People

Faculty

Affiliated Faculty

Hoàng t. Diệu-Hiền, MN, MPH, PhD, Global Health, Public Health, Nursing, University of Washington. Areas of interest: Strength-based community-driven and community-engaged research to promote social factors affecting health, life review reminiscence, cultural displacement, community cohesion, and health.
Hazel Hahn, Ph.D. History, University of California at Berkeley, 1997.Professor, History (Seattle University); Europe from the Enlightenment to present; European Cultural History; European Imperialism and Colonialism; European and Colonial Cities;  Gender and Culture in Modern Europe; History of Southeast Asia; Film and History; Historical Theory and Methodology.
Harriet Phinney, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, Seattle University.

Emeritus Faculty

Tracy Harachi, Ph.D., University of Washington, 1999; Associate Professor, School of Social Work. Areas of interest: Promotion of well-being and prevention of high risk behaviors among children and youth including community, school, and family-based interventions; and, migration, including cultural adaptation of immigrants and refugees particularly Southeast Asian populations.
Charles Hirschman, Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1972; Professor, Sociology and Evans School of Public Affairs. Areas of interest: demography, race and ethnicity, immigration, and Southeast Asia.
Charles “Biff” Keyes, Ph.D., Cornell, 1967. Professor (Emeritus), Anthropology and Jackson School of International Studies; Ethnic group relations; transformation of peasant society; religion and modernity; sociology of Theravada Buddhism; anthropology and history; Southeast Asia, especially Thailand & Vietnam.
Randall Kyes, Ph.D., University of Georgia; Research Professor Emeritus, Psychology; Former Director, Center of Global Field Study. Areas of interest: population assessment, habitat analysis, conservation genetics, pathogen transmission in primates and other megafauna, with special emphasis on human-animal interface in South and Southeast Asia.
Laurie Sears, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1986; Professor, History; Walker Family Endowed Professor of History; Former Director of Southeast Asia Center. Areas of interest: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, comparative colonialisms, psychoanalysis and colonialism, and historiography.
Luoth Yin, M.A., Creative Writing, Southern New Hampshire University, 2017; B.A. Political Science, Seattle University, 1986; Lecturer (Khmer), Southeast Asian Studies.