As an expanding center for the study of Southeast Asia and a member of the New York Southeast Asia Network, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute hosts year-round public events and scholarly workshops about the politics, history, economics, and culture of the region. Additionally, the Institute supports undergraduate and graduate research as well as publications about Southeast Asia. Through its MARSEA program, the Institute provides graduate students the opportunity to take courses on a variety of topics concerning Southeast Asia.
Faculty Regional Specialists
Amy L. Freedman Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Political Islam on Indonesia and Malaysia
Kristy E. Kelly Associate Research Scholar
Research Interests: Globalization/development/post-socialist transformation in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, gender and feminism studies, sociology of education, and politics of knowledge
Kevin Li Modern Vietnamese Studies Postdoctoral Research Scholar, History E-mail: kl3281@columbia.edu BIO PUBLICATIONS NEWS Kevin Li is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Modern Vietnamese Studies and Lecturer in History. He completed his […]
Duncan McCargo Director, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
Research Interests: Politics of Thailand, comparative politics of Southeast Asia
Ann Marie Murphy Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Political development in Southeast Asia; U.S. foreign policy toward Southeast Asia
Lien-Hang Nguyen Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, Department of History
Research Interests: United States foreign relations; Southeast Asia; The Cold War
John Phan Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Vietnamese Writing Systems and Vernacular Scripts, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Contact between China and Vietnam.
Eve Zucker Associate Research Scholar
Research Interests: Cultural anthropology; the aftermath of mass violence through the lenses of social memory, morality, the imagination, trust and everyday practices.