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Dr Mo Mo Thant
Professor (Head) , Department of History

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Dr Mo Mo Thant is professor and Head of the History Department at the University of Yangon, Myanmar. She attained her B.A (1984) and M.A (1990) Degrees from Mandalay University and Ph.D at the University of Yangon (2002). She is a member of the Governing Board of SEAMEO CHAT (Regional Centre for History and Tradition). Her research area is Social History, in particular religion in Myanmar, with a special interest in women and religion. She has nine publications in the research journals of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science, Yangon University of Distance Education and SEAMEO Regional Centre for History and Tradition and seven international publications including at the University of Passau, Germany at the Centre for Bharat Studies in Mahidol University in Thailand, at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Korea, Austrian National University  and SOAS in UK. She has authored text books and references for primary and secondary level, as well as texts and study guides for the Distance Education students on Myanmar Social History and History of the United States. She is a Chair of history curriculum Development Committee and Subject Wise Committee.  She frequently presents on different history topics on the dedicated education channel of MRTV. She had supervised MA and PhD Dissertations and served as an external examiner at Yangon and Mandalay Universities and the National Defence Collage in Naypyitaw. She was a DAAD visiting research fellow at the Comparative Religion department at Bonn University, Germany and Department of Gender Studies, the Central European University in Hungary in 2016.

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