The GETSEA Steering Committee is comprised of the center directors at each of GETSEA’s eight member institutions. Steering Committee members serve on the working committees of GETSEA, and direct key programming. These initiatives include the crafting of a needs assessment survey on the state of Southeast Asian studies, mini-course initiatives, a virtual speaker series, and foreign language course exchanges.
Steering Committee Members (Academic Year 2026-2027):
GETSEA Chair: Miriam Stark, University of Hawai’i (Professor of Anthropology)
Pia Arboleda, University of Hawai’i (Professor of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures)
Mike McGovern, University of Michigan (Professor of Anthropology)
Jenna Grant, University of Washington (Associate Professor of Anthropology)
Trude Jacobsen Gidaszewski, Northern Illinois University (Professor of History)
Lisandro E. Claudio, University of California, Berkeley (Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies)
Nam Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Professor of Archaeology)
Stephen Acabado, University of California, Los Angeles (Associate Professor of Anthropology)
Jasmine Nadua Trice, University of California, Los Angeles (Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies)
Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University (John Stambaugh Professor of History)
Christina Schwenkel, University of California, Riverside (Professor of Anthropology)
Siddharth Chandra, Michigan State University (Professor of Political Science)
Erik Harms, Yale University (Professor of Anthropology)
Abby Cohn, ex officio (Cornell, Professor of Linguistics)
George Dutton, ex officio (University of California, Los Angeles, Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures)