department/School:
Research topic: Knowledge management and criminal investigation: A case study of the criminal investigation process in the Royal Malaysian Police
Region(s) of Asia: malaysia
Date of completion: March 2007
Email address: nordin.mohamed@vuw.ac.nz

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Management

Political Science

Stephen Dunn
Institution: University of Canterbury
Discipline:
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Department of Political Science
Research topic: Containment and deterrance in US-China Relations
Region(s) of Asia: The East Asian littoral (from Japan to Singapore, but especially China, Taiwan and the South China Sea)
Date of completion: November 2007
Email address: sdd20@student.canterbury.ac.nz

Harshan Kumarasinghham
Institution: Victoria University of Wellington
Discipline: Political Science
Degree: PhD
Department/School:
Research topic: A comparative historical study of executive power and the Westminster System in selected Commonwealth nations (New Zealand, Australia, India and Sri Lanka)
Region(s) of Asia: South Asia
Date of completion: early 2007
Email address: harshan.kumarasingham@vuw.ac.nz

Todd Nachowitz
Institution: University of Waikato
Discipline: Political Science, Anthropology
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Dept of Political Science & Public Policy
Research topic: Indian diaspora in New Zealand, religious diversity
Region(s) of Asia: South Asia
Date of completion: 2010
Email address: toddnach@gmail.com

James Jian Hua To
Institution: University of Canterbury
Discipline: International Relations
Degree: PhD
Department/School: Political Science and Mass Communication
Research topic: Overseas Chinese
Region(s) of Asia: China, Taiwan
Date of completion: December 2008
Email address: jamesto@es.co.nz

Selver B. Sahin
Institution: University of Canterbury
Discipline: Political Science
Degree: PhD
Department/School: School of Political Science and Mass Communication
Research topic: Building the State and the Nation in Kosovo and East Timor after Conflict
Region(s) of Asia: East Timor
Date of completion: December 2007
Email address: ssa48@student.canterbury.ac.nz

Jason Young
Institution: Victoria University of Wellington
Discipline: Political Science & International Relations
Degree: PhD
Department/School: School of History, Philosophy, Political Science & International Relations
Research topic: Contemporary Chinese Movers: Economic Development, Internal Migration and Institutional Change in China's Hukou System: 1978-2008
Region(s) of Asia: China, East Asia/North East Asia
Date of completion: August 2009
Email address: Jason.Young@vuw.ac.nz

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Religious Studies

Anushka Perinpanayagam
Institution: Victoria University
Discipline: Political Science, Anthropology
Degree: MPhil
Department/School: School or Art History, Classics and Religious Studies
Research topic: Tamil identity in Sri Lanka: A secular state of becoming
Region(s) of Asia: Sri Lanka
Date of completion: 2008
Email address: nushipear@hotmail.com

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