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Professor Emeritus Virginia Hooker

Virginia Matheson Hooker is Professor Emeritus and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, at ANU. She retired as Professor of Indonesian and Malay at the University’s Faculty of Asian Studies in January 2007. Virginia’s research has focussed on Islam in Southeast Asia, social change in Malaysia and Indonesia, and Indonesian political culture. Her most recent book, co-edited with Dr Greg Fealy, is an award-winning sourcebook on contemporary Islam in Southeast Asia.

Virginia has been a member of Humanities committees of the Australian Research Council and participated in a number of reviews of Asian Studies in Australia. She is known for her contribution to the development of Asian Studies, especially studies of Indonesia, in Australia. Since 2003, she has coordinated a special Muslim Leaders Exchange program between Indonesia and Australia (funded by the Australia Indonesia Institute, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade). She has been awarded major grants to provide graduate research training programs for academic staff of Indonesian regional Islamic universities.

Virginia is a member of the Board of the Australia Indonesia Institute and former member of the Foreign Affairs Council of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2000-2003). She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2003.

Emeritus Professor Virginia Hooker
T: +61 2 4842 2311 (home answering machine)
E: virginia.hooker@anu.edu.au