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Ph.D. Career Outcomes

  • 2023-2024: 4 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Sundas Amer Intricate Entanglements: Persiante Women Poets in the 20th Century S. Akbar Hyder Special Projects Technician - UT Libraries (UT Austin)  
    Namrata Kanchan From Gilded Pens to Mortal Ears: The Formation of Dakani Literary and Manuscript Culture in Early Modern Deccan Sultanates S. Akbar Hyder Postdoctoral Fellow (Brown University)  
    Jean Young Kim From Infertility to Subfertility: Neoliberal Working Environments and Entreprenurial Selves' Assisted Reproduction in South Korea Youjeong Oh Lecturer (Dongguk University)  
    Shu-wen Tang Taiwan and the Alternative Aesthetic Regime in Postsocialist China Yvonne Chang (Finishing summer 2024, employment information pending)  
  • 2021-2022: 3 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    I-Hsiao Michelle Chen New Localism: Strategic Linguistic Maneuvers in Sinophone Cinemas of Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong, 2000-2015 Kirsten Cather, Yvonne Chang  Talent Acquisition Specialist (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)  
    Katie Lazarowicz Mithila Art After Nine Decades of Patronage Heather Hindman Instructor (Moore College of Art and Design) Assistant Director of Development, Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology (The University of Texas at Dallas); Instructor (Dallas College)
    Jeffery McElroy  Scientism and Cultural Resistance in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: 1885-2019 Kirsten Cather Risk Analyst (S&P Global) Lead China Analyst, Economics and Country Risk (S&P Global)
  • 2020-2021: 3 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Qingzi Cai Making China Knowable: The Production of Vernacular Knowledge in China, 1911-1966 Yvonne Chang Curriculum development (private industry)  
    Daniel Dillon (Re)Making Community on Station Road: Stories of Masculinity and Mobility among Rickshaw Drivers in Postwar Jaffna, Sri Lanka Heather Hindman Adjunct Lecturer (Huston-Tillotson University) Senior Academic Advisor (UT Austin)
    Charlotte Giles Embodied Labor, Life, and Pain of Female Chikankari Kaarigars in Lucknow, India Heather Hindman South Asia Reference Librarian (Library of Congress)  
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  • 2023-2024: 4 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Sundas Amer Intricate Entanglements: Persiante Women Poets in the 20th Century S. Akbar Hyder Adjunct Faculty (Huston-Tillotson University)  
    Namrata Kanchan From Gilded Pens to Mortal Ears: The Formation of Dakani Literary and Manuscript Culture in Early Modern Deccan Sultanates S. Akbar Hyder Postdoctoral Fellow (Brown University)  
    Jean Young Kim From Infertility to Subfertility: Neoliberal Working Environments and Entreprenurial Selves' Assisted Reproduction in South Korea Youjeong Oh Lecturer (Dongguk University)  
    Shu-wen Tang Taiwan and the Alternative Aesthetic Regime in Postsocialist China Yvonne Chang (Finishing summer 2024, employment information pending)  
  • 2022-2023: 0 Graduates

    No students graduated this year.

  • 2021-2022: 3 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    I-Hsiao Michelle Chen New Localism: Strategic Linguistic Maneuvers in Sinophone Cinemas of Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong, 2000-2015 Kirsten Cather, Yvonne Chang  Staff (Portland Japanese Garden)  
    Katie Lazarowicz Mithila Art After Nine Decades of Patronage Heather Hindman Instructor (Moore College of Art and Design) Assistant Director of Development, Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology (The University of Texas at Dallas); Instructor (Dallas College)
    Jeffery McElroy  Scientism and Cultural Resistance in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: 1885-2019 Kirsten Cather Risk Analyst (S&P Global)  
  • 2020-2021: 3 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Qingzi Cai Making China Knowable: The Production of Vernacular Knowledge in China, 1911-1966 Yvonne Chang Curriculum development (private industry)  
    daniel dillon (Re)Making Community on Station Road: Stories of Masculinity and Mobility among Rickshaw Drivers in Postwar Jaffna, Sri Lanka Heather Hindman Visiting Assistant Professor (Beloit College) Senior Academic Advisor (UT Austin)
    Charlotte Giles Embodied Labor, Life, and Pain of Female Chikankari Kaarigars in Lucknow, India Heather Hindman South Asia Reference Librarian (Library of Congress)  
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