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Joshua Barker

Joshua Barker is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies. 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 Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies...

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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

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

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. 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 in rural and urbanizing communities in the northern and southern parts...

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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

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 Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (Asian Institute), of which he was also 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 work...

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Room 264S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8985

Nhung Tran

Nhung Tuyet Tran is former 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...

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nhungtuyet.tran@utoronto.ca

Christoph Emmrich

Christoph Emmrich (PhD University of Heidelberg, 2004), is Associate Professor for South and Southeast Asian Buddhism at the 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...

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Room 106N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T (416) 978-6463

christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca

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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tania.li@utoronto.ca

taniamurrayli.wordpress.com

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