CSEAS: Faculty by Alphabet

Below are faculty members associated with the Center. Visiting Faculty and Library Associates are also listed here. Emeritus Faculty are listed on a separate page. While the information listed here is as current as possible, it is subject to change.

Faculty Associates

Judith O. Becker, Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1972
Southeast Asian and Asian music, Indonesian Gamelan, music and trance
Biography

James S. Diana, Associate Dean & Professor of Natural Resources
Ph.D., University of Alberta, 1979
Teaching involves fish biology, ecology, and aquaculture. Major research has focused on energetics of fish, including work on northern pike, which has elucidated the behavioral ecology and production of natural pike populations, as well as behavior and ecology of other temperate fishes, including muskellunge, brown trout, lake sturgeon, yellow perch, largemouth bass and alewives, and aquaculture of tropical fishes. Aquaculture research in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam

Vicente Diaz, Assistant Professor of American Culture, Asia/Pacific American Studies Program
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz, 1992
Native Pacific islands cultural studies, traditional seafaring, colonial and postcolonial critique
Biography

Gunter Dufey, Professor of International Business and Finance
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1969
International money and capital markets, Asian financial markets, as well as on financial policy of multinational corporations, specializing in issues on corporate governance, risk management and international expansion strategy of business firms.

Nancy K. Florida, Professor of Southeast Asian Literature & Culture
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1990
Professor Florida teaches courses in the literatures and cultures of island Southeast Asia as well as advanced levels of Indonesian language. Her research revolves around issues in Indonesian literature, history, and culture, with a focus on Javanese court literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her books include Writing the Past, Incribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java and Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts.
Biography

Fritz C. Foley, Assistant Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2002
International economics and strategy with a particular focus on the activities of multinational firms. Research includes the use of international joint ventures, the determinants of multinational affiliate capital structure and dividend repatriations, the advantages associated with internal capital and labor markets, and the impact of capital controls on multinationals.

Luis O. Gómez, Charles O. Hucker Professor of Buddhist Studies and Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., Yale University, Buddhist Studies, 1967
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Psychology, 1998
Religion, history of religions, comparative religion, Sanskrit literature, Buddhism

Peter J. Hammer, Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Program for Cambodian Law and Development
J.D., University of Michigan, 1990
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1993
International law and development; federal anti-trust law; health law; law in Cambodia

Allen Hicken, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., University of California San Diego, Political Science/Intern'l Relations and Pacific Studies, 2001
Politics, political economy and policymaking in modern Southeast Asia; Thailand, Cambodia and Philippines.

Webb Keane, Associate Professor of Anthropology (Ethnology)
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1990
Social and cultural theory, language and discourse, semiotics, ritual and religion, exchange, material culture, history and historical consciousness. Indonesia, Oceania.
Biography

Raymond C. Kelly, Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1974
Malaysia, social organization, social inequality, structural transformation, tribal societies, warfare, witchcraft.
Biography

Stuart Kirsch, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1991
Political ecology; Melanesia (Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya, Solomon Islands) myth, ritual, and symbolism; politics of culture, visual anthropology
Biography

John E. Knodel, Professor of Sociology and Research Associate, Populations Studies Center
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1965
Social demography, especially Thailand and Vietnam; aging; consequences of HIV/AIDS; education trends
Biography

Montatip Krishnamra, Lecturer in Thai Language
M.A., Michigan State University, 1976
Thai language
Biography

Emily Lawsin, Lecturer in Asian/Pacific American Studies, American Culture and Women's Studies
M.A., University of California at Los Angeles
Filipino American women and community formation, Asian American literature, spoken word poetry performance, oral history, Pinay pedagogy
Biography

Victor B. Lieberman, Professor of Southeast Asian History
Ph.D., University of London, 1976
Early modern Southeast Asian history; early modern comparative world history; early Southeast Asian economic history
Biography

