Taufiq Hanafi, a postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), is interested in cultural politics, particularly the production and regulation of literary texts. His recent Ph.D. thesis examines knowledge production in Indonesia during the New Order period and associated state censorship.
Taylor Coplen is a PhD candidate in History of Science at Harvard University researching Cold War development and the long-term dynamics of US–China competition in Southeast Asia. His work examines how countries like Cambodia employ strategic flexibility to navigate shifting geopolitical pressures.