# Selected IAAS Doctoral Dissertation Titles ## expand\_more Sort**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: 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