Southeast Asia Program
Nicole T. Venker
Jesse F. and Dora H. Bluestone Peace Studies Fellow; Migrations Graduate Fellow
Nicole T. Venker is a human-environment geographer whose work explores how conflict-driven migration shapes rural livelihoods, environmental access, and food sovereignty.
She is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment. Her dissertation investigates the impacts of Myanmar’s protracted civil war on refugees’ experiences of displacement, temporary relocation, and resettlement in the U.S. and Thailand.
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- PACS Current Graduate Fellow
- Graduate Fellow
- Graduate Student
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Email: ntt22@cornell.edu
Made Adityanandana
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2026
Committee Chair/Advisor: Jenny Goldstein
Discipline: Development Sociology
Primary Language: Indonesian, Balinese
Research Countries: Indonesia
Research Interests: Political ecology, agrarian change, development, environmental conflict and movement, the application of post-growth in the Global South
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Liting Ding
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2027
Committee Chair/Advisor: N/A
Discipline: Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Primary Language: Vietnamese
Research Countries: Vietnam
Research Interests: She is interested in multispecies relations in aquaculture and mangrove ecologies in postsocialist states. Her geographical foci are Vietnam and China.
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Yufan Huang
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2026
Committee Chair/Advisor: Jessica Weiss Chen
Discipline: International Relations
Primary Language: Burmese
Research Countries: Myanmar
Research Interests: Economic Statecraft
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Marlie Ellen Lukach
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2025
Discipline: Plant Breeding and Genetics
Primary Language: Thai
Research Countries: Thailand
Research Interests: Making cucurbits (squash, gourds, melons, cucumbers, pumpkins) from Southeast Asia and Africa more accessible in the US while preserving biodiversity through her initiative 'Cucurbits of the World Network'
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Tamar Law
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2027
Committee Chair/Advisor: Jenny Goldstein
Discipline: Development Studies
Primary Language: Indonesian/Malay
Research Countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei
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Lauriston Sharp Prize
SEAP is pleased to award this year's Lauriston Sharp Prize to Margaret Jack!
Margaret Jack is a postdoctoral scholar on NSF Project 1928573 “Augmenting Work” with Ingrid Erickson (Syracuse University) and Melissa Mazmanian (UC Irvine). She is a research affiliate at the Digital Life Institute at Cornell Tech and an adjunct professor at NYU Tandon. She holds a PhD in Information Science from Cornell University, with a minor PhD concentration in Anthropology. She uses qualitative research methods like ethnography, interviews and historical analysis to contribute to questions of work and technology, memory and media, and the geopolitics of technology.
This recommendation recognizes both her exemplary service to Southeast Asian studies in the development of programs in Cambodian studies, and her strong dissertation, "Infrastructural Restitution: Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology.” Dr. Jack’s dissertation is a profound and powerful work that examines the restitution of Cambodia's media infrastructure in the aftermath of colonial interventions, civil war, and genocide. Dr. Jack's term, "Infrastructural restitution," is not simply a forward-looking technological fix, but an emotionally cathartic means to reckon with cultural memory such that artistic heritage and histories of conflict inform future visioning, including vernacular innovation, creativity, and technology.
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GETSEA Mini-Courses: Deadline Extended
Apply by September 24!
The consortium for Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) is offering two free and virtual mini-courses this fall, open to all graduate students studying Southeast Asia!
These courses do not offer credit, though students are encouraged to work with a faculty member at their own institution to count a course as independent study credit. Priority will be given to M.A. and PhD students from GETSEA member institutions but students from all institutions are welcome to apply. These courses entail a workload of equivalent to roughly one credit. Only those committed to completing all aspects of courses should apply. ***The deadline to apply has been extended to September 24, 2021.***
The Performing Arts in Southeast Asian History and Society
Taught by Supeena Insee Adler, Helen Rees, and Maureen Russell of the University of California, Los Angeles
Offered virtually from October 18 to November 22, 2021, Mondays, 8:00pm-10:00pm EST
Full syllabus available here.Apply here.
Scholar-Activism and the Myanmar Spring Revolution
Taught by Dr. Hilary Faxon, UC Berkeley and Dr. Tharaphi Than, Northern Illinois University
Offered virtually from October 20 to November 17, 2021, Wednesdays, 8:00pm-10:00pm EST
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ClubFest 2021 - Saturday and Sunday on the Arts Quad
Meet the Southeast Asian student groups!
Cornell's ClubFest is right around the corner! Check it out this weekend on the Arts Quad, and join some of the fabulous Southeast Asian student groups on campus.