In the summer of 2022 John Tran traveled to Vietnam for an intensive Vietnamese language program. John received funding for the trip from the Southeast Asia Center’s Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship program. Below, John reflects on his experience as a FLAS Fellow, volunteer, and study abroad participant. It is 11 pm Sunday, my final

  Jackson School Alumna Elizabeth Becker has received the Harvard University Goldsmith Book Prize: Trade category and Fordham University Sperber Prize for her recent book You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War. The book tells the stories of three female journalists reporting on the Vietnam war from the field. From the publisher,

The Southeast Asia Center and Viet Nam Studies community in Seattle is mourning the passing of our dear friend and cherished colleague Joseph “Joe” Hannah, at 61, after a courageous battle with cancer. Joe is survived by his loving wife, Dr. Hoàng Thị Diệu Hiền and their two sons, Ian and Bảo-Ân, as well as

The Cambodian American Community Council of Washington (CACCWA) is currently recruiting volunteers for their board of directors, including youth advocate board members that are current high school and college students. ABOUT CACCWA The CACCWA is a nonprofit organization that partners with a coalition of 12 Cambodian-American organizations within Washington State to serve the community. CACCWA’s mission

The Southeast Asian Studies community has suffered two major loses in recent months with the passing of Charles “Biff” Keyes and Thomas Gething. Professors Gething and Keyes both leave long legacies of research, teaching, and mentorship that shaped generations of students. Obituaries provided by their families are below. Thomas Gething Thomas Wilson (Tom) Gething, age

15 April 2021 Seattle The Southeast Asia Center and the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington joins Cambodian and Cambodian diaspora communities in condemnation of VICE Magazine for its promotion of altered images of prisoners in S-21, a major Khmer Rouge prison. The images depict people who had been blindfolded and

Joe Figel is a Fulbright Scholar to Indonesia where he is working to help protect Sumatran tigers from poachers. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Life, Ocean, & General Sciences at Highline College. Joe is a 2020 recipient of the Asian and Global Studies Course Development Grant, administered by the