13 December: Marjolijn van Zutphen
Farāmarz, the Sistāni Hero
Supervisor: prof dr. Jan-Just Witkam

24 November: Manja Bomhoff
Long-Lived Sociality: A Cultural Analysis of Middle-Class Older Persons' Social Lives in Kerala, India
Supervisor: prof. dr. Carla Risseeuw

21 November: Önder Cetin
Patrons, Clients and Friends: The Role of Bosnian Ulema in the Rebuilding of Trust and Coexistence in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Supervisors: prof. dr. Touraj Atabaki and prof. dr. Bayat Asef

22 June: Sasha Verma
Significance of Identity, Individuality & Ideology in Old Kingdom Elite Tomb Iconography
Supervisors: dr. René van Walsem and prof. dr. Olaf Kaper

15 June: Jeroen Groenewegen
The Performance of Identity in Chinese Popular Music
Supervisors: prof. dr. Maghiel van Crevel (LIAS) and dr. Wim van der Meer (UvA)

14 June: Merijn Gantzert
The Emar Lexical Texts
Supervisor: prof. dr. Wilfred van Soldt

1 June: Juliette Huber (LUCL)
A Grammar of Makalero: A Papuan Language of East Timor
Supervisors: prof. dr. Maarten Mous (LUCL) and dr. Aone van Engelenhoven (LIAS)

31 May: Kalsang Gurung
The Emergence of a Myth: In Search of the Origins of the Life Story of Shenrab Miwo, the founder of Bon
Supervisor: prof. dr. Sasha Lubotsky (LUCL), dr. Henk Blezer (LIAS)

23 March: Leo Roeten
The certainty of change
Supervisor: prof. dr. Borghouts

22 March: P. Luttik 
Van voorouderschrijn tot souvenir
Supervisor: prof. dr. P.J.M. Nas

23 February: Ramada Elghamis
Le tifinagh au Niger contemporain 
Supervisor: prof. dr. Harry Stroomer

3 February: Andrea Acri
Dharma Patañjala
Supervisor: prof. dr. Arlo Griffiths

14 September: Willemijn Waal
The Source as Object: Studies in Hittite Diplomatics
Supervisors: prof. dr. Wilfred van Soldt & prof. dr. Theo van Hout (University of Chicago)

1 September: Bas Snelders
Identity and Christian-Muslin Interaction
Supervisor: prof. dr. Bas ter Haar Romeny & dr. Mat Immerzeel

1 July: Andres Marks
Kabuki brain puzzles: Station-character motif patterns in the actor Tokaido series of Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)
Supervisor: prof. dr. Matti Forrer

15 June: Chen Yu-Jen
Embodying Nation in Food Consumption: Changing Boundaries of “Taiwanese Cuisine” (1895-2008)
Supervisor: prof. dr. A. Schneider

1 June: Arzu Meral
Western Ideas percolating into Ottoman minds: a survey of translation activity and the famous case of Télémaque
Supervisor: prof. dr. R. Kruk

26 May: Dogan Cetinkaya
Muslim Merchants and Working Class in Action: Nationalism, Social Mobilization and Boycott Movement in the Ottoman Empire 1908-1914
Supervisor: prof. dr. E.J. Zürcher

3 March: H. Guo
Writing Chinese Art History in Late Qing and Republican China
Supervisors: dr. O.J. Moore and prof. dr. B.J. ter Haar

16 February: M.A. Jansen
Fashionably Traditional
Supervisor: prof. dr. L.P.H.M. Buskens 

16 February: Islam Qasem
(Lecturer at  LIAS/SMES) 
Neo-Rentier Theory: The Case of Saudi Arabia (1950-2000)
Supervisor: prof. dr. M.O. Hosli (Faculty of Social Sciences)

2 February: Antonio Terrone 
Bya rog prog zhu: The Raven Crest
Supervisor: prof. dr. B.J. ter Haar

2 February: Carmen Pérez González 
A Comparative Visual Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Iranian Portrait Photography and Persian Painting
Supervisors: prof. dr. K. Zijlmans (Art History) & prof. dr. J.J. Witkam (LIAS)

17 December: R.A.G. Soekatno
Kidung Tantri Kediri
Supervisor: prof. dr. B. Arps

10 December: Menghong Chen
De Chinese gemeenschap van Batavia, 1843-1865, een onderzoek naar het Kong Koan-archief
Supervisor: prof. dr. J.L. Blussé vann Oud-Alblas

1 December: Magdalena Kuhn
Die Struktur der koptischen liturgischen Melodien
Supervisors: prof. dr. J. Borghouts en prof. dr J. van der Vliet

18 November: Alexandros Lamprou   
Between central state and local society
Supervisor: prof. dr. E.J. Zürcher

3 November: Paramita Paul
Wandering saints: Chant exxentrics in the art and culture of song and Yuan China
Supervisors: prof. dr. M. van Crevel and dr. O. Moore

