BSEAH Award Winners
2023-2024
Community-Faculty Southeast Asia Partnership Award
Sharon Morrison (UNCG), Ana Sucaldito (Wake Forest) and Htay Meh (Karenni Community), Empowering the Karenni Community by Amplifying and Enriching Karenni-Provider Connections
Greg McClure (App State), Shanan Fitts (App State), Michael Lee (Catawba Elementary School), Roots & Routes: Connecting our Stories to Explore One Another’s Journeys
Dissertation Support Award
Ann Suk (Anthropology), Forced Displacement and Health: Directions for Considering Chronic Health Concerns among Communities Experiencing Forced Displacement
Faculty Research Award
Shorna Allred (Geography and Environment), Bornean Echoes: Exploring the Social and Ecological Consequences of Indonesia’s New Capital City through Sound
Steve Rosefielde (Economics), Restoring Myanmar’s Democracy: Economic Sanctions
Terese Gagnon (Anthropology), Gardening Against Exile: Sensory Politics and Biodiversity in the Karen Diaspora
Manuscript Publication Subvention Award
Scott Kirsch (Geography and Environment), American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines: Insular Empire
Southeast Asia Research Award for Graduate Students
Imad Alatas (Sociology), Brothers and Sisters in Islam: The Challenges of Being a Profeminist Man in Malaysia
UNC System Faculty Award
Alexandra Kaloyanides (UNCC), Resourcing Religion: Burmese Religions and the Environment
2022-2023
Community-Faculty Southeast Asia Partnership Award
Lan Kolano (UNC-Charlotte) and Taryn Greene (ourBRIDGE for Kids), Exploring the impact of one non-profit organization on Southeast Asian Immigrant Youth in North Carolina
Dissertation Completion Award
Zardas Lee (History), Surviving in Great Power Politics: Transnational Anticolonialism of British Malaya
Faculty Research Award
Angel Hsu (Public Policy), Exploring Urban-Climate Teleconnections across Southeast Asia and Beyond
Noah Kittner (Environmental Sciences and Engineering), Innovations in Distributed and Household Energy in Southeast Asia
Manuscript Publication Subvention Award
Lorraine Aragon (Anthropology), Owning Shared Arts: Indonesian Regional Arts and Intellectual Property Models
Research Expansion to Southeast Asia Award
Christina Cruz (Psychiatry), Implementing Teachers Delivering Task-Shifted Child Mental Health Care in the Philippines
Southeast Asia Research Award for Graduate Students
René Iwo (Sociology), Marriage and Adulthood in Indonesia: The Personal and the Structural
Leeann Ji (Public Health), for work with the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization
Alexandra Sanchez (Journalism), for documentary work in the field of Myanmar Diaspora Studies.
Southeast Asia Research Award for Undergraduate Students
Gargi Dixit, An Analysis of the Ramayana Across South and Southeast Asia
Rose Houck, Investigation into the effects of cultural forces on women-led enterprises in Indonesia and Thailand
Divya Patel, A Policy Analysis on Educational and Livelihood Opportunities for Karen Refugees on the Thailand-Myanmar Border: How can educational and livelihood opportunities for Karen refugees in the Northern Thailand region be improved?
UNC System Faculty Award
Jessica Liao (NCSU), Comparative Research on the US and China’s Engagements with Greater Mekong on Hydropower Governance
Touger Vang (Montgomery Community College), From the CIA’s Secret Base of Long Cheng, Laos to the Carolinas: The North Carolina Hmong Project – A Journey Worth Sharing