Press Release. Dr. Krisna UK Named Director of Center for Khmer Studies. The
Center for Khmer Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Krisna.
Center for Khmer Studies Lois de Menil, Ph.D., President Anne H. Bass, Vice-President Olivier Bernier, Vice-President Robert Lewis, Esq., Secretary Gaye Fugate, Treasurer Prof. Alan Kolata, Univ. of Chicago, Senior Scholar Prof. Michel Rethy Antelme, INALCO, Paris Prof. Olivier de Bernon, Director, Musee Guimet, Paris Emma C. Bunker, Denver Art Museum Prof. Kieth Rethy Chhem, Universities of Vienna & Ulm Douglas Clayton, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Darryl Collins, Siem Reap, Cambodia Prof. Penny Edwards, University of California, Berkeley Prof. Bion Griffin, University of Hawai'i Prof. Anne Hansen, University of Wisconsin Jacques Hennessy, Valletta, Malta Prof. Kamaleswar Bhattacharya, Paris Prof. Andrew Mertha, Cornell University Prof. John Miksic, National University of Singapore Steven Pesner, Esq., New York, NY Mary L. Porter, Houston, TX Prof. Son Soubert, Royal University of Fine Arts, Cambodia The Hon. Benny Widyono, Ph.D., United Nations (ret.)
The American Overseas Research Center in Cambodia
Press Release Dr. Krisna UK Named Director of Center for Khmer Studies The Center for Khmer Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Krisna UK, a former research fellow of CKS, as its next Director, beginning in January 2013. Dr. Michael Sullivan, who has directed CKS for 5 years, will step down at the end of December to return to his scholarly research. Dr. UK is a distinguished international scholar, who studied at the University of California-Berkeley and holds Masters degrees from the University of Paris-Sorbonne and Oxford University, as well as a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University. Her previous scholarly work focused on comparative literature and environmental sciences. Her PhD dissertation in social anthropology was on the Jarai, whose language she speaks. Her extensive experience in NGO management includes five years with the Cambodia Trust, as well as five years of development work in humanitarian demining, which includes research on the impact of landmines contamination on Southeast Asian communities living in high risk areas. Dr. UK is the first scholar of Khmer descent to rise to an executive leadership position at CKS. On behalf of the CKS Board, Dr. Lois de Menil, President, says, “We are particularly pleased to welcome Dr. UK and her young family back to Cambodia. CKS looks forward to a period of dynamic new leadership and outreach.” ----------Since its founding in 1999, the Center for Khmer Studies, the American Overseas Research Center in Cambodia, located in Siem 149 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10065 Tel:(212) 980-6628 Fax: (212) 486-6907 The Center for Khmer Studies is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. .
Bonnie Burnham, Chairman Emeritus Prof. Thak Chaloemtiarana, Cornell University, Trustee Emeritus Selma Ertegun, New York, NY, Trustee Emeritus Prof. Boreth Ly, University of California, Santa Cruz
Reap and Phnom Penh, has been dedicated to research and training in the humanities, arts and social sciences. It sponsors fellowships for American and international scholars to undertake research in Cambodia. It also supports a free 15,000 volume Library at Wat Damnak- Siem Reap and runs training programs and workshops for both students and academic staff of Cambodian universities. CKS sponsors international conferences and workshops for Khmer and international scholars and offers monthly free public lectures in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. In addition it runs a Publishing Program to translate major scholarly texts into Khmer and it sponsors their sale at prices beneath usual market rates to make them accessible to a wider public. It sponsors Khmer scholars’ travel to regional conferences. A recently completed CKS project was the compilation, in collaboration with the Dance Division of the NY Public Library of the Performing Arts, of an archive dedicated to classical Cambodian dance, which includes photos and objects as well as extensive video interviews with artists who survived the Khmer Rouge genocide. Among CKS’s current programs is a major multi-year project to create a digital inventory of the Cambodian National Museum’s collection, including multiple digital photos of each object. The second phase of that project, now underway, is the creation of a multilingual interactive database accessible from the Web. The project is supported by the Leon Levy Foundation in New York, and is managed by Australian scholar, Daryl Collins. END
149 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10065 Tel:(212) 980-6628 Fax: (212) 486-6907 The Center for Khmer Studies is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers
