Hjorleifur Jonsson is a professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. He has focused his research on hinterland farming populations in mainland Southeast Asia. His work has concerned the dynamics of identity, cultural practice and social life at the intersections of minority communities and state structures. The focus of his work has ranged among regional history and contemporary identity work and political protest. Most of his research has been among Mien people in Thailand (since 1990), but he has also done research in Cambodia and Vietnam, and (since 2005) among Iu Mien in the US who are refugee immigrants from Laos.
Jonsson's current work concerns political diversity, negotiation, and civil pluralism.
Jonsson has done a video documentary, Mien Sports & Heritage, Thailand 2001. His books are Mien Relations: Mountain People and State Control in Thailand (Cornell University Press 2005) and Slow Anthropology: Negotiating Difference with the Iu Mien (Cornell SEAP 2014).
Ph.D. Cornell University
Ethnographic representation, identity, state-minority relations, sports, history, Southeast Asia, Iu Mien, the anthropology of anthropology
2018 States. In International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Hilary Callan, general ed., vol. 9: Anthropology of Law, Power, and Identity, ed. Carol J. Greenhouse. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell (in press).
2017 Stexit? Southeast Asian pluralism, statelessness and exclusive identities. Anthropology Today 33, 6: 3-6.
2016 (Le Jiem Tsan, Richard D. Cushman, and Hjorleifur Jonsson) Highland Chiefs and Regional Networks in Mainland Southeast Asia: Mien Perspectives. Southeast Asian Studies 5, 3: 515-51.
2016 Ancient Sound Imprints. In Global Modernities and the (Re-) Emergence of Ghosts, a special issue of Voices from Around the World, 16, 2. This is an on-line magazine from the Centre for the Study of the Global South, University of Cologne, Germany. www.voices.uni-koeln.de
2015 Thai Fiction and the Anthropologist. Cornell Southeast Asia Program Bulletin, Fall 2015: 26-28.
2015 Conversion and Community among Iu Mien Refugee Immigrants in the United States. Pp. 235-256 in Building Noah’s Ark for Refugees, Migrants, and Religious Communities. Jin-Heon Jung and Alexander Horstmann, eds. New York: Palgrave.
Summer 2022 | |
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ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2021 | |
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ASB 484 | Internship |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2021 | |
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ASB 252 | Sports and Culture |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2021 | |
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ASB 325 | Peoples of Southeast Asia |
ASB 484 | Internship |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 584 | Internship |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ASB 252 | Sports and Culture |
ASB 484 | Internship |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ASB 252 | Sports and Culture |
ASB 412 | History of Anthropology |
ASB 484 | Internship |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 584 | Internship |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ASB 252 | Sports and Culture |
ASB 484 | Internship |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 580 | Practicum |
ASB 584 | Internship |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ASB 792 | Research |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ASB 484 | Internship |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 580 | Practicum |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 591 | Seminar |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ASB 252 | Sports and Culture |
ASB 484 | Internship |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 580 | Practicum |
ASB 584 | Internship |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ASB 792 | Research |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ASB 412 | History of Anthropology |
ASB 484 | Internship |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 580 | Practicum |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ASB 252 | Sports and Culture |
ASB 484 | Internship |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 580 | Practicum |
ASB 584 | Internship |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |