Vida Vanchan is a professor at SUNY-Buffalo State. She holds a doctorate in international economic and business geographies and a master’s degree in international trade from University at Buffalo.

She founded Southeast Asia (SEA) Week and has organized this annual event on Buffalo State campus since 2012. The SEA Week events feature lecture series, student presentations, panel discussions and performances involving Southeast Asian countries and beyond. In addition, she has worked on educational development and capacity building projects in Cambodia for many years.

Tooker, Deborah E., (Ph.D. 1988, Harvard University) is professor of anthropology, department of anthropology, criminology, and sociology at Le Moyne College. Her research focuses on the anthropology of space and place and identity concepts/politics in upland/lowland relationships in Thailand, especially among the Akha. She is currently working on historical changes in emotional practices and concepts of self among the Akha.

Kathryn Stam is a professor of anthropology at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. She serves as the coordinator of the online master’s program in information design and technology, and she teaches undergraduate anthropology. Stam’s specialties are cross-cultural communication, ethnography, Thai and Lao studies, and information technology. Her recent work is a collection and analysis of Northeast Thai memorial books and has been supported by a Fulbright grant and an ENITAS scholarship from the Institute of Thai Studies at Chulalongkorn University.

Ermin Sinanović is the executive director of the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW) at Shenandoah University, where he is also a Scholar in Residence. Before joining CICW, he was the director of research and academic programs at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). He taught in the Department of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. 

Kosal Path is assistant professor of political science. He is a survivor of the Cambodian genocide (1975-79). As a researcher for the Cambodian Genocide Program at Yale University and the Documentation Center of Cambodia from 1995 to 2000, he took part in documenting the atrocities committed by the Pol Pot regime.

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.

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

Although Duncan McCargo is best known for his agenda-setting contributions to current debates on the politics of Thailand, his work is centrally concerned with the nature of power. How do entrenched elites seek to retain power in the face of challenges from new political forces? How do challengers to state power try to undermine the legitimacy of existing regimes? These interests have led him to study questions relating to the elections, protest rallies, uses of media, sub-national conflicts, and the politics of justice, among other issues.

Ken MacLean is a professor of international development and social change and a faculty member at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He has more than two decades of experience working with NGOs on issues related to human rights violations, conflict-induced displacement, state-sponsored violence, extractive industries, and territorial disputes across South East Asia.

Neal Keating is a cultural anthropologist interested in the problems of structural power in the contemporary world. His work involves collaborative research with Indigenous Peoples in Southeast Asia and North America, with a focus on issues of human rights, old and new colonialities, land-grabs, and language shifts.