People

Staff
Chair:
Professor Peter Zinoman
Phone: (510) 642-3609
Fax: (510) 643-7062
Email: pzinoman@berkeley.edu

Vice Chair:
Sarah Maxim
Phone: (510) 642-8393
Fax: (510) 643-7062
Email: maxims@berkeley.edu

Program Representative:
Thuy Pham
Phone: (510) 642-3609
Fax: (510) 643-7062
Email: cseas@berkeley.edu

Contact
2223 Fulton St., Rm 617, MC2318
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-2318

Telephone: (510) 642-3609
Fax: (510) 643-7062
E-mail: cseas@berkeley.edu
URL: http://cseas.berkeley.edu
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Core Faculty
There are thirteen core faculty members with specialized research interests in the region affiliated with Center for Southeast Asia Studies.

Below is a list of current faculty and active emeritus faculty alphabetically by Last Name.

Ben Brinner
Department of Music
Gamelan traditions of Java and Bali, Indonesia

Pheng Cheah
Department of Rhetoric
Legal studies, human rights, globalization and nationalist literature, Singapore

Catherine Ceniza Choy
Department of Ethnic Studies

Penny Edwards
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
Colonial and postcolonial studies, Buddhism, Cambodia and Burma

Jeffrey Hadler
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
History, Islam, Indonesia

Gillian Hart
Department of Geography
Indonesia and Malaysia

Colleen Lye
Department of English
Asian Pacific cultural studies, postcolonial theory, Singapore and insular Southeast Asia

James Matisoff
Professor emeritus
Department of Linguistics
Tibeto-Burman Linguistics, Thailand

Dara O’Rourke
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Development and the environment, regulation of production networks, impact of industrial production on workers and communities, Thailand and Vietnam

Aihwa Ong
Department of Anthropology
Globalization and transnationalism; modernity, capitalism, and development citizenship and sovereignty trans-national studies of Chinese communities across the Pacific Rim, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia

Nancy Lee Peluso
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Environmental sociology and political ecology, landscape history, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand

Sylvia Tiwon
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
Modern Indonesian literature, gender and cultural Studies, particularly cultural transformations, Indonesia

Khatharya Um
Department of Ethnic Studies
Refugee and diaspora studies; comparative politics and community studies; Singapore and Cambodia.

Joanna Williams
Department of the History of Art
Folk and classical arts of South and Southeast Asia

Peter Zinoman
Department of History
Early and modern Southeast Asian history; Vietnam

Affiliated Faculty

Language Instructors

Indonesian, Khmer, Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese are the five Southeast Asian languages taught at UC Berkeley. All languages are taught for the beginning and intermediate levels, with advanced-level language study also available for Khmer, Vietnamese, and Indonesian. Instruction in Advanced Thai will be offered in 2008-09. Language instruction is coordinated by the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies.

• Rotha Ieng (Khmer)
• Dr. Susan Kepner (Thai)
• Ninik Lunde (Indonesian)
• Cam Nguyet Nguyen (Vietnamese)
• Irma Pena (Tagalog/Filipino)
• Bac Hoai Tran (Vietnamese)
• Hanh Tran (Vietnamese)

Advanced Tagalog/Filipino is being offered as a Distance Learning course from UCLA in 2007-08. Interested students should contact CSEAS for more information.

Graduate Students

This is a list of some of our graduate students, maintained as a resource for faculty and other students interested in the student research being done in a variety of disciplines with a focus on Southeast Asia at Berkeley. If you need to contact any of these individuals, please do so via the departments in which they are students, not by writing to Center for Southeast Asia Studies. The Center cannot provide students' personal data to the public. However, you can easily locate e-mail addresses of members of the UC Berkeley faculty, staff and student community at the UC Berkeley People Finder. If you are a Berkeley student and wish to be added to this list please send an email with your name, contact information, research interests and short bio to cseas@uclink.berkeley.edu with "Grad Student Bio" in your email subject line.

Applying to Berkeley for Graduate School

For prospective graduate students interested in applying to Berkeley, visit the UC Graduate Directory website for information on application forms, procedures, and deadlines.

Peter Bartu (Cambodia, East Timor)
Jill Forshee (Indonesia)
Gary Gartenberg (Indonesia)
Ann Hawkins (Indonesia)
Ellen Spitalnick (Indonesia)
Thaveeporn Vasavakul (Vietnam)