Financial independence and flexibility are critical to the work of CSEAS. It is only through generous support from foundations, government bodies, corporations, and individuals that we are able to promote independent research and innovative teaching on Southeast Asia.
Please join us in our effort to make UCLA's CSEAS a world leader in the study of Southeast Asia. Your donation will be tax-deductible, and we promise not share your contact information with any other party.
If you have any questions about making a donation, please contact John Peralta at the International Institute
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We are proud to be designated under "Title VI of the Higher Education Act" of 1965 a National Resource Center. Initially awarded in 2000 for a period of three years, and renewed for another three years in 2003, the grant is shared by the CSEAS and its consortium partner at UC Berkeley. The UCLA/UCB consortium is one of seven Southeast Asian NRCs across the country. The others are: Cornell, Northern Illinois Univ., University of Hawaii, Michigan, Washington, and Wisconsin.
The early development of Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA was made possible by two grants to the College of Letters and Science from the Luce Foundation, one for faculty development and the other for the Library. Both grants were seed money to hire UCLA faculty and staff. Prof. Anthony Reid, the Center's Founding Director, was the first faculty hire made (in 1999) with Luce funds. At the time Prof. Reid was hired, UCLA promised to add an additional four new Southeast Asia faculty. The second Luce grant seeded the position of UCLA's first Southeast Asia Bibliographer in the Young Research Library, Dr. Rebecca Aiken, also in 1999. UCLA has continued to fund this position with Dr. Aiken's successor, Mr. Hao Phan.
The CSEAS has received funding from the Ford Foundation for two innovative research and teaching programs both of which concluded in 2004:
The former grant funded four Post-Doctoral Fellowships at UCLA, with which recipients conducted research, taught courses and organized conferences. The latter program was led by Dr. Mary Zurbuchen, who used the grant to teach courses, conduct research, and organize a conference on "History and Memory in Indonesia," the proceedings of which will be published by the University of Washington Press jointly with Singapore University Press in 2005. Both of these grants, but especially Zurbuchen's, had the added deliberate component of helping to launch Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA.
Another help in launching Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA and in forging the consortium relationship with U.C. Berkeley was the 1997 grant from the Freeman Foundation to the UCLA College of Letters and Science entitled "The University of California Consortium on Southeast Asia." This grant enabled the small number of UCLA Southeast Asia faculty to work together with the U.C. Berkeley Center for Southeast Asia Studies to develop a series of public programs on Southeast Asia. By bringing prominent academics to campus to speak, as well as encouraging the promulgation of faculty and graduate student research, and sponsoring exciting Southeast Asian performances, the Freeman grant helped to create a community of Southeast Asianists, both at UCLA and in Southern California generally, and laid the foundation for the creation of CSEAS. Once the Center was established in 1999, Freeman funds enabled it to have a diverse public outreach program for several years.
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