Associate Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York
Joshua Plotnik is a comparative psychologist and conservation behavior researcher who has studied elephant cognition and conservation in Thailand since 2007.
Zhenwu Qiu is a 2026-2027 China Scholarship Council Visiting Scholar at the Southeast Asia Program. He is a lecturer in the Department of History at Nanjing Normal University, China, and holds a PhD from Tsinghua University (2023).
A political theorist of postcolonial modernity, Say Jye Quah draws on international relations, Southeast Asian studies and postcolonial studies to examine how Third World actors – especially in Southeast Asia – reshaped international order.
Associate Professor of Practice, Wildlife and Conservation Medicine
Robin Radcliffe is an associate professor of practice in wildlife and conservation medicine. His research focuses on infectious disease investigation for the rare Indonesian rhinos.