| Sarah Bauerle Danzman Assistant Professor Department of International Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies |
| Dr. Danzman primary interest is the political economy of international investment and finance. Her current book project investigates the conditions under which domestic firms support policies of openness toward multinational enterprises. Her knowledge in the politics of investment promotion in the developing world is aligned with the spirit of the emerging Southeast Asian economics. |
| Kelly Berkson Associate Professor Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences |
| Dr. Berkson’s twin research areas are the phonetics and phonology of typologically unusual sounds and contrasts, and language endangerment, documentation, and revitalization. One of Dr. Berkson latest works is investigating the Kuki-Chin group of the Tibeto-Burman language family that consists of upwards of 50 languages spoken mainly in western Myanmar. |
| Curtis Bonk Professor Department of Instructional System Technology, School of Education |
| Dr. Bonk has over 300 publications on topics such as online and blended learning, massive open online courses (MOOCs), massive multiplayer online gaming, Wikibooks, blogging, open-source software, collaborative technologies, and synchronous and asynchronous computer conferencing. Dr. Bonk’s upcoming book on MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South involves contributors from Southeast Asia including Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. |
| Yonjoo Cho Associate Professor Department of Instructional Systems Technology, School of Education |
| Dr. Yonjoo Cho's research interests include action learning, HRD, and women in leadership in Korea and Asia. She has published Current Perspectives on Asian Women in Leadership: A Cross-Cultural Analysis (Cho, Ghosh, Sun, & McLean, 2017) and Korean Women in Leadership (Cho & McLean, 2018) with Palgrave Macmillan. Currently, she is leading a special issue on women entrepreneurs in Asia for Advances in Developing Human Resources that will be published in May 2020. She is active organizing symposia on women in leadership in Asia at the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) and Asian AHRD conferences. She serves as an associate editor of Human Resource Development Review and serves with the Korean Action Learning Association. |
| Nick Cullather Professor and Interim Dean, Hamilton Lugar School Department of International Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences |
| Dr. Nick Cullather is a historian of United States foreign relations specializing in the history of intelligence, development, and nation-building. The United States uses aid, covert operations, diet, statistics, and technology to reconstruct the social reality of countries around the world, and Dr. Cullather is interested in these subtle mechanisms of power. He was a Fulbright Fellow to Singapore and the Philippines. His work in the Philippines resulted in a book titled Illusions of Influence: The Political Economy of United States-Philippines Relations, 1942-1960. In The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia, Dr. Cullather shows how US aid for the “green revolution” contributes to the politics of food and famine in Afghanistan, India, China, and Southeast Asia. |
| Stephanie DeBoer Associate Professor Cinema and Media Studies, The Media School, College of Arts and Sciences |
| Dr. DeBoer’s work addresses the co-constitution of place, space, and location as they are produced within transnational, regional, and urban screen media cultures. The works are interdisciplinary, multi-modal, and often collaborative. It draws from critical screen, cinema, and media studies; critical geography studies; urban and infrastructure studies; global, transnational, and regional studies; as well as digital humanities and creative practice. Her interests in Japan-Korea and Inter-Asia, in particular, is an advantage for the Southeast Asia Studies, providing a lens on Southeast Asian from the perspective of screen media and creative work. |
| Michael B. Dwyer Assistant Professor Department of Geography, College of Arts and Sciences |
| Dr. Mike Dwyer is a political ecologist whose research examines land, forest and energy politics in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Laos and Cambodia. Dr. Dwyer has written about the legacies of Cold War conflict on contemporary rural development and the geographies and policy tradeoffs of land titling and carbon forestry (REDD+). His current work focuses on efforts to “green” the economies of the Mekong Region through a mix of domestic policy and international financing. |
| Sara Friedman Professor Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences |
| Dr. Sara Friedman’s works focuses on the state and citizenship, migration, intimacy, marriage, gender and sexuality, reproductive politics, and kinship. Dr Friedman’s experience in exploring migration and labor in China and Taiwan provides insight into similar circumstances in Southeast Asian region. One of Dr. Friedman’s books, entitled Migrant Encounters: Intimate Labor, the State, and Mobility across Asia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), with Pardis Mahdavi, charts gendered migrations and migratory labors of intimacy and care across Asia. |
| Jennifer Goodlander Associate Professor Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance, College of Arts and Sciences |
