Welcome to PAH
The work of the Division includes academic research, publication, and graduate supervision on a wide range of issues related to the histories and cultures of East and Southeast Asia and Oceania (comprising the Pacific Islands and Australasia). Members of the Division conduct research over a broad temporal range, from distant pasts to contemporary histories, while emphasizing the resonances of past and present. We combine particular empirical interests with reflection on the nature of historical inquiry, representation, and writing in history and related disciplines.
The Division's research fields include colonialism, capitalism, modernity, postcolonialism, and globalization; the construction and subversion of global, national, local, diasporic, and other identities (including class, gender, sexuality, 'race', religion); visual representation and newly emerging electronic media; the articulation of history and memory in national and popular cultures; relations between majority and minority cultures and societies; the history of ideas and technologies; shifting discourses on relationships between human society and the natural environment.
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Areas of research interest
- Governance: people, states, nations
- Subjectivities: gender, 'race', identities
- Representations: histories and visual cultures
- Ideas: ideologies, discourses, religions
- Boundaries: frontiers, crossings, diasporas
- Economies: class, resources, commodities
Future Students
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