Southeast Asia Program
SEAP Director Pepinsky Honored with Tisch Professorship
Thomas Pepinsky, director of the Southeast Asia Program and professor of government, has received Cornell’s highest honors for faculty members.
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Scandal and Democracy: Media Politics in Indonesia
Successful transitions to enduring democracy are both difficult and rare. In Scandal and Democracy, Mary E. McCoy explores how newly democratizing nations can avoid reverting to authoritarian solutions in response to the daunting problems brought about by sudden change. The troubled transitions that have derailed democratization in nations worldwide make this problem a major concern for scholars and citizens alike.
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23.95
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- Book
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Publication Year: 2019
ISBN: 9781501731044
Rebel Politics: A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar's Borderlands
Rebel Politics analyzes the changing dynamics of the civil war in Myanmar, one of the most entrenched armed conflicts in the world. Since 2011, a national peace process has gone hand-in-hand with escalating ethnic conflict. The Karen National Union (KNU), previously known for its uncompromising stance against the central government of Myanmar, became a leader in the peace process after it signed a ceasefire in 2012. Meanwhile, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) returned to the trenches in 2011 after its own seventeen-year-long ceasefire broke down.
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24.95
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- Book
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Publication Year: 2019
ISBN: 9781501740084
Activists in Transition: Progressive Politics in Democratic Indonesia
Activists in Transition examines the relationship between social movements and democratization in Indonesia. Collectively, progressive social movements have played a critical role over in ensuring that different groups of citizens can engage directly in—and benefit from—the political process in a way that was not possible under authoritarianism.
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24.95
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- Book
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Publication Year: 2019
ISBN: 9781501742477
The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building
Through the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers, journalists, and artists, The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975, presents us with an interpretation of "South Vietnam" as a passionately imagined nation in the minds of ordinary Vietnamese, rather than merely as an expeditious political construct of the United States government.
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24.95
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- Book
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Publication Year: 2020
ISBN: 9781501745126
Graduate Focus Area
Interested in pursuing a graduate degree with a focus on Southeast Asia?
Andrew C. Willford
Professor, Anthropology
Andrew C. Willford is a professor of anthropology and Asian studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic: Anxious Selves in Urban and Rural South India (University of Hawaii, 2025) and The Future of Bangalore’s Cosmopolitan Pasts: Civility and Difference in a Global City (University of Hawaii, 2018). His previous research focused on forms of Tamil and Hindu displacement, revivalism, and identity politics in Malaysia.
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- Faculty
- SAP Core Faculty
- SEAP Core Faculty
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Email: acw24@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-2686
Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma: The Soldier and the Teacher
Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma is about commitment to an ideal, individual survival and the universality of the human experience. A memoir of two tenacious souls, it sheds light on why Burma/Myanmar's decades-long pursuit for a peaceful and democratic future has been elusive. Simply put, the aspirations of Burma's ethnic nationalities for self-determination within a genuine federal union runs counter to the idea of a unitary state orchestrated and run by the dominant majority Burmans, or Bamar.
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23.95
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- Book
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Publication Year: 2020
ISBN: 9781501746949
Major in Asian Studies
A major in Asian Studies is rewarding for students of all backgrounds, as the global presence of Asia becomes ever more visible. This degree offers students career opportunities in law, business, government, journalism, arts, education, post-secondary education, and more.
Requirements
Applicants must first successfully receive a minimum grade of B in at least two Asia content courses. These may include one language course, but writing seminars do not fulfill the requirement. The major must be declared no later than the second semester of the junior year. Admission to the major after the start of the seventh semester will be by petition only.
The majors can choose an additional major (double major) in another discipline. Courses taken to complete a double major also fulfill the normal requirement for elective units. Because the field is so vast, each major works closely with a faculty advisor to design an academic program which meets individual interests, abilities, and career goals.
All Asian Studies majors must demonstrate second-year proficiency in an Asian language.
The Asian Studies Department offers three areal minors, along with a minor in Sanskrit Studies. Many students choose to highlight their Asian areal interests by combining a minor with their chosen major.
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The Critical Language Scholarship Program
Attend a fully-funded summer overseas language program with a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS).
The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. Students of diverse disciplines and majors are encouraged to apply. Participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers.
Each summer, CLS provides rigorous academic instruction in fifteen languages that are critical to America's national security and economic prosperity. CLS participants are citizen ambassadors, sharing American values and promoting American influence abroad.
Application Deadline
Applications are due in November, check the CLS website for more details.
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