Postdoc
Charlotte (Char) Marie Chadwick

Visiting Scholar
Charlotte Marie Chadwick (Char) is a Visiting Scholar at SEAP during the Fall semester. They will be working under the guidance of Professor Arnika Fuhrmann.
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Kota Watanabe
Independent Scholar
Kota Watanabe is a diplomat-turned-political scientist studying contested state building and civil war in contemporary Myanmar, currently based in New York City. He earned his PhD in Development Studies from SOAS University of London in February 2025.
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Program
Role
- Postdoc
- IAD Core Faculty
- SEAP Faculty Associate in Research
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Email: 683832@soas.ac.uk
Southeast Asian Qualitative Social Sciences Postdoctoral Associate

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We are seeking an independent and highly motivated social scientist with fieldwork and area expertise on one or more Southeast Asian countries. Scholars from a range of fields including geography, anthropology, sociology, data/information science, public and ecosystem health, planning, political science, and environmental social science are encouraged to apply. We especially welcome someone able to work across disciplinary boundaries and is interested in the intersections between research, public engagement, and policy making in the Southeast Asian context.
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Southeast Asian Environmental Humanities Postdoctoral Associate

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Potential topics may include and are not limited to humanistic or qualitative research approaches to climate breakdown, biodiversity, human-animal relations, plantations, environmental justice, commodity chains, extraction, and the cultural politics of food as they relate to Southeast Asia and/or Southeast Asian diasporas. We especially welcome applicants with PhDs in the humanities, interpretive social sciences such as anthropology, or interdisciplinary degrees such as religious studies, Southeast Asian studies, ethnic studies, feminist studies, or science and technology studies.
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Norhafiza Mohd Hed
Visiting Fellow
Norhafiza Mohd Hed is a Visiting Scholar at SEAP for the academic year 2024-2025. She is currently affiliated with the Department of Malaysian Studies at Sultan Idris Education University Malaysia, as a senior lecturer. Specializing in comparative politics, her research focuses on political participation, political behavior, and social movements.
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K.T. Wong

Post-Doctoral Associate
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Vincent Intondi

Affiliated Scholar
Vincent Intondi is a nuclear disarmament expert whose research focuses on the intersection of race and nuclear weapons. He was most recently a senior lecturer in the International Relations department at Webster University-Leiden in the Netherlands. A co-host of the Minds Blown podcast, from 2013-2023, Intondi was a professor of history and founder and director of the Institute for Race, Justice, and Civic Engagement at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland.
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Aichiro Suryo Prabowo

SEAP Postdoctoral Associate
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Agnieszka Nimark

Visiting Scholar, Grants and Projects Coordinator
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Yaro T. Kulchyckyj

Affiliated Scholar
Yaro T. Kulchyckyj holds a Doctor of International Affairs and a Masters of International Public Policy degrees from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (JHU-SAIS). He wrote his doctoral dissertation on U.S. Foreign Policy Decision-Making: The Obama and Trump’s Administrations' Decisions Regarding Lethal Aid to Ukraine, 2014-2017. He has over 25 years of experience in diplomacy, development, and defense. He is a career public servant with the Department of State and a Senior Fellow with the Partnership for Public Service.