24 September: Zulkifli
The struggle of the Shi'is in Indonesia
Supervisor: prof. dr. C. van Dijk

10 September: A. Pissin
Elites and their children
Supervisor: prof. dr. B.J. ter Haar 

2 September: E. van Dongen
Goodbye Radicalism! Conceptions of conservatism among Chinese intellectuals during the early 1990s
Supervisor: prof. dr. A. Schneider

11 June: Panitee Suksomboon (LIAS guest researcher)
Thai migrant women in the Netherlands: Cross-cultural marriages and families
Supervisor: prof. dr. C. Risseeuw (FSW)

9 June: Chiara Brivio
The human being: when philosophy meets history
Supervisors: prof. dr. C.S. Goto-Jones and prof.dr. Rikki Kersten (Australian National University)

9 June: Katinka van Heeren
Contemporary Indonesian film: spirits of reform and ghosts from the past
Supervisor: prof. dr. B. Arps 

26 May: K. Togo
The inside story of the negotiations on the northern territories
Supervisor: prof. dr. C.S. Goto-Jones

14 May: Robbert Woltering
Occidentalisms
Supervisor: prof. dr. A. Bayat

6 May: Véronique Degroot
Candi, space and landscape. A study on the distribution, orientation and spatial organization of central Javanese temple remains 
Supervisor: prof. dr. B. Arps

19 February: Pınar Yelsalı Parmaksız
Modernization and Gender Regimes: Life Histories of the Wives of Turkish Political Leaders
Supervisor: prof. dr. E.J. Zürcher

3 December: İsmail Hakkı Kadı
Natives and Interlopers: competition between Ottoman and Dutch merchants in the eighteenth century
Supervisor: prof.dr. E.J. Zürcher 

25 November: Çimen Günay-Erkol
Cold War Masculinities in Turkish Literature: A Survey of  March 12 Novels
Supervisors: prof.dr. E. van Alphen and prof.dr. E.J. Zürcher

5 November: Silvia Marijnissen
From transparency to artificiality: modern chinese poetry from Taiwan after 1949
Supervisor: prof.dr. M. van Crevel

5 November: Chris Nierstrasz
In the shadow of the company
Supervisors: prof.dr. J.L. Blussé Van Oud Alblas and prof.dr. F.S. Gaastra (History)

25 September: Minori Kogure
National prestige and economic interest - Dutch diplomacy towards  Japan 1850 ‐ 1863
Supervisor: prof.dr. J.L. Blussé Van Oud Alblas

25 September: Wouter ter Bruggen Hugenholtz
De landrentebelasting op Java 1812-1920
Supervisor: prof.dr. J.L. Blussé Van Oud Alblas

24 June: A. Pos
Het paviljoen van porselein
Supervisor: prof.dr. J.L. Blussé Van Oud Alblas

24 June: K. Ukai
Yuefuand Gexing by Li He
Supervisor: prof.dr. W.L. Idema

18 June: Janet Kamphorst
In Praise of Death
Supervisor: prof.dr. D.H.A.Kolff

29 May: Dirk Meyer
Meaning-construction in warring-states philosophic discourse
Supervisors: prof.dr. B.J. ter Haar and prof.dr. J. Gentz (University of Edinburgh)

15 May: Melody Chia-Wen LU
Gender, Marriage and Migration. Contemporary marriages between mainland China and Taiwan
Supervisors: prof.dr. A. Schneider and prof.dr. C. Risseeuw (FSW)

13 March: Stefan E.A. van Galen
Arakan and Bengal
Supervisor: prof.dr. D.H.A. Kolff

12 March: Gijs C. Kruijtzer
Xenophobia and Consciousness in Seventeenth-Century India
Supervisor: prof.dr. D.H.A. Kolff

5 March: Lennert Gesterkamp
The heavenly court: A study on the iconopraxis of Daoist temple painting
Supervisor: prof.dr. B.J. ter Haar

30 January: Renaud J. Kuty
Studies in the syntax of Targum Jonathan to Samuel
Supervisor: prof.dr. T. Muraoka

18 December: O.M. Ulus
The attitude of the radical left in Turkey towards the army
Supervisor: prof.dr. E.J. Zürcher

13 December: Sri Margana
Company versus Wong Pinggir
Supervisor: prof.dr. J.L. Blussé Van Oud Alblas (TANAP Project)

12 December: Binu M. John
The Ali Rajas of Cannanore
Supervisor: prof.dr. J.L. Blussé Van Oud Alblas (TANAP Project)

22 November: U. Azak
Janus-faced memory of secularism
Supervisors: prof.dr. E.J. Zürcher and prof.dr. M. van Bruinessen (Utrecht)

