Kathryn Poethig

Kathryn Poethig is Professor of Global Studies at California State University Monterey Bay.  She has lived and worked in Southeast Asia for over thirty years. As an activist-scholar, her advocacy and  research are aligned with anti-imperial spirituality, transnational feminism, and peace and conflict in Southeast Asia, particularly Cambodia and the Philippines.  She has published on the citizenship debates during Cambodia’s transition and the Dhammayietra, a post-conflict Buddhist peace walk and Filipino women’s inter-religious alliances for peace.  She was consultant and faculty in the Applied Conflict Transformation Studies MA program in Cambodia (2005-2013) and served on the boards of Summer Interfaith Institute for Justice, Peace and Social Movement in Vancouver in Canada and the Philippine-based People’s Forum on Peace for Life, a Global South-based Muslim-Christian initiative resisting Empire and militarized globalization. Through Peace for Life, she has joined delegations to the World Social Forum in Nairobi (2007), Nepal (2006), WTO in Hong Kong (2005) among others.