Elliott Prasse-Freeman

Elliott Prasse-Freeman received his PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Myanmar, and has a book in review on Burmese subaltern political thought as adduced from an extended ethnography of activism and contentious politics in the country's semi-authoritarian setting. Prasse-Freeman also has a book project on Rohingya political subjectivity amidst dislocation and mass violence, with a particular focus on their maneuvers in the context of post-sovereign governmental regimes that incorporate Human Rights discourse, humanitarian care/exclusion, and biopolitical regulation.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Yale University (2012 — 2018)
• MPAID Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2009 — 2011)
• Bachelor's degree Harvard University (1999 — 2003)

Companies

• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2018)
• Graduate Student Yale University (2012)
• Associate Research Fellow Harvard University - Carr Center for Human Rights (2008 — 2014)
• Regional Project Coordinator Education Development Center (2005 — 2008)
• Researcher United Nations system (2004 — 2005)
• Consultant United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (2005 — 2005)

Skills

• Program Management
• Grant Writing
• Data Analysis

Other

Proposal Writing, Community Outreach, Capacity Building, Research, Qualitative Research, Program Evaluation, Policy Analysis, Public Health, Human Rights

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• “Class and Inequality in Contemporary Myanmar,” with Phyo Win Latt, in The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar. Holliday, Farrelly, and Simpson, eds. Routledge, 2018.
• “Petit Bourgeois fantasies: Microcredit, Small-is-Beautiful Solutions, and Development’s New Anti-politics,” in Seduced and Betrayed: Exposing the Contemporary Microfinance Phenomenon. Bateman, ed. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 2017.
• “Grassroots protest movements and mutating conceptions of ‘the political’ in an evolving Burma,” in Metamorphosis: Studies in Social and Political Change in Myanmar. Egreteau and Robinne, eds. Singapore: NUS Press, 2016.
• “Myanmar Conceptions of Justice and the Rule of Law,” in Myanmar: Dynamics, Change and Continuities. Steinberg ed. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2015.
• “Fostering an Objectionable Burma Discourse,” Journal of Burma Studies, 18.1, 2014.
• “Power, Civil Society, and an Inchoate Politics of the Daily in Burma/Myanmar,” Journal of Asian Studies 71.2, May 2012.