Hi, I’m Luke. I’ve worked in Southeast Asia for more ten years, but I was born in Melbourne (Naarm). I’m an educator and media professional living between Chiang Mai, Thailand, and Geelong, Australia—on unceded Wadawurrung land.

In addition to teaching social sciences and media, I’m the Managing Editor of the bilingual Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship (IJBS). I was founder, host, and producer of the What’s Happening in Myanmar podcast for Frontier Myanmar from 2024-2026 and I ran the Myanmar Musings podcast for the Australian National University from 2016-2025.

I’m descended from Scandinavian and German beer brewers that migrated to Australia in the nineteenth century. This inspired my interest in fermentation, drinks, and cultural change. I published two coffee table books on drink in Southeast Asia with Silkworm Books: Heritage Drinks of Myanmar and Sraascape: Drinking in Cambodia and its Tablelands. I also devised, researched, and wrote the treatment for a short documentary project in Cambodia: Sra Stories, which premiered at the Phnom Penh Film Festival in 2023.

I roast coffee beans, mill grains, and brew beer for my friends and family. You can still try some of my beers in Myanmar and Thailand, brewed by Myanmar’s first craft brewer, the Burbrit Brewery, which I advised from its launch in 2017 up to the military coup in that country in 2021.

I’m not on social media. Contact me at email@lukecorbin.org for teaching or speaking opportunities. I’m sometimes available for other work requiring precise language skills and specialist knowledge of Southeast Asia. I particularly enjoy working with artisans and emerging scholars from the Zomia region.