Kelly Silva holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology (University of Brasilia, 2004) and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Brasilia. Her research focuses on anthropology of complexe societies, with an emphase on problematics related to State anthropology, international cooperation, politic and elites. She coordonates or participates to several investigation works on elites and the State-Nation building in Timor Leste. She published, with Daniel Simiao, Timor-Leste por trás do palco, (...)

Dr. Swaran Singh is Associate Professor at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) and Academic Consultant at Centre de Sciences Humaines (New Delhi). Dr. Singh has been formerly Visiting Professor, University of Peace (Costa Rica), and Beijing University (Beijing), Visiting Fellow of the Shanghai Institute of International Studies, Center for Asian Studies (Hong Kong University), Guest Faculty at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (...)

Vineeta SINHA is a professor and concurrently Head of the South Asian Studies Programme and the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. She has written extensively on forms of Hindu religiosity in the diaspora, religion-state encounters and the intersection of religion and commodification processes.
—

Architect, doctor of the University of Paris West-Nanterre-La Défense, professor at the National University of Laos, deputy minister of Public Works and Transport in Lao PDR, research fellow at IRD/UMR Prodig.
—

Lúcio Sousa is a portuguese anthropologist. He taught Portuguese in East Timor between 2000 and 2002. He is currently teaching Anthropology at Universidade Aberta in Lisbon and doing a PhD in Social Anthropology with a thesis on the social organization and ritual practices of the Bunak of East Timor. The field research was made during university holidays in August 2003 and 2004 and from September 2005 to August 2006. The research was supported by grants from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and (...)

Ms Watcharee Srikham is a Thai Social Anthropologist and Lecturer in Social Science and Indochinese Studies at Ubon Rachathani University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts. She has long conducted field investigations in human trafficking, smuggling and migration issues in Continental Southeast Asia.
—

jimmy.stef irasec.com
Jimmy STEF is a PhD student in sociology (URMIS laboratory) at the University of Nice and has obtained a CNRS contract of international mobility, from October 2018 to October 2021 with hosting by IRASEC.
His thesis focuses on the processes of internationalization of higher education in Southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysia and Singapore. Among other things, international student mobility, the strategies of universities and state institutions will be questioned, as (...)

Dr. Thomas Steinfatt is an American Professor at the University of Miami’s School of Communication (Florida USA) specializing in international and intercultural health Communication, statistical methodology and measurement. He received his BSc in Mathematics and Statistics and his PhD in Communication and Social Psychology from Michigan State University. His research on human trafficking has been funded by the US State Department through USAID, and by the United Nations through UNESCO, (...)

Emiko Stock teaches courses in digital media production anchored in ethnographic practice and writing. She is currently working on two projects, a film and a book, each theorizing in experimental ways an affective and haptic approach to history. Both projects result from long-term ethnographic involvement in Cambodia and Iran as a videographer and historiographer of sorts with Chams, Muslims in predominantly Buddhist Cambodia, and among them particularly Saeths ; descendants of the (...)

The Research Institute of Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) organises annually a doctoral winter school, in collaboration with a range of European and Southeast Asian universities and research centres.
In 2024, the IRASEC Winter school will be dedicated to Sustainable Development Studies in Southeast Asia, and will be co-organised and co-hosted by the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University and the Center for Integrative Development Studies, University of the Philippines in Diliman.