Current PhD Projects:

Nasibeh Ghasri Khouzani, “Art practice and Self-censorship among Iranian Diaspora”

Soo-Min Shim, “The Gyopo Gap: Contemporary Art and the Korean Diaspora”

Lucie Folan, "Unlocking aspects of Indian Art & Cultural Heritage: the history, creation, context and collection of Jain pilgrimage paintings"

Miho Watanabe, "Awareness of Between-ness: creating artworks from the view of a Japanese /Australian diaspora artist.”

Bic Tieu, “The Production and Impact of Biographic Objects as Instruments for Traversing Personal Identity, Migration and Intercultural Spaces.”

Namdoo Kim, “Exploring Socio-political Themes Through Sculptural Media”

Completed PhD Projects (2017 onwards)

Krynkana Kongpetch: "Being after Being: The invisible form. How can Buddhism and Phenomenology explain materiality beyond after death." (2020)

Carmen Ky, "Abstract painting and the intersection between figuration and abstraction with conceputal resonance of the Five Elements" (2020)

Alex Burchmore, "New Export China: Translations across time and place in contemporary Chinese porcelain art (1996-2016)" (2019)

Khadeeja Althagafi, "The Art of Saudi Traditional Jewellery: Rejuvenation for A Contemporary World" (2018)

Sally Bamford, "The Nat imagery of Myanmar" (2017)

Safrizal Shahir "Gravestones as mirror: a visual discourse on Batu Aceh" (2017)

Completed Honours and MA Theses (2017 onwards)

Chelsie Baldwin, “The Ideology of Power: Appropriation of Hindu-Buddhist Iconography in Modern Indonesia” (2021)

Seren Heyman-Griffiths, Representations of Southeast Asian art in Australian state-owned collections. (2021)

Anna Stewart-Yates, Influences and interfaces in Japanese and international design. (2021)

Caitlin Hughes, “Dismantling the map – rethinking space, history and citizenship through the art practices of Tintin Wulia, Tita Salina and Irwan Ahmett” (2020, Janet Wilkie Prize for Art History).

Jamie Alexander, “Redo/ubling Materialist Feminism, Rethinking Contemporary Art’s History in Southeast Asia” (2020)

Jing Zhang, “Urban Schizophrenia: Narratives of Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art” (2020)

Janice Peh: "Iconography and Identity in Peranakan Ceramics" (2018)

Josephine Dumont, "The Halo in early Buddhist art" (2018)

Yifang Cui, "The Emperor’s Chicken Cup – a study in ‘value’” (2017)

Hanfei Shi, "Contemporary Chinese Art - the Politics and the Market" (2017)

Bianca Hill, "Woman as Visual Fiction: national identity in post-independence Myanmar" (2017, University Medal).

Bianca Winataputri, "Generasi Dilema: Consciousness of the Global South in the Work of Eko Nugroho and Jompet Kuswidananto" (2017, Janet Wilkie Prize for Art History).