Visiting Appointments

Dr Benjamin Lawrence (Visiting Fellow) is a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS). Dr Lawrence WAs at SEAC as Visiting Fellow from 1 May to 31 July 2023. Dr Lawrence's research at SEAC focuseD on the Micropolitics of Constitutionalism in Cambodia.

Dr Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz (Visiting Fellow) is Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Supervisor in World History, and the Executive Director of the Toynbee Prize Foundation. Dr CuUnjieng Aboitiz joined SEAC from 1 February to 31 July 2023. Dr CuUnjieng Aboitiz's research at SEAC focused on Co-constitution of Filipino Elite Class and Relationships with Nature, 1870-1986.

Dr Ofita Purwani (Visiting Fellow) is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia. Dr Purwani was at the Centre as Visiting Senior Fellow from 1 April to 30 June 2023. Dr Purwani's research at SEAC focused on urban development in Yogyakarta after decentralisation.

Dr Kanokrat Lertchoosakul (Visiting Fellow) is assistant professor at the department of government, faculty of political science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Dr Lertchoosakul joins SEAC from 1 February to 30 April 2023. Dr Lertchoosakul's research at SEAC focuses on The Cutting Edge Youth Movement in Thailand and Unfinished Democracy.

Dr Andy Scott Chang (Visiting Senior Fellow) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Singapore Management University. Dr Chang joined SEAC from 30 January to 24 April 2023. Dr Chang's research at SEAC focused on The Making of “Foreign-Exchange Heroes”: Gender, Occupation, and the Social Organization of Labour Migration in Indonesia. 

Dr Helena Varkkey (Visiting Fellow) is Associate Professor of Environmental Politics at the Department of International and Strategic Studies, Universiti Malaya. Dr Varkkey joined SEAC from 30 January to 12 March 2023. Dr Varkkey's research at SEAC focused on Seasonality in the Anthropocene: Understanding Transboundary Haze in Southeast Asia.

Professor Tamaki Endo (Visiting Professor) is Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Saitama University. Prof Endo was at the Centre as Visiting Senior Fellow from 1st October 2022 to 31st January 2023. Prof Endo’s research at SEAC focused on urban inequality in Thailand. 

Prof Julio Tehankee (Visiting Senior Fellow) is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at De La Salle University. Prof Teehankee joins SEAC as Visiting Senior Fellow from 19 September - 19 December 2022. During his fellowship Prof Teehankee's research will focus on Authoritarian Nostalgiaand the Marcos Restoration in the Philippines.

Dr Sulfikar Amir (Visiting Senior Fellow) is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) in the Sociology Programme, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University. He joined the Centre as Visiting Senior Fellow from 19 September - 19 December 2022. During his fellowship Dr Amir's research focused on Scrutinizing Nusantara: The Fallacies of Indonesia’s New Capital, and How Political Leadership Shapes Covid-19 Mitigation in Southeast Asia.

Dr Gerard McCarthy (Visiting Fellow) is Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Dr McCarthy joined SEAC as Visiting Fellow from 5 September - 2 September 2022. During his fellowship his research focused on Politics of gig-economy in Southeast Asia; and hybrid political order in Asia.

Dr Lin Hongxuan (Visiting Fellow) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He joined the Centre as Visiting Fellow from 31st January 2022 for a year. During his fellowship his research focused on the historical production and circulation of progressive Islamic ideas across the Malay Archipelago.

Dr Joseph Scalice (Visiting Fellow) was a Postdoctoral researcher at Nanyang Technological University. Dr Scalice was at the Centre as Visiting Fellow from 15 November 2021 - 30 April 2022. Dr Scalice's research at SEAC focused on how the Sino-Soviet split impacted critical political developments in the Southeast Asian region.

Dr Junjia Ye (Visiting Fellow) is Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Nanyang Technological University. Dr Ye was at the Centre as Visiting Fellow from 4 October 2021 - 3 January 2022. Dr Ye's research at SEAC focused on surveillance and borderings in migrant enclaves in Singapore.

Dr Jayde Roberts (Visiting Fellow) is Senior Lecturer in the School of Built Environment at UNSW Sydney. Dr Roberts was at the Centre as Visiting Fellow from 27 September - 31 December 2021. Dr Roberts's research at SEAC focused on public space in the two largest cities of Myanmar: Yangon and Mandalay.

