Join us for our Wednesday Lunch Series, featuring guest speakers from Cornell's faculty and staff as well as the surrounding community. Enjoy an informal discussion where you can learn more about the speaker’s work or research, how they ended up doing what they are doing, current issues in higher education and local community. A free lunch will be served.

Dr. Billy Noseworthy is a historian of Southeast Asia and the World. He is also currently a Cataloging Associate for Vietnamese Language materials at Cornell University Library, while simultaneously serving as a Visiting Lecturer of World History at McNeese State University in Louisiana. He has published widely on the history of ethnic and religious minorities in Southeast Asia, on topics of historical preservation, indigenous rights, and rare languages, as well as on the history of the South China Sea and the transpacific history of Hip Hop culture, with recent publications appearing in Cogent: Social Sciences, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies and South East Asia Research. His graduate work combined the study of the History of Southeast Asia with a constructed minor focusing on Diaspora History and Literature, which he completed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His most recent book was a co-edited OER textbook for World History, 1500-Present, whose production was sponsored by the Department of Education and Louisiana Library Network (LOUIS). In addition to his academic labor, Dr. Billy is also the founding host of Kampung Jams on WRFI (89.7 FM Odessa, 88.1 FM Ithaca), which promotes the music of Southeast Asia and the diaspora.