Dissertation Titles

2009

Frank Bailey
`Āina Ho`opulapula: A Contested Legacy—Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanaian`ole’s Hawaiian Homes Commission Act during the Territorial Years, 1921-1959

Adam Fong
Flourishing on the Frontier: Trade and Urbanization in Tang Dynasty Guangzhou, 618-907 C.E.

Betty Ickes
Tokelau’s Decolonization and Olohega’s Penu Tafea in the Hawai`i Diaspora

Tatiana Parent
The “Wild Men” of the Roman Army: The Role and Significance of Tribal Culture and Warrior Traditions Amongst Germanic, Thracian and Mauretanian Soldiers

2008

Bailey, Scott
Travel, Science, and Empire: The Russian Geographical Society’s Expeditions to Central Eurasia, 1845-1905

Kelli Nakamura
Suspected Criminals, Spies, and “Human Secret Weapons”: The Evolution of Japanese-American Representations in Political and Cultural Discourse from Hawaiʻi to Japan, 1880-1950s

Marian Young
Shenjing Shibao: Constructing Public Opinion in Late Qing China

2007

Muhamad Ali
Religion and Colonialism: Islamic Knowledge in South Sulawesi and Kelantan, 1905-1945

Geok Yian Goh
Cakkravatiy Anuruddha and the Buddhist Oikoumene: Historical Narratives of Kingship and Religious Networks in Burma, Northern Thailand, and Sri Lanka (11th-14th Centuries)

Jenny Klages
Cambodia, Catholicism, and Conquistadores: Spanish-Cambodian Interactions from the Late Sixteenth to the Mid-Seventeenth Century

Keng We Koh
Moving People and a Prelude to Colonialism: The Kingdom of Johor, 1784-1818

Lizbeth Piel
The Ideology of the Child in Japan, 1600-1945

John Pincince
On the Verge of Hindutva: V.D. Savarkar, Revolutionary, Convict, Ideologue, c. 1905-1924

Akiko Sugiyama
Ideas About the Family, Colonialism and Nationalism in Javanese Society

Robin Tatu
Performing the Ancestors: A Balinese Historiographical Tradition

2006

Joe Cheavens
Kkangp’ae and Yakuza: Organized Crime in Colonial Korea

Joshua Fan
The Homeless Generation: Voices from the Invisible Chinese Diaspora

Thomas Goodman
The Sosolot: An Eighteenth Century East Indonesian Trade Network

Virginia Neel
China in the Development of British Economic Theories and National Identity

2005

Keith Camacho
Cultures of Commemoration: The Politics of War, Memory and History in the Mariana Islands

James Corcoran
The Jingu-Wayang Encounter: China and Indonesia during the Cultural Revolution and the Gestapu Coup and Countercoup

Paul Demura-Devore
The Political Institutionalization of Tea Specialists in Seventeenth Century Tokugawa Japan: The Case of Sen Sōtan and Sons

Scott Mudd
Graphic Propaganda: Japan’s Creation of China in the Prewar Period, 1894-1937

Brandon Palmer
Japan’s Mobilization of Koreans for War, 1937-1945

Janine Richardson
Keiki O Ka’ Aina: Institutional Care for Hawai`i’s Dependent Children, 1865-1938

2004

Maureen Burgess
The Cup of Ruin and Desolation: Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft in the Chesapeake

Douglas Fuqua
The Japanese Missions to Tang China and Maritime Exchange in East Asia, 7th-9th  Centuries

Kerri Inglis
“A Land Set Apart”: Disease, Displacement, & Death at Makanalua Moloka’i

Grace Mateo
A History of Ilocos: A Story of the Regionalization of Spanish Colonialism

John Treiber
Mapping Manchuria: The Japanese Production of Knowledge in Manchuria—Manchukuo to 1945

2003

Kathryn Anderson
The Open Door: Early Modern Wajorese Statecraft and Diaspora

Grace Ai-ling Chou
Confucian Cultural Education on the Chinese Periphery: Hong Kong’s New Asia College, 1949-1976

Elizabeth Dorn
“For God, Home and Country”: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and Reform Efforts in Meiji Japan

Frank Marotti
Negotiating Freedom in St. Johns County, Florida, 1812-1862

Ron Roy
Powerful Warriors and Influential Clergy: Interaction and Conflict between the Kamakura Bakufu and Religious Institutions

Bonnie Traymore
Dangerously Sensual: The Sexual Revolution, Feminism, and Grrl Power in Postwar America

2002

Robert Fish
The Heiress and the Love Children: Sawada Miki and the Elizabeth Saunders Home for Mixed-Blood Orphans in Postwar Japan

Hans Van Tilburg
Misunderstood Junks: The Western View of Chinese Maritime Technology

2001

Liam Kelley
Whither the Bronze Pillars? Envoy Poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese Relationship in the 16th to the 19th Centuries

Bernardo Michael
Separating the Yam from the Boulder: Statemaking, Space, and the Causes of the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-1816

2000

Julia Bronson
One Turn of Pitch & Toss: Curzon, Younghusband & the Gamble for Lhasa, 1903 to 1904

Jeff Long
Overcoming Marxism in Early Shōwa Japan: Hayashi Fusao’s Seinen and the Turn to Ultranationalism