Faculty

Since its establishment in 1999, the CSEAS has worked closely with the university to build an outstanding group of faculty. There are currently more than twenty faculty in over a dozen different disciplines and professional schools affiliated with the CSEAS, making UCLA one of the leading centers for research and teaching on Southeast Asia in the country.

• Stephen Acabado, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
• Supeena Adler, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology
• Paul Barber, Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Victor Bascara, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
• Robert L. Brown, Professor, Department of Art History
• Quyen Di Chuc Bui, Lecturer, Vietnamese
• Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
• Michelle Caswell, Assistant Professor, Information Sciences
• Roger Detels, Professor, Public Health
• Nenita Domingo, Lecturer, Filipino
• George Dutton, Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures
• Christopher Erickson, Senior Associate Vice Provost and Director of the International Institute
• Lieba Faier, Associate Professor, Geography
• Daniel Fessler, Associate Professor, Anthropology
• Jenjit Gasigitamrong, Lecturer, Thai
• Gilbert Gee, Professor, Community Health Sciences
• Jessica Gipson, Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences
• Kian Goh, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning
• Pamina Gorbach, Associate Professor, Epidemiology
• Patrick Heuveline, Professor, Sociology
• Douglas Hollan, Professor, Anthropology
• Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Professor, Public Health and Asian American Studies
• Helga Leitner, Professor, Geography
• Robert Lemelson, Adjunct Professor, Anthropology
• Min Li, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
• Gyanam Mahajan, Lecturer, Asian Languages and Cultures
• Robert M. McCann, Associate Dean of Global Initiatives
• Judy Mitoma, Professor (Emerita), World Arts and Cultures
• Donald Morisky, Professor, Public Health
• Thu Ba Hoai Nguyen, Lecturer, Vietnamese
• Thu-huong Nguyen-vo, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
• Ninez Ponce, Director, UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health; Professor, Health Policy and Management
• Helen Rees, Professor, Ethnomusicology
• Sarah Roberts, Assistant Professor, Information Studies
• Geoffrey Robinson, Professor, History
• Michael L. Ross, Professor of Political Science, Graduate Vice Chair, Director of Center for Southeast Asian Studies 2008-2013
• Michael Salman, Associate Professor, History
• Eric Sheppard, Humboldt Professor, Anthropology
• Jasmine Trice, Assistant Professor, Film and Television 
• I Nyoman Wenten, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Ethnomusicology
• Juliana Wijaya, Lecturer, Indonesian
• Damon Woods, Visiting Lecturer, History
• Kie Zuraw, Associate Professor, Linguistics