Research students (completed)

PhD | Masters

PhD

Year completed Student name Supervisor(s) Thesis topic
2012
Kumuda Simpson-Gray
Shahram Akbarzadeh
Exploring the role of neoconservatism and exceptionalism in the formulation of the Bush Doctrine and how President George W. Bush's foreign policy highlighted the limitations of American power.
2012
Nur Hidayah
Abdullah Saeed
Timothy Lindsey
Sharia contestation in Indonesia
2012
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
2012
Ya-Ning Kao
MC Patterson
David Holm
How do Zhuang female ritual specialists sing the state?
2012
Hsueh Sheng Chen
Maggie Hegarty
Peter Morse
Anne McLaren
Salon Photography in China: The Extension and Transformation of an Elite Culture
2012
Dina Afrianty
Michael Leigh
Arief Budiman
Study of politics and civil society in Indonesia
2012
Andi Muhammad Ali Amiruddin
Abdullah Saeed
Arief Budiman
Islamic Syaria in South Sulawesi in Indonesia
2012
Ilya Levine
Shahram Akbarzadeh
Pradeep Taneja
A liberal account and analysis of the US pursuit of energy interests, democracy promotion, and the war on terror in Central Asia during the George W. Bush administration. The analysis seeks to map the interactions between these various interests and policies, and relate these to the conditions of complex interdependence and the dynamics of hybrid idealist-realist presidential doctrines.
2012
Muhamad Razak Idris
Muhammad Kamal
JapaneSadra and Hegel on change and progress in history
2012
Iori Hamada
Carolyn Stevens
Rosemary Overell
Japanese food culture in Australia: modernity in transnational perspectives
2012
Joshua M. Roose
Shahram Akbarzadeh
Muhammad Kamal
Key Social Influences upon Identity: Construction and expression in Australian-born Muslim men
2011
Yu Xing Zhou
Anne McLaren
Gao Jia
Chinese-Australian film-makers
2011
Emily Dunn
Anne McLaren
Antonia Finnane
Heterodoxy and Contemporary Chinese Protestantism: The Case of Eastern Lightning
2010
Hsueh-sheng Chen
Anne McLaren
Art Photography in China before 1949: the Continuation and Transformation of an Elite Culture
2009
Muhammad Eeqbal Farouque Hassim
Abdullah Saeed
Abdul-Samad Abdullah
Children's motivation in Muslim Education 750-1400 CE
2008 Khalid Mohamed Al-Azri Abdullah Saeed
Abdul-Samad Abdullah
Analysis of contemporary religious discourse in the Gulf with particular focus on Oman and Saudi Arabia
2008 Tianqiao Lu
Luo Yongxian
David Holm
A grammar of Maonan, South China
2007 Abdurrahman Asarogulu Abdullah Saeed
Christine Mary Asmar
Reshaping identities: A study of religion, ethnicity and culture among second-generation Turkish-Australians
2007 Suaidi Asyari Arief Budiman
Michael Leigh
The role of Muslim groups in the process of 1997-2000 Indonesian reform
2007 Shaoming Zhou
David Holm Funeral Rituals in Shandong
2007 Ji Zhang
David Holm
Brian Scarlett
The one and the many: A comparative study of a theme in western philosophy and Chinese Taoism
2007 Dirk Tomsa Michael Leigh
Arief Budiman
The Development of Golkar after the New Order
2007 Arnusianto Mardulena Mage Michael Ewing
Douglas Lewis
Patatiba: Marriage negotiations as verbal art performance: An ethnopoetic study on Dayar Maanyan of central Kalimantan oral literature
2007 Masdar Hilmy Arief Budiman
Michael Leigh
Anatomy of Islamic radicalism in post-New Order Indonesia
2007 Nina Nurmila Abdullah Saeed
Maila Stivens
Marriages in contemporary Indonesia: 'Women's perspectives'
2007 Ahmad Luthfi Assyaukanie Abdullah Saeed
Arief Budiman
Muslim models of polity: The development of Islamic political thought in Indonesia, 1945-2005
2006 Ayxem Eli
Anne McLaren
Abdullah Saeed
Islam, gender and ethnicity: A case study of urban Kashgar
 

Masters

                                           
Year completed Student name Supervisor(s) Thesis topic
2012 Rachel McCarthy Shahram Akbarzadeh British Muslims: Multicultural citizenship and identity. The research critically examines Tariq Ramadan's proposal for the participation of Muslims in the British political sphere.
2007 Maya Costa-Pinto J. Siapno
A. Whittaker
An examination of the replacement of Portuguese colonial rule by Indonesia and the eventual formation of East Timor - comparative study with Goa, India
2007

Thomas Dowling

C. Schencking

Why the Okinawan Teachers Association (OTA) reversed its pro-Hinomaru (Japanese national flag) worship policy during the American occupation (1945 - 72)