Picus Sizhi Ding, Ph.D. (1998), Australian National University, has researched Tibeto-Burman languages for two decades. His publications focus on less-studied languages of China, including minority languages and Chinese topolects such as Southern Min and Cantonese.
Jamin Pelkey, Ph.D. (2009), La Trobe University, is an Associate Professor at Ryerson University, Toronto. His research explores semiotic dimensions of historical, cognitive and anthropological linguistics. His book Dialectology as Dialectic (DeGruyter, 2011) defines the Phula languages of China.

Sociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia provides new analyses of regional Tibeto-Burman languages and sub-branches to demonstrate ways in which diachronic, social and geographic aspects of language variation and language endangerment are necessary for more adequate descriptions of language systems.