Southeast Asia Program - Academics

Faculty

SEAP was founded as an administrative unit of the Department of Asian Studies, and as such all faculty members jointly represent their discipline departments and the Field of Asian Studies. Today, SEAP faculty includes nineteen core faculty, one lecturer, six emeritus professors, four senior language lecturers and two language lecturers.

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Name	Title, Department	Research Interests
Anderson, Benedict R.O'G.	Professor Emeritus, Government
Azis, Iwan	Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Regional Science Program, City and Regional Planning; Adjuct Professor, Johnson Graduate School of Management	Financial economics, economic modeling, and the linkages between macro-financial policy and social issues.
Bailey, Warren	Professor, Johnson Graduate School of Management & Asian Studies	International finance and international securities markets; Pacific Rim and emerging capital markets.
Blackburn, Anne	Associate Professor of South Asia and Buddhist Studies, Asian Studies	Buddhist Studies and South Asian Studies; the history of devotional practices and intellectual history; colonial-period Buddhist histories, and pre-colonial Buddhist networks.
Chaloemtiarana, Thak	Director, Southeast Asian Program; Professor, Asian Studies	Authoritarianism & Democratization in post-1932 Thai politics; role of 20th century Thai novels in construction of identity; strategies to deal with colonialism, modernity & of gender ideal types.
Cohn, Abigail C.	Professor, Linguistics & Asian Studies	Austronesian languages of Indonesia, with a particular focus on their phonetics, phonology, and morphology.
Fiskesjö, Magnus	Assistant Professor, Anthropology	Ethnic relations; states and minorities; political anthropology; archaeology; museum studies
Green, Gregory	Curator, Echols Collection on Southeast Asia	The history and culture of the Lao people in Laos and Thailand; people’s ability to access and utilize information in the Lao P.D.R.
Hatch, Martin	Associate Professor, Music & Asian Studies	Past and present performing arts of Southeast Asia.
Jagacinski, Ngampit	Senior Lecturer - Thai, Asian Studies	Syntactic structures and semantic network in the Tai languages, particularly of (Bangkok) Thai and Northern Tai.
Kuruvilla, Sarosh	Professor, Industrial & Labor Relations (Korea, China), Collective Bargaining	Economic Development, National Human Resource Policies, National Labor Policies, Firm Level HR and IR practices.
Logevall, Fredrik	Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, History	The history of U.S. diplomacy and foreign policy, as well as the international history of the Cold War and the Vietnam Wars.
Loos, Tamara	Associate Director, Southeast Asia Program; Associate Professor, History & Asian Studies	Gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia; the historiography of affect, emotions, and violence; sex and the state; women's suffrage in Thai political history; concepts of liberty in Thai law.
McGowan, Kaja	Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, History of Art and Archaeology & Asian Studies	The intersection of the History of Art and Visual Studies with Anthropology, Material Culture, Colonial and Post-colonial Theory, Performance, Gender and Religious Studies; reciprocal relationships between neighboring countries in Southeast Asia; the flow of ideas and artifacts in the region.
Mertha, Andrew	Associate Professor, Government	Chinese and Cambodian politics; political purges and political indoctrination, past and present, in China and in Cambodia.
Miller, Christopher	Lecturer, Music
O'Connor, Stanley	Professor Emeritus, Art History & Asian Studies, Art History
Pandin, Jolanda	Lecturer - Indonesian, Asian Studies	The effects of State-owned television station programming on cultural diversity and Indonesians’ perceptions of such programming.
Paterson, Lorraine	Assistant Professor, Asian Literature, Asian Studies	Southeast Asian culture, including modern literature in translation, Southeast Asian film, and issues concerning the ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia; Chinese intellectual influence on Southeast Asian literature; cultural memory in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia; memoirs of exile from the colonial period of Indochina.
Pepinsky, Thomas	Assistant Professor, Government	Southeast Asian politics; Comparative politics and international political economy; authoritarian rule and financial policy in a globalized world; the political economy of Islam, in Indonesian and around the world.
Phan, Hannah	Lecturer - Khmer, Asian Studies	Foreign language acquisition and linguistic conflict resolution between native and a non-native languages; web-based instructional materials for Khmer language courses; audio lab materials for all levels of Khmer language learning.
Savella, Maria Theresa	Senior Lecturer - Tagalog, Asian Studies	Austronesian languages in the Philippines; the reconstruction of the phonology of the Proto-Philippine language
Siegel, James	Professor Emeritus, Anthropology & Asian Studies
Tagliacozzo, Eric	Associate Professor, History & Asian Studies	The history of smuggling in Southeast Asia, particularly along the emerging Malay/Indonesian frontier at the turn of the 20th century; the history of the pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, from SE Asia to the Arabian Peninsula; the role of crime, diaspora, and Chinese populations in the region.
Taylor, Keith	Professor, Sino-Vietnamese History & Literature, Asian Studies	Southeast Asian and Sino-Vietnamese history; Vietnamese history and literature.
Thorbecke, Erik	H.E. Babcock Professor Emeritus Economics and Food Economics, Economics and Nutritional Science
Tranviet, Thuy	Senior Lecturer - Vietnamese, Asian Studies	Vietnamese literature; creative writing; films and documentary film-making.
Tun, San San Hnin	Senior Lecturer - Burmese, Asian Studies	Various aspects of spoken language such as discourse markers and their linguistic as well as sociolinguistic implications; acquisition of foreign languages; and pedagogical material development for learning Burmese; the use of technology in developing interactive language learning materials for the students of Burmese.
Welker, Marina	Assistant Professor, Anthropology	Connections between the USA and Southeast Asia forged through the international development industry, transnational corporate activity, and social attempts to resist and reformulate capitalism; the corporate social responsibility movement in the mining industry; ethnographic and historical research on corporate strategy and Sampoerna, a clove cigarette company taken over by Philip Morris in 2005.
Willford, Andrew	Associate Professor and Chair, Anthropology & Asian Studies	Tamil and Hindu displacement, revivalism, and identity politics in Malaysia; Tamil plantation communities facing the uncertainties of retrenchment and relocation in Malaysia.
Williams, Lindy	Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Development Sociology & Asian Studies	Family sociology/demography in Southeast Asia and the United States, including topics such as the life-course (e.g. from whether or not conceptions were intended (U.S. and the Philippines), school outcomes for children (Thailand and Cameroon), cohabitation and marriage (the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam), contraception and fertility (Indonesia and the Philippines), and the inclusion or exclusion of elderly family members from important household decisions (the Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan).
Wolff, John	Professor Emeritus, Linguistics & Asian Studies