Alumni
PHD
Class of 2024
DR PRIYAM SINHA
Thesis title: Disability in New Bollywood: Mapping Production and Circulation of Affect
DR VANI SWARUPA MURALI
Thesis title: When Sowing Isn't Reaping: Decentralisation, Groundwater Extraction and Agrarian Livelihoods in Tamil Nadu
Class of 2023
DR LAKSHMI PRADEEP RAJESWARY
Thesis title: Coral Worlds: An Anthropological Study of Island Protection and Conservation in Lakshadweep in the Indian Ocean
Class of 2022
DR MOHAMMAD ARSHAD
Thesis title: Muslim Media and Community Dynamics in Digital India: Institutions, Professionals, Publics
Class of 2020
DR SOURADIP BHATTACHARYYA
Thesis title: Rethinking Inter-Community Relations and Production of Space: A Study of Serampore's Society
DR MELISSA ZERMIT NAMCHU
GFF Helps Country Representative, Glenn Family Foundation (GFF)
Thesis title: Understanding Health Practices of the Lepcha Community: An Anthropological Inquiry
DR KESAVA VARIGONDA CHANDRA
Research Associate, National University of Singapore
Thesis title: The Impact of Anti-Nuclear Movements on the Indian State's Civil Nuclear Energy Policy
DR RANJANA RAGHUNATHAN
Thesis title: Inhabiting Intimate Worlds: Tamil Women and Belonging in Singapore
Class of 2019
DR GOPIKA JADEJA
Teacher, United World College of Southeast Asia, Singapore
Thesis title: "We Will Build An Overbridge": Dalit Poetry and Identity in Gujarat
DR SHIVANI GUPTA
Teaching Assistant, National University of Singapore
Thesis title: Mapping Women’s Worlds in Contemporary Urban Banaras
Class of 2017
DR RITU JAIN
Lecturer, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Thesis title: Management of Minority Languages in Singapore: (Re)Positioning Hindi
Class of 2016
DR HIMANSHU JHA
Lecturer & Research Fellow, Heidelberg University, Germany
Thesis title: Capturing Institutional Change: The Case of Right to Information Act in India
DR IRFAN WAHEED USMANI
Thesis title: Print Culture and Left-Wing Radicalism in Lahore, Pakistan, c. 1947-1971
Class of 2014
DR SHIN SOJIN
Assistant Professor, Tokyo International University, Japan
Thesis title: The State, Society and Foreign Capital in India: Ideas, Interests and Institutional Changes Favoring Foreign Direct Investment in Tamil Nadu and Odisha
Class of 2013
DR KAZI FAHMIDA FARZANA
Senior Lecturer, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Thesis title: Forced Migration and Statelessness: Voices and Memories of Burmese Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
DR PRIYA MANISH JARADI
Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore
Thesis title: Fashioning India's National Art: Baroda's Royal Collection, Art Institutions and Crafts at Colonial Exhibitions (1875-1924)
Class of 2012
DR JOEFE B SANTARITA
Dean & Professor, University of the Philippines, Philippines
Thesis title: India-Philippine Relations in the Context of India's Look East Policy
Class of 2009
DR TABEREZ AHMED NEYAZI
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Thesis title: Media Convergence and Hindi Newspapers: Changing Institutional and Discursive Dimensions, 1977-2007
DR RANAJIT DASTIDAR
Senior Research Consultant, The Equal Rights Trust, UK
Thesis title: Capitalist Development and Technological Innovation in Open-water Fisheries: Impacts on Traditional 'Water-Slave' Fishing Communities of Southeastern Bangladesh
Class of 2008
DR CAROL THIRUMARAN
Sessional Lecturer, James Cook University, Singapore
Thesis title: Re-presenting the 'Snake-Charmer' in Ancient and Classical India; Sarpajīvin, Ahigundika and Visavejja in Early Indian Narratives
DR SUJOY DUTTA
Thesis title: Power Relationships in Rural Uttar Pradesh
Class of 2007
DR SADHANA SRIVASTAVA
Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Thesis title: The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in India's Exports: An Analysis of US and Japanese FDI with Special Reference to India's ICT Service Sector
Class of 2006
DR TORSTEN TSCHACHER
Professor, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Thesis title: The Impact of Being Tamil on Religious Life among Tamil Muslims in Singapore
Masters
Class of 2022
MS CAI YIXUAN
Thesis title: The Development of Sport in India through the Lens of Mega Sports Events
