Southeast Asia

R. Patrick Alcedo

Associate Professor, Department of Dance, York University

Performance of gender; folklorization of religion; world dance in the diaspora; Philippine traditional dances; Filipino Diaspora; Philippines

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Jenna Blower

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University

Refugee and mgration issues; transnational migration; Filipina domestic workers; Philppines; Canada

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Kenneth Cardenas

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Urban political economy; property development; capitalist class trans/formations; political ecology of disaster risk; defining and claiming new urban commons; Manila; Philippines

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Kabita Chakraborty

Assistant Professor, Children's Studies Programme, York University

Youth culture in South and Southeast Asia; youth migration in Asia; sexual and reproductive health of young people in Asia; India; Malaysia; Bangladesh

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Nga Dao

Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science, York University

Political ecology; water governance; agrarian transformations; Vietnam; Mekong region

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Lisa Drummond

Associate Professor, Urban Studies Programme, York University

Urban social life; popular culture; women's roles; private and public use of space of Vietnamese cities; Vietnam

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Peter Duker

Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Political ecology; livelihood; conservation; development; Thailand

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Chaya Ocampo Go

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Critical geographies of disasters; political ecology of disaster response; feminist and decolonizing methodologies; social and climate justice

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Sheila Htoo

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies

Political ecology of war; armed conflicts and resources; ceasefire capitalism; peace; peacebuilding; Indigenous conservation; Salween Peace Park; Karen State, Myanmar/Burma; Southeast Asia

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Philip F. Kelly

Professor of Geography and Associate Dean, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University

Class and labour markets; immigration; transnational linkages; Filipino Diaspora; Philippines

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Abidin Kusno

Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Director, York Centre for Asian Research, York University

Indonesia; urban studies; history; politics; cultural studies; architecture; design; geography

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Mallory MacDonnell

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Political ecology; Critical Physical Geography; labour relations; fisheries; Taiwan; Thailand

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Wendy A. Medina de Loera

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Rural livelihoods; rural transformation; socio-environmental relations; political ecology; South Sulawesi; Indonesia

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Carli Melo

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Critical geographies of labour and migration; feminist political economy; Southeast Asia; Myanmar/Burma

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Jean Michel Montsion

Associate Professor, Multidisciplinary Studies, Glendon College, York University
Associate Director, York Centre for Asian Research
Coordinator, Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies

Gateway cities; ethnicity; international education; Indigeneity; Singapore, Vancouver

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Venilla Rajaguru

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Science & Technology Studies, York University

Space security; maritime security; cyber nexus; international law and security

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K. B. Roberts

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Political ecology of resource frontiers; rural livelihood change; deforestation and forest degradation; feminist research methods

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Antoniel Roca

Doctoral Student, Graduate Program in Music, York University

Ethnomusicology; Filipino diaspora; identity; post-colonialism; hybridity in music; alterity

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Albert Schrauwers

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University

Kinship; ethnic group formation; colonialism; role of religion in the development of civil society; Indonesia

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Zhi Ming Sim

Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University

Decolonial feminism; Southeast Asian politics; international relations; gender-based violence; conflict-impacted communities

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Yvonne Su

Assistant Professor, Department of Equity Studies, York University

Philippines; refugees; migration; displacement; diaspora; post-disaster recovery; migrant remittances; South-South humanitarian responses; social capital; resilience; disaster risk reduction; LGBTQI+ asylum seekers; Venezuela; Brazil

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Ethel Tungohan

Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism
Assistant Professor, Departments of Politics and Social Science, York University

Migrant labour; migrant activism

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Alicia M. Turner

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, York University

Religion; colonialism; nationalism; secularism; religious tolerance; Buddhism in Southeast Asia; Burma/Myanmar

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Penny B. Van Esterik

Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, York University

Nutritional anthropology; gender and development; advocacy anthropology; Southeast Asia; Thailand; Indonesia; Lao PDR

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Peter Vandergeest

Professor of Geography, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

Political ecology; fisheries; agrarian studies; Southeast Asia; Thailand; Taiwan; Indonesia

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Megan Whitney

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Political ecology; wildlife tourism; critical geographies of labor and migration; climate change; Thailand; Southeast Asia

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Lorna Wright

Export Development Canada Professorship in International Business, Schulich School of Business, York University

Cross-cultural management; international negotiations; strategic alliances; conditions for SME business success internationally; women-owned SMEs in the digital economy; Pacific Basin region; Southeast Asia; East Asia

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