Bryce Beemer has been an Assistant Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University (DKU) since 2019 where he teaches courses on World History and Southeast Asia. He studies cultural exchange in the context of long-distance slavery and warfare in Southeast Asia, Northeast India, and coastal Bengal. He is busy finishing his first book, Creole Kingdoms in Southeast Asia. He has a chapter on slavery and warfare in the forthcoming Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. His research has been translated into French and German. In 2014, Dr. Beemer received the World History Association’s best dissertation award. His scholarship received support from Fulbright, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Mellon Foundation, and other private funding agencies. He received academic awards from the American Historical Association and the Burma Studies Foundation. Prior to joining DKU, Prof. Beemer was an SSRC Transregional Research Fellow for InterAsian Contexts and Connections.