This forum explores the doctoral journeys of three alumni from LASALLE’s MA Asian Art Histories programme and illuminate their transition from MA studies to PhD research.
Ramesh Ramakrishnan, Eunice Lacaste and Akshatha Ranganrajan will reflect on research challenges such as fieldwork complexities, linguistic barriers and archival access, alongside the practical realities of navigating application Read more.... Exploring doctoral pathways: insights from MA Asian Art Histories alumni
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This forum explores the doctoral journeys of three alumni from LASALLE’s MA Asian Art Histories programme and illuminate their transition from MA studies to PhD research.
Ramesh Ramakrishnan, Eunice Lacaste and Akshatha Ranganrajan will reflect on research challenges such as fieldwork complexities, linguistic barriers and archival access, alongside the practical realities of navigating application Read more.... 
This reflection on region departs from an earlier essay by speaker Associate Professor Pamela Nguyen Corey titled “Metaphor as Method: Curating Regionalism in Mainland Southeast Asia” (2013), which examined controversies around the curatorial use of geographical metaphors (such as the Mekong and the Ho Chi Minh Trail) to promote contemporary artists and foster artistic collaboration in mainland 
Sabrina is a gallerist with several years of experience in the visual arts industry.
She earned her undergraduate degree in sociology from the London School of Economics and went on to pursue postgraduate studies in early modern art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. After returning to Hong Kong, she committed herself to a career in the arts.
Driven by a passion for supporting 
Anne is a finance executive based in Hanoi who began collecting Vietnamese contemporary art in 2017 as a way to better understand herself, Vietnam and the world around her. In 2024, she took a sabbatical to pursue an MA in Asian Art Histories at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore.
Her academic interests span Asian pre-modern art and Vietnamese contemporary art, with her thesis focusing on