Graduate Program in Southeast Asian Studies - Staff
Indonesia
Ed Aspinall (Politics)
Dr Harold Crouch (Indonesia, Malaysia - Politics)
Mr Alan Dupont (Strategic and Defence Studies)
Dr Gregory Fealy (Indonesia - Islam)
Professor James J. Fox (Indonesia - Anthropology)
Dr Timothy Hassall (Indonesia - Applied Linguistics)
Professor Hal Hill (Economics)
Professor M. B. Hooker (Indonesia, Islamic Stheast Asia - Comparative Law)
Dr Terry Hull (Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam - Demography)
Professor Gavin Jones (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand - Demography)
Dr Ann L. Kumar (Indonesia, Southeast Asia more generally - History, Islam)
Dr Ross MacLeod (Economics)
Dr George Quinn (Indonesia - Culture, Language, Literature, Islam.)
Dr Kathryn Robinson (Islam - Anthropology)
Dr Pierre van der Eng (Indonesia, Southeast Asia in general - Economic History)
Mr Amrih Widodo (Indonesia - Anthropology and Political Culture)
Malaysia and Singapore
Professor Virginia G. Hooker (Malaysia, Southeast Asia more generally - Literature, Islam, Political Culture and Language)
Professor Anthony C. Milner (Malaysia, Southeast Asia more generally - History and Political Culture)
Dr Ian M. Proudfoot (Malaysia, Southeast Asia more generally - History and Literature)
The Philippines
Professor Benedict Kerkvliet (Comparative Studies and Agrarian Studies)
Dr Ronald J. May (Political and Social Change)
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Burma
Professor Ross Babbage (Security and Defence)
Professor Desmond Ball (Strategic Studies)
Dr Anthony V.N. Diller (Thailand, Laos - Linguistics)
Ms Penelope Edwards (Cambodia - History and Gender)
Dr Peter A. Jackson (History, Social Issues)
Dr Craig J. Reynolds (Thailand, Mainland Southeast Asia - History and Politics)
Dr Nicholas Tapp (China and Thailand - Anthropology)
Ms Chintana Sandilands (History, Politics and Culture)
Dr Andrew Walker (Southeast Asia Generally - Anthropology)
Dr Peter Warr (Economics - Development and Agriculture)
Vietnam
Professor Benedict Kirklivet (Comparative Studies and Agrarian Studies)
Dr Li Tana (History)
Professor David G. Marr (History)
Mr Ton-That Quynh-Du (Literature and Linguistics)
South/West Asia
Dr Richard K. Barz (Indian languages - Language, Literature, History and Politics)
Dr Nijmeh Hajjar (Arabic studies)
Dr John C. Powers (South and Southeast Asian religion/philosophy)
Dr Richard T. Shand (India - Economics, Development, Governance and Agriculture)
Professor Ragbendra Jha (Economics)
Visiting Scholars
Alison E. Broinowski (Southeast Asia in general, Japan)
Christine Campbell (Malaysia)
Wendy Mukherjee (Indonesia)
Milton E. Osborne (Southeast Asia in general)
Dr John Funston (Thailand - Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy)
Helmut H.E. Loofs Wissowa (Mainland Southeast Asia)
Suryohudoyo Supomo (Indonesia)
Professor Peter Worsley (Indonesia - Archaeology)
Ed Aspinall
Dr Edward Aspinall [BA (Adelaide), BA (Hons) (Sydney), PhD (ANU), Research Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change] has Research Interests in Indonesian Politics, especially the politics of democratisation, civil society, social movements, labour and students as well as secessionist movements such as Aceh and the comparative politics of democratisation in East Asia. His key publications include; 'The Break up of Indonesia? Nationalism and the Contradictions of Modernity in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia' Third World Quarterly 22(5) (2001), 'Modernity, History and Ethnicity: Indonesian and Acehnese Nationalism in conflict' Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 35(2), (2001), with Gerry van Klinken and Herb Feith, The Last days of President Suharto (1999), and 'Opposition and Elite Conflict in the fall of Soeharto' in Geoff Forrester and RJ May (eds) The fall of Soeharto (1998).
