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 2023-2024):
GETSEA Chair: George Dutton, University of California, Los Angeles (Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures)
Allen Hicken, University of Michigan (Professor of Political Science)
Celia Lowe, University of Washington (Professor of Anthropology and International Studies)
Judy Ledgerwood, Northern Illinois University (Professor of Anthropology)
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)
Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University (Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government)
Abby Cohn, ex officio (Cornell, Professor of Linguistics)