Asia and Oceania
Asia and Oceania
Associated Projects
Turquoise Mountain
American Spaces Reassessment and Design Project
Protecting Endangered Mangroves around the World
Marine Conservation Program
Success Stories
People
Aviva Rosenthal
Aviva Rosenthal is the Director of the Smithsonian's Office of International Relations and Global Programs.
Gabriela Pérez Báez
Gabriela Pérez Báez was the Curator of Linguistics at the National Museum of Natural History. She focused her work on language documentation and analysis, as well as factors of language maintenance and endangerment.
Masum Momaya
Dr. Masum Momaya has over 20 years of experience working for women’s rights, gender, race and class equality, and social justice. She is a former Museum Curator at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Her most recent exhibition, Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation, showed at the National Museum of Natural History from 2014-2015 and is currently traveling around the United States and India.
Christie Sampson
Christie Sampson is a former fellow with the GIS lab at SCBI where she continues her research focused on understanding and mitigating human-elephant conflict in Myanmar.
Steve Box
Steve Box is a marine biologist studying the effects of fishing practices that endanger more than half of our ocean’s biodiversity.
William Fitzhugh
William Fitzhugh is an anthropologist specializing in circumpolar archaeology, ethnology and environmental studies and director of Smithsonian's Arctic Studies Center.
Peter Leimgruber
Tracie Spinale
At the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access (SCLDA), Tracie collaborates with communities worldwide to create cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary learning experiences. She also manages SCLDA’s internship program, the Fellowships in Museum Practice program, and the Smithsonian’s Education Awards Program.
