Mandy Sadan is Reader in the History of South East Asia at SOAS, University of London, where she is also Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. She has published numerous articles on the history and cultural politics of the Kachin region. Her first monograph, Being and Becoming Kachin (Oxford: OUP) was published in 2013 and recently won the inaugural EuroSEAS Book Prize.