SEAS Students 2011-12

Southeast Asian Studies Students	Student Handbook
	Working with Faculty as a GA

Ashley Arzy (currently in Indonesia) Email: aa274509@ohio.edu Academic Interests: Southeast Asian Political Cultures; Comparative Politics; Corruption Area Interests: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines; Timor Leste Previous Education: BA, Political Science, University of Wyoming

Katherine Bruhn Email: kb196810@ohio.edu Academic Interests: Education, Conflict Resolution and Interfaith Dialogue, Religion in relation to Pop Culture in Indonesia Area Interests: Indonesia Previous Education: BA, Anthropology and Art History, The University of Arizona

Hsin-ning Chang
Email: hc180605@ohio.edu
Academic Interests: Contemporary Southeast Asian Film; Long Take; Cognitive Film Theory; Overseas Chinese Communities
Area Interests: Malaysia
Previous Education: MFA, Film Studies, Ohio University; BA, Philosophy, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan); BS, Psychology, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan) Wesley Clarke
Email: sakya52@hotmail.com
Academic Interests: The “Early Historic” or “Protohistoric” period of mainland Southeast Asian history, particularly the archaeology of Dvaravati; Prehistoric Antecedents to historic Southeast Asian states; Early Buddhist material culture
Area Interests: Thailand; Cambodia; Burma; Lao; American Midwest
Previous Education: MA, Liberal Learning (Archaeology and History focus), Marietta College; BA, Anthropology, Prescott College (Arizona)

Kevin Cloud Email: kc158510@ohio.edu Academic Interests: sexuality and Gender norms; Human Rights; Religion Area Interests:Laos. Cambodia, Thailand Previous Education: BA, Psychology, Kent State University

Bruce Douglas (currently in Cambodia)
Email: bd369307@ohio.edu
Academic Interests: Governments in transition; History of responses to international players/outside influences; Family; Western influences on the definition of self and sexuality
Area Interests: Cambodia; Burma
Previous Education: BA, International Studies: American University

Jonathan Hurst Email: jh196805@ohio.edu Academic Interests: History, Anthropology, Linguistics Area Interests: Thailand Previous Education: BA, International Studies; Asia, Ohio University

Marissa Johnson
Email: mj272109@ohio.edu
Academic Interests: Southeast Asian pre- and modern history; Thai politics; Buddhism in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma; HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southeast Asia; Refugee and Women’s rights; Postcolonial geopolitics
Area Interests: Thailand; Burma; Laos; Cambodia  
Previous Education: BS, Anthropology and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Ziporah (Sinoun) Kim Email: zk231008@ohio.edu Academic Interests: Literature; Women and Education Area Interests: Cambodia Previous Education: BA, Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Jose Rafael Martinez
Email: jm339509@ohio.edu
Academic Interests: Space; Urban Design; Memory; Modernity
Area Interests: Vientiane; Kuala Lumpur; Phnom Penh; Bangkok
Previous Education: BA, Law, National Autonomous University of Mexico; BA, Literary Translation, CCC French Embassy Mexico City Nurhasni
Email: nn136109@ohio.edu  
Academic Interests: Southeast Asian Cultural and Political Issues
Area Interests: Thailand; Philippines; Vietnam; Brunei; Singapore
Previous Education: BA, Minangkabau Literature, University of Padang (Indonesia)

Eric Santiago Email: es218209@ohio.edu Academic Interests: History of Southeast Asia; India’s Influence on Southeast Asia; Chinese in SE Asia Area Interests: Previous Education: BA, State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo State College

Megan Snow Email:  ms107603@ohio.edu Academic interests:  World Religions; Gender Issues; Intersections between Religion, Politics, and Gender Area interests:  Indonesia Previous Education:  BA, Anthropology, Ohio University

Yazid Sururi Email: ys207810@ohio.edu Academic Interests: Visual Anthropology; Minority Ethnic Groups of Sasak (Lombok Island natives) Area Interests: Indonesia Previous Education: BA, English Literature, Hasanuddin University, Makassar (Indonesia)

Hanum Tyagita Email: ht208209@ohio.edu Academic Interests: Foreign Language Teaching in Southeast Asia; Language Death in Major Cities in Southeast Asia; Linguistics Area Interests: Indonesia; Singapore; Malaysia Previous Education: BA, Teaching English as Foreign Language, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya (Indonesia)

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