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Cornell University

Southeast Asia Program

Faculty Associates in Research

To forge collaborative relationships with Southeast Asian specialists at educational institutions throughout New York and northern Pennsylvania, SEAP invites area scholars to join our Faculty Associates in Research (FAR) program.

Membership in the FAR program includes the following:

  • Access to the Cornell University Library, including the Echols Collection on Southeast Asia located in Kroch Library. The Echols Collection is widely regarded as the foremost collection of materials on Southeast Asia in the United States
  • Notification of SEAP's upcoming lectures, conferences, symposia, and artistic exhibitions
  • Inclusion in the SEAP program directory and website
  • A complimentary copy of the SEAP bulletin

If you are interested in joining the Southeast Asia FAR program at Cornell, please email us to express your interest, attaching your CV.

Please note that this is a regional network, and membership is extended to those currently residing in the northeastern United States. If you are outside of the region, please visit our outreach page to find out how you can engage with SEAP. 

Duncan McCargo

Professor, University of Leeds

Although Duncan McCargo is best known for his agenda-setting contributions to current debates on the politics of Thailand, his work is centrally concerned with the nature of power. How do entrenched elites seek to retain power in the face of challenges from new political forces?

Micah F. Morton

Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY-Oswego

Micah F. Morton earned his PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015.

Sudarat Musikawong

Associate Professor, Mahidol University

Sudarat Musikawong teaches Social Impact of Mass Media, Global Cities: Urban Sociology, Globalization/International Studies, Sociology of Southeast Asia, Qualitative Research Methods, US Immigration & International Migration, and Sociological Theory.

Shaianne Osterreich

Ithaca Seminar Coordinator and Associate Professor

Shaianne Osterreich is an associate professor of economics at Ithaca College. Her research interests are international trade, poverty alleviation, and gender, and she has been working on/with Indonesia since 2006.

Kosal Path

Associate Professor, CUNY-Brooklyn College

Kosal Path is assistant professor of political science. He is a survivor of the Cambodian genocide (1975-79).

Joshua Plotnik

Assistant Professor, Hunter College

Joshua Plotnik, Ph.D. is a comparative psychologist and conservation behavior researcher who has studied elephant cognition and conservation in Thailand since 2007.

Ermin Sinanović

Executive Director, Center for Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW), Shenandoah University

Ermin Sinanović is the executive director of the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW) at Shenandoah University, where he is also a Scholar in Residence.

Kathryn Stam

Professor, SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Kathryn Stam is a professor of anthropology at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. She serves as the coordinator of the online master’s program in information design and technology, and she teaches undergraduate anthropology.

Emiko Stock

Faculty Associate in Research

Emiko Stock is a visual and historical anthropologist. Working with Chams (Cambodian Muslims) and Sayyids (descendants of the Prophet Muhammad), she traces passages between Sunnism and Shi’ism and Cambodia and Iran as a practice of history refracted in still and moving images.

Deborah Tooker

Professor, Le Moyne College

Tooker, Deborah E., (Ph.D.