Research Specialism of Staff

PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) Programme

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Department of Asian and International Studies

JAPANESE LITERATURE & CULTURE

Lu Xun, Japanese Modern Literature, Poetics of Space, East Asia, Utopian Studies

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMYDr RUBEN GONZALEZ VICENTE China and the developing world, Natural resources and development, State and non-state sovereignties

COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIESDr Birgit LINDERMadness and Literature, Medical Humanities, Gothic in Literature and Culture, Chinese Literature and Culture,

Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, German Literature, Poetry

SOCIOLOGY - POLITICAL ECONOMYDr Jonathan LONDON Comparative political economy, Institutional analysis, East

and Southeast Asia, Vietnam

KOREAN STUDIESDr Sunyoung OHLanguage contact in East Asia, Interface between language & culture, Language education in Asia

POLITICAL ECONOMYDr Stephan ORTMANN Authoritarian regimes, Politics of East and Southeast Asia, Social movements, Political learning

ANTHROPOLOGY, ECONOMIC HISTORYDr Alina ORTWEIN Success, social achievement and well-being, Creativity and Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Cultures of expertise

RELIGIOUS STUDIES, ANTHROPOLOGY, HISTORY

Buddhist Studies, Methods and Theories of Religion, Myanmar, Ethnography

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMYDr Sean STARRSWorld Order & American Hegemony, East Asian Political Economy, Critical Political Economy

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; COMPARATIVE POLITICSDr Bradley WILLIAMS International Relations of the Asia-Paci�c, Comparative Asian Politics, Japanese Politics

COMPARATIVE POLITICSProf William CASEComparative Democratization, Elite Studies, Comparative Politics, Political Economy of East and Southeast Asia

POLITICAL SCIENCEProf Mark THOMPSON Democracy in Southeast Asia, East Asian authoritarianism, Political Dynasties in Asia

POLITICAL SCIENCE, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSDr Nicholas THOMASChinese Foreign Policy, Health Security in Asia, Asian security

JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATUREDr Xiaolin WANGSino-Japanese Comparative Literature, Japanese Intellectual History, Japanese Sinology

POLITICAL SCIENCEDr Alain GUILLOUXHumanitarian studies, Political economy of foreign aid, Regional governance in Asia

ANTHROPOLOGYDr Yuk Wah CHANMigration studies, Asian borderlands, Vietnamese-Chinese

relationships, Vietnamese and Chinese diaspora, Outbound Chinese tourism, Food and culture, Death studies

POLITICAL SCIENCE, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSDr Justin ROBERTSONInternational Political Economy, Firms as Actors,US International Economic Relations, The Foreign-Domestic Divide in Emerging Markets

POLITICAL SCIENCE, LAWDr Kevin MIAOEnvironmental law and policy, Climate change and energy security in China, Carbon trading, Eco-cities and local environmental activism

POLITICAL SCIENCE, ANTHROPOLOGYDr Nankyung CHOIElections and Political parties, Local elites and politics, Women's political advancement

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Political Development, Comparative Political Institutions, Thailand

POLITICAL ECONOMYDr Toby CARROLL The political economy of development, Multilateral development organisations, Critical political economy, Development in Southeast Asia

PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) Programme

Overview

Enquiries

Admissions

* For consultation and discussion, Please contact Departmental Research Degree Programmes Coordinator, Dr Federico Ferrara Email: fferrara@cityu.edu.hk

Research Areas

As Asia moves to the centre of the world stage, AIS’s mission is to explore its new reality in broader international context, conducting research and teaching at the highest international levels. Our faculty cover the full spectrum of disciplines from political economy, politics, international relations and sociology to anthropology, history, literature, culture and film. We have expertise across the whole region, including Northeast Asia (China, Japan, Korea), Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and South Asia (India).Twenty-two languages are spoken in the department, with most academic staffconducting research in more than one language.

Our research degree programme now features a large and successful group of students from fifteen different countries, including five recipients of the prestigious Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, and over twenty other holders of scholarships and awards. We aim to recruit from six to ten new PhD students per year. Given the inter-disciplinary nature of our approach, we welcome all applications from excellent prospective students in the humanities and social sciences. Areas of study and research popular with our doctoral students include Political Economy, Development Studies, the International Relations of Northeast Asia, Southeast Asian Politics and Society, Energy and the Environment, and Cultural Studies.

There are currently two areas of approved research degree studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences: 1) Policy and Administration; and 2) Language, Communication, and Creativity. Most students in the Department of Asian and International Studies pursue their degrees in the area of Policy and Administration. Our programme provides advanced training allowing students to develop the capacity to design, conduct, and disseminate original research: engage in sophisticated and innovating theorizing, collect and analyze empirical evidence through state-of-the-art qualitative and quantitative techniques, and acquire the writing skills necessary for the successful publication of research findings.

All of our students spend considerable time conducting fieldwork in their countries of interest, collecting evidence of both a qualitative and quantitative nature. By the time they are awarded their doctoral degrees, most have acquired at least three semesters of teaching experience, while some have one or more publications in indexed refereed journals. Recent graduates have found employment at academic institutionsthroughout the region and beyond.

Applications of Research Degree programmes are accepted throughout the year and will normally be considered during January to March of the admission year.

* For admissions procedures, Please visit http://www.sgs.cityu.edu.hk/prospective/rpg