Graduate Student
Darren Wan
Graduate Student
Darren Wan is a PhD student in the History Department. His research focuses on the ways South Chinese and South Indian migrant workers articulated claims to citizenship in the early postcolonial states of Burma and Malaya.
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2024-2025
Committee chair/advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo
Discipline: History
Primary Language: Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Malay, Tamil
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Connor Rechtzigel
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2025
Committee Chair/Advisor: Marina Welker
Discipline: Anthropology
Primary Language: Indonesian
Research Countries: Indonesia
Research Interests: “Tourism without Tourists: State Performance and Regional Development in Indonesia”
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Astara Light
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2025
Committee chair/advisor: Kaja McGowan
Discipline: History of Art and Visual Studies
Primary Language: Indonesian
Research Countries: Indonesia, Singapore
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Anna Koshcheeva
Graduate Student
Anna Koshcheeva researches visual culture of Cold War Laos. She focuses on cultural theories, visual representations of time, and temporality of Asian modernities - socialist, Buddhist, and others. She approaches the Cold War as a vernacular discourse on imagining modernity and national futurity, and she looks at the visual culture as a creative production where this discourse unfolds.
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2026
Committee Chair/Advisor: Arnika Fuhrmann
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Sampreety Gurung
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2025
Committee chair/advisor: Marina Welker
Discipline: Anthropology
Primary Language: Malay, Indonesian
Research Countries: Malaysia
Research Interests: Labor, care, transnational migration, health and well-being, capitalism, urban anthropology
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Meita Estiningsih
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2025
Committee Chair/Advisor: Kaja McGowan
Discipline: History of art and visual studies
Primary Language: Indonesian, Japanese
Research Countries: Indonesia, Japan
Research Interests: The Impact of the Japanese Occupation, 1943-1945, on the Development of Indonesian Cinema and its Legacy, in terms of Aesthetic and Institutional Work
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Emi Donald
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2025-26
Committee chair/advisor: Tamara Loos
Discipline: History
Primary Language: Thai
Research Countries: Thailand
Additional Information
SEAP Conference Travel Grant
Details
SEAP offers travel funding for graduate students to present at conferences. Students may receive one award per year (July 1 to June 30), and only after applying for the Graduate School Conference Travel Grant and departmental conference travel funding.
Amount
Up to $500
Eligibility
Applicants must be PhD or master's students affiliated with SEAP
To receive this award, students must also apply for the Graduate School Conference Travel Grant and departmental conference travel funding.
Timeline
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis on September 15, December 15, March 15, and June 15.
Questions?
Please direct any questions to SEAP Program Manager Colin Peterson (crp88@cornell.edu).
How to Apply
Send a written email request with the following information to SEAP Program Manager Colin Peterson (crp88@cornell.edu):
- Conference travel budget, including other funding for which you have secured and/or applied
- Paper abstract
- Invitation/acceptance letter to the conference
Additional Information
Milton L. Barnett Scholarship for Malaysian Studies
Details
Studying Malaysia? Apply for funding now.
Designed to promote Malaysian studies at Cornell, the Barnett scholarship is available, as an award up to $3,000 to cover research projects, conference attendance, travel related to recipients’ academic program, or summer language acquisition in Malaysia. All students focusing their academic studies on Malaysia may apply. Additionally, Malaysian students may apply for research anywhere in Southeast Asia.
Amount
Up to $3,000
Eligibility
- All graduate students focusing their academic studies on Malaysia; and/or
- Malaysian students studying any part of Southeast Asia
Timeline
Applications are due March 6, 2026 at 11:59 PM
How to Apply
Please use the “Apply” button below to create and submit an application in the Einaudi Center Funding Application website (Cornell NetID login required).
Required materials include:
- Project proposal. The proposal should contain a title, abstract, objectives, activities, timeline, and outcomes.
- Budget
- Other sources of funding
- Letter of recommendation
Questions?
Please direct any questions to SEAP Program Manager Colin Peterson at crp88@cornell.edu.
Additional Information
SEAP Engaged Travel Grant
Details
Planning an international trip?
Students may apply to SEAP for up to $3,000 of funding for international study or research in Southeast Asia, as part of a class or independently. Complete the online application describing your plans, how the experience fits in with your academic goals and pathway, and explaining your sources of funding and anticipated expenses. Apply at least six weeks before your planned travel. For winter break travel, the application period is open.
Amount
Up to $3,000.
Eligibility
- Undergraduates who have taken at least one semester of a Southeast Asian Language and/or a Southeast Asia area studies course.
Timeline
Fall applications are reviewed on October 15.
Spring applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Questions?
Please direct any questions to SEAP Program Manager Colin Peterson (crp88@cornell.edu).
How to Apply
Please use the “Apply” button below to create and submit an application (Cornell NetID login required). Required materials include:
- Project proposal. The proposal should contain a title, abstract, objectives, activities, timeline, and outcomes.
- Budget using THIS TEMPLATE
- Letter of recommendation