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Center faculty BY NAME
See this list sorted by department.
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.
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