Micah F. Morton earned his PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015.

His research focuses on transnationalism, state-minority relations, social movements, religion and politics, ethnicity and nationalism, and the politics of Indigeneity in Southeast Asia and Southwest China. Recent publications include “From Hill Tribes to Indigenous Peoples: The Localization of a Global Movement in Thailand” in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (2019; co-authored with Ian G. Baird), “Reframing the Boundaries of Indigeneity: State-based ontologies and assertions of distinction and compatibility in Thailand” in American Anthropologist (2017), and “The Rising Politics of Indigeneity in Southeast Asia” in the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies’ Trends Series (2017).