Class of 2021
MS LOSHEINI RAVINDRAN
Thesis title: When Love Encounters Religion: Interfaith Marriages among Indians in Singapore
Class of 2020
MS CLAUDIA CHIA
Thesis title: “A Fragile and Elusive History of International Mediation: The Peace-Making Efforts of Sir Owen Dixon and Dr Frank Graham in Kashmir, c. 1950-1958"
Class of 2019
MS RUPAL NAGDA
Thesis title: “Gender and Mobility: Journeys Juxtaposed” Narratives of Expatriate Indian Women in Singapore
MR FARHAN AHMAD MUMTAZ
Thesis title: Social Entrepreneurship in Solar Power Sector in Rural Pakistan: Challenges and Potential
Class of 2018
MR YOGAANANTHAN THEVA
Thesis title: Framing and Exhibiting Indian Heritage: Coming to Terms with Diversity in Singapore's Heritage Institutions
Class of 2016
MS SILVIA TIERI
Thesis title: India, A "New" Foreign Aid Donor? The Case of Indian Aid to Sri Lanka
Class of 2015
MS PRISCILLA ANN VINCENT
Thesis title: Becoming Autonomous: State Capacity and Teacher Accountability in India
Class of 2014
MS LEE WEI FEN
Thesis title: Exclusively Sacred: Community, Worship, and Voluntarism in Singapore Hindu Temples
MR NGAWANG DRAKPA
Thesis title: Royal Coronations: Windows upon Historical Transition in Bhutan, 1907-2008
Class of 2013
MS WANG YAQIAN
Thesis title: The Pakistani Nation in History Education: An Examination of Pakistan Studies in Textbooks
Class of 2012
MR SHABBIR HUSSAIN MUSTAFA
Thesis title: Between Community and Secularism: The Dawoodi Bohras and Agendas of 'Reform' in India, c. 1915-1965
Class of 2011
MS HEMA KIRUPPALINI
Thesis title: Travelling Dwellers: Nepalese Lahure in Singapore
Class of 2008
MS GAURI S PATHAK
Thesis title: Bridging the Home and the World: Iconic Representation and the Negotiation of Cultural Brand Value in the Dabbawallahs of Mumbai
Class of 2007
MS YAMINI VASUDEVAN
Thesis title: Hindu Nationalism and the Challenge of Cast-based parties in North India
Honours
Class of 2020
MS KAUSALYA VIJAYAN KUMARAN
Thesis title: Drumming a Pan-Indian and Local Identity Through Music: The Case of Damaru Singapore
MS GHAZI TAHIRA NAMREEN FATIMA
Thesis title: Taboo, Silence, Translation: Fictional Women of Manto and Chughtai's Partition Literature
MS P RUBINISHREE
Thesis title: The 'Five Feet' Subculture: A Look into Tamil Youth Culture
MS REBECCA MICHELLE THOMAS
Thesis title: I Ink, Therefore I Am: Identity and Memory of the Indian Community in Singapore Through Tattoos
Class of 2019
MS NANDHINI BALA KRISHNAN
Thesis title: The Rise of a 'New Age Kathanayaki' in Tamil Cinema: Exploring the Framing and Construction of Heroines in Contemporary Female-Centric Tamil Films
MS GENEVIEVE CHIA XIN YING
Thesis title: Ingredients that Bind: Food and Identity in the Chetti Melaka Community
MS LOSHEINI RAVINDRAN
Thesis title: Looking Into Chindian Lives: Colourism, Language And Religion In The Making Of A Bi-Ethnic Identity
Class of 2016
MS CLAUDIA CHIA
Thesis title: Border Management and Security Challenges: The Indian Experience and Lessons from South Korea
MS SHREYA BHAT
Thesis title: Inscribing a Kannada Identity: Nativism, Linguistic Diversity & Politics in Karnataka
MS SOPHY TIO
Thesis title: Unravelling Alternative Histories with Biennialogy: Kochi-Muziris Biennale
MR VEL MURUGAN
Thesis title: Project Bhakti: Analysing Hindu Religious Education in the Dias
Class of 2012
MS NUR SYAZANA SHAHUL HAMEED
Thesis title: Keramat as Sites of Community Convergence: Understanding Tamil Muslims in Singapore
MR PRAVEEN VIJAYAKUMAR
Thesis title: Tracing, with a difference, the Religious Sensibilities and Rituals of the Thirunangai – Study on South-Asian diasporic transgenderism’
MS VITHYA SUBRAMANIAM
Thesis title: Seeing ’84: A study of the Visual Memory of Operation Blue Star
MR YOGAANANTHAN THEVA
Thesis title: Tracing the Emergence of CECA
Class of 2011
MS PRISCILLA ANN VINCENT
Thesis title: Decentralisation and the extent of its influence in the implementation of MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act)
MS SITI HAZARIAH
Thesis title:Uncovering burial practices among the Tamil Hindus in Singapore
Class of 2010
MS LEE WEI FEN
Thesis title:The Unending Journey: Reading the South Asian Diaspora in Singapore