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Council Members

Council on Southeast Asia Studies, Program in Agrarian Studies

Erik Harms

Professor of Anthropology & Southeast Asia Studies; Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology; Chair, Council on Southeast Asian Studies

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Michael Dove

Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology; Professor of Anthropology; Curator of Anthropology, Peabody Museum

MacMillan Center

Sunil Amrith

Henry R. Luce Director, the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; Vice Provost for International Affairs; Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History; Professor, Yale School of the Environment

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Dinny Aletheiani

Senior Lector in Indonesian Language Studies, Language Program Director

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Nurfadzilah Yahaya

Assistant Professor of History

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Piphal Heng

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

MacMillan Center

J Joseph Errington

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

Genocide Studies Program, Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses, Council on Southeast Asia Studies

Ben Kiernan

A. Whitney Griswold Professor Emeritus of History

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Quang Phu Van

Senior Lector II in Vietnamese Language Studies, Council on Southeast Asia Studies

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Indriyo Sukmono

Senior Lector I, Southeast Asia Studies

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Louward Allen Zubiri

Lector in Philippine Language Studies

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Quan Tran

Senior Lecturer in Ethnicity, Race & Migration and American Studies

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Alka Menon

Assistant Professor of Sociology

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Amity Doolittle

Senior Lecturer II, Yale School of the Environment

Council on East Asian Studies , Buddhist Studies Initiative, Council on Southeast Asia Studies, + 2 more

Mimi Yiengpruksawan

Professor of History of Art; DGS, East Asian Studies; Coordinator, Buddhist Studies Initiative

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Ruth Barnes

Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art

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Carol Carpenter

Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Natural Resource Social Science and Adjunct Lecturer in Anthropology

Dr. Carpenter smiling in a green button-up top

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Brent Bianchi

Librarian for South & Southeast Asian Studies

Visiting Scholars

Council on Southeast Asia Studies

Hisashi Shimojo

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University

Council on Southeast Asia Studies

Phi Nguyen

Postdoctoral Fellow, Council on Southeast Asia Studies

Academic Year: 2025-26, 2024-25

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Januario Rangel-Soares

Visiting Research Fellow

MacMillan Center

Đồng Ngọc Minh Thư

Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant—Vietnamese

Academic Year: 2025-26

MacMillan Center

Sabillatullatifah

Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant—Indonesian

Academic Year: 2025-26

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Hui-Yuan Neo

Postdoctoral Researcher, Digital Ethics Center, Yale University

Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy

Lucy Right

Postdoctoral Associate

Council Affiliates

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Aurélie Vialette

Director of Undergraduate Studies for Spanish; Associate Professor Tenure

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Bradley Camp Davis

Council Affiliate

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Bradley Simpson

Council Affiliate

Council on East Asian Studies , Council on Southeast Asia Studies

C. Michele Thompson

CEAS Associate-in-Research; CSEAS Council Affiliate

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David Thang Moe

Affiliate Scholar, Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies

Academic Year: 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23

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Eve Zucker

Council Affiliate

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Matthew Isaac Cohen

Council Affiliate

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Phil Acimovic

Lecturer

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Soumya James

Council Affiliate

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Stephanie Ponsavady

Council Affiliate

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Sumarsam

Council Affiliate

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Wynn Gadkar Wilcox

Council Affiliate

CSEAS Graduate Student Committee

The Council on Southeast Asia Studies Graduate Student Committee is an interdisciplinary collective, working together on academic and cultural aspects of the complex region of Southeast Asia. We are dedicated to enhancing the Committee’s academic and social environment, supporting Council activities, and organizing social, cultural, and academic events.

Interested students can fill out the Google Form at

https://tinyurl.com/CSEASGSC2023, or contact

Linh Dang (linh.dang@yale.edu) or Charissa Lee (charissa.lee@yale.edu) for more information.

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Al Lim

PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, School of the Environment