Seas People
Seas People
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Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asia Studies Socio-cultural anthropology and ethnography: urban and peri-urban life; rural-urban transitions; politics of culture (Viet Nam - See New Urban Vietnam project) |
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Senior Lector, Indonesian Language Studies Indonesian language, culture and literature; Indonesian dance and performance |
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Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History Environmental history; migration history; South/Southeast Asia connections (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Myanmar) |
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Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art, Yale Art Gallery Textiles; Indian Ocean trade; social history of material culture (Indonesia, India, Southeast Asia) |
 Brent Bianchi
Librarian for South & Southeast Asian Studies Department of Area Studies and Humanities Research Support |
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Senior Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist in Natural Resource Social Science, Yale School of the Environment; Adjunct Lecturer, Anthropology. Social anthropology; ecological anthropology; gender and agricultural systems; rural development (Indonesia) |
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Associate Research Scientist in Conservation and Development, Yale School of the Environment Property rights and environmental change, environmental history (Malaysia) |
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Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology, Yale School of the Environment; Professor of Anthropology; Curator of Anthropology, Peabody Museum. Ecological anthropology; natural resource use, conservation, and rural development; sociology of science (Insular Southeast Asia, Indonesia) |
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Professor of Anthropology Linguistic anthropology (Indonesia) |
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A.Whitney Griswold Professor Emeritus of History; Founding Director (1994-1999), Cambodian Genocide Program; Founding Director (1998-2015), Genocide Studies Program, MacMillan Center History of Southeast Asia; genocide studies (Cambodia, Timor Leste, Vietnam) |
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Assistant Professor of Sociology health and medicine; race and ethnicity; gender; globalization; sociology of the body; science and technology (Malaysia) |
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Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Anthropology; Founding Director, Agrarian Studies Program (See Oral History Project: James Scott and the history of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale) Politics of Southeast Asia; politics of peasant society; revolution and violence (Burma, Malaysia) |
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Senior Lector, Indonesian Language Studies. Indonesian language and culture |
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Senior Lecturer, Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and American Studies Comparative ethnicity, race, and migration; Vietnamese boat people; Asian American studies; diaspora and transnational studies (Vietnam) |
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Senior Lector II, Vietnamese Language Studies Vietnamese language, culture and literature; eastern philosophy |
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Assistant Professor of History Legal history; histories of Southeast Asia; Islamic law; mobilities; transnational history of the Indian Ocean (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South and Southeast Asia) |
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Professor of Art History Art history; Japan, Southeast Asia; Buddhism; religion and state; art and ideology |
COUNCIL AFFILIATES |
Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford (retired) Ethnology, history and languages, cultural anthropology (Indonesia, Southeast Asia) |
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Professor, Department of Dramatic Arts, University of Connecticut Wayang kulit, Indonesian arts and culture; see The Dr. Walter Angst and Sir Henry Angest Collection of Indonesian Puppets. |
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Assistant Professor of History, Eastern Connecticut State University History, uplands ethnic communities, Asian studies, Southeast Asian Studies (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand) |
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Affiliate, Yale Council on Southeast Asian Studies Southeast Asian art history, premodern Cambodian art, gender and sexuality, landscape and built form (Cambodia) |
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Assistant Professor of English, Wesleyan University Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American Literature, Asian-American Studies, literary history |
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Assistant Professor of French, Wesleyan University Transport, traffic and mobilities in contemporary France and French colonial Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) |
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Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Connecticut Southeast Asian history, history of human rights, decolonialization, history of U.S. foreign relations (Indonesia, East Timor) |
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University Professor of Music, Wesleyan University; Instructor/Direcctor, MUSI 232, Yale Gamelan, Yale University Indonesian music and theater; performance, history and theory of gamelan and wayang |
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Professor of History, Southern Connecticut State University History of science; medicine and technology; comparative colonialisms (Vietnam, Southeast Asia). |
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Professor of History and Non-Western Cultures, Western Connecticut State University Historiography and intellectual history (Vietnam) |
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Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Sociocultural Anthropology, Recovery from War and Genocide, Social Memory (Cambodia) |
VISITORS 2023-2024 |
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2023-2024 Henry Hart Rice Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer Political theology, religion and conflict, nationalism, ethnic reconciliation, subaltern politics of resistance, and Christian-Buddhist-Muslim engagement in Southeast Asia (Myanmar) |
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2023-2024 Associate Research Scholar International Human Rights Law, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Law |
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2023-2024 Postdoctoral Associate Histories of Burma, Zomia, borders and borderlands, colonialism (Myanmar) |
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2023-2024 Postdoctoral Fellow Democracy, governance, political economy, urban studies (Malaysian Borneo) |
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2023-2024 Fulbright Visiting Fellow |
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Anthropology of moral choice; resistance and political violence; polyphonic research methodologies (Myanmar) |
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2023-2024 Associate Reserach Scholar Investigative and trauma journalism, literary nonfiction, extrajudicial killings, the Philippine drug war, crime and punishment, violent rhetoric, and resurgent authoritarianism |
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Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant, Indonesian 2023-2024; English language teacher from Tasikmalaya in West Java. Associate’s and Bachelor’s degree in Tourism from Universitas Gadjah Mada and Ambarrukmo Tourism Institute. |
STAFF |
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Senior Program Manager Room 311, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue |
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Program Consultant, Publications |
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Yale Library Cataloging Assistant, Southeast Asia Collection |
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Dinny Risri Aletheiani
Ruth Barnes
J. Joseph Errington
Ben Kiernan 
James C. Scott
Quang Phu Van 
Soumya James
Bradley Simpson
Eve Zucker 
David Thang Moe
Yin Yin Win
Tuyen Thi Nguyen
Kristine Mooseker