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Virginia Maclaren

Virginia Maclaren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Program in Planning. She has a Ph.D. in Regional Science from Cornell University and a Master’s degree in Regional Planning from the University of Ottawa. Her main research interests in Southeast Asia are in environmental and waste management. Her most recent projects include an investigation of community-based waste management in Siem Reap (with colleagues at the Royal University...

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Room 5050, 100 St. George Street

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T 416-978-1594

maclaren@geog.utoronto.ca

Jacques Bertrand

Jacques Bertrand is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Collaborative Master’s Program in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies (CESEAS, formerly Asia-Pacific Studies or MAPS). He is also a core faculty member of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (Asian Institute), of which he was the founding director (2010-12). A graduate of Princeton University (PhD), he also holds degrees from the London School of Economics and McGill University. His...

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Room 264S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8985

Tania Li

Tania Li’s early research in Southeast Asia concerned urban cultural politics in Singapore. Since then she has focused on culture, economy, environment, and development in Indonesia’s upland regions. She has written about the rise of Indonesia’s indigenous peoples’ movement, land reform, rural class formation, struggles over the forests and conservation, community resource management, and state-organized resettlement. Her book The Will to Improve (2007) explores a century of interventions by colonial...

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Room AP 424, 19 Russell Street

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T 416-946-3693

tania.li@utoronto.ca

Rachel Silvey

Rachel Silvey is Richard Charles Lee Director of the Asian Institute and Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning. She is a Faculty Affiliate in CDTS, WGSI, and the Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies Program. She received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a dual B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz in Environmental Studies and Southeast Asian Studies. Professor Silvey is best...

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1 Devonshire Place, room 225N

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ai.director@utoronto.ca

Christoph Emmrich

Christoph Emmrich (PhD University of Heidelberg, 2004), is Associate Professor for South and Southeast Asian Buddhism at he Department for the Study of Religion and the Department for Historical Studies and is Chair of the UofT/McMaster Numata Buddhist Studies Program. His research bridges Southeast and South Asia as it engages with fields as diverse as Burmese and Nepalese Buddhism, and Tamil Jainism. He works with girl children, young women, and ritual specialists in Yangon, Mawlamyine,...

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Room 106N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T (416) 978-6463

christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca

Amrita Daniere

Professor Amrita Daniere is a full professor of Geography and Planning and Co-Director of the Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia Partnership (which is funded through the IPaSS program, a cooperative initiative of SSHRC and IDRC). In March 2016, she was appointed Vice-Principal, Academic and Dean at U of T Mississauga for two years (2016-2018). Amrita has worked for over 20 years on issues related to infrastructure provision, urban environmental...

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Room 262S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946 8983

F 416-946-8915

daniere@geog.utoronto.ca

Hy Van Luong

Hy V. Luong (Ph.D., Harvard University) is currently Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Collaborative Master’s Degree Program in Asia-Pacific Studies. He is interested in the interplay of discourse, social structure, political economy, and in East and Mainland Southeast Asia (especially Vietnam). He has regularly conducted fieldwork in Vietnam since 1987. Luong’s current projects in Vietnam focus on discourse, gender, political economy, gifts and social capital, and sociocultural transformation...

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Room 264S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8985

F 416-946-8915

vanluong@chass.utoronto.ca

Nhung Tran

Nhung Tuyet Tran is Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies and Associate Professor of History. Trained in Chinese legal history at the University of Pennsylvania and Southeast Asian social history at UCLA, Tran’s intellectual interests lie at the intersection of gender, law, and religion in early modern Vietnam. She is the author of Familial Properties: Gender, State & Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1460-1783 (Hawai’i, 2018); editor of Her...

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nhungtuyet.tran@utoronto.ca

Joshua Barker

Joshua Barker is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Vice-Dean, Graduate Education and Program Reviews, in the Faculty of Arts and Science. He received his B.A. from Trent University, his M.A. from SOAS at the University of London, and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has taught and conducted research at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia and has been a post doctoral fellow at Twente University, the Netherlands Institute of...

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AP 228, 19 Russell Street

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T 416-946-3305

j.barker@utoronto.ca

www.chass.utoronto.ca/~barkerj

Hui Kian Kwee

KWEE Hui Kian is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on Southeast Asia and South China, where she has examined various themes relating to colonialism, political economy and diasporic entrepreneurship, from the seventeenth century to the present. Kwee has been a visiting research fellow at National University of Singapore, the Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and Fudan University. education Ph.D. Leiden University,...

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Room NE 271, 3359 Mississauga Road North

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