Graduate students with a minor field in Southeast Asian studies come from diverse disciplines—including city and regional planning, anthropology, science and technology studies, art history, architecture, comparative literature, music, global development, Asian studies, history, government, and many more.
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Jesse F. and Dora H. Bluestone Peace Studies Fellow; Migrations Graduate Fellow
Nicole T. Venker is a human-environment geographer whose work explores how conflict-driven migration shapes rural livelihoods, environmental access, and food sovereignty.
Darren Wan is a PhD student in the History Department. His research focuses on the ways South Chinese and South Indian migrant workers articulated claims to citizenship in the early postcolonial states of Burma and Malaya.
Roderick Wijunamai is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. His PhD research focuses on forms of plantation, and its impact on Indigenous people in the Indo-Myanmar borderlands.
