Vinya Sysamouth
Education: Ph.D. in Development Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Experience and Affiliation: Currently Executive Director of the Lao Studies Center based in California. Vinya
Sysamouth spent his early childhood in Laos before arriving in the United States at the age of ten. He received
his BA in international Relations from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and an MA in Southeast Asian
Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His Ph.D. research focused on communal irrigation system
of an ethnic minority group in China, the Dai or Tai Lue. Vinya was rewarded the Fulbright grant in 1996 to do
a one year research on Isan migrating men and AIDS. He is also a recipient of the National Security Education
Program (NSEP) (2001), the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Fellowship (2002), and, Josephine de Karman
Fellowship (2003). Vinya co-chaired the First International Conference on Lao Studies, held at the Northern
Illinois University in May 2005, which gathered more than 100 speakers, with nearly 400 attendants in total,
from 14 different countries. Vinya is fluent in Lao and Tai Lue of Sipsongpanna.
Education: Ph.D. in Development Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Experience and Affiliation: Currently Executive Director of the Lao Studies Center based in California. Vinya
Sysamouth spent his early childhood in Laos before arriving in the United States at the age of ten. He received
his BA in international Relations from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and an MA in Southeast Asian
Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His Ph.D. research focused on communal irrigation system
of an ethnic minority group in China, the Dai or Tai Lue. Vinya was rewarded the Fulbright grant in 1996 to do
a one year research on Isan migrating men and AIDS. He is also a recipient of the National Security Education
Program (NSEP) (2001), the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Fellowship (2002), and, Josephine de Karman
Fellowship (2003). Vinya co-chaired the First International Conference on Lao Studies, held at the Northern
Illinois University in May 2005, which gathered more than 100 speakers, with nearly 400 attendants in total,
from 14 different countries. Vinya is fluent in Lao and Tai Lue of Sipsongpanna.
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