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xiLoh Yin San is an independent filmmaker/researcher who is interested in issues concerning social justice and theenvironment. Her API research in 2010/2011 was on the political participation of women in Japan and thePhilippines. Prior to this, she worked as a marketing consultant for a communications company. She currentlyfocuses on living well and exploring the different dimensions of life. In her free time, she enjoys discovering theheritage of her home town, Penang.M. Ichsan Harja Nugraha is an architect and a visual artist. Born and living in Bandung, a city well known for itsArt Deco buildings, he has become an art, history and architecture enthusiast. To promote public awareness ofarchitectural heritage issues, he and several friends published a series of sketchbooks depicting hundreds ofhistoric buildings in Indonesia during 2005 – 2009. The series gained wide support and earned several awards. In2010, the API fellowship gave him an opportunity to engage in a similar project in Kyoto, Japan for almost oneyear. The program greatly enhanced his knowledge of mapping techniques and publication methods commonlyused in promoting heritage projects, while the landscape of Japan influenced the style of his artworks to be morevivid and dramatic. Currently he is working on creating a comprehensive online heritage map for his home townBandung, as well as occasionally hosting art workshops to promote heritage tourism.Nguyen Van Chinh received his Ph.D. from the Amsterdam School for Social Research, University ofAmsterdam, the Netherlands. He is currently affiliated with the Department of Anthropology, Vietnam NationalUniversity in Hanoi as an associate professor and deputy director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies. He alsoserves as a member of the board of trustees at the Southeast Asian Studies Regional Exchange Program(SEASREP). His major academic interests focus on issues of migration, ethnic minorities and cross-border ethnicgroups in the Southeast Asia Massif.Pattaraporn Apichit was born in Bangkok in 1972. She graduated from the Faculty of Sociology andAnthropology, Thammasat University. She worked as a newspaper reporter and as editor-in-chief of a healthmagazine before becoming an independent writer, based in Samut Songkram province. There, she jointlyproduces the local magazine Mon Rak Mae Klong (Love the Mae Klong). She has written a book on organicfarming and runs a small caf? at Amphawa Floating Market.Pham Quang Minh was born in Vietnam in 1962. He received his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian Studies fromHumboldt University in Berlin, Germany, in 2002. From September 2002 to June 2006 he served as vice dean,and from June 2006 to March 2012 as dean of the Faculty of International Studies, University of Social Sciencesand Humanities (USSH), Vietnam National University, Hanoi. In March 2012, he was promoted to vice rectorfor academic affairs. His main teaching and research interests, among others, are world politics, Asia-Pacificinternational relations, and Vietnam’s foreign policy. He is the author of more than 50 articles published inVietnam and elsewhere.Resmi Setia Milawati is an independent researcher. She has conducted a decade of work and research in the areasof labor, gender, the urban poor, and globalization. These have included research collaborations with activists aswell as academics from various organizations. She is currently doing consultancy work for international agenciesand is a part-time teacher in Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia.Rika Terano is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Putra Malaysia. She studied at the TokyoUniversity of Agriculture, where she earned a B.A. in International Agricultural Development in 2004 and aPh.D. in International Bio-business Studies in 2011. Her research interests include a livelihood approach toregional inequality, and sustainable development in the rice granary areas of Malaysia.Ronnarong Khampha (“Ong”) is a dancer/choreographer from the Lanna region (northern Thailand). Hestudied Lanna dance as a village child and graduated with an honors degree in Thai arts from Chiang MaiUniversity in 2005. Although his background is in traditional dance, Ong is active in contemporary dance. He hasdeveloped his own style using traditional dance as a base, and venturing into contemporary aesthetics.The Work of the 2010/2011 API Fellows