Arizona State University offers numerous Southeast Asian courses in various departments: music, dance, art history, history, linguistics, global studies, anthropology, and religious studies. Countries which fall under Southeast Asian Studies include Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, East Timor, Philippines, and Thailand.

ASU Faculty Committee on Southeast Asian Studies

Karen Adams, Professor of English (Ph.D., University of Michigan); English; Linguistics; Southeast Asian Languages

Christopher R. Duncan, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and School of Global Studies (Ph.D., Yale University); religion and conflict, Islam and Christianity in Indonesia, religious conversion and social change

James F. Eder, Jr., Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara); Consequences of development and change for the tribal and peasant peoples of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines

Thomas Hudak, Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Ph.D., University of Michigan); Linguistics and literatures of Southeast Asia, with a particular emphasis on the Thai and Indonesian languages

Hjorleifur Jonsson, Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Ph.D., Cornell University); worldview, social organization and identity, particularly concerning nation-making and state-minority relations in mainland Southeast Asia

Thuy-Kim Pham Le, Lecturer of Vietnamese (M.Ed., Arizona State University); Vietnamese language and literature

Pamela D. McElwee, Assistant Professor, School of Global Studies (Ph.D., Yale University); globalization and internationalization of environmental problems, particularly in Vietnam

Christopher Miller, Academic Associate, Hayden Scholarly Community [Southeast Asian librarian] (M.Mus: Northern Illinois University); Southeast Asian literature and culture, ethnomusicology in Southeast Asia

James Rush, Associate Professor, Department of History (Ph.D., Yale University); modern history of Southeast Asia, colonial and post-colonial Indonesia, comparative colonialism and current affairs in Southeast Asia

Juliane Schober, Associate Professor of Religious Studies (Ph.D., University of Illinois); Buddhism in Burma, Thailand and Southeast Asia

Sheldon Simon, Professor, Department of Political Science (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities); prospects for Asian regional security, emphasizing ASEAN states, multilateral institutions and diplomacy in the Asian-Pacific

Prakorn Siriprakob, Lecturer of Thai (Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy, Arizona State University); Thai language and literature

Ted Solis, Professor, School of Music (Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Ethnomusicology; Asian music, particularly Indian classical music and Javanese gamelan

Peter Suwarno, Associate Professor of Indonesian (Ph.D., Ohio University); interpersonal communication, rhetoric and linguistics, Indonesia

Mark Woodward, Associate Professor of Religious Studies (Ph.D., University of Illinois); Islam, religion and culture, religion and modernity, popular and folk practice in Islam in Southeast Asia

Robert L. Youngblood, Professor of Political Science (Ph.D., University of Michigan); church-state relations in the Philippines, human rights in Southeast Asia, and Asian political economy

Other ASU Faculty with Southeast Asian interests and expertise

B. Richard Burg, Professor, Department of History

Julie F. Codell, Professor, School of Art

Daniel L. Collins, Associate Professor, School of Art

Barbara J. Crowe, Professor, School of Music

Stephen R. MacKinnon, Professor, History

Kurt Weiser, Regents’ Professor, School of Art

Douglas R. Webster, Professor, School of Global Studies