Congratulations to Christopher Hulshof and Kurt Kuehne, who were awarded in recognition of their outstanding teaching this year! Both Chris and Kurt are graduates of the MA program in Southeast Asian Studies, going on to pursue PhDs in their respective fields of History and Sociology. Chris received the Exceptional Service Award, which recognizes TAs who, in addition to their regular duties, perform exceptional service related to the educational mission of their department and our university (volunteerism, committee work, mentoring, etc.). Kurt received the Capstone PhD Teaching Award, which recognizes TAs who have performed as outstanding teachers throughout their UW–Madison tenure. This category honors TAs who are dissertators at the end of their graduate program and planning to defend their dissertations by the end of the academic year.
CSEAS Faculty and Student Highlights
CSEAS Student and Faculty Alumni Spotlight
Student Alumni Spotlight CSEAS/UW-Madison alumni (from left to right) Boonlert Wisetpreecha, Prachak Kongkirati, and Yukti Mukdawichit (Thammasat University) call for the release of activists detained over the lese majeste law in Thailand. Faculty Alumni …
Badger James Llewellyn Goes Global with Help of the Boren Fellowship
Tyrell Haberkorn awarded NEA Literature Translation Fellowship
Tyrell Haberkorn wins a $25,000 Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her work translating All They Could Do To Us, a memoir by Thai author and political prisoner Prontip Mankhong.
Katherine Bowie Establishes Thai Studies Funds
Over the past several months, Professor Katherine Bowie, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies, has donated $60,000 to support the study of Thailand at the UW-Madison. This endowment fund will be …
Ian Baird now co-editor-in-chief of Asian Ethnicity
Ian Baird featured in Wisconsin story
Tyrell Haberkorn awarded Guggenheim fellowship for project: Dictatorship on Trial in Thailand
Tyrell Haberkorn, affiliated CSEA
S faculty, has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for her project, Dictatorship on Trial in Thailand. She will use the year-long fellowship to analyze the individual, social, and legal impacts of the five years of dictatorship under the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO, 2014-2019) in Thailand and identify how they might be redressed and justice forged.
New book by Ian Baird: Rise of the Brao — Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia during Vietnamese Occupation
View Journal of Asian Studies review here.
Katherine Bowie’s leadership for AAS coming to a close
Katherine Bowie, former CSEAS Director and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, is completing her fourth and final year of leadership for the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), serving as President in 2017 and as a …