Southeast Asia Studies | Faculty

Full Time Faculty

• Karl D. Jackson, director
• William M. Wise, associate director

Adjunct Faculty and Visiting Scholars

• Frederick Z. Brown, former associate director, Southeast Asia Studies, SAIS
• James Castle, chairman, CastleAsia, Jakarta (fall 2011)
• Catharin E. Dalpino, former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state; former Brookings fellow
• Marvin C. Ott, fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
• J. Thitinan Pongsudhirak, associate professor of international political economy at Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Political Science, and director of the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS Thailand) (spring 2011)
• Steven Rood, country representative in the Philippines, The Asia Foundation (spring 2012)
  
  

  C.V. Starr Distinguished Visiting Professors

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.