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

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: N/A

Committee Chair/Advisor: Ted O'Donoghue

Discipline: Behavioural Economics

Professor, Le Moyne College

Tooker, Deborah E., (Ph.D.

Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA)

Quynh Anh Tran is a 2024-2025 Fulbright Program grantee from Vietnam in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University.

Senior Lecturer, Vietnamese

Thuy Tranviet has been teaching Vietnamese in the Department of Asian Studies since 2000. She teaches Vietnamese at all levels, including advanced courses in newspaper reading and Vietnamese contemporary literature.

Professor, Public and Ecosystem Health

Alexander Travis is director of the Master of Public Health program in the College of Veterinary Medicine. His research explores a diverse set of subjects related to one health: interdisciplinary work that links the functions and well-being of people, animals, and the environment.

Associate Director, Global Development

Terry Tucker is a Professor of the Practice in the Department of Global Development. He serves as Co-Director of Graduate Studies for the MPS – Global Development program. His teaching and outreach work focuses on smallholder agriculture, especially farmers' adaptation to change, as wel

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: Spring 2024

Committee Chair/Advisor: Mason Peck

Discipline: Aerospace Engineering

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: MPH

Anticipated Degree Year: 2025

Committee Chair/Advisor: N/A

Discipline: Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Primary Language: Khmer

Professor, SUNY-Buffalo State

Vida Vanchan is a professor at SUNY-Buffalo State. She holds a doctorate in international economic and business geographies and a master’s degree in international trade from University at Buffalo.

Graduate Student, Jesse F. and Dora H. Bluestone Peace Studies Fellowship recipient

Nicole T. Venker is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment. Her research examines livelihoods, labor, and land relations along transnational routes of migration from Myanmar (Burma) to the United States.