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The Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) is the home for all scholars at Cornell conducting research on Southeast Asia.

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2026

Committee Chair/Advisor: Miloje Despic, Helena Aparicio

Discipline: Linguistics 

SEAP Postdoctoral Associate
Aichiro Suryo Prabowo is a postdoctoral associate in Einaudi's Southeast Asia Program (SEAP). His research integrates sustainability and resilience issues into public finance and budgeting.
Director, Comparative Muslim Societies Program

Eric Tagliacozzo is the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the director of the Einaudi Center's Comparative Muslim Societies Program and a core faculty member of the Southeast Asia Program and South Asia Program.

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: N/A

Committee Chair/Advisor: Durba Ghosh

Discipline: History

Primary Language: Tamil

Professor Emeritus, Asian Studies

Keith Taylor became interested in Vietnam as a result of his U.S. Army service in the Vietnam War. He earned his PhD in 1976 at the University of Michigan. He subsequently taught in Japan and Singapore for several years before returning to the United States in 1987.

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: N/A

Committee Chair/Advisor: Ted O'Donoghue

Discipline: Behavioural Economics

H. E. Babcock Professor of Economics Emeritus

Erik Thorbecke is the H. E. Babcock Professor of Economics and Food Economics Emeritus and former director of the Program on Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University.

Professor, Le Moyne College

Tooker, Deborah E., (Ph.D.

Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA)

Quynh Anh Tran is a 2024-2025 Fulbright Program grantee from Vietnam in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University.

Senior Lecturer, Vietnamese

Thuy Tranviet has been teaching Vietnamese in the Department of Asian Studies since 2000. She teaches Vietnamese at all levels, including advanced courses in newspaper reading and Vietnamese contemporary literature.