Past PhD research
| Researcher | Year | Chair of panel & thesis title |
| 2010 | Prof Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Pacific & Asian history Japanese new left movements and their legacy for civil society | |
| 2013 | Anthony Milner A comparative analysis of approaches to public policy in Australia and Malaysia | |
| 2012 | Prof Robert Cribb, Pacific & Asian history Indigenous-driven mission: reconstructing religious change in sixteenth-century Maluku | |
| 2007 | Prof Brij Lal, Pacific & Asian history Migrations and mediations: the emergence of Southeast Asian diaspora writers in Australia, 1972-2006 | |
| 1978 | Prof Anthony Reid A contest for postwar Malaya: social conflict, August 1945-March 1946 | |
| 2010 | Prof Tony Milner Thai-Malaysian bilateral security relations from 1957 to 2006 | |
| 2012 | Dr Li Tana Between two rivers: The Li and Lao chiefdoms from the Han to the T'ang | |
| 2007 | Dr Geremie Barmé There's something about Mary: images and identities in Chinese Catholic communities | |
| 2008 | Dr Chris Ballard, Pacific & Asian history Batik Irian: imprints of Indonesian Papua | |
| 2012 | Prof Brij Lal, Pacific & Asian history Practising politics in the Pacific islands: insider perspectives | |
| 1970 | Passage, port and plantation: a history of Solomon Islands labour migration, 1870-1914 | |
| 2010 | Dr Craig Reynolds Body work': a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos | |
| 2006 | Dr Craig Reynolds When Clio meets the Titans: rethinking state-historian relations in Indonesia and the Philippines | |
| 2007 | Balinese history: a handful of dust? | |
| 2012 | Prof Brij Lal, Pacific & Asian history The view from the road: an alternate route through Hawaii's history | |
| 2012 | Dr Geremie Barmé The Shaykh of the great northwest: the religious and political life of Ma Yuanzhang (1853-1920 | |
| 2006 | A U.S. territory in Japan's South Sea Islands: the Japanese navy administration of Guam | |
| 2013 | Prof Peter Jackson, Gender, media & cultural studies Power, Perversion and Panic: Eunuchs, Colonialism and Modernity in North India | |
| 1988 | Prof Anthony Reid Prophets and followers in Batak Millenarian responses to the colonial order: parmalim, na siak bagi and parhudamdam, 1890-1930 | |
| 2013 | Prof Li Narangoa, Pacific & Asian history Sultanate or Amirate? The Routinization of Chinggisid Authority in the Early Mongol Empire and the Ilkhanate of Iran | |
| 2006 | Prof Mark Elvin British banknotes in China: the Bund and beyond, 1864-1937 | |
| 1973 | Culture contacts on the Loyalty Islands, 1841-1895 | |
| 2012 | Dr Chris Ballard, Pacific & Asian history The race question in Oceania: A. B. Meyer and Otto Finsch between metropolitan theory and field experience, 1865-1914 | |
| 2006 | Fleet and Wall: Ming China's strategic options 1392-1449 | |
| 2012 | Empire besieged: the preservation of Chinese rule in Xinjiang, 1884-1971 | |
| 2010 | Prof Peter Jackson, Gender, media & cultural studies Local autonomy: Chinese community in Songkhla during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries | |
| 2012 | Prof Brij Lal, Pacific & Asian history From independence to Hindraf: the Malaysian Indian community and the negotiation for minority right | |
| 2006 | Prof Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Pacific & Asian history Walking my hometown: practices of everyday nationalism in contemporary Japan | |
| 2012 | Prof Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Pacific & Asian history Nishida Kitar?'s political philosophy: war-time Japan and the empire of governmentality | |
| 1976 | Chinese elements in Javanese culture during the Majapahit period | |
| 2012 | Prof Robert Cribb, Pacific & Asian history The trial of Mrs Proudlock: law, government and society in British Malaya, 1911 | |
| 2006 | Religion and political attitudes in South Korea | |
| 1993 | Prof Hank Nelson My gun, my brother: experiences of Papua New Guinea policemen 1920 - 1960 | |
| 2007 | Prof Peter Jackson, Gender, media & cultural studies Crisis discourse, response, and structural contradictions in Thai Buddhism, 1990-2003 | |
| 1994 | Prof Anthony Reid The power of cloth: the textile trade of the Dutch East India Company (VOC 1600-1780 | |
| 1980 | Leaves of the Banyan tree: origins and background of Fiji's north Indian indentured migrants, 1879- -1916 | |
| 1969 | Catholic missions in the Solomon Islands, 1845-1966 | |
| 1992 | Prof Anthony Reid The inner region': a social and economic history of Nguyen Vietnam in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries | |
| 1980 | Prof Anthony Reid The bamboo spear pierces the payung: the revolution against the bureaucratic elite in north central Java | |
| 2010 | Prof Robert Cribb, Pacific & Asian history Forests of Islam: territory, environment and holy war in Terengganu, Malaya, 1928 | |
| 2010 | Dr Chris Ballard, Pacific & Asian history Taming race: the construction of aborigines in colonial Malaya, 1783-1937 | |
| 2006 | Prof Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Pacific & Asian history Colonial modernity across the border: Yaeyama, the Ryukyu Islands, and colonial Taiwan | |
| 2006 | Boomerangs and the Fijian dilemma: Australian aid for rural development, 1971-1987 | |
| 2006 | From imperial city to cosmopolitan metropolis : culture, politics and state in late Ming | |
| 2007 | Prof Robert Cribb, Pacific & Asian history Environmental change in a frontier region of Java: Besuki, 1870-1970 | |
| 2005 | Prof Li Narangoa, Pacific & Asian history Shifting Nikkeijin identities and citizenships: life histories of invisible people of Japanese descent in the Philippines | |
| 1968 | A history of the London Missionary Society in British New Guinea, 1871-1901 | |
| 1961 | A history of south-east Papua to 1930 | |
| 2007 | Oceania under steam: maritime cultures, colonial histories 1870s-1910s | |
| 1979 | Fijian Methodism, 1874-1945: the emergence of a national church | |
| 1982 | Be jijimo: a history according to the tradition of the Binandere people of Papua New Guinea | |
| 2004 | Prof Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Pacific & Asian history Intellectuals and publishing: communicating ideas in post-war Japan | |
| 1975 | Prof Anthony Reid Trade, raid, slave: the socio-economic patterns of the Sulu zone, 1770-1898 | |
| 2012 | Dr Tomoko Akami, Pacific & Asian history To win the west: China's propaganda in the English-language press, 1928-1941 | |
| Prof Kathryn Robinson, Anthropology Dancing the nation in migration: Indonesian women in Perth WA | ||
| 2007 | The Jalayirids and dynastic state formation in the Mongol Ilkhanate | |
| 2004 | Looking after one's own: the rise of nationalism and the politics of the Neuendettelsauer Mission in Germany, New Guinea and Australia (1928-1933) | |
| 2007 | Dr Li Tana The rise and fall of the Big Five of Penang and their regional networks, 1800s-1900s | |
| 2010 | Dr Geremie Barmé Religion and politics in the writings of Xu Xuan (917-92 | |
