Dr Mo Mo Thant
Professor (Head) , Department of History
Bio Data
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.
Publication Lists
Sr. | Year | Title | MYANMAR | GERMANY | THAI | United Kingdom | KOREA | Pages |
1 | 2003 | The Role of Shewgyin Nikaya(1920-1980) | Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science, Vol. I, No.3, March | 35-44 | ||||
2 | 2006 | The Historical and Socio-economic background of Hindu Ethnic in Mandalay | Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science, Vol. IV, No.7, March | 201-208 | ||||
3 | 2006 | The Nagani Newsletter -An Overview | Myanmar Literature Project Paper No.10:1, Germany, University of Passau, ISSN 1435-5310 | 59-69 | ||||
4 | 2006 | A Study of Publication by Nagani Book Club Under the Nationalistic Aspects | Myanmar Literature Project Paper No.10:100, Germany, University of Passau, ISSN 1435-5311 | 25-35 | ||||
5 | 2006 | Betel Chewing Habit of Myanmar | Center for Bharat studies, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University | 18-19 | ||||
6 | 2007 | Myanmar Women participation in socialAffairs | Research Journal of Federation of Myanmar women Affairs |
125-138
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7 | 2008 | Pluralitat, Politik und Kritik: Murmesischer Buddhismmus wahrend der Mandalay-Periode (1852-1885) | PETER LANG Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften | 37-48 | ||||
8 | 2009 | Studying Pali Literature in Myanmar Perspective | Yangon University of Distance Education Research Journal, Vol.I, No.1 | 125-138 | ||||
9 | 2010 | Emergence of Samgha Sects and development of Hingettwin Sect | Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science, Vol. VIII, No.8 | 59-72 | ||||
10 | 2010 | The Ponna of Mandalay | Traditions 2010, Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of SEAMEO Regional Centre for History and Tradition | 33-42 | ||||
11 | 2010 | Myanmar Women’s Achievements in Buddhist Religious Endeavors | University Research Journel, Vol 3 No.3 | 11-Jan | ||||
12 | 2012 | The Relations Between King Samgha Based on Royal Order (1853-1885) | Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science, Vol. X, No.9 | 241-253 | ||||
13 | 2013 | Samgha History in Myanmar (1044-1885) | Insights into Myanmar History, SEAMEO Regional Centre for History and Tradition | 58-69 | ||||
14 | 2013 | Myanmar Traditional View on Civil Society | Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Volume 5, Number 2, December 2013 | 67-79 | ||||
15 | 2017 | Pitu Sangha Raja: Post- Bagan Relations between the Sangha and the Khing | https://www.soas.ac.uk/saaap/news, SOAS University of London, UK | 1-13 |