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

Associate Professor, Anthropology, SUNY-Brockport

Pilapa Esara Carroll is an associate professor of anthropology at SUNY-Brockport.

Retired Professor, Graduate School

Thak Chaloemtiarana retired from the Department of Asian Studies and as director of the Southeast Asia Program in 2010. He retains appointments in the Graduate School in the fields of Asian literature, religion and culture, and Asian studies.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies

Julia Chang is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies, a member of the core faculty in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and affiliated faculty in the Southeast Asia Program. She holds a PhD in

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027-2028

Committee Chair/Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo

Discipline: Southeast Asian History

Associate Professor, Architecture

Lily Chi's teaching covers topics in contemporary design research, 18th to 21st-century theory and criticism, and architectural drawing/representation in western history. She is completing a writing project on city-building, war, and propaganda in 20th-century Saigon.

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: MPH

Anticipated Degree Year: 2024

Committee Chair/Advisor: Alexander J. Travis

Discipline: Public Health

Primary Language: English

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: Masters

Anticipated Degree Year: 2025

Committee Chair/Advisor: Tamara Loos

Discipline: Southeast Asia Studies

Primary Language: English, German, Thai

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: -

Committee Chair/Advisor: Nick Salvato

Discipline: Hip-Hop Studies, Sound Studies, Vietnamese Diasporic Studies, Performing Studies

Research Associate, K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics

Dena Clink's principal scientific interests are in the behavioral ecology and evolution of acoustic signals. Her research focuses on primate acoustic communication from a comparative and evolutionary perspective.

Professor, Linguistics

Abby Cohn is a professor of linguistics and Southeast Asian studies. Her research interests include the Austronesian languages of Indonesia, with a particular focus on their phonetics, phonology, and morphology.