University of Washington

John Butler, Associate Professor, Management and Organization, School of Business Administration. PhD, New York University, 1985.
Management; business policy. Thailand.

Joseph R. Cooke, Associate Professor Emeritus, Asian Languages and Literature. PhD, UC-Berkeley, 1965.
Thai language.

Anil B. Deolalikar, Associate Professor, Economics. PhD, Stanford, 1980.
Economic development; economics of human capital (health, nutrition, education and poverty); economics of population; technology transfer; technology choice and technical change in industry. Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines.

Oscar Gish, Clinical Professor, International Health. M.Phil, Sussex, 1969.
Economics of health care planning. Indonesia.

Robert Halvorsen, Professor, Economics. PhD, Harvard, 1973.
Natural resource economics. Thailand.

Charles Hirschman, Professor, Sociology; Director, Center for Demography and Ecology. PhD, Wisconsin, 1972.
Demography; ethnic group relations. Malaysia, Vietnam.

Karl Hutterer, Director, Washington State Memorial (Burke) Museum; Professor, Anthropology. PhD, Hawaii, 1973.
Prehistory; ecology. Philippines, Indochina.

Miriam Kahn, Associate Professor, Anthropology; Curator, Burke Museum. PhD, Bryn Mawr, 1980.
Gender; food symbolism; museum studies. Papua New Guinea.

Wiworn (Som) Kesavatana-Dohrs, Lecturer, Asian Languages and Literature. PhD, Michigan, 1989.
Political science; Thai language and literature. Thailand, Laos

Charles F. Keyes, Professor, Anthropology; Director, Northwest Regional Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies. PhD, Cornell, 1965.
Religious and political economic change; ethnicity and nationality; Buddhism and society. Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.

Daniel S. Lev, Professor, Political Science. PhD, Cornell, 1964.
Comparative politics; comparative law; human rights; ideology; social class. Indonesia, Malaysia.

Marjorie A. Muecke, Professor, Nursing and Adjunct Professor, Anthropology. PhD, UW, 1976.
Health consequences of fertility; refugees; women. Thailand, Southeast Asian refugees.

Kim O. Nguyen, Lecturer, Asian Languages and Literature. PhD, UCLA, 1963.
Vietnamese language and literature. Vietnam.

Ertie Oei, Teaching Associate, Asian Languages and Literature. MA, University of Indonesia, 1957.
Indonesian language. Indonesia.

John Pemberton, Assistant Professor, Anthropology. PhD, Cornell, 1989.
Colonial/Post-colonial studies; historiography; politics; ritual practice. Indonesia, Java.

Harold F. Schiffman, Professor, Asian Languages and Literature; Coordinator, Southeast Asian language program. PhD, Chicago, 1969.
Linguistics; sociolinguistics; linguistic minorities; language maintenance. Malaysia.

Laurie J. Sears, Assistant Professor, History. PhD, Wisconsin, 1986.
Orality/literacy issues; 'invention of tradition' in Dutch Indies; presses in Dutch Indies; technology and culture in Southeast Asia; Indian influences in Southeast Asia. Indonesia.

James W. Tollefson. Professor, English. PhD, Stanford, 1978.
Language policy; second-language acquisition. Southeast Asian refugees.
 

University of Oregon

William S. Ayres, Associate Professor and Chair, Anthropology. PhD, Tulane, 1973.
Archaeology; cultural anthropology; linguistics. S.E. Asia, Oceania.

Aletta A. Biersack, Assistant Professor, Anthropology. PhD, Michigan, 1980.
Symbolic anthropology.

Kathie L. Carpenter, Assistant Professor, Linguistics. Director, Southeast Asian Language Program. PhD, Stanford, 1987.
Connectionist linguistics; discourse; word formation; Thai, Bahasa Indonesia.

Scott DeLancey, Associate Professor, Linguistics. PhD, Indiana, 1980.
Asian languages; Tibeto-Burman linguistics. Thai, Bahasa Indonesia.

Janet Descutner, Associate Professor, Dance. MA, Ohio State, 1965.
Asian dance and theatre.

Gerald W. Fry, Co-Director, NWRCSEAS; Director, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies; Professor, Political Science and International Studies. PhD, Stanford, 1977.
Research methodology; changing images of SE Asia.

Ann Hawkins, Assistant Professor, International Studies, PhD, Cornell, 1990.
Development; gender; resource management. Indonesia.

Robert Kyr, Associate Professor, Music. PhD, Harvard, 1989.
Gamelan composition and performance. Indonesia.

Nancy Lutz, Assistant Professor, Anthropology. PhD, UC-Berkeley, 1986.
Gender; culture. Indonesia.

Glenn A. May, Professor, History. PhD, Yale, 1975.
Southeast Asian colonial history. Philippines, Vietnam.

Geraldine Moreno-Black, Associate Professor, Anthropology. PhD, Florida, 1974.
Medical anthropology; nutrition. Thailand, Indonesia.

Robert Proudfoot, Associate Professor, International Studies. PhD, Oregon State, 1984.
Refugee education; decision-making in educational development. Laos, Vietnam.

Kenneth Ramsing, Professor, Business Administration. PhD, UO, 1965.
Organizational structure and management, development. Thailand.

