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The Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) is the home for all scholars at Cornell conducting research on Southeast Asia.

Professor, SUNY-Albany

Meredith Weiss's research is in the field of comparative politics, focusing on Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Welker's research centers on the ethical relationship between business and society. Her first project was an ethnographic study of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) industry that creates and installs voluntary social and environmental codes of conduct and practices among corporations.

Associate Professor, SUNY-Cortland

Future teachers often travel in Orvil White’s science methods class. Some go back in time to their elementary school days and some head to Thailand, both studying forces of motion through roller coaster models and properties of water through optical illusions.

Communications and Outreach Coordinator

Ava oversees SEAP's outreach activities, both in the local community and in collaboration with national outreach partners.

Graduate Student

Roderick Wijunamai is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. His PhD research focuses on forms of plantation, and its impact on Indigenous people in the Indo-Myanmar borderlands.

Degree Pursued: PhD

Professor, Anthropology

Andrew C. Willford is a professor of anthropology and Asian studies at Cornell University.

Faculty Director, Migration Studies Minor

Lindy Williams is a professor emerita in the Department of Global Development.

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: MA

Anticipated Degree Year: 2024-25

Committee Chair/Advisor: Magnus Fiskesjö

Discipline: Performing and Media Arts

Professor Emeritus, Linguistics and Asian Studies

Research Interests: Historical linguistics, lexicography, Austronesian linguistics

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: TBD

Committee Chair/Advisor: TBD

Discipline: Development Sociology

Primary Language: Tagalog/Filipino