Research Showcase
Learn more about the work of our Collaboratory Scholars
June 2026 Scholar Cohort
Jasmine An
Assistant Professor | Department of English, University of Oregon
What happens when poets write on paperwork or documents
instead of the blank page?
Carljohnson Anacin
Researcher | Arts, Law & Education, Griffith University
Being liminal mobile bodies in a multicultural society, it is important to understand how Filipino migrants work within the cultural ecosystem they are in and integrating with.
Lisa Beyeler-Yvarra
Rome Prize Fellow | American Academy in Rome
Did you know that the Roman Catholic Church is the largest non-governmental landowner in the world?
Katia Chaterji
Assistant Professor | Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Loyola Marymount University
Islamization in Sumatra depended on local creative agency to make religion meaningful in everyday life.
Jean Chia
Researcher | Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Singapore’s waterways are one of the rare areas in the country for reconciling urban change with our own personal histories.
Cui Feng
Independent Scholar
How did soldiers, villagers, ethnic minorities, workers, and
revolutionaries experience global transformations brought on by the
Cold War in their everyday lives?
Dinh Thi-Thuc Vien
Research Fellow | Division of Natural Resources Economics, Kyoto University
It wasn’t until the mid-2010s, with a sizable migrant population and
local interests in culinary diversity, that Vietnamese migrants in Japan
finally ‘reclaimed the kitchen’ to serve more authentic heritage cuisine.
David Gowey
Adjunct Professor | Glendale Community College
In Calinog, sugidanon and other traditional artforms allow Panay Bukidnon people to push back against discrimination by taking pride
in their traditions and ancestors.
Haifa 'pye' Siregar
Assistant Professor | Faculty of Art and Design, Institute Teknologi Bandung
Non-theatrical film is a form of ideology as well as a form of violence, oppression, and injustice.
Kenzell Huggins
Teaching Fellow | Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
How does media production work in an untrusting local market such
as Singapore?
Ayumi Inouchi
Postdoctoral Research Scholar | School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University
Indonesian girls have carved out an informal market under the nose
of global corporations, transforming what K-pop looks like.
Olivier Jacques
Lecturer | School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts, Vietnam National University
How does everyday use of space pushes back, adapt, and negotiate
its way around the planned, control of space?
Al Lim
Assistant Professor | College of Integrative Studies, Singapore Management University
It’s not just about having bought Bitcoin early, but also about hard
work, luck, and fate.
Woramat Malasart
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow | Otani University
Are the meditation traditions of premodern Southeast Asia truly
‘esoteric’ as they are often described in modern scholarship?
Daniel McCoy
Independent Scholar
My research delves deeper into the parameters and consequences
of the Indonesian-Vietnamese relationship during the late Cold War to
better situate the modern rise of two nations commanding significant influence in regional affairs.
Emily Mitamura
Assistant Professor | English and Media Studies, Bentley University
My work unpacks afterlives of 1970s mass and colonial violence in Cambodia and its diasporas, and how in its wakes they face a series
of narrative and performative demands that shape their everyday
lives.
Muhammad Afdillah
Lecturer | Interreligious Studies, Sunan Ampel State Islamic University
How does Muhammadiyah maintain a visible Islamic presence and social legitimacy in Christian-majority regions without generating religious conflict?
Najiyah Martiam
Guest Lecturer | Gadjah Mada University
Why and how are ancestral farming rituals being revitalized in
contemporary Indonesia?
Noorhidayah
Lecturer | Faculty of Sharia, State Islamic University of Palangka Raya
How do Muslim farmers exercise agency in responding to the social
and ecological disruptions generated by Indonesia's food estate
project?
Morragotwong Phumplab
Assistant Professor | Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University
How did the Cold War transform places that were never battlefields
into active participants in a regional war?
Tony Scott
Japan Foundation-Global Japan Studies Fellow | Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
I am tracking how monastics and lay activists from Myanmar, Japan,
and India used Buddhism as the raw materials for an anti-imperial worldmaking.
Roni Wang
Independent Scholar
I have been looking into depictions of the nariphon as they appear
across Thai Buddhist literary traditions, visual culture, popular media
and amulet practices.