20 November: T.H.F. Halbertsma
Nestorian remains of Inner Mongolia
Supervisor: prof.dr. B.J. ter Haar

31 October: S.M. Hell
Siam and the League of Nations
Supervisor: prof.dr. B.J. Terwiel

30 October: J. Burhanudin
Islamic knowledge, authority and political power
Supervisor: prof.dr. C. van Dijk

30 October: D.N. Rosidin
From Kampung to Kota
Supervisor: prof.dr. C. van Dijk

12 September: Muridan S. Widjojo
Crosss-cultural Alliance-making and local resistance in Maluka during the revolt of Prince Nuku, c. 1780-1810
Supervisor: prof.dr. J.L. Blussé Van Oud Alblas (TANAP Project)

6 September: Ghulam A. Nadri
Eighteenth-century Gujarat: The dynamics of its political economy, 1750-1800
Supervisors: prof.dr. D.H.A. Kolff, prof.dr. Om Prakash, dr. J. Gommans (TANAP Project)

20 June: Anjana Singh
Fort Cochin in Kerala 1750-1830
Supervisor: prof.dr. D.H.A. Kolff (TANAP Project)

14 June: Dick Stegewerns
Adjusting to the New World
Supervisor: prof.dr. K.W. Radtke

10 May: Hsin-Hui Chiu
The colonial 'civilizing process' in Dutch Formosa 1624-166
Supervisor: prof.dr. J.L. Blussé Van Oud Alblas (TANAP Project)

4 April: N.R. Dewasiri
Sri Lankan Peasant in Transition
Supervisor: prof.dr. J.L. Blussé Van Oud Alblas (TANAP Project)

15 March: J. Dees
Facing modern times
Supervisor: prof.dr. W.R. van Gulik

7 March: B. Ruangsilp
Dutch East Indian Company Merchants at the Court of Ayutthaya
Supervisors: prof.dr. J.L. Blussé Van Oud Alblas and prof.dr. P.J.A.N. Rietbergen (RU Nijmegen)

7 February: A. Stremmelaar
Justice and revenge in the Ottoman rebellion of 1703
Supervisor: prof.dr. E.J. Zürcher

19 December: R.E. Breuker
When truth is everywhere: the formation of plural identities in medieval Korea, 918-1170
Supervisor: prof.dr. B.C.A. Walraven

19 December: J.E. Bosnak
Shaping the Javanese play
Supervisor: prof.dr. B. Arps

7 December: Matthijs de Jong
Isaiah among the ancient Near Eastern prophets. A comparative study of the earliest stages of the Isaiah tradition and the Neo-Assyrian prophecies
Supervisors: prof.dr. A. van der Kooij (Faculty of Theology) and prof.dr. W.H. van Soldt

7 December: Hoang Anh Tuan
Silk for silver: Dutch-Vietnamese relations, 1637-1700
Supervisors: prof.dr. J.L. Blussé Van Oud Alblas and prof.dr. F.S. Gaastra (TANAP Project)

6 December: Liu Yong
The Dutch East India company’s tea trade with China, 1757-1781
Supervisor: prof.dr. J.L. Blussé Van Oud Alblas (TANAP Project)

30 November: A.F. Schrikker
Dutch and British colonial intervention in Sri Lanka ca 1780-1815
Supervisor: prof.dr. J.L. Blussé Van Oud Alblas (TANAP Project)

31 October: M.F.J. Baasten
The non-verbal clause in Qumran Hebrew
Supervisor: prof.dr. H. Gzella

24 October: L.E.M. Mols
Mamluk metalwork fittings in their artistic and architectural context
Supervisors: prof.dr. R. Kruk and prof.dr. R. Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh)

4 October: A.A. Ślaczka
Temple consecration rituals in ancient India text
Supervisor: prof.dr. K.R. van Kooij

20 June: S. Karasipahi
Strange fruit: Muslim intellectuals as products of Kemalist modernisation
Supervisor: prof.dr. E.J. Zürcher

29 May: P. van Els
The Wenzi: creation and manipulation of a Chinese philosophical text
Supervisor: prof.dr. M. van Crevel

22 May: A.M.J.J. Beerens
Friends, acquaintances, pupils and patrons
Supervisor: prof.dr. W.J. Boot

12 April: M. Zitman
The Necropolis of Assiut
Supervisor: prof.dr. J.F. Borghouts

22 March: J.P.M. Groot
Van de Grote Rivier naar het Koningsplein
Supervisor: prof.dr. C. Fasseur

22 March: S. Toda
Vie de S. Macaire l’Egyptien. Edition et traduction des textes copte et syriaque
Supervisors: prof.dr. J.F. Borghouts, dr. J. van der Vliet and dr. R.B. ter Haar Romeny

16 February: W.F.M. Henkelman
The other gods who are
Supervisors: prof.dr. K.R. Veenhof and prof.dr. W.H. van Soldt

14 February: J.P. Millie
Splashed by the Saint
Supervisor: prof.dr. H.M.J. Maier