The GETSEA Steering Committee is comprised of the center directors at each of GETSEA’s eight member institutions. Steering Committee members serve on the working committees of GETSEA, and direct key programming. These initiatives include the crafting of a needs assessment survey on the state of Southeast Asian studies, mini-course initiatives, a virtual speaker series, and foreign language course exchanges.
Steering Committee Members (Academic Year 2025-2026):
GETSEA Chair: George Dutton, University of California, Los Angeles (Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures)
Mike McGovern, University of Michigan (Professor of Anthropology)
Celia Lowe, University of Washington (Professor of Anthropology and International Studies)
Melissa Lenczewski, Northern Illinois University (Professor of Geomicrobiology)
Lisandro E. Claudio, University of California, Berkeley (Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies)
Miriam Stark, University of Hawai’i (Professor of Anthropology)
Nam Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Professor of Archaeology)
Stephen Acabado, University of California, Los Angeles (Associate Professor of Anthropology)
Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University (John Stambaugh Professor of History)
Abby Cohn, ex officio (Cornell, Professor of Linguistics)