Chief Editor Dr. Benjamin Baumann is assistant professor at Heidelberg University’s Institute of Anthropology. Before joining Heidelberg University in April 2020, he was research associate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin’s Department of Southeast Asian Studies. He is a multidisciplinarily working anthropologist and received his PhD in Southeast Asian Studies from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with a dissertation on the Khmer-speaking minority population in Thailand’s lower Northeast. His fields of expertise cover Thailand, Cambodia and Laos as well as social organization, religion, ritual, mythology and anthropological theory.

Dr. Daniel Bultmann is an academic Staff at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Department of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany.

His main research interest includes Political sociology, Social structures and inequality, Peace and conflict studies, Collective violence, Sociology of the body, Sociology of knowledge, Sociology of elites, Regional focus Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Thailand and Laos
His particular research interests are focused on the country of Cambodia.

Prof. Dr. Vincent Houben is full Professor (C4) for Southeast Asian History and Society, Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

His main research interest includes Modern History of Southeast Asia (19. – 21. Century), Theory and History of Area Studies, Colonial and, Imperial History, History of Labour, and Memory Studies
His particular interest are focused on the countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Singapore

Peter A. Jackson is Emeritus Professor of Thai history and cultural studies in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific. Over the past four decades, he has written extensively on modern Thai cultural history, with special interests in the social and political history of Buddhism, magical cults and ritual, gender transformations and the emergence of gay, lesbian and transgender cultures in Asia. He has also undertaken comparative work in globalization studies and critical theoretical approaches to historical and cultural studies of Asia. Prof. Jackson was editor-in-chief of Asian Studies Review, flagship journal of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, from 2009 to 2012 and a founding member of the editorial collective of Hong Kong University Press’s Queer Asia monograph series. He has also established the Thai Rainbow Archives Project, which was funded by the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme to collect and digitize Thai gay, lesbian and transgender magazines and community organisation newsletters.

Prof. Dr. Guido Sprenger teaches anthropology at Heidelberg University since 2010, after positions at the Academia Sinica, Taipei and the University of Münster. He has done research in the uplands of Laos since 2000. His research interests include ritual, exchange, human-environment relations, animism, cultural identity, kinship and social structure. Among his publications are Die Männer, die den Geldbaum fällten (The Men who cut the Money Tree: Concepts of Exchange and Society among Rmeet of Takheung, Laos) (2006), Animism in Southeast Asia (co-edited with Kaj Århem, 2016) and numerous journal articles.

Prof. Dr. Barend Jan (Baas) Terwiel retired in 2007 from the Chair of Thai and Lao Languages and Literatures, Hamburg University. He has conducted anthropological fieldwork in Thailand and in Assam. He has written extensively on Thai history, Theravada Buddhism and the Tai-speaking peoples of Assam. Among his most read publications are, Monks and Magic (2012) and “What Happened at Nong Sarai? Comparing Indigenous and European Sources for Late 16th Century Siam“, Journal of the Siam Society, Vol 101, 2013, pp. 19-34. His own favorite publication was: “The Hidden Jātaka of Wat Si Chum: A New Perspective on 14th and Early 15th Century Thai Buddhism”, Journal of the Siam Society, Vol 101, 2013, pp. 1-17.

Dr. Xue Li is a lecturer for ASEAN-China Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts at Thammasat University, Thailand. She has completed her doctoral studies at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses primarily on changes in local society in China between the mid-nineteenth and twentieth century. Her research interest also includes the changes in the Chinese community in Thailand in the same period.