Faculty and Staff – Centre for Southeast Asian Studies

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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Jackman Humanities Building, Room 303

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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. She served as 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 five years (2016-2021). Amrita has worked for over 20 years on issues related to infrastructure provision,...

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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

Elizabeth Wijaya

Elizabeth Wijaya works at the intersection of cinema, philosophy, and area studies. She is especially interested in the material and symbolic entanglements between East Asia and Southeast Asia cinema. Her work emphasizes a multimethodological approach, which is attentive to media forms, ethnographic detail, material realities, archival practices, international networks, and interdisciplinary modes of theorization. She received her PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell University, where she was...

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e.wijaya@utoronto.ca

Matthew Walton

Matthew J Walton is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Previously, he was the inaugural Aung San Suu Kyi Senior Research Fellow in Modern Burmese Studies at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. His research focuses on religion and politics in Southeast Asia, with a special emphasis on Buddhism in Myanmar. Matt’s first book, Buddhism, Politics, and Political...

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SS 3107

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T 416-978-0345

matthew.walton@utoronto.ca

Joshua Barker

Joshua Barker is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Vice-Provost of Graduate Research & Education, University of Toronto. 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...

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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

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 was also founding Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the Asian Institute (2010-12). A graduate of Princeton University (PhD), he also holds degrees from the London School of Economics and McGill University. His work has focused mainly on ethnic...

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Room 264S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8985

jacques.bertrand@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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Room 5036, 100 St. George Street

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T 416-978-6640

F 416-946-8915

silvey@geog.utoronto.ca

Bonnie McElhinny

Bonnie McElhinny is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. Her SSHRC-funded research focuses on historical and contemporary investigations of North American interventions into Filipino health care and childcare practices, and reactions and resistance to these. Her current work includes an investigation into early 20th century attempts to address high infant mortality rates in the Philippines during the American colonial occupation, as...

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Dept. of Anthropology 19 Russell St Univ. of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S2

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T 416-978-3297

F 416-946-5561

bonnie.mcelhinny@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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T 416-946-3693

tania.li@utoronto.ca

www.taniali.org

Hy Van Luong

Hy V. Luong (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Professor Emeritus 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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vanluong@chass.utoronto.ca

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