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We seek 8 CMU graduate students from across the social sciences and humanities (or related disciplines) who are interested in critical environmental studies to join the 2025 cohort of Luce Southeast Asia Transitions: Environment, Society, and Change field school. The CMU cohort will join students and faculty from the Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, and a University from Indonesia .

Benefits: The field school will offer graduate students the opportunity to build their academic and professional networks, deepen their ethnographic research experience and skills, participate in collaborative research, and publish a team-based co-authored paper in the journal, Forest & Society. Participants will also receive a LuceSEA Environmental Transitions Field School Completion certificate and a 10,000 Baht stipend. 

Themes: The field school focuses on a range of political ecology perspectives. Students will have the option to work on projects focused on feminist traditional ecological knowledge or coffee commodity chains.

Expenses covered: Transportation to and from field sites, workshop & fieldwork expenses, and a 10,000 Baht stipend.

Students will participate in a series of five 90-minute virtual workshops between January and May 2025 with the 2025 cohort, a series of in-person seminars and workshops focused on research design, data analysis, and publication and two weeks of team based field work in two rural communities.

- May 26-31: Research Design Seminars and Workshops at CMU

- June 2-6: 2 night/3 day Group Field Trip in Two Rural Communities and Research Design Workshops at CMU

- June 16-20 & 23-27: Group Fieldwork in Two Rural Communities

- June 23-25: Data Analysis and Publication Workshops at CMU & Symposium

To apply, send your CV and a 500-word description of your interest in the program (in English language) to Dr. Chaya Vaddhanaphuti at LuceSEAapplication@gmail.com by December 6, 2024.