Visiting Appointments

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.

Professor Tamaki Endo (Visiting Senior Fellow) 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 2020 to 25th June 2021. Prof Endo’s research at SEAC focused on urban inequality in Thailand.

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.