Faculty of Arts Asia Institute

Research Students

[PhD] | [Masters]

PhD

Study Area Student Name Supervisor(s) Thesis Topic For Completion
Chinese Corey BELL David Holm
Lewis Mayo
A psychology with Chinese characteristics: Indigenous psychology, cultural identity and nation-building in modern China 2010
Jonathan BENNEY Anne McLaren
Justin Tighe
Contemporary rights-defending movements in the People's Republic of China 2009
Imma DI BIASE David Holm
Lewis Mayo
To be advised 2009
Emily DUNN Anne McLaren
Antonia Finnane
The protestant church and social organizations in contemporary China 2008
Helen JUST David Holm
Du Liping
Local (village) society and the sacred Taoist mountain - Maoshan (Mt. Mao) 2012
MA, Meng David Holm
Yongxian Luo
To be advised 2008
ZHOU Yu Xing Anne McLaren
Gao Jia
Chinese-Australian film-makers 2009
Chinese/Anthropology KAO Ya-Ning MC Patterson
David Holm
How do Zhuang female ritual specialists sing the state? -
Chinese/Creative Arts CHEN Hsueh Sheng Maggie Hegarty
Peter Morse
Anne McLaren
Salon Photography in China: The Extension and Transformation of an Elite Culture 2008
Chinese/History Philippa RILEY Lewis Mayo
Antonia Finnane
Contested Space: Taipei 2011
Chinese/Music Catherine INGRAM Cathy Falk
David Holm
Rice still feeds the body, but does song still feed the heart? An early twenty-first century musical ethnography of the Dong people of Tongdao Dong autonomous country, Hunan Province , PRC 2008
Indonesia Dina AFRIANTY Michael Leigh
Arief Budiman
Study of politics and civil society in Indonesia 2009
Heidi ARBUCKLE Ariel Heryanto
Maila Stivens
Gender and the histories of modern Indonesian art -
Amelia FAUZIA Arief Budiman
Michael Leigh
Philanthropy and Islamic Movements in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Indonesia 2008
Ludiro MADU Arief Budiman
Michael Leigh
Business and politics in the post-authoritarian Indonesia, 1997-2004: Ideologies, patronage and profits -
SOEYANTO Arief Budiman Mass media's perception of government bureaucracy in Indonesia -
Indonesian/Islamic Studies Louay ABDULBAKI Arief Budiman
Muhammad Kamal
Democratization and Islamic activism in Muslim-Majority countries: Indonesia and the Arab world 2008
Indonesian/Management Gert GRONDOWSKI Arief Budiman
Howard Dick
A political economy of democratisation: the role of international financial institutions in Indonesia 2011
Islamic Studies Redha AMEUR Abdullah Saeed
Abdul-Samad Abdullah
The notion of Ma'rifah in Sa'id Nursi's thought 2006
Andi Muhammad Ali AMIRUDDIN Abdullah Saeed
Arief Budiman
Islamic Syaria in South Sulawesi in Indonesia 2008
Anisa BUCKLEY Abdullah Saeed
Adrian Gully
Muslim women and Islamic family law: the challenges of securing a 'complete' divorce in Australia and Britain 2008
Muhammad Eeqbal Farouque HASSIM Abdullah Saeed
Abdul-Samad Abdullah
Continuity and Resistance to Change: Muslim Educational Thought on Children's Motivation (750-1400 CE) 2008
Burhanuddin bin LUKMAN Abdullah Saeed Currency exchange in modern practice - an Islamic jurisprudence comparative study 2011
Imran K LUM Abdullah Saeed
Adrian Gully
The Demand for Islamic Banking in Australia: A Study of the Approaches to Riba and the Religious, Economic and Social Factors Influencing Bank Selection Criteria of Australian Muslims 2008
Islamic Studies/History Mohammed Faisal Ahmed OSHAKE Abdullah Saeed
Richard Pennell
The Islamic movements theoretical and applied framework. The case study of Sudan model. 2009
Islamic Studies/Law Nur HIDAYAH Abdullah Saeed
Timothy Lindsey
Sharia contestation in Indonesia 2010
Islamic Studies/Philosophy Muhamad Razak IDRIS Muhammad Kamal Sadra and Hegel on change and progress in history 2010
Japanese Lulu VITALI Jun Ohashi
Michael Ewing
It takes two to tango: Stylistic choice in Japanese 2012
Japanese/Culture Studies Larissa Jane HJORTH Carolyn Stevens
Audrey Yue
Space invaders, space makers and gap fillers: Mobile phones and Japanese cute culture in the Asia Pacific 2008
Japanese/Education Jeremy BREADEN Carolyn Stevens
Joseph Lo Bianco
Re-inventing the 'daigaku': responses to reform, competition and uncertainty in the Japanese university 2009
Japanese/History Janet BORLAND Alan Mayne
Bill Coaldrake
Capitalising on Catastrophe: Education, commeration and the Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923-1930 2008
Japanese/Politics Caroline NORMA Sheila Jeffreys
Carolyn Stevens
The Political Economy of the Japanese Sex Industry in the High Growth Era, 1960-90 2009

Masters

Study Area Student Name Supervisor(s) Thesis Topic For Completion
Chinese Mark CROSBIE David Holm
Anne McLaren
The Arhat who subdued the Mara -
KOENIG Zhao David Holm Shamanic song among the Manchus: Poetic structure, culture and history -
Indonesian Irma HALIM Arief Budiman Current Relationship Between the Younger Generations of Chinese and Indonesians in a Business Context 2008
Islamic Studies Riyaz Ahmed ASVAT Muhammad Kamal An investigation into whether the contemporary Islamic State has legality in Islamic Law, basis in Islamic philosophy and precedent in Islamic history 2008
Imaan Aaliyah AXIARLIS Abdullah Saeed Islam's inherently political nature: further debunking the myths that obscure Islam in the Western psyche 2009
Islamic Studies/Law Nushi MAHFODZ Abdullah Saeed
Timothy Lindsey
The concept of beyond reasonable doubt in Islamic Law. 2008

Also see: completed research students.

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