| Dr. Jennifer Goodlander's research focuses on Southeast Asian arts as they intersect with gender studies, ethnography, performance studies, visual culture and museum studies, postcolonial theory, and transnational circuits of performance. Dr. Goodlander’s work shows how the arts are essential to the diplomatic and economic goals of the ASEAN Community, but troubles the Western hegemonic dynamic generally associated with intercultural performance. Dr. Goodlander recently began a new venture using arts and frameworks of "reflection" inherent in traditional Indonesian wayang (puppetry) together with aesthetic theory to unpack how theatre, literature, and various popular arts negotiate Islamic identities in Indonesia. |
| R. Kevin Jaques Associate Professor Department of Religious Studies, College of Arts and Sciences |
| Dr. R. Kevin Jaques' primary research focus on various forms of biography (tarjamah), which is one of the most important genres of medieval Muslim historiography. Dr. Jaques also has a secondary interest in Islam in Indonesia, especially the stories of the Wali Songo, the nine saints of Javanese Islam that are popularly thought to be responsible of the Islamization of Java in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. |
| Frederika Kaestle Associate Professor Department of Anthrolopogy, College of Arts and Sciences |
| Dr. Frederika Kaestle is an anthropological geneticist, specializing in molecular genetic techniques that can be utilized to address anthropological questions. Over the past decade, Dr. Kaestle has concentrated on new techniques and protocols that make ancient DNA available for study and has used these data to test hypotheses based on archaeological, linguistic, and ethnographic studies. One of Dr. Kaestle’s current research areas is the peopling of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, incorporating the archaeology, bioanthropology, and cultural anthropology of Southeast Asian peoples. |
| Stephanie C. Kane Professor Department of International Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies |
| Dr. Kane’s interests are political ecology/cultural politics of water, ethnography of infrastructure (flood control), social and environmental justice, and creative non-fiction writing bridging science, social science, and the humanities. Dr. Kane’s work exploring water disasters addresses common occurrences in South East Asia, including flooding, pollution, and displacement. |
| Gwendolyn Kirk South Asian and Southeast Asian Librarian Herman B Wells Library |
| Gwendolyn Kirk is responsible for managing collections pertaining to South Asian Studies and Southeast Asian Studies. She also works to assist faculty and students interested in these regions to navigate IU's collections as well as accessing external resources. |
| Pedro Machado Associate Professor Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences |
| Dr. Pedro Machado’s research concentrates on the intersecting histories of western India and southeastern Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and how these histories were mediated by particular social and commercial networks of South Asian merchant groups. Dr. Machado’s current research has explored the pearl fisheries of the Indian Ocean that have long been an important maritime and commercial activity for societies from the Gulf and Red Sea to the Indonesian and South China Sea waters. This project, involving collaborative work with international scholars, combines an object- and commodity-based approach with environmental, historical, anthropological and ethnographic research to uncover the linkages in the ocean’s pearling pasts. He is now working on a global history of pearling that brings the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans into relation with one another as sites of marine exchange and extraction. |
Academic Director, IU ASEAN Global Gateway Director & Fellow, School of Education Global and International Engagement |
| Dr. Pawan researches & designs in-person & online professional development (PD) programs for professionals. Her current projects involve culturally & linguistically-inclusive PD programs. They include funded projects with Burmese teacher educators; Women faculty members at Universitas Indonesia; and indigenous scholars in Malaysia. |
| P. Q. Phan Professor Composition Department, Jacob School of Music |
| Dr. P.Q. Phan is Professor of Music in the Jacob School of Music. A prolific composer of opera, orchestral and chamber music, many of Dr. Phan’s works draw inspiration from traditional Vietnamese song and instrumentation, including the opera “The Tale of Lady Thi Kinh,” symphony “When the Worlds mixed and Times Merged,” and string quartet, “An Duong Vuong.” He has received commissions from the Kronos Quartet, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the American Composers Orchestra, the Greater East Lansing Symphony, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Samaris Piano Trio, the New York Youth Symphony, La Sierra University. |
| Dina Okamoto Professor Department of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences |
| Dr. Okamoto’s research examines the dynamics of immigrant incorporation as well as intergroup conflict, cooperation, and collective action in the U.S. context. Her current projects investigate the civic and political incorporation of immigrants, the emergence of new pan ethnic categories, and how community-based organizations deal with increasing ethnic, racial, and language diversity. She is author of Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and is currently completing a book on how increasing ethnoracial diversity in the U.S. shapes intergroup perceptions and attitudes in the 21st century. |
| John Racek Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design |
