The best source for dissertations on Burma is Frank Joseph Shulman, Burma: An Annotated Bibliographic Guide to International Doctoral Dissertation Research 1898-1985, (Lanham: University Press of America, 1986).

At the Australian National University (ANU) a dissertation was just completed on Pagan. Tilman Frasch in Germany has also completed a dissertation on Pagan as well. In September 1998, Jacques Leider defended his dissertation in Paris on early modern Arakan. There is a dissertation under works at ANU on Burma's oil trade.

Mary Callahan of Cornell U. is currently turning her dissertation on the military in modern Burma into two books. Michael Charney is completing his dissertation right now on religious change in early modern Arakan and there are three other Ph.D. candidates at the University of Michigan writing dissertations on Burma (Chinese-Burmese trade, Burmese/Japanese notions of the Body, and the Saya San revolt).  

Jennifer Leehy (spelling?) is completing a dissertation on some topic of Burmese anthropology. Van Dijk and van Galen are writing dissertations on Burma and Arakan at Leiden U. in Holland. Maria Guedes is writing a dissertation on the Portuguese and early modern Arakan in Lisbon.

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