Linda Yuen-Ching Lim, Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business; Associate Director, Centers for South and Southeast Asia Business Program
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1978
Trade; investment and industrialization in Southeast Asia; regional economic integration; overseas Chinese and indigenous business in Southeast Asia; labor, employment, international migration and women in the economy; growth strategies of Asian businesses
Biography

Donald S. Lopez, Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1982
Buddhism, Asian religions
Biography

Rudolf Mrazek, Professor of History
Ph.D., Czechoslovak Academy, Prague, 1987
Modern Southeast Asian history, especially Indonesia
Biography

Susan Najita, Assistant Professor of English and Program in American Culture
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 2001
Asian Pacific American literatures in English; 20th century American literature; postcolonial literature and theory; film and cultural studies
Biography

Nga Thi Nguyen, Lecturer in Vietnamese
M.A., University of Manchester, England, 1961
Vietnamese Language, Vietnamese language for business, curriculum development for the teaching of Vietnamese
Biography

Sela Panapasa, Lecturer in Sociology
Ph.D., Brown University, 2000
Pacific demography/gerontology

Patrick Pranke, Lecturer in Buddhist Studies
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2002
Buddhist studies, South and Southeast Asian history, religion, and cultures

Nicholas Rine, Clinical Professor of Law
J.D., Wayne State University, 1973
Cambodian law, women and law, child advocacy, asylum and refugee law

Damon Salesa, Assistant Professor of American Culture and History
Ph.D., University of Oxford, England
British Imperialism, Pacific Islands history, cultures and anthropology, colonial/post colonial and indigenous histories of the Pacific
Biography

Maria Sarita See, Assistant Professor of American Culture and English Language and Literature
Ph.D., Columbia University
Filipino American literature and culture, U.S. empire and postcolonial studies, Asian Pacific American literature, late 19th and 20th century U.S. literature
Biography

Gavin Shatkin, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2001
Urbanization in developing countries, urban community development and housing in the Philippines
Biography

Amy K. Stillman, Associate Professor, School of Music
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1991
Ethnomusicology, dance ethnology, Pacific Islands
Biography

Ann Laura Stoler, Professor of Anthropology, History, and Women's Studies
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1982
Comparative study of colonial societies, with emphasis on Indonesia, cultural and historical methodologies; historical construction of sexuality and racial categories, political economy, historical methodologies

Margaretha M. Sudarsih, Lecturer in Indonesian
M.A. TESOL, Eastern Michigan University, 2000
Doctoranda, University of Gajah Mada, Indonesia, 1984
Indonesian language and literature
Biography

Susan Pratt Walton, Lecturer in the Residential College
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1996
Music in Southeast Asia, life histories, women's studies, ethnomusicology, Gamelan music
Biography

Bruce Watkins, Associate Professor of Sports Management and Communication
Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1979
Media, telecommunication policy in Southeast Asia, motivators and barriers to sport participation among young girls

Adelwisa Agas Weller, Lecturer in Filipino
M.S., University of Michigan, 1976
Tagalog language, women's studies and gender, Philippine development, ecology
Biography

John K. Whitmore, Technical Library Assistant III, Coordinator, Vietnam Union Catalogue; Lecturer in History
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1968
Vietnamese history, comparative Southeast Asian history
Biography

Visiting Faculty

Lawrence Pintak, Howard R. Marsh Visiting Professor of Journalism
Communications breakdown between the U.S. and Muslim world and its impact on the rise of radicalism
Biography

Felicidad Prudente, Visiting Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures (Musicology)
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1984
Assoc. Prof. of Ethnomusicology, Univ. of the Philippines, College of Music
Kulintang performance and Philippine music

Sununta Siengthai, Visiting Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Biography

Library Associates

Fe Susan Go, Head Librarian, Southeast Asia Division, University Library
AMLS, The University of Michigan, 1979
Bibliographic scholarship, Southeast Asia, especially Philippine, bibliographic resources
Biography

The center is committed to promoting a broader and deeper understanding of Southeast Asia and its peoples, cultures, and historiesby providing resources for faculty, students and the community to learn and disseminate knowledge about the region.

Last modified Thu, 25-Mar-2004
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