SEAC Members
- Jane Ferguson, Australian National University (Chair)
- Nam C. Kim, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Eve Zucker, Independent Scholar/Council on Southeast Asian Studies, Yale University
- Yosef Djakababa, Universitas Pelita Harapan
- Pamela McElwee, Rutgers University
- Wasana Wongsurawat, Chulalongkorn University
- Chiara Formichi, Cornell University
- Richard Fox, University of of Victoria
- Eric Thompson, National University of Singapore
SEAC Committees
- Burma Studies Group
Contact (Co-Chairs): Alexandra Green: greenar28@gmail.com and Elliott Prasse-Freeman: soceep@nus.edu.sg - Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA)
Chair: Jeffrey Shane, Southeast Asian Librarian, Ohio University; shane@ohio.edu. - Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL)
Publisher of the Journal of Southeast Asian Language Teaching and COTSEALETTER
President: Juliana Wijaya: jwijaya@humnet.ucla.edu - Indonesia-Timor Leste Studies Committee (ITLSC)
Chair: Julie Chernov Hwang, Goucher College - Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group
Publisher of Berita
Chair: Patricia Sloane-White: pswhite@udel.edu - Philippine Studies Group
Contact: Megan Thomas, mcthomas@ucsc.edu. - Thailand/Laos/Cambodia Group
Chair: Sue Darlington: smdSS@hampshire.edu and Tom Borchert: thomas.borchert@uvm.edu - Translations Project
Judith Henchy, Head, SE Asia Section
Box 352900, University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Tel: (206) 543-3986; E-Mail: judithh@u.washington.edu - Vietnam Studies Group
Chair: Margaret Suzanne Barnhill Bodemer: mbodemer@calpoly.edu
Book Prizes
- The Harry J. Benda Prize, given annually to an outstanding newer scholar from any discipline or country specialization of Southeast Asian studies for a first book in the field.
- The George McT. Kahin Prize, given biennially to an outstanding scholar of Southeast Asian studies from any discipline or country specialization to recognize distinguished scholarly work on Southeast Asia beyond the author’s first book.
- The A.L. Becker Southeast Asian Literature in Translation Prize, to recognize an outstanding English translation of a work of Southeast Asian literature from any country of the region (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam).
The Pattana Kitiarsa SEAC Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper
The AAS Southeast Asia Council’s annual prize recognizes emerging scholarship in the field of Southeast Asian studies, from any disciplinary perspective.