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Khatharya Um is Associate Dean and Associate Professor at UC Berkeley’s Department of Ethnic Studies. Her teaching and research interests center around refugees and other forcibly displaced communities and their incorporation experiences. She specializes in South-East Asian studies and South-East Asian diaspora studies, genocide studies, and post conflict memory, trauma, reconciliation, and national healing work. 

Maitrii Aung-Thwin is Associate Professor of Myanmar/South-East Asian History and Coordinator of the Comparative Asian Studies PhD Program at the National University of Singapore. Dr Aung-Thwin’s research is concerned with the histories of domination, resistance, and identity in South-East Asia during the late colonial age.   His first monograph, The Return of the Galon King: History, Law, and Rebellion in Colonial Burma, examined colonialism’s role in the historical construction of resistance in British Burma. He is also co-author of A History of Myanmar Since Ancient Times (2012).

Kaja M. McGowan’s areas of interest involve South and South-East Asia with emphasis on Java and Bali, studied in relation to the subcontinent. Her scholarly interests encourage studying the reciprocal relationships between neighboring countries in South-East Asia. Her research explores the flow of ideas, and artifacts along this highway -- architecture, bronzes, textiles, ceramics, performance traditions, and visualizations of texts. Dr. McGowan’s book, Borrowing Paradise (2023) is part of that materially driven endeavor, exploring the interstices of art history, religion, and the political ecology of birds-of-paradise. 

Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and South-East Asia. He received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining Harvard, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Sevea is the author of Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which received the 2022 Harry J.Benda Prize, awarded by the Association of Asian Studies. He is currently completing his second book, Singapore Islam: The Prophet's Port and Sufism across the Oceans, and working on his third monograph, provisionally titled Animal Saints and Sinners: Lessons on Islam and Multispeciesism from the East.