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The Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) is the home for all scholars at Cornell conducting research on Southeast Asia.

Associate Professor, History of Art

Kaja McGowan’s studies the reciprocal relationships between neighboring countries in South and Southeast Asia.

Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Peter Mcintyre is an aquatic conservation ecologist and the Dwight Webster Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow. Working with a wide range of collaborators, he develop management approaches that balance human interests with protecting biodiversity.

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo

Discipline: History

Primary Language: Indonesian, Dutch

Teaching Professor, Music

Christopher Miller is a scholar and musician whose interests and activities revolve around two points of focus: experimental music, and the music of Indonesia, especially Central Javanese gamelan.

Graduate Student; Migrations Graduate Fellow

Carrie Mo is an MA student in Asian Studies. Her thesis examines how film production, screening, and festival circulation shape the memory of the Khmer Rouge, and how these processes are shaped by the material conditions of Cambodia’s cinematic infrastructure.

Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University

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

Associate Professor, Mahidol University

Sudarat Musikawong teaches Social Impact of Mass Media, Global Cities: Urban Sociology, Globalization/International Studies, Sociology of Southeast Asia, Qualitative Research Methods, US Immigration & International Migration, and Sociological Theory.

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2031

Committee Chair/Advisor: Tamara Loos

Discipline: Asian Studies

Primary Languages: Thai, Vietnamese, German

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2030

Committee Chair/Advisor: Derek Chang

Discipline: (Asian) American History

Primary Language: Vietnamese

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Discipline: Economics

Primary Language: Vietnamese, English