Anida Yoeu Ali , M.F.A. Performance, School of the Art Institute Chicago. Multimedia/interdisciplinary artist, diasporic scholar, and community activist. Artist-in-residence, UW Bothell |
Third Andresen , Ph.D., University of Washington
PI, 206 Hip Hop Archive Suzzallo Library Media Arcade. Curriculum Developer & Editor, Filipino American History/Ethnic Studies K-12 curriculum. Director, Philippine Study Abroad & Hawai’i Field Study Program. Teaching Professor, Comparative History of Ideas, American Ethnic Studies, & Honors Program. Ethnic Studies Department Chair, Green River College. |
Enrique “Rick” Bonus, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1997; Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies. Areas of interest: Filipino-American studies, Asian-American studies, immigration and transnationalism, media and race, race and public space, minorities in education… |
Mary Callahan, Ph.D., Government, Cornell University,1996; Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies. Areas of interest: comparative politics, Southeast Asia studies, and civil-military relations. |
Patrick Christie, Ph.D., Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan 1999; Professor, School of Marine Affairs and Jackson School of International Studies. Areas of interest: social feasibility of ecosystem-based management and marine-protected areas, integrated coastal management. |
Sara Curran, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1994; Professor, Jackson School of International Studies and Evans School of Public Affairs. Areas of interest: social demography, environment, development and globalization, gender. |
Raissa DeSmet , Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz. Lecturer, UWB Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, adjunct curator of Asian ethnology, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Asian visual studies, feminist studies, critical theory, creative non-fiction. |
Christoph Giebel, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1996; Associate Professor, History and Jackson School of International Studies. Areas of Interest: Southeast Asia and Viet Nam, comparative colonialism and (French and US) imperialism in Southeast Asia, history, historiography, and memory, and, the spatial representations of the wars in Viet Nam. |
Jenna Grant, Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Iowa, 2013; Assistant Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology. Areas of interest: medical anthropology, science and technology studies, global health, visual anthropology, medical imaging, malaria, Southeast Asian studies, and Cambodia. |
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. |
Judith Henchy, Ph.D., History, University of Washington; Head, University of Washington Libraries, Southeast Asia Section. Areas of interest: 20th-century Vietnamese intellectual history. |
Kell Juan, B.A., American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington, 2017. Lecturer, Tagalog. A native speaker of Tagalog, Kell recognizes that language learning also encompasses cultural learning, and enjoys integrating that element in her classes. |
Randall Kyes, Ph.D., University of Georgia; Research Professor, Psychology. Areas of interest: population assessment, habitat analysis, conservation genetics, pathogen transmission in primates and other megafauna, with special emphasis on the human-animal interface in different countries including Bangladesh, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal, and Thailand. |
Amy Kim, Ph.D., Texas A&M University; Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW. Areas of interest: effective change management and decision making practices for delivering sustainable infrastructure projects. |
Peter Lape, Ph.D., Brown, 2000; Professor, Department of Anthropology and Curator, Burke Museum. Areas of interest: tropical Island land use and agriculture, paleoclimates, warfare, archaeology and history, religious change; island Southeast Asia and the Pacific… |
Alexis Licht, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences; Sedimentology of continental systems, Links between Tectonics, Climate and Evolution, Cenozoic Paleoclimate and ecosystems |
James Lin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies; history of Taiwan and its interactions with the world, including a focus on Southeast Asia, in the 20th century. |
Celia Lowe, Ph.D., Professor, Anthropology. Areas of interest: anthropology of reason, biosecurity, post-colonial theory, science studies, nationalism, identity, Southeast Asia, Indonesia… |
Ben Marwick, Ph.D., Australian National University, 2008; Associate Professor, Anthropology. Areas of interest: evolutionary ecology, archaeology, stone artifact technology, mainland Southeast Asia and Australia… |
Linh Thủy Nguyễn, Ph.D., University of California , San Diego; Assistant Professor, American Ethnic Studies. Areas of Interest: terpersonal and structural relationships between history, memory, race, war, migration and family. |
Mollie Pepper, CHID Thailand Program Director, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Northeastern University. Research interests center on gender, violence, and power in Thailand and Myanmar. |
Vicente Rafael, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1984; Professor, History. Areas of interest: Philippine history, colonialism and nationalism, historiography… |
Cabeiri Robinson, Ph.D., Anthropology, Cornell University, 2005. Associate Professor; Jackson School of International Studies; Political Islam; Refugee Studies; Human Rights and Humanitarianism; Political Violence and Armed Conflict, Post-Conflict and Transitional Justice; Political and Legal Anthropology; South Asia, especially Pakistan, India, Jammu & Kashmir; Comparative Muslim Societies |
Desiana Pauli Sandjaja, M.A., International Affairs, Ohio University, 1999; Teaching Professor (Indonesian), and Southeast Asia Language Program Coordinator. Areas of interest: Asian languages and literature. |
Christina Sunardi, Ph.D., Music, University of California, Berkeley; Associate Professor, School of Music… |
Bich-Ngoc Turner, Ph.D., American Studies, University of Hawaii; Assistant Teaching Professor, Vietnamese language and literature. Areas of interest: U.S.-Viet Nam relations, postwar Viet Nam, and international studies. |
Jonathan Warren, Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1997; Professor, Jackson School of International Studies. Areas of interest: education, race, ethnicity and nationalism, cultural studies, and qualitative research methods. |
Than Than Win, Ph.D., English (TESOL), Northern Illinois University; Lecturer (Burmese), Southeast Asian studies. |
Anand Yang, Ph.D., History, University of Virginia, 1976; Professor, Jackson School of International Studies; and, Chair, History Department. Areas of interest: popular culture in colonial India, colonial systems of discipline and punishment, South Asian diasporas and migrations, India, Singapore and other parts of Southeast Asia. |
Luoth Yin, M.A., Creative Writing, Southern New Hampshire University, 2017; B.A. Political Science, Seattle University, 1986; Lecturer (Khmer), Southeast Asian Studies. |