Center faculty BY NAME

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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

Agustini , Lecturer in Indonesian Language

Arun Agrawal, Associate Professor of Natural Resources
PhD, Duke University, 1992
Environmental studies, development studies, forestry, Thailand, Indonesia

Joi Barrios, Lecturer in Filipino language

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

Christi-Anne Castro, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
Issues of post-colonial Philippines, hybridity and musical representation, Philippine and Philippine-American music.

Deirdre de la Cruz, Visiting Assistant Professor in Filipino Studies (Michigan Society of Fellows 2006-09)
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2006
Cultural Anthropology, U.S. cultural imperialism, Japanese occupation of the Philippines

James S. Diana, Associate Dean and Professor of Natural Resources; Associate Research Scientist, Center for Great Lakes & Aquatic Sciences
Ph.D., University of Alberta, 1979
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 Emeritus of International Business and Finance
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1969
Asian financial markets

Nancy K. Florida, Professor of Indonesian Languages and Literatures, Chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1990
Indonesian literature, history, culture, and cultural studies; Island Southeast Asia literary and cultural studies; traditional Javanese literature and historiography; advanced Indonesian language; Asian studies; theory and method
Biography

Kathleen Ford, Research Scientist, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
Ph.D., Brown University, 1975
Present research includes longitudinal study of household welfare in Kanchanaburi province in Thailand; HIV vulnerability among migrant workers from Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar in Thailand; Women's Health at midlife including relationships between cognit

Luis O. Gomez, 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

L.A. Peter Gosling, Professor Emeritus of Geography and Anthropology
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1958
Rural development; resettlement of population displaced by development; labor export; transportation development in Southeast Asia.
Biography

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

Aneel Karnani, Assistant Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business
DBA, Harvard University, 1980
Competitive strategy, global competition, Singapore

Webb Keane, Professor of Anthropology (Social and Cultural)
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1990
Linguistic anthropology, ritual and religion, exchange and material culture, history, and historical consciousness, media

Stuart Kirsch, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1991
Political ecology, Melanesia and Oceania, indigenous movements, ritual and religion, cultural property, mining ethnography
Biography

John E. Knodel, Emeritus 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, Marvin B. Becker Collegiate Professor of History
Ph.D., University of London, 1976
Early modern Southeast Asian history; early modern comparative world history; early Southeast Asian economic history
Biography

Linda Y.C. Lim, Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies; Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1978
International trade, investment and exchange rates; Regional economic integration; Overseas Chinese, indigenous and multinational business; Labor and women in the economy (Southeast Asia).
Biography

Donald S. Lopez, Carl W. Besler Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1982
Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan history, Tibetan language
Biography

Sharon Maccini, Lecturer in Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Ph.D., Harvard, 2005
Health economics, public health in developing countries, public finance, development

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
Post colonial literature and theory, film and cultural studies, Asian American literature
Biography

Gayl D. Ness, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Public Health
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Population, economic development, and environmental change; policies, projects and implementation
Biography

Thuy-Anh Thi Nguyen, Lecturer in Vietnamese language

Scott Paris, Professor of Psychology and Education, Chair, Graduate Program in Psychology
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1972
Research interests include the development and motivation of children's learning, children's literacy strategies, metacognition, and motivation, and ways that teachers can use new kinds of instruction and assessment to foster students' learning. Teaching

Steven Ratner, Professor of Law
JD, Yale University, 1986
International law, human rights, ethnic conflict, Cambodia

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

Priscilla Rogers, Associate Professor of Business
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1986
Business and technical communication, communication training for management in Singapore, writing assessment for management education

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 Architecture and Urban Planning
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2001
Urbanization in developing countries, urban community development and housing in the Philippines
Biography

Carla Sinopoli, Professor of Anthropology; Director, Museum of Anthropology; Curator, Asian Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology
PhD, University of Michigan, 1986
Archaeology of South Asia, pre-colonial empires, material culture

Amy K. Stillman, Associate Professor of American Culture, Program Director of Program in American Culture
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1991
Ethnomusicology, dance ethnology, Pacific Islands
Biography

Ashutosh Varshney, Professor of Political Science
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990
Ethnic conflict, Indonesia/Malaysia

Lois Verbrugge, Research Professor Emerita and Distinguished Senior Research Scientist Emerita, Insitute of Gerontology
Ph.D., M.P.H.
Empirical and theoretical issues in disability and aging in the U.S. and in Southeast Asia; current research on nonfatal chronic conditions and their extensive impacts on middle-aged and older people's activities

Susan Pratt Walton, Lecturer in the Residential College
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1996
Performance arts of South and Southeast Asia, Indonesian music and culture, gender issues, ethnomusicology
Biography

Frederick Wherry, Assistant Professor in Sociology
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2004; MPA, Princeton University, 2000; BA, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1996
Cultural sociology, race and ethnicity, economic sociology, and comparative sociology in Thailand and Costa Rica

John K. Whitmore, Cataloging Editor, Graduate Library; Adjunct Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1968
Modern and pre-modern Vietnamese history, comparative Southeast Asian history
Biography

Henry Wright, Albert Clanton Spaulding Collegiate Professor of Anthropology, Curator in the Museum of Anthropology
PhD, University of Chicago, 1967
Thailand, Burma, archaeology

Dean Yang, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics
Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University, 2003
Economic problems of developing countries, corruption, international migration, disasters and health

Visiting Faculty

Charya Chum, Research Scholar Program, School of Law
Legal research on dispute resolution skills

Phary Duch, Research Scholar Program, School of Law
Research interests include the field of marriage and family, for example: formation of marriage, parents and children, parental power, guardianship, curatorship and succession.

Nataliya Gorodnia, Fulbright Research Scholar (Sept 2007–Feb 2008)
Ph.D., Taras Shevehenko Kyiv National University, 1996
Project title: The USA-Southeast Asia: long-term perspective of interaction in the shaping of a new world-system core.

Exsuperantia Irene, Lecturer in Indonesian/Javanese language (Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant 2007-08)

Paul Kramer, Visiting Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1998
Transnational U.S. history, U.S. empire, histories of race, Philippine-American colonial history, migration history, comparative empires, global history

Kate Linebaugh, Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow (2007-08)
Project title: Asia's Wealth Gap: Capital, Consumption and Rising Inequality

Loren Ryter, Visiting Scholar
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2002
Southeast Asian political history, criminality and the state, postcolonialism

Ornkanya Yaoharee, Lecturer in Thai language (Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant 2007-08)

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.