| Jon Racek is a multidisciplinary designer whose scope of expertise includes architecture, interiors, furniture, landscapes, and playgrounds. He teaches in the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design . He engages in both the high-tech (parametric modeling, digital fabrication, alternative visualization methods, etc.) and the low-tech (socially-responsible, community-engaged design in the developing world). His work with the non-profit group Play360 has taken him to Peru, the Philippines, Zanzibar, Guatemala, Thailand, Haiti, and Kenya. In addition to teaching studios for Interior Design, he frequently collaborates with other instructors both inside and outside of the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design. |
| Karen Stoll Farrel Associate Librarian Herman B Wells Library |
| Karen Stoll Farrel is Librarian for South Asian and Southeast Asian Studies, Herman B Wells Library. She has developed several online resources for the study of ASEAN and Southeast Asia. |
| Nozomi Tanaka Assistant Professor Department of East Asian Languanges and Cultures, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies |
| Dr. Tanaka is a linguist whose research interests include morphosyntax, language acquisition, and heritage languages. She has primarily worked on Tagalog, but is interested in working on the Philippine languages in general as well as other Western Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken in South East Asia. |
| Anh Ngoc Tran Professor O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs |
| Dr. Anh Tran is a professor at the O'Neill School, specializing in the governance issues of developing countries. His current research focuses on performance management and leadership in public organizations. His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Policy, and other leading academic journals. Dr. Tran is currently an economic advisor to the Prime Minister of Vietnam. He also serves as director of the Vietnam Initiatives at IU, a global think tank on development policies for Vietnam, and is the co-founder and director of the Vietnam Young Leaders Award, a scholarship program that brings exceptional government officials from Vietnam to the United States for postgraduate degrees. |
| David C. Williams Professor Maurer School of Law |
| David C. Williams is John S. Hastings Professor of Law in Maurer School of Law. A noted constitutional law scholar, Williams has written widely on constitutional design, Native American law, the constitutional treatment of difference, and the relationship between constitutionalism and political violence. He is the author of The Mythic Meanings of the Second Amendment: Taming Political Violence in a Constitutional Republic (Yale University Press, 2003). He is also co-editor and primary author of Designing Federalism in Burma (UNLD Press 2005), which is widely read in the Burma democracy movement. As Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy, Williams consults with a number of reform movements abroad. He advises many elements of the Burma democracy movement on the constitutional future of that country. More recently, he has become a constitutional advisor to the Democratic Party of Vietnam to help the party find ways to work with the government of Vietnam for peaceful reform. |
| Susan Williams Professor Maurer School of Law |
| Susan Williams is the Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law in Maurer School of Law. Professor Williams is the author of Truth, Autonomy, and Speech: Feminist Theory and the First Amendment (NYU Press 2004). She is also the editor of two books on constitutional design: Constitutionalism and Social Difference in Pan Asia (Cambridge University Press 2013) and Constituting Equality: Gender Equality and Comparative Constitutional Law (Cambridge University Press, 2009) (paperback edition 2011). She has written numerous articles and book chapters on constitutional law, constitutional design, and feminist theory. Professor Williams is actively engaged in advising constitutional reformers in several countries. She works with the ethnic minority groups in Burma —advising them on their on-going constitutional negotiations with government — and also with women’s organizations in that country. |
| Y. Joel Wong Professor Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, School of Education |
| Dr. Joel Wong's interests are in positive psychology, especially the psychology of gratitude and the psychology of encouragement, and the psychology of men and masculinities, and Asian/Asian-American mental health. Dr. Wong is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 17, 45, and 51) and the Asian American Psychological Association. His focus on Asian/Asian American mental health is of special interest to scholars in SEAS. |
| Ellen Wu Associate Professor Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences |
| Dr. Wu is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Director of Asian American Studies Program. Dr. Wu’s research interests are about problems of race, citizenship, and migration through the lens of Asian American history. Dr. Wu’s current book project, Overrepresented, places Asian Americans at the center of the intersecting histories of race-making, policy, and democracy in the age of affirmative action. Overrepresented takes a multidisciplinary approach to examining the problem of Asian American social standing and opportunity in the face of sweeping changes over the past half-century: the rise of affirmative action and kindred policies intended to promote racial equality, large-scale immigration from Asia, and widening economic inequalities. Together, these challenges prompt a rethinking of what it means to be a “minority” in post-civil rights America. |