Clifford Sather, Courtesy Professor, International Studies and Center for Asian & Pacific Studies. PhD, Harvard, 1971.
Ethnography; oral tradition; ritual and shamanism. Borneo.

Theodore Stern, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology. PhD, Pennsylvania, 1948.
Anthropological linguistics; Karens in Thailand and Burma.

Norman Sundberg, Professor Emeritus, Psychology. PhD, Minnesota, 1952.
South and Southeast Asia, focusing on cross-cultural psychology.

Robert Textor, Courtesy Professor, International Studies and Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. PhD, Cornell, 1960.
Ethnographic futures research; impact of high technology. Thailand and Malaysia.

Anita Weiss, Assistant Professor, International Studies. PhD, UC-Berkeley, 1983.
Islamic studies; women in development. South and Southeast Asia.

Ronald Wixman, Professor, Geography. PhD, Chicago, 1978.
Political and cultural geography. Southeast Asia.

Harry F. Wolcott, Professor, Anthropology. PhD, Stanford, 1964. Education. Malaysia.
 

University of British Columbia

Lenora Angeles, Assistant Professor, Centre for Human Settlements and Center for Women's Studies.
Philippines.

Richard Barichello, Associate Professor and Head, Agricultural Economics. PhD, Chicago.
Indonesia.

Peter Boothroyd, Associate Professor, Planning. MA, Alberta, 1968.
Social policy, community development and planning processes. Thailand, Vietnam.

Roger Boshier, Professor, Adult Education. PhD, Victoria (New Zealand), 1973.
Education theory and practise. Singapore, Thailand, malaysia.

Katherine Hacker, Instructor, Fine Arts. PhD, Pennsylvania, 1992.
Southeast Asian art.

Geoffrey B. Hainsworth, Acting Co-Director, NWSEA. Associate Professor, Economics. PhD, UC-Berkeley, 1960.
Economic development. Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia.

Tineke Hellwig, Assistant Professor, Languages. PhD, Leiden, 1989.
Language and literature. Indonesia.

George Kennedy, Associate Professor and Director, International Programs of Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. PhD, Purdue, 1973.
Farm management; agricultural price and income stability; agricultural systems.

Aprodicio Laquian, Director, Centre for Human Settlements. PhD, MIT, 1965.
Metropolitan governance; low-cost housing; small towns' planning and development. Philippines.

Michael Leaf, Assistant Professor, Planning. PhD, UC-Berkeley, 1991.
Urban housing; land development; traditional housing/buildings; history of cities. Indonesia.

Terence G. McGee, Professor, Geography and Institute of Asian Research. PhD, Victoria (NEw Zealand), 1968.
Urban economic development. Malaysia, Indonesia.

Patricia Marchak, Professor, Anthropology and Sociology. PhD, UBC, 1970.
Resource markets and development policies. Malaysia, Singapore.

Diane Mauzy, Professor, Political Science. PhD, UBC, 1978.
Ideology; policy; non-western comparative politics. Malaysia, Singapore.

R. Stephen Milne, Professor Emeritus, Political Science. MA, Oxford, 1947.
Malaysia, Singapore.

Mary Morehart, Associate Professor Emeritus, Fine Arts. PhD, UC-Berkeley, 1960.
Classical sculpture and architecture. Java, Bali, Burma, Thailand and Cambodia.

Barrie Morrison, Professor Emeritus, Asian Studies. PhD, Chicago, 1965.
Comparative history of rural societies; changing forms of societal reproduction.

Gordon Munro, Professor, Economics. PhD. Harvard, 1963.
Malaysia, Philippines.

James A. Placzek, Res. Assoc., Institute of Asian Research. PhD, UBC, 1984.
Thai language.

Doug Sanders, Professor, Faculty of Law. LL.M., UC-Berkeley, 1963.
Development of human rights/NGOs in Asia; indigenous and tribal peoples in Asia, Thailand.

David Schweitzer, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Sociology. PhD, UCLA. Malaysia, Thailand.

Michael Tenzer, Associate Professor, School of Music.
Balinese music.

Ilan Vertinsky, Professor, Commerce & Business Administration, and Institute of Asian  Research. PhD, UC-Berkeley.
General Southeast Asia, ASEAN.

Edgar B. Wickberg, Professor, History. PhD, UC-Berkeley, 1961.
Philippines.

Brahm Wiesman, Professor Emeritus, Planning. MA, McGill, 1950.
Rural-urban migration; urbanization; urban transportation; alternative settlement patterns. Thailand, Vietnam.

Alexander Woodside, Professor, History. PhD, Harvard, 1968.
Vietnam.
 

Librarians

UW - Judith Henchy, Head, Southeast Asian Section, Suzzallo Library. MA, UC-Berkeley, 1983. Vietnamese history. Vietnam, Laos.
UO - Jane Barnwell, Reference Librarian, Social Science Subject Specialist, Knight Library. AMLS, Michigan, 1985. Asia and Pacific, Southeast Asia.
UBC - Anthony Hardy, Bibliographer, Indonesian Collection. M.Sc., U. Indonesia, 1978. Indonesia.
 

Staff Liaisons

UW - Maureen Jackson
UO - Sandi Leavitt
UBC - Eleanor Laquian
SEASPAN Editor - Barbara Lloyd McMichael