Faculty
Lawrence J. McCrea
Professor, Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Sanskrit poetics, text interpretation, and Buddhist studies
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Kathryn March
Professor Emerita, Anthropology
Geographic Research Area: Nepal and the Himalayas
Teaching/Research Interests: Gender, ethnicity, religion and culture
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Program
Role
- Faculty
- SAP Core Faculty
- SAP Professor Emeriti
Contact
Email: ksm8@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5127
Mukul Majumdar
Professor Emeritus, Economics
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Sustainable economic development, intertemporal decentralization, dynamical systems, and allocation theory and international trade theory
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Program
Role
- Faculty
- SAP Core Faculty
- SAP Professor Emeriti
Contact
Email: mkm5@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-3540
Neema Kudva
Associate Professor, House Professor, and Dean, Carl Becker House
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Urbanization, planning theory, research methods, transborder/transdiscipline engaged learning
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Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
Stephen and Evalyn Professor of American Studies Emerita
Geographic Research Area: India and United States
Teaching/Research Interests: Incarceration, political activism, ethnic activism, and gender
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John Wolff
Professor Emeritus, Linguistics and Asian Studies
Research Interests: Historical linguistics, lexicography, Austronesian linguistics
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Karim-Aly Saleh Kassam
International Professor of Environmental and Indigenous Studies
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Program
Role
- Faculty
- PACS Steering Committee
- PACS Minor Field Instructor
- SAP Core Faculty
Contact
Email: ksk28@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-9757
James Siegel
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology and Asian Studies
James Siegel retired from full-time teaching in 2007. He is the last of the second-generation SEAP faculty to retire. Like other emeritus SEAP faculty, he retains an office at the Kahin Center and is available to help mentor future scholars of Southeast Asia.
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Stan O'Connor
Professor Emeritus, Art History and Asian Studies
In 1964, before he completed his PhD, Stan O'Connor was invited to become an instructor in the Department of the History of Art; this was the first university-level appointment in America of a specialist in the field of Southeast Asian art. In 1971, he was appointed full professor.
Contrary to the usual stereotype of an art historian, he was an excellent administrator. From 1966 to 1970 he served as chair of the Department of Asian Studies; from 1971 to 1976 he chaired his own department; and from 1979 to 1984 served the Southeast Asia Program as one of its ablest directors.
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Thak Chaloemtiarana
Retired Professor, Graduate School
Thak Chaloemtiarana retired from the Department of Asian Studies and as director of the Southeast Asia Program in 2010. He retains appointments in the Graduate School in the fields of Asian literature, religion and culture, and Asian studies. He continues to serve on graduate student committees and teaches the Thailand country seminar with Tamara Loos. He was associate dean and director of admissions for the College of Arts and Sciences from 1985 to 1998.