Boreth Ly is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was born in Cambodia, and educated in France and the United States. Dr. Ly has conducted field research and traveled extensively in Southeast Asia. At the University of California at Santa Cruz, he teaches courses on ancient and Contemporary arts of Southeast Asia and its diaspora. He has published numerous articles on the visual culture of Southeast Asia and its diaspora; in addition, he has co-edited a book, with Nora Taylor,Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art: An Anthology (Ithaca, NY: SEAP, 2012).