Ph.D. alumni
2012
Shaohua Guo
Title of Dissertation: "The Eyes Of The Internet: Emerging Trends In Contemporary Chinese Culture."
Supervisor: Yvonne Chang
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor in Chinese at Colgate University
Yongzhen Shu
Title of Dissertation: “Post-Socialist Regime And Popular Imagination In Chinese Cinema In The Twenty-First Century: Lu Chuan And His Films”
Supervisor: Yvonne Chang
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor in Chinese at Montclair State University
Ian Woolford
Title of Dissertation: “Renu Village: An Ethnography Of North Indian Fiction”
Supervisors: Martha Selby and Rupert Snell
Current position: Post-doctoral fellow, Cornell University
2010
Urmila Patil
Title of Dissertation: "Conflict, Identity and Narratives: The Brahman Communities of Western India from the Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Centuries."
Supervisor: Patrick Olivelle and Cynthia Talbot
Current Position: Post-doctoral fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Xiaoping Wang
Title of Dissertation: "Contending for the Chinese Modern: The Writing of Fiction in the Great Transformative Epoch of Modern China, 1937-1949."
Supervisor: Yvonne Chang
Current Position: Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Xiamen University, China
2009
David Brick
Title of Dissertation: 'The Danakanda (Book on Gifting) of the Krtyakalpataru: A Critical Edition, Annotated Translation, and Introduction.''
Supervisor: Patrick Olivelle
Current Position: Sanskrit Lecturer, Yale University
Neil Dalal
Title of Dissertation: 'Texts Beyond Words: Contemplation and Practice in Sankara's Advaita Vedanta''
Supervisors: Stephen Phillips and Joel Brereton
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion, University of Alberta
Mark McClish
Title of Dissertation: "Political Brahmanism And The State: A Compositional History Of The Arthasastra"
Supervisor: Patrick Olivelle
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Religion, Birmingham-Southern College
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2008
Sarah Green
Title of Dissertation: The Individual In The Nation: Locating Identity At The Transition From Didactic Nationalism To The Lyrical In Early Twentieth-Century Hindi Poetry
Supervisor: Herman van Olphen
Current Position: K - 12 Project Consultant in the Hindi Urdu Flagship Program, UT Austin
Gardner Harris
Title of Dissertation: Obtaining Grace: Locating The Origins Of A Tamil Saiva Precept
Supervisor: Martha Selby
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Bard College
Matthew Sayers
Title of Dissertation: Feeding The Ancestors: Ancestor Worship In Ancient Hinduism And Buddhism
Supervisors: Joel Brereton and Patrick Olivelle
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Lebanon Valley College
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2007
Kristen Rudisill
Title of Dissertation: Brahmin Humor: Chennai's Sabha Theater And The Creation Of Middle-Class Indian Taste From The 1950s To The Present
Supervisor: Kathryn Hansen
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University
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2006
Laura Brueck
Title of Dissertation: Rethinking Resistance: Constructing a Hindi Dalit Literary Identity in Contemporary India
Supervisor: Kathryn Hansen
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Hindi Literature, Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, University of Colorado at Boulder
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2005
Steven Lindquist
Title of Dissertation: In Search of a Sage: Yajnavalkya and Ancient Indian Literary Memory
Supervisor: Patrick Olivelle
Current Position: Associate Professor of Religion, Southern Methodist University
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Karline McLain
Title of Dissertation: Whose Immortal Picture Stories?: Amar Chitra Katha and the Construction of Indian Identities
Supervisor: Martha Selby
Current Position: Associate Professor of Religion, Bucknell
Jarrod Whitaker
Title of Dissertation: Drinking Status, Wearing Duty: Magic, Power, and Warrior Ethics in Ancient India.
Supervisor: Joel Brereton
Current Position: Associate Professor of Religion, Wake Forest University
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2004
Yue Ma
Title of Dissertation: The Catastrophe Remembered by the Non-Traumatic: Counternarratives on the Cultural Revolution in Chinese Literature of the 1990s
Supervisor: Yvonne Chang
Peter Siegenthaler
Title of Dissertation: Looking To The Past, Looking To The Future: The Localization of Japanese Historic Preservation, 1950-1975
Supervisor: Susan Napier
Current Position: Senior Lecturer, Texas State University
2002
Robert Goodding
Title of Dissertation: The Treatise On Liberation-In-Life Critical Edition And Annotated Translation Of The Jivanmuktiviveka Of Vidyaranya
Supervisor: Patrick Olivelle
Current Position: Religious Studies, University of Tennessee
2000
Don Davis
Title of Dissertation: The Boundaries Of Law:Tradition, 'Custom,' And Politics In Late Medieval Kerala
Supervisor: Richard Lariviere
Current Position: Associate Professor, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison
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Feng-huang Ying
Title of Dissertation: Reassessing Taiwan's Literary Field Of The 1950s
Supervisor: Yvonne Change
Current Position: Associate Professor, Taiwanese Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
1999
Charles McArthur
Title of Dissertation: 'Taiwanese Literature'' After The Nativist Movement: Construction of a Literary Identity Apart From A Chinese Model
Supervisor: Yvonne Chang
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Chinese, Modern and Classical Languages department, University of Houston
