Southeast Asia Category
Work at 38.
Posted on July 11, 2024 2 Comments
11 July 2024 I turned 38 this week. Growing up, my dad often repeated the advice to find what I love to do in the world and then find a job that would pay me for it. Perhaps a little trite, but that advice has been humming in the background of my mind as I’ve […]
Notes on Traveling to Southeast Asia
Posted on April 13, 2024 2 Comments
14 April 2024 Precarious Transport in Bali The humidity hits like New Orleans but the air smells different. I find my way to my taxi outside the airport in Bali. The taxi’s AC is welcome but blows pathetically like it’s been overworked and under-serviced. My driver hands me his phone with a cracked screen to […]
These Hands
Posted on April 11, 2024 1 Comment
12 April 2024 When I was young — around 9 or 10 — I remember looking down at my hands during a church service in Pittsburgh. I stared at my palms and noticed the color of my skin, the shape of my fingers, the lines running up and down and side-to-side. At the time, I […]
Is it spring yet? Updates on a full winter.
Posted on March 9, 2023 Leave a Comment
March 9, 2023 In my mind’s eye, winter is supposed to be the calm part of the year where I stay indoors and store up energy for a busy spring. Not this year. The year 2022 turned into the year 2023 while we were in Pittsburgh visiting family. I flew there with the kids while […]
Recent work in Southeast Asia
Posted on January 19, 2022 Leave a Comment
19 January 2022 I’ve been fortunate to continue academic work in Southeast Asia despite (or because of) the global pandemic. Some of this has been the result of publishing my book, Developing human resources in Southeast Asia: A holistic framework for the ASEAN Community, which came out in September and has given me additional visibility […]
HRD in Southeast Asia – 25 May 2021
Posted on May 25, 2021 Leave a Comment
Hi all, Apologies for the hiatus. I wrapped up my book manuscript on Developing Human Resources in Southeast Asia on May 1 and have been playing catch up. That said, there has been a lot going on in the world of HRD in Southeast Asia in the last couple of months. Labor protections for gig […]
HRD in Southeast Asia – 27 January 2021
Posted on January 27, 2021 2 Comments
Happy New Year, everyone. I’d like to share a series of posts related to human resource development (HRD) in Southeast Asia and ASEAN as a newsletter of sorts to collect updates, articles, thoughts, and resources related to HRD in the region. The advice to “write what you’d like to read” is my inspiration. As one […]
Summer Research Conclusion
Posted on September 14, 2016 Leave a Comment
September 14, 2016 Much to my dismay, summer has ended and classes have begun again here at GW. I am so grateful to the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the Elliot School for International Affairs here at GW for affording me the opportunity to conduct a research project this summer in Thailand and Myanmar through the […]
Myanmar in Transition
Posted on March 3, 2016 Leave a Comment
March 3, 2016 It’s been four months since the November elections in Myanmar that set the stage to hand over power from the largely military government to the National League for Democracy (NLD) led by long-time pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Expectations are high as the people of Myanmar and the world look on […]
The Land of Golden Pagodas
Posted on February 26, 2016 Leave a Comment
February 26, 2016 I remember picking up Freedom From Fear in 2009 off a dusty bookshelf in Chiang Mai and reading the powerful essays of Myanmar’s (Burma’s) pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. It was in those pages my interest in Myanmar began. With a voracious appetite I devoured several other books by Aung San Suu Kyi […]
Oliver S. Crocco 