Cluster Members

Dr. Jesper Ole Döpping, Business Administration Division (MUIC)

jesper.dop@mahidol.ac.th

Jesper Döpping is a lecturer at the Business Administration Division at MUIC. He acquired his Ph.D. from University of Copenhagen in 1998. He was employed at Copenhagen Business School before he in 2000 pursued a Career in the Pharmaceutical companies Ferring A/S and Lundbeck A/S as Director for Human Resources. He has worked in Asia with News Corp. Outdoor South East Asia, and the British Club in Bangkok prior to joining MUIC in 2014. 

Research interests are focused on process theories of cultural entrepreneurship, innovation processes, New digital business organizations, and organizational identity/identification. A special focus is on the organization of space and time for organizations that are located on the frontier between the global business network, and what has been called the “waste land”, fly over land, and that or that in between.

Barbara Maria Ekamp, Humanities and Language Division (MUIC)

barbara.eka@mahidol.ac.th

Barbara Maria Ekamp is a lecturer and a Humanities Program Director in HLD (Humanities and Language Division).  She got her M.A. in Literature, Philosophy and Political Science from University of Muenster and University of Cologne and her M.A. in Sinology from “Freie Universitaet Berlin”.  Prior to joining MUIC, she worked as DAO-Counsellor (Intercultural Communication Management for Europa – China), as a journalist in the “Berliner Zeitung” and in 2013 started as a full-time teacher at Thammasat University in Bangkok.  

Her research centers on cognitive neuroscience, neuro-anthropology, neuro-ethics and on political behavior and phenomena.

Christian Oesterheld, Social Science Division (MUIC)

christian.oes@mahidol.ac.th

Christian Oesterheld is a lecturer in the Social Science Division of MUIC. He studied Austronesian Languages and Cultures at the Asia Africa Institute (AAI), University of Hamburg, and obtained an MSc in “Conflict, Violence and Development” from the School of Asian and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is currently doing a PhD in Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Frankfurt.

An anthropologist by training, Christian is interested in the study of temporal and spatial dynamics of frontier zones in Southeast Asia, particularly in the border regions of central Borneo. He has known the area since 2000 and has previously been engaged in research on ethnic conflicts and identity politics. Recently, his focus has developed towards the analysis of historical legacies, memoryscapes and cultural heritage in the heart of Borneo. Christian has also a track record of research in Cambodia, with a focus on transitional justice and the Khmer Rouge accountability process.

Further Information:

https://mahidol.academia.edu/ChristianOesterheld

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christian-Oesterheld

Dr. Hardina Ohlendorf, Social Science Division (MUIC)

hardina.ohl@mahidol.ac.th

Hardina Ohlendorf is a lecturer in the Social Science Division of Mahidol University International College (MUIC). She got her PhD in Politics and International Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Prior to joining MUIC, she worked as a full-time teaching fellow at SOAS and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Sociology of Academia Sinica in Taiwan with the Taiwan Fellowship. In 2018, she was a Residency Fellow at the Asia Culture Center in South Korea. 

 In her research, she is interested in the discursive construction of Taiwan identity, the role of public space and public memory in post-authoritarian societies, political and cultural dimensions of tourism, and strategic Chinese identities in frontier zones. She has carried out fieldwork in China, Taiwan, South Korea and Northern Thailand. 

Further information: 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hardina-Ohlendorf

https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff64550.php

Dr. Bernard Sellato, Center of Southeast Asian Studies of the National Center for Scientific Research(CNRS) and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris/France

bernard.sellato@wanadoo.fr

Bernard Sellato is a senior scholar (emeritus) with the Center of Southeast Asian Studies of CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) and EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris, France. He has been carrying out research in the central mountainous region of Borneo since the early 1970s, especially in the upper Mahakam regency, traveling on foot across water divides to the south (Central Kalimantan), west (West Kalimantan), and north (Sarawak, Malaysia). His work has focused on reconstructing over some three centuries the history of the isolated minor ethnic groups of this central region in relation to the various powerful and warlike peoples living downriver all around them. Prominent in his research are the role of nomadic hunting-gathering groups and the violent contest for commercial forest resources, which governed the steady, conflict-ridden thrust by state-prompted tribal collectors into remote hinterland areas and the dynamics of shifting, ethnically based economic frontiers, later leading to the setting of internationally sanctioned border lines.  

Further Information:

http://case.ehess.fr/index.php?408

https://independent.academia.edu/bsellato

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bernard_Sellato/research

https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/index?q=bernard+sellato