Faculty and Resource Contacts
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies has access to the largest concentration of Southeast Asia specialists available in the United States, drawing upon the expertise of over seventy professors and resources specialists at the University of Hawai'i and in the local community.
Students and scholars interested in Southeast Asia can draw upon professors and experts in the field from over twenty-five programs, including American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Asian Theater, Art, Botany, Business, Ecological Anthropology, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethnomusicology, Geography, History, International Studies, Law, Library Science, Linguistics, Music, Political Science, Public Administration, Sociology, Southeast Asian Languages and Literatures (Filipino, Ilokano, Indonesian, Khmer, Thai and Vietnamese), Textiles and Clothing, Theatre and Dance, Urban and Regional Planning and Women's Studies.
Visiting Scholars
Dr. Htwe Htwe Win, a visiting scholar from Myanmar funded by ACLS/LUCE will join the Asian Studies Program during academic year 2009-2010. She previously worked for the Ministry of Education and the Department of Archaeology in Myanmar. Her current research focuses on the votive tablets of early Myanmar (5th-13th centuries AD). These are usually baked clay tablets stamped with popular religious motifs, sometimes "signed" by the reigning monarch, which pilgrims purchase at sacred sites to take home as souvenirs.
Download the CSEAS Faculty Travel Application Form as a Word document. Applications for the 2009-2010 school year are due:
September 30, 2009 for travel from November 2009 to February 2010
January 29, 2010 for travel from March 2010 to May 2010
April 16, 2010 for travel from June 2010 to October 2010
*Due to a delay in the start of the upcoming round, applications for travel in October will be considered only for domestic dates after October 15.