Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies

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We offer training in 14 languages, and undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the histories, religions, cultures and textual traditions of a third of the world’s population. Our faculty specializes in all periods from the classical to the modern, in the fields of literature, history, and religious studies, and conducts research in India, Pakistan, Tibet, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

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Professor Penny Edwards Discusses Prince Myingun in Exile

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CSEAS News

Daniel Owen, a first-year Ph.D. candidate in South & Southeast Asian Studies, won second place in the recent Indonesian language competition hosted by the Indonesian Embassy in Washington D.C. He was runner-up in the category in which participants had to write and recite an original…

UC Berkeley Punjabi Language Lecturer Pool

The Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley is recruiting a pool of qualified temporary lecturers to teach elementary, intermediate, or advanced courses in Punjabi. Positions may be available as early as Fall 2021, but applications will be accepted…

Spring 2021 Upper Division Courses

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Completed PhDs

Kat Gutierrez
2020
The Region of Imperial Strategy: Regino Garcia, Sebastián Vidal, Mary Clemens and the Consolidation International Botany in the Philippines, 1858-1936

Yusmarni Djalius
2019
Minangkabau Intellectuals and Radical Nationalism in British Malaya

Rebecca Whitington
2019
Tug-of-ear: The Play of Dialect in Modern Bengali and Tamil Literature

Hannah Lord Archambault
2018
Geographies of Influence: Two Afghan Military Households in 17th and 18th Century South India

Thibodi Buakamsri
2018
Uncommon tales of common folks: Life–stories of ordinary people across the nineteenth–century Cambodia
Instructor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

Joseph Scalice
2018
Crisis of Revolutionary Leadership: Martial Law and the Communist Parties of the Philippines, 1957-1974

Kankan Xie
2018
Estranged Comrades: Global Networks of Indonesian Communism, 1926-1932

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