Bangladesh	Himalaya	Malaysia	South Asia
Brunei	India	Mongolia	Southeast Asia
Cambodia	Indonesia	Myanmar	Sri Lanka
Central Asia	Japan	Nepal	Thailand
China	Korea	New Zealand	Vietnam
East Asia	Lao DPR	Singapore	West Asia

Australasia

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

Bangladesh

Central Asia

Hugh P. Kemp,see New Zealand

China

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

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

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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

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

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

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

Samuel George Finnemore
Institution: University of Auckland
Discipline: History
Degree: MA in 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

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

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

Phoebe Hairong Li,see New Zealand

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

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

Kathy Ooi, see New Zealand

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

Lynette Shum, see New Zealand

Gillian Skyrme, see New Zealand

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

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

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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East Asia

Andrew Butcher,see New Zealand

Stephen Dunn,see under China

India

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

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

Sharmila Bernau, see New Zealand

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

Harshan Kumarasinghham,see South Asia

Alok Misra,see South Asia

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Indonesia

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.a

Japan

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

Andrew Duke, see New Zealand

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

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

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

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

Korea

Francis Collins, see New Zealand

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

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

Malaysia

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

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

Mongolia

Hugh P. Kemp, see New Zealand

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Myanmar

Nepal/Himalaya

New Zealand

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

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

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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

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

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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Gillian Skyrme
Institution: Massey University
Discipline:
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

Singapore

South Asia

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

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

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

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Kim Penny,see Bangladesh

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

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

Sri Lanka

Harshan Kumarasingham,see South Asia

Anushka Perinpanayagam, see South Asia

Thailand

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

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

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

Linda Quayle, see New Zealand

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

Vietnam

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