People
Faculty
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 |
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Third Andresen , Ph.D., University of WashingtonPI, 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. |
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 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… |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 Judith Henchy, Ph.D., History, University of Washington; Head, University of Washington Libraries, Southeast Asia Section. Areas of interest: 20th-century Vietnamese intellectual history. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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… |
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 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 |
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 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. |
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 Celia Lowe, Ph.D., Professor, Anthropology. Areas of interest: anthropology of reason, biosecurity, post-colonial theory, science studies, nationalism, identity, Southeast Asia, Indonesia… |
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 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… |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 Vicente Rafael, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1984; Professor, History. Areas of interest: Philippine history, colonialism and nationalism, historiography… |
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 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 |
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 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. |
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 Christina Sunardi, Ph.D., Music, University of California, Berkeley; Associate Professor, School of Music… |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 Than Than Win, Ph.D., English (TESOL), Northern Illinois University; Lecturer (Burmese), Southeast Asian studies. |
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 Anand Yang, Ph.D., University of Virginia; Professor, Jackson School of International Studies and History Department. Areas of interest: history of South, Southeast, and East Asia; comparative colonialisms; colonial systems of discipline and punishment, South Asian diasporas and labor migrations, urban and social history |
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 Luoth Yin, M.A., Creative Writing, Southern New Hampshire University, 2017; B.A. Political Science, Seattle University, 1986; Lecturer (Khmer), Southeast Asian Studies. |
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. |
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Francisco “Kiko” Benitez , PhD, University of Wisconsin 2004. Affiliate Faculty and President of The Philippine Women’s University; Comparative Literature; Colonial and Postcolonial Literature and Theory (particularly in Insular Southeast Asia), Diasporic and Transnational Literature and Culture, Southeast Asian Film and Literature, Philippine and Filipino American Studies |
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 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 |
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 Jennifer Leehey, PhD Anthropology University of Washington 2010. UW-Extension lecturer, International & English Language Programs. |
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 Clark Lombardi, Ph.D., Columbia University, 2001. Professor, School of Law;Islamic law, constitutional law, federalism, comparative law, and development law |
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 Harriet Phinney, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Seattle University. |
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 Jarrad Powell, M.A., Music Composition, Mills College Professor, Music Department, Cornish College of the Arts; composition, music theory, world music, gamelan; Director of Gamelan Pacifica. |
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 Jeff Richey, Ph.D., Ecology, UC Davis, 1974.Professor, School of Oceanography, Adjunct, Quaternary Research Center; Drainage basin and riverine biogeochemistry; hydrological cycles; gas fluxes from field, modeling and remote sensing; and land-ocean interaction in the coastal zone. |
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 Susan Thompson, M.A., Public Health, University of Washington, 1998.Director, Timor-Leste Programs, Health Alliance International; Improving quality and access to maternal and newborn care and family planning services in Timor-Leste |
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 Michael Viola, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.Core Faculty, Antioch University Seattle, BA Degree Completion – Liberal Studies, Graduate Programs in Leadership and Change; critical pedagogy, ethnic studies, Filipino/a and Filipino/a American Studies, cultural studies, political economy, and global social movements. |
Emeritus Faculty
 Thomas Gething, Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1966. Affiliate Professor (Emeritus); Asian Languages and Literature; Thai language, Khammuang (Northern Thai)… |
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 Gary Hamilton, Ph.D., Sociology, University of Washington, 1975; Professor, Sociology. Areas of interest: economic sociology, sociology of organizations, historical and comparative sociology, Chinese societies, and East Asian societies and economies. |
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 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. |
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 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… |
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 Kim O. Nguyen, Ph.D., French Literature, UCLA, 1973.Senior Lecturer (Emeritus), Asian Languages and Literature; Vietnamese language and literature |
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 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. |
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