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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: Masters

Anticipated Degree Year: 2025

Committee Chair/Advisor: Tamara Loos

Discipline: Southeast Asia Studies

Primary Language: English, German, Thai

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: -

Committee Chair/Advisor: Nick Salvato

Discipline: Hip-Hop Studies, Sound Studies, Vietnamese Diasporic Studies, Performing Studies

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: Kaja McGowan

Discipline: History of Art

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2024-25

Committee chair/advisor: Tom Pepinsky

Discipline: Government

Research Countries: Timor-Leste

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: N/A

Discipline: Socio-Cultural Anthropology

Primary Language: Vietnamese

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: MFA

Anticipated Degree Year: 2023

Committee Chair/Advisor: Ishion Hutchinson

Discipline: Creative Writing - Fiction

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2024-25

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2023-24

Committee Chair/Advisor: Kaja McGowan

Discipline: History of art and visual studies

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: MPA

Anticipated Degree Year: 2023

Committee Chair/Advisor: Thomas O'Toole

Discipline: Public Administration (Science, Technology, and Infrastructure Policy)

Primary Language: Indonesian

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: Doctorate

Anticipated Degree Year: 2028

Committee Chair/Advisor: Jessica Chen Weiss

Discipline: Government