Seas People

Seas People
COUNCIL MEMBERS | COUNCIL AFFILIATES | VISITORS | STAFF |
COUNCIL MEMBERS / FACULTY |
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) |
Senior Lector, Indonesian Language Studies Indonesian language, culture and literature; Indonesian dance and performance |
Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History Environmental history; migration history; South/Southeast Asia connections (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Myanmar) |
Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art, Yale Art Gallery Textiles; Indian Ocean trade; social history of material culture (Indonesia, India, Southeast Asia) |
![]() ![]() Librarian for South & Southeast Asian Studies Department of Area Studies and Humanities Research Support |
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) |
Associate Research Scientist in Conservation and Development, Yale School of the Environment Property rights and environmental change, environmental history (Malaysia) |
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) |
Professor of Anthropology Linguistic anthropology (Indonesia) |
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) |
Assistant Professor of Sociology health and medicine; race and ethnicity; gender; globalization; sociology of the body; science and technology (Malaysia) |
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) |
Senior Lector, Indonesian Language Studies. Indonesian language and culture |
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) |
Senior Lector II, Vietnamese Language Studies Vietnamese language, culture and literature; eastern philosophy |
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) |
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) |
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. |
Assistant Professor of History, Eastern Connecticut State University History, uplands ethnic communities, Asian studies, Southeast Asian Studies (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand) |
Assistant Professor of English, Wesleyan University Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American Literature, Asian-American Studies, literary history |
Assistant Professor of French, Wesleyan University Transport, traffic and mobilities in contemporary France and French colonial Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) |
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) |
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 |
Professor of History, Southern Connecticut State University History of science; medicine and technology; comparative colonialisms (Vietnam, Southeast Asia). |
Professor of History and Non-Western Cultures, Western Connecticut State University Historiography and intellectual history (Vietnam) |
Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Sociocultural Anthropology, Recovery from War and Genocide, Social Memory (Cambodia) |
VISITORS 2023-2024 |
2023-2024 Henry Hart Rice Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer Asian public theology of religions; Contemporary politics of Southeast Asia; Majority-minority ethnic conflict; Buddhist nationalism; Subaltern politics of resistance ; Ethnic reconciliation; Theory of federal democracy; Asian Christianity; and Christian-Buddhist engagement in Southeast Asia (Myanmar) |
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) |
2023-2024 Postdoctoral Fellow Democracy, governance, political economy, urban studies (Malaysian Borneo) |
2023-2024 Fulbright Visiting Fellow |
![]() polyphonic research methodologies (Myanmar) |
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 |
Senior Program Manager Room 311, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue |
Program Consultant / Assistant Director, Retired |
Yale Library Cataloging Assistant, Southeast Asia Collection |
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