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

Associate Professor, SUNY-Cortland

Future teachers often travel in Orvil White’s science methods class. Some go back in time to their elementary school days and some head to Thailand, both studying forces of motion through roller coaster models and properties of water through optical illusions.

Professor, Linguistics

John Whitman is a professor of linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences. His main interest is the problem of language variation: its limits (how much specific subsystems can vary across languages) and predictors (what typological features co-occur systematically).

Graduate Student

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.

Degree Pursued: PhD

Professor, Anthropology

Andrew C. Willford is a professor of anthropology and Asian studies at Cornell University.

Professor Emerita, Global Development

Lindy Williams is a professor emerita in the Department of Global Development.

Professor Emeritus, Linguistics and Asian Studies

Research Interests: Historical linguistics, lexicography, Austronesian linguistics

SEAP Postdoctoral Associate

Dr. Liang Wu is a Postdoctoral Associate of Environmental Humanities in the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) as part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University.

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2026

Committee Chair/Advisor: Chiara Formichi

Discipline: Asian Studies

Primary Countries: Indonesia, Japan

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD 

Anticipated Degree Year: 2030

Committee Chair/Advisor: Shaoling Ma

Discipline: Asian Studies

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2029

Committee Chair/Advisor: Juno Parreñas