Seas People

COUNCIL MEMBERS / FACULTY

Erik Lind Harms, COUNCIL CHAIR

Associate 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)

Dinny Risri Aletheiani  LANGUAGE PROGRAM DIRECTOR 2020-2021

Senior Lector, Indonesian Language Studies   

Indonesian language, culture and literature; Indonesian dance and performance

Ruth Barnes

Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art, Yale Art Gallery

Textiles; Indian Ocean trade; social history of material culture (Indonesia, India, Southeast Asia)

Carol Carpenter

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)

Amity A. Doolittle

Associate Research Scientist in Conservation and Development, Yale School of the Environment

Property rights and environmental change, environmental history (Malaysia)

Michael R. Dove  (on leave, Spring 2021)

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)

J. Joseph Errington (on leave, Fall 2020)

Professor of Anthropology

Linguistic anthropology (Indonesia)

Ben Kiernan (on leave, Spring 2021)

A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History; Professor of International and Area Studies, MacMillan Center; Founding Director (1994-2015), Genocide Studies Program

History of Southeast Asia; genocide studies (Cambodia, Vietnam)

Alka Menon  

Assistant Professor of Sociology

health and medicine; race and ethnicity; gender; globalization; sociology of the body; science and technology (Malaysia)

Brandon Miliate

Librarian for South and Southeast Asian Studies

Southeast Asia Studies Collection, Sterling Memorial Library

James C. Scott

Emeritus Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology; Founding Director, Agrarian Studies Program.

Politics of Southeast Asia; politics of peasant society; revolution and violence (Burma, Malaysia)

Indriyo K. Sukmono 

Senior Lector, Indonesian Language Studies.

Indonesian language and culture

Quan T. Tran (on leave, Spring 2021)

Lecturer, Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and American Studies

Comparative ethnicity, race, and migration; Vietnamese boat people; Asian American studies; diaspora and transnational studies (Vietnam)

Quang Phu Van

Senior Lector II, Vietnamese Language Studies

Vietnamese language, culture and literature; eastern philosophy

Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (on leave, Fall 2020)

Professor of Art History

Art history; Japan, Southeast Asia; Buddhism; religion and state; art and ideology

COUNCIL AFFILIATES

Robert Barnes

Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford (retired)

Ethnology, history and languages, cultural anthropology (Indonesia, Southeast Asia)

Matthew Isaac Cohen

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.

Bradley Camp Davis

Assistant Professor of History, Eastern Connecticut State University

History, uplands ethnic communities, Asian studies, Southeast Asian Studies (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand)

Marguerite Bich Nguyen

Assistant Professor of English, Wesleyan University

Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American Literature, Asian-American Studies, literary history

Stéphanie Ponsavady

Assistant Professor of French, Wesleyan University

Transport, traffic and mobilities in contemporary France and French colonial Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos)

Bradley Simpson

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)

Ivan V. Small

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Central Connecticut State University

Sociocultural and economic anthropology, globalization and transnational studies, emerging economies (Vietnam)

Sumarsam

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

C. Michele Thompson

Professor of History, Southern Connecticut State University

History of science; medicine and technology; comparative colonialisms (Vietnam, Southeast Asia).

Wynn Gadkar Wilcox

Professor of History and Non-Western Cultures, Western Connecticut State University

Historiography and intellectual history (Vietnam)

Eve Zucker

Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Sociocultural Anthropology, Recovery from War and Genocide, Social Memory (Cambodia)

VISITORS 2020-2021

Ambroise Brenier

Wildlife Conservation Society’s Country Director for Papua New Guinea; Yale World Fellow 2020

Ann Thomas

Chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme at UNICEF Indonesia; Yale World Fellow 2020

Cut Ganis Tyawangsa

Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant, Indonesian 2020-2021; English Teacher and TOEFL tutor, Bahasa Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia; Program Director and Announcer for PT Radio Flamboyant Rasisonia.

Thu Thi Anh Vo

Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant, Vietnamese 2020-2021; Teacher of English and English for Special Purposes at Dong Thap Community College, Cao Lanh City, Dong Thap Province, Vietnam; teacher for the English Access Micro scholarship program sponsored by the U.S State Department since December 2016.

STAFF

Kristine Mooseker

Program Manager
Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 311
203-432-3431

Truc Nguyen

Yale Library Cataloging Assistant, Southeast Asia Collection