Applicants Eligibility

Applicants must be current undergraduate students at CORMOSEA affiliated institutions* at the time of submission. Applicants must agree that, should they win, their papers will be made openly accessible and published online on the Southeast Asia Digital Library

Paper Eligibility

Eligible papers must be within the field of Southeast Asian Studies and reference primary source materials. Papers may be written for a class or independent study within the past three academic years: Spring 2019 - Spring 2022. Papers must be between six to twenty pages in length, excluding references and figures.

Evaluation Criteria

Winning papers will demonstrate the student’s ability to support original research with analysis of primary source materials. Papers that reference materials held in Southeast Asia Digital Library collections will be given increased consideration.

Submission Materials

Submission packets should include a cover page containing the paper title, author name, author email, institutional affiliation, and date. Papers should be submitted as a separate PDF document listing only the title. No author information should be included in the paper itself to allow for blind evaluation.

Submission packets should be emailed to seadl@cornell.edu no later than June 24th, 2022

*CORMOSEA Affiliated Institutions: Arizona State University; Cornell University; Harvard University; Indiana University, Bloomington; Michigan State University; Northern Illinois University; Ohio University; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Riverside; University of Hawai’i at Manoa; University of Michigan; University of Washington; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Yale University

GETSEA is offering one free and virtual mini-course this summer on topics in Southeast Asian studies, open to graduate students from a wide range of backgrounds. Current graduates students at a GETSEA member institution receive first priority in admission to the courses, though graduate students at any institution who research in and around Southeast Asia may apply for admission to take a mini-course.

GETSEA mini-courses do not offer course credit for students at their home institutions. However, students are encouraged to work with a faculty member at their home institution to count the course towards an independent/directed study/reading credit. Mini-courses have a workload roughly equivalent to that of a one-credit course – approximately 45 hours in total, including class time, readings, and other work.

Details about our previous mini-courses are available here, and any questions or proposals can be submitted to us at getsea@cornell.edu.

Anarchism and Southeast Asia

Taught by Wong Tian An, University of Michigan

Offered virtually from June 1 to July 6, 2022, Wednesdays, 8:00pm-10:00pm ET

Full syllabus available here.

Apply here.

Application deadline: May 1, 2022

This weekend, the Cornell Myanmar Students Association (CMSA) held a Thingyan celebration at the Kahin Center. This was followed by a night of Southeast Asian American music organized by Christine Balance and Brian Sengdala.

The evening was capped off with CAPSU's annual Asia Night, with participation from SEA Club, Cornell Filipino Association, Cornell Indonesian Association, CMSA, the Cornell Vietnamese Association, and more!