Southeast Asia Studies | Faculty

Full Time Faculty

• Prof. Karl Jackson, Director
• Prof. William Wise, Associate Director
• Prof. Bridget Welsh, Associate Professor

Adjunct Faculty

• Prof. Fred Brown
• Prof. Bronson Percival

C.V. Starr Distinguished Visiting Professors

• Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Spring 2007

The Starr Foundation was established in 1955 by Cornelius Vander Starr, who moved to China after WWI and founded the Asia Life and American Asiatic Life Insurance Companies. Today, American International Group, Inc., as the enterprises are known, is the largest global property and casualty insurer in the nation, encompassing companies located in 130 countries. The Starr Foundation supports education and especially student aid, international organizations, medicine and health care, the arts and humanities, civic and public affairs, and social services.

The Starr Foundation has given generous and longtime support to SAIS including the provision of funding for a visiting professorship for distinguished scholars in the area of Southeast Asian Studies.

Previous Visiting Professors

• Prof. David Steinberg, Fall 2006
• Prof. Panitan Wattanayagorn, Spring 2006
• Prof. Carlyle Thayer, Spring 2005
• Prof. David Steinberg, Fall 2004
• Prof. Theodore Friend, Spring 2004

Previous Visiting Scholars

• Visiting Scholar, Marvin Ott, Spring 2007