Dr Emma Colven (Visiting Fellow) is Assistant Professor of Global Environment at the University of Oklahoma. Dr Colven was at the Centre as Visiting Fellow from 27 September - 17 December 2021. Dr Colven's research at SEAC focused on flooding, water crises and the real estate industry in Jakarta.

Dr Shanthi Thambiah (Visiting Senior Fellow) is Associate Professor in the Gender Studies Program, at the University of Malaya. Dr Thambiah was at the Centre as Visiting Senior Fellow from 15 July - 15 October 2021. Dr Thambiah's research at SEAC focused on the emotional interconnectedness and governance of Indonesian and Malaysian Migrant Domestic Workers.

Dr Joanne Lim (Visiting Senior Fellow) is Associate Professor in Communications, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham in Malaysia. She is also Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. Dr Lim was at the Centre as Visiting Senior Fellow from 4th May 2021 to 2nd July 2021. Dr Lim’s research at SEAC focused on digital interventions in Southeast Asia cities.

Merlyna Lim (Visiting Senior Fellow) is  Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society at Carleton University Canada. An ALiGN Media Lab founder/director, Dr Lim’s research interests revolve around the mutual shaping of technology and society, and political culture of technology, especially digital media and information technology, in relation to issues of justice, democracy and civic/participatory engagement. 

Do Young Oh (Visiting Fellow) is a Researcher at LSE Cities. He recently completed his PhD in Regional and Urban Planning at the Department of Geography and Environment at the LSE with his thesis focusing on a comparative analysis of East Asian urbanisation processes. His research at LSE research involves an investigation into the university-city relationship in Singapore and Vietnam in a (post-)colonial context. 

Daniel Peterson (Visiting Research Student) is currently completing his PhD at the Institute for Religion, Politics and Society at Australian Catholic University. Daniel’s thesis investigates whether or not Indonesia's broader human rights legal framework can withstand the challenges presented by the rise of political Islam in the archipelago. Daniel also works as a research assistant at the Institute, where he is a principal contributor to both Euro-Islam and SHARIAsource.  

Lukas Schlogl (Visiting Fellow) is a Research Associate with the ESRC Global Poverty & Inequality Dynamics Research Network at the Department of International Development, King’s College London. His current work focuses on structural change, digital transformation, and political behavior in Indonesia. At SEAC, Lukas reviewed the extant literature about potential economic impacts of labour-displacing technological change on Southeast Asian economies.

Joel Selway (Visiting Senior Fellow) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. His research interests focus on ethnically-divided societies, and especially on how to design democratic institutions to prevent conflict. During his time with SEAC, Dr Selway examined the question of whether Thailand’s nation-building project will endure beyond the death of its beloved monarch, the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. 

Tim Andrews (Visiting Senior Fellow) is an Associate Professor at Webster University (Thailand) and a previous academic at Thammasat University based in Bangkok. His research at LSE SEAC focused on an investigation into the working lives of base-of-organizational-pyramid employees in emerging Southeast Asia.

Chris Chaplin (Visiting Fellow) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). His research at LSE SEAC examined the relationships between conservative Islamic activism and modern understandings of citizenship and class in post-Suharto Indonesia.

Trude Jacobsen (Visiting Senior Fellow) is an Associate Professor of Southeast Asian history at Northern Illinois University, where she has served as Assistant Director in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Her research at LSE SEAC was on cultural history of madness, psychiatry, and mental health in mainland Southeast Asia from c. 1800 to 1950.

Stephen James (Visiting Research Student) has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and an MA in Southeast Asian Studies. His research at LSE SEAC involved carrying out a multi-sited, longitudinal study of Vietnamese migration, focusing on forced migration through the Vietnam-Hong Kong-London trajectory.

Joern Dosch (Visiting Professor) is Professor of International Politics and Development Cooperation at the University of Rostock, Germany. His research at LSE SEAC involved a comparative study of foreign policies of the Southeast Asian States as well as Europe-Asia relations.

Ken Teoh (Visiting Research Student) worked as Research Assistant both at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Economics and at the Wharton School’s Management Department. His key interests are in econometrics, statistical modelling, and consumer and macroeconomic data analysis.

Lucy Zhu (Visiting Research Student) was working as a research assistant for Professor Danny Quah through the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute of Global Affairs, of which she was a 2015 Fellow. She studied the dynamic Eastern-Western economic relationship from an international relations perspective.