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 (3rd–4th 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: |
Dr. Penghao Sun | 2023 |
The Birth of an Etiquette Story: |
Dr. Zhouyang Ma | 2023 |
An Inner Asian Buddhist Revolution: The Rise of Tibetan Buddhism in the Tangut Xia State |