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Southeast Asian Studies in the U.S.A.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Robert Van Neil
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Today if Americans are asked about centers of Southeast Asian Studies in the United States, their reply should begin with the names of Cornell University, Yale University and the University of California (Berkeley). If on the other hand, the question concerns American scholars of Southeast Asian affairs, the answer would have to include names of individuals from Boston to Hawaii and from Minnesota to New Orleans. The centers of Southeast Asian studies offer a coordinated program of studies which prepares the recipient for special work in one or more disciplines and in one or more parts of Southeast Asian studies. The individual scholars, who are for the most part also college and university teachers, may offer a course or even a sequence of courses related to Southeast Asia, and on some occasions may be integrated into a specialized program which includes Southeast Asia in its purview, but the results of their teaching endeavors do not bear the imprint of specialization which is to be found in the centers. In this article I shall describe the chief Southeast Asia centers, say something about programs in which Southeast Asia plays only a part, and finally close with a word on the individual scholar interested in all or part of Southeast Asia.

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Research Article
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Journal of Southeast Asian History , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 1964 , pp. 188 - 194
Copyright
Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1964

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References

1. My information on the Cornell University Southeast Asia Program is drawn from the CU Announcement of October 15, 1962, entitled “Asian Studies 1962–1964.” Further details may be obtained by writing the Director, Southeast Asia Program, Franklin Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

2. Information on Yale University Southeast Asia Studies has been taken from “International & Area Studies at Yale,” (Yale University, 1963)Google Scholar, and from the description of the Yale University program in Newsletter of the Association for Asian Studies VIII (02 1963), 31–33Google Scholar. Persons interested in further information can write to the Council on Southeast Asia Studies, North Sheffield Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

3. Information on the University of California Center for Southeast Asia Studies is drawn from “Asia Studies, Courses and Research 1963,” Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Additional information may be obtained by writing the Institute of International Studies, 2250 Piedmont Avenue, University of California, Berkeley 4.

4. This Association is international, and welcomes enquiries from abroad. For further information, write to the Secretary, Association for Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.