Welcome to SSEAS
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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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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Upcoming Events
- East Meets West: The Films of Ulrike Ottinger, thru Mar 14, 2021
- Asma Kazmi + Santhi Kavuri-Bauer | Crisis and Creativity, Apr 7
- Bangladesh at 50: The Transformation of Culture, Apr 29
- Prachi Deshpande | Locating Marathi's Pasts, Apr 27
- Lecture by the UC Berkeley South Asia Art and Architecture Dissertation Prize recipient for 2021, Apr 22
- Lecture by the UC Berkeley South Asia Art Artist Prize recipient for 2021, Apr 21
