Selected IAAS Doctoral Dissertation Titles

Name	Graduation Year	IAAS PhD Dissertation Title
Dr. Ki Joong Song	1979	"Mongo Yuhuae" (Categorical Explanation of the Mongolian Language) A Chinese-Korean-Mongolian Glossary of the Eighteenth Century
Dr. Siddiq Wahid	1981	A Lower Ladakhi Version of the Gling-Rgyal-Lham-Kesar: An Annotated Translation and Introduction
Dr. Beatrice Forbes Manz	1983	Politics and Control Under Tamerlane
Prof. Hodong Kim	1986	The Muslim Rebellion and the Kashgar Emirate in Chinese Central Asia, 1864- 1877 (Yaqub Beg, Sinkiang)
Dr. Jan Nattier	1989	The "Candragarbha-sutra" in Central and East Asia: Studies in a Buddhist Prophecy of Decline
Dr. Victor Ostapchuk	1990	The Ottoman Black Sea frontier and the relations of the Porte with the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth and Muscovy, 1622-1628
Dr. David T. Zmijewski	1992	Critical edition of a Turkish legend of Ibrahim ibn Ad'ham
Dr. Kahar Barat	1993	The Uygur "Xuanzang Biography", Volume IX
Dr. Mehmet Yalcin	1993	"Divan-i Qansuh al-Guri'': A critical edition of Turkish poetry commissioned by Sultan Qansuh al-Guri (1501-1516)
Dr. Xiangyun Wang	1995	Tibetan Buddhism at the court of Qing: The life and work of Cang-skya Rol- pa'i-rdo-rje (1717-1786)
Prof. Mei-hua Lan	1996	The Mongolian independence movement of 1911: A Pan-Mongolian endeavor
Prof Jacqueline Misty Armijo	1997	Sayyid 'Ajall Shams al-Din: A Muslim from central Asia, serving the Mongols in China, and bringing 'civilization' to Yunnan
Dr. Jiger Janabel	1997	From Mongol Empire to Qazaq Juzder: Studies on the Steppe political cycle (13th-18th centuries)
Dr. Mariko N. Walter	1997	Kingship and Buddhism in central Asia
Dr. Roxanna K. Blake	2000	The Cold War along the Inner Asian frontier: Iran, 1945-1963
Dr. Ruohong Li	2002	A Tibetan aristocratic family in eighteenth-century Tibet: A study of Qing - Tibetan contact
Dr. Gray Warren Tuttle	2002	Faith and nation: Tibetan Buddhists in the making of modern China (1902–1958)
Dr. Victoria Sujata	2003	A commentary on the “Mgur 'bum” (“Collected Songs of Spiritual Realization”) of Skal ldan rgya mtsho, a seventeenth century scholar and siddha from Amdo
Dr. Eric David Mortensen	2004	Raven augury in Tibet, northwest Yunnan, Inner Asia, and circumpolar regions: A study in comparative folklore and religion
Dr. Hoong T. Toh	2004	Tibetan Buddhism in Ming China
Dr. Mariner Ezra Padwa	2007	An Archaic Fabric: Culture and landscape in an early Inner Asian oasis (3^rd–4^th Century C.E. Niya)
Dr. Rian Thum	2008	The sacred routes of Uyghur history
Dr. Gulnora K Aminova	2010	Removing the Veil of Taqiyya : Dimensions of the Biography of Âghâ-yi Buzurg (a sixteenth-century female saint from Transoxiana)
Dr. Yang Ga	2010	The Sources for the Writing of the Rgyud bzhi , Tibetan Medical Classic
Dr. David John Brophy	2011	Tending to Unite? The Origins of Uyghur Nationalism
Dr. Daniel Alexander Hirshberg	2012	Delivering the Lotus-Born: Historiography in the Tibetan Renaissance
Dr. Devon Margaret Dear	2014	Marginal Revolutions: Economies and Economic Knowledge between Qing China, Russia, and Mongolia, 1860 - 1911
Dr. Zeyneb Hale Eroglu Sager	2016	Islam in Translation: Muslim Reform and Transnational Networks in Modern China, 1908-1957
Dr. Doug Hitch	2016	The Old Khotanese Metanalysis
Dr. Sokhyo Jo	2016	Topics on the History of Tibetan Astronomy with a Focus on Background Knowledge of Eclipse Calculations in the 18th Century
Dr. Jeffrey Eden	2016	Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
Dr. Xin Wen	2017	Kingly Exchange: Silk Road and the East Eurasian World in the Age of Fragmentation (850-1000)
Dr. Joshua Freeman	2019	Print Communism: Uyghur Official Culture Between China and the USSR
Dr. Anne-Sophie Pratte	2021	Mapping Mongolia in the 19th Century: Qing Cartography and the Transformation of the Steppe
Dr. Penghao Sun	2023	The Birth of an Etiquette Story: Tibetan Narratives of U rgyan pa, Qubilai, and the Yuan Government
Dr. Zhouyang Ma	2023	An Inner Asian Buddhist Revolution: The Rise of Tibetan Buddhism in the Tangut Xia State