People

Staff


George Dutton

Director, UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures

Nguyet Tong

Assistant Director, UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Faculty

Since its establishment in 1999, the CSEAS has worked closely with the university to build an outstanding group of faculty. There are currently more than twenty faculty in over a dozen different disciplines and professional schools affiliated with the CSEAS, making UCLA one of the leading centers for research and teaching on Southeast Asia in the country.

  • Stephen Acabado, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
  • Paul Barber, Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Victor Bascara, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
  • Robert L. Brown, Professor, Department of Art History
  • Quyen Di Chuc Bui, Lecturer, Vietnamese
  • Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
  • Michelle Caswell, Assistant Professor, Information Sciences
  • Roger Detels, Professor, Public Health
  • Nenita Domingo, Lecturer, Filipino
  • George Dutton, Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures
  • Christopher Erickson, Senior Associate Vice Provost and Director of the International Institute
  • Lieba Faier, Associate Professor, Geography
  • Daniel Fessler, Associate Professor, Anthropology
  • Jenjit Gasigitamrong, Lecturer, Thai
  • Gilbert Gee, Professor, Community Health Sciences
  • Jessica Gipson, Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences
  • Kian Goh, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning
  • Pamina Gorbach, Associate Professor, Epidemiology
  • Patrick Heuveline, Professor, Sociology
  • Douglas Hollan, Professor, Anthropology
  • Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Professor, Public Health and Asian American Studies
  • Helga Leitner, Professor, Geography
  • Robert Lemelson, Adjunct Professor, Anthropology
  • Min Li, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
  • Gyanam Mahajan, Lecturer, Asian Languages and Cultures
  • Robert M. McCann, Associate Dean of Global Initiatives
  • Judy Mitoma, Professor (Emerita), World Arts and Cultures
  • Donald Morisky, Professor, Public Health
  • Thu Ba Hoai Nguyen, Lecturer, Vietnamese
  • Thu-huong Nguyen-vo, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
  • Ninez Ponce, Director, UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health; Professor, Health Policy and Management
  • Helen Rees, Professor, Ethnomusicology
  • Sarah Roberts, Assistant Professor, Information Studies
  • Geoffrey Robinson, Professor, History
  • Michael L. Ross, Professor of Political Science, Graduate Vice Chair, Director of Center for Southeast Asian Studies 2008-2013
  • Michael Salman, Associate Professor, History
  • Eric Sheppard, Humboldt Professor, Anthropology
  • Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor, History, Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair
  • Jasmine Trice, Assistant Professor, Film and Television 
  • I Nyoman Wenten, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Ethnomusicology
  • Juliana Wijaya, Lecturer, Indonesian
  • Kie Zuraw, Associate Professor, Linguistics