All research supervisors
Asian studies
Dr Luca Anceschi
Luca's academic interests include a critical investigation of Asia’s energy security in the climate change era and a comprehensive analysis of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy.
Professor Nick Bisley
Nick's academic interests include International Relations of the Asia-Pacific and globalization and the diplomacy of great powers.
Dr Yangbin Chen
Yangbin's academic interests include Chinese ethnicity, social and educational development and Chinese language studies (teaching Chinese as a second language and Chinese sociolinguistics).
Dr Michael Connors
Michael Connors is a specialist in Thai studies with a focus on ideas and politics. He also writes on international politics.
Dr Sophie Couchman
Sophie is currently organising Dragon Tails 2011: Sources, Language, Approaches: 2nd Australasian Conference on Overseas Chinese History and Heritage (http://www.dragontailsconference.com.au) with co-convenor Dr Kate Bagnall. The conference
Dr Elise Foxworth
Elise’s academic interests include Japanese studies and post-colonial studies, with a focus on the Japanese literature written by diasporic Korean writers in Japan.
Dr Peter Friedlander
Peter's academic interests focus on the history of Hindi manuscript traditions related to medicine, astrology, science, literature and religion.
Dr Bao-Qiang Gao
Bao Qiang Gao's academic interests include international and comparative education, contemporary Chinese education and cross-cultural communication.
Dr Zane Goebel
Zane's academic interests include linguistic anthropology, semiotics, language ideologies, mediatized representations of language use and users and identity.
Professor Alberto Gomes
Professor Gomes’ academic interests include Anthropology and sociology of development and environment; ethnicity and cultural identities, South and Southeast Asia
Dr Benjamin Habib
Ben’s acedemic interests include North Korea’s motivations for nuclear proliferation, East Asian security and the politics of climate change.
Dr Nicholas Herriman
Nicolas' academic interests include Southeast Asia and Indonesia.
Dr Trevor Hogan
Trevor’s academic interests include social theory, comparative and historical sociology, cities, religion and the Philippines.
Dr Xianbi Huang
"Xianbi's academic interests include social networks, social stratification and inequality, contemporary Chinese society and quantitative methods. "
Dr Mei-Fen Kuo
Mei-fen Kuo left her native Taiwan to undertake a PhD thesis on the late 19th century and early 20th century origins and development of Chinese-Australian community in Sydney under Professor John Fitzgerald from 2003.
Dr James Leibold
Dr Leibold is a political historian of modern China with specific research expertise on the role of ethnicity, race and national identity in modern Chinese history and society, and the intersections between historical memory and ethnic iden
Dr Wendy Mee
Wendy’s academic interests include studies of society and culture in Malaysia and Indonesia, Science and technology studies in Australia and Malaysia and Development studies, with a particular focus on gender and development.
Dr Stephen Morey
Stephen Morey is an ARC Future Fellow. He researches three language groups in Northeast India: Tai, Singpho and Tangsa, concentrating on traditional songs and ritual texts. He also researches the Aboriginal languages of Victoria.
Professor Kaori Okano
Kaori H. Okano is a Professor in Asian Studies in the School of Social Sciences. She researches and writes in the field of sociology/anthropology of education, youth, women and multiculturalism in Asia (especially in Japan); and comparative
Dr Lidia Tanaka
Lidia’s academic interests include sociolinguistics: multilingualism and code-switching, comparative discourse patterns (Spanish, Japanese and English) and discourse analysis.
Dr Dirk Tomsa
Dirk's academic interests include Indonesian politics and society, democratization studies, political Islam in Asia, and comparative Southeast Asian politics, especially elections and party politics.
Dr Brooke Wilmsen
Brooke’s academic interests include involuntary and forced displacement; refugee resettlement; Australian social policy; sustainable livelihoods; Chinese politics and development studies.
Dr Yuzeng Xu
Yuzeng Xu’s academic interests include Chinese as a second language acquisition and applied linguistics.
