LuceSEA Environmental Transitions Field School (2024-25)
Led by Dr. Mary Mostafanezhad (co-PI); Dr. Olivier Evrard (co-PI)
Focusing on sustainable agriculture, landscape change, and Indigenous knowledge in upland Southeast Asia, this project facilitates experiential, interdisciplinary learning, strengthens academic and research capacity among graduate students, and encourages the building of long-term regional research networks among University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty and students and partner institutions in Southeast Asia.
Rural to Urban: Southeast Asian Scholars and Agrarian Transitions
(2020-24)
Led by Dr. Jefferson Fox, (Co-PI), Dr. Krisna Suryanata, (Co-PI)
This project provides capacity-building opportunities for early-career colleagues in four Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) countries to work beyond funds available through the NASA grants to conduct qualitative research on how the transformation of rice production systems is affecting daily livelihoods.
Building Capacity for Community Supported Fisheries in Southeast Asia (2020-25)
Led by Dr. Brian Szuster (PI); Dr. Kulapa Kuldilok
The goal of this project is to develop a collaborative Community Supported Fisheries (CSF) training initiative with project partners focusing on developing training curriculum and building knowledge of CSF amongst a large cadre of fisheries and aquaculture professional in Southeast Asia.
Building Urban Pedagogy (2021-25)
Led by Dr. Ashok Das (PI); Dr. Wiwandari Handayani; Dr. Hayden Shelby
This project uses Indonesia to unpack urban issues germane to Indonesia and SEA more generally, and seeks to create effective, inclusive and equitable practices to change the systemic culture of planning (praxis).
Building SEA Agrarian Transitions Networks (2023-2025)
Led by Dr. Krisna Suryanata (Chair)
This workshop series expands scholarship and builds capacity in Southeast Asia- based ‘safe’ academic spaces that encourage candid discussion, which our Southeast Asia colleagues say are increasingly rare, given the region’s rise in authoritarian governance.
Southeast Asia Transitions Webinar Series (2021-2026)
Led by Dr. Miriam Stark; Dr. Amanda Flaim (Chairs)
This series of semesterly webinars were created to grow regional networks of multigenerational scholars working on Southeast Asia, provide platforms for early-career colleague and highlight new research on environmental transitions in Southeast Asia.
Pamana ng Lahi: Philippine Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Knowledge (2020-24)
Led by Dr. Pia Arboleda (PI); Dr. Nerissa S. Balce
This project showcases Philippine oral traditions of human/nature conflicts to develop online curricular material and use it in the classroom.
UHM/EWC LuceSEA Online SEA Institute
Led by UH Center for Southeast Asian Studies (PI)
This project provides courses on SEA with new humanities- and social sciences-focused Open Educational Resources (OER) to offer a suite of new digital material for college-level learning about SEA for current and future undergraduate and postgraduate students, irrespective of location.
Jaga Alam (Taking Care of Nature): Performance-Based Environmental Education (2021-25)
Led by Dr. Kirstin Pauka (PI); Dr. Annie Reynolds, I Madé Widana
This project brings together SEA-based performing artists with UHM faculty and college students to develop new environmentally-themed performances and lecture-demonstrations for schools and local audiences in Hawaiʻi. The selected themes deal with environmental issues shared across SEA and the Pacific such as deforestation, loss of biodiversity, plastic pollution, and coastline erosion.