Welcome —
The Southeast Asian Politics Related Group (SEAPRG) was organized in 2014 after several years of informal meetings and lunches among Southeast Asian specialists at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association. We are a small and supportive group of political scientists. Our work is grounded in Southeast Asian contexts; we utilize a variety of methods and span across multiple subfields. SEAPRG sponsors panels at annual APSA meetings, offers paper prizes, and organizes other events at APSA such as short courses and meetings. We also host a syllabus bank on Southeast Asian politics.
SEAPRG features several officers elected annually at the APSA meeting, as well as volunteers for the annual paper award, which are selected annually.
Current Officers
Chair: Dotan Haim, Florida State University (2024-)
Treasurer: Nicholas Kuipers, Princeton University (2024-)
Program Chairs: Jangai Jap, University of Georgia (2024-) and Elvin Ong, National University of Singapore (2024-)
Prize Committee: Nathanael Sumaktoyo, National University of Singapore (2024-), Htet Thiha Zaw, University of British Columbia (2024-), and Jeremy Siow, University of Oxford (2024-)
Former Officers
Former Chairs:
Risa Toha, Wake Forest University (2022-2024)
Amy Liu, University of Texas at Austin (2020-2022)
Kai Ostwald, University of British Columbia (2018-2020)
Shane Barter, Soka University of America (2016-2018)
Meredith Weiss, SUNY Albany (2014-2016)
Former Treasurers/Secretaries:
Rachel Jacobs, Dickinson College (2022-2024)
Joel Selway, Brigham Young University (2019-2022)
Meg Rithmire, Harvard Business School (2017-2019)
Allen Hicken, University of Michigan (2014-2017)
Dacil Keo, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2014-2016)
Former Program Chairs:
Nhu Truong, University of Wisconsin (2022-2024)
Darin Self, Brigham Young University (2022-2024)
Dotan Haim, Florida State University (2019-2022)
David Tully, Department of State (2020-2021)
Kenneth Christie, Royal Roads University (2019-2020)
Rachel Jacobs, Dickinson College (2018-2020)
Ryan Tans, Santa Clara University (2017-2019)
Isabelle Côté, Memorial University of Newfoundland (2016-2018)
Shane Barter, Soka University of America (2014-2016)
Former Prize Committees:
Matthew Nanes, Saint Louis University (2023-2024)
Dotan Haim, Florida State University (2017-2018, 2019-2020, 2023-2024)
Oren Samet, UC Berkeley (2023-2024)
Anh Tran, Indiana University (2022-2023)
Jason Douglas Todd, Duke Kunshan University (2022-2023)
Eddy Malesky, Duke University (2022-2023)
Jangai Jap, University of Georgia (2022-2023)
Nick Kuipers, National University of Singapore (2020-2021)
Kikue Hamayotsu, Northern Illinois University (2020-2021)
Nina McMurry, Vanderbilt University (2019-2020)
Nico Ravanilla, University of California San Diego (2019-2020)
Renard Sexton, Emory University (2019-2020)
Jacob Ricks, Singapore Management University (2018-2019)
Kai Ostwald, University of British Columbia (2017-2018)
David Tully, Department of State (2017-2018)
Carmen Ho, University of Guelph (2016-2017)
Paul Schuler, University of Arizona (2016-2017)
Shane Barter, Soka University of America (2014-2016)
Jeremy Menchik, Boston University (2015-2016)
Julie Chernov Hwang, Goucher College (2014-2015)
You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter. You can also follow us through the SEAPOLNET listserv – a valuable resource run by Allen Hicken for anyone studying Southeast Asian politics.