Dr Susanne Prager Nyein studied Sociology, Indology (Burmese Language), History and Political Science focused on Southeast Asia at the University of Heidelberg. She received her Ph.D. in the Political Science of Southeast Asia. Her dissertation was Nationalismus als kulturelle Reproduktion. Aung San und die Entstehung des postkolonialen Birma a study on the prevalent ideas and concepts in Burma’s nationalist movement explored through the prism of its leader Aung San. Dr Prager Nyein’s research interests include the relationship between politics and millenarian Buddhism, concepts of state and power in Burma and the wider region of Southeast Asia with focus on minority-majority relations.

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