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Dunford, Michael R.

Michael R. Dunford is a PhD student at The Australian National University, Canberra, at the School of Culture History and Language. His research focuses on the political and economic implications of the tea industry in northern Shan State, Myanmar. Prior to his time at ANU, Michael was a social science instructor at the Parami Institute in Yangon, Myanmar, where he led three undergraduate research teams on topics related to political and economic anthropology. As a masters student, Michael's research aimed to understand the material and ideological implications of the Lao-Soviet educational exchange program, for which he conducted three months of fieldwork in Vientiane, Laos.