Alexander Horstmann is Associate Professor of Anthropology at MAIDS-GRID, Chulalongkorn University. He is also an art director in applied theatre, with a particular focus on Biographical Theatre, Improvisation, Popular Theatre, Forum Theatre, and Rainbow of Desire. He teaches at Chulalongkorn University together with Ajarn Sonny of Malongdu Theatre. Previously, he was Visiting Professor in Erlangen at FAU, EHESS in Paris, Cornell, Copenhagen, and Tallinn. His research and publications focus on migration, displacement, borderlands, and refugee activism, and have appeared in journals including Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Journal of Refugee Studies, SOJOURN, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Religions, and Anthropos, among many others. His books include Building Noah’s Ark for Migrants, Refugees and Religious Communities, published by Palgrave Macmillan and edited with Jin-Heon Jung.

Suratsawadee Panphet graduated in Development Studies from Thammasat University. She believes that access to quality education is an important mechanism for social mobility and human development. She currently works as an analyst at the Office of Strategy, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi. Her professional experience includes work in education as a teacher at an alternative school, as well as serving as an analyst for Thailand’s poverty alleviation research funding. She also has experience in field-based research with ethnic communities in Northern Thailand. Her academic and professional interests focus on creative management in multicultural and ethnically diverse communities, as well as human development.