Email: e.aspinall@anu.edu.au
Ross Babbage
Professor Ross Babbage [BA and MA in economics (Sydney), PhD (ANU), Convener, Graduate Studies in Strategic and Defence Studies, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies] specialises in International Security affairs and has written extensively on Asia-Pacific affairs, focussing on medium and long-term regional trends. His publications include; A Coast Too Long; Defending Australia Beyond the 1990's (1990), and Rethinking Australia's Defence (1980). He is a Senior Associate of the Centre for International Strategic Analysis (CISA) and a Council Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
Email: rbabbage@connect.net.au
Desmond Ball
Professor Desmond Ball's [BEc (Hons), PhD Professor with Strategic and Defence Studies Centre] special interests include: Australia defence; nuclear strategy and Asia-Pacific security. His Key publications are, Burma's Military Secrets: Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) from the second World War to Civil War and Cyber Warfare (1998), with Jeffrey T Richelson, The ties that Bind: Intelligence Cooperation between the UKUSA Countries - the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (1990), with David Horner, Breaking the Codes: the KGB's Network in Australia, 1944-1950 (1998) and with Hamish McDonald, Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra
Email: desmond.ball@anu.edu.au
Richard K. Barz
Dr Barz [BA(Arizona); MA, PhD(Chicago); Senior Lecturer, South and West Asia Centre] specialises in the linguistics, literature, religion and history of India and Pakistan. Amongst his other research interests are medieval and modern Hinduism; North Indian folklore; and, the history of Mauritius and Fiji. His publications include (with Y.K. Yadav) 'Contemporary Hindi Reader' (Canberra, 1978); (ed. with M. Thiel-Horstmann) 'Living Texts from India' (Wiesbaden, 1989); and, 'The Bhakti Sect of Vallabhacarya' New Delhi, 1992 &1976). His Hindi textbook (written in collaboration with Y.K. Yadav) 'An Introduction to Hindi and Urdu' (New Delhi, 1993) has passed through five editions and a chapter in Edwin Bryant's volume, 'Bhakti the 'Kumbhandas'' will be published in 2002. Dr Barz is also currently working on a distance education package for introductory Hindi as part of the Australian government's National Asian Languages Project and is working on a biography of Bahadur Shah II 'Zafar' with translation of, and commentary on, his Urdu poetry.
Email: Richard.Barz@anu.edu.au
Hindi website: http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/hindi/
Alison E. Broinowski
Ms Broinowski [BA(Adel.); Visiting Fellow, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories]. Her publications include 'The Yellow Lady - Australian Impressions of Asia' (Melb., 1992 & 1996); (ed.) 'Understanding ASEAN' (London, 1982); (ed.) 'Australia, Asia and the Media' (Brisbane, 1982); and (ed.) 'ASEAN into the 1990s' (London, 1990).
Email: alison.broinowski@anu.edu.au
Adrian Burton
Dr Adrian Burton's [PhD, (ANU)] Field of research is in Religion and Politics in Late Mughal India, Bhakti Sects, Bengali Vaishnavism, Linguistics of the Indo-Aryan Language family, Hindi, Urku, and Sanskrit. His research interests are in the Development of the Notion of Hindu.
Email: Adrian.Burton@anu.edu.au
Harold A. Crouch
Dr Crouch [BA(Melb.); MA(Bombay); PhD(Monash); Senior Fellow, Dept. of Political and Social Change, RSSS] specialises in the politics of Indonesia and Malaysia and of Southeast Asia, in general. His books include 'Military-Civilian Relations in South-East Asia' (Singapore, 1985); 'The Army and Politics in Indonesia' (Ithaca, 1978 & 1988); 'The Dynamics of Political Change' in J W Morley (ed), Driven by Growth: Political Change in the Asia-Pacific Region (New York, 1993), 'Malaysia: Neither Authoritarian nor Democratic' in K. Hewison, R .Robinson and G. Rodan (eds), Southeast Asia in the 1990s: Authoritarianism and Democracy (Sydney, 1993) and Malaysian Government and Society (NY 1996). He is a member of the Australian Society of Asian Studies and the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
Email: harold.crouch@anu.edu.au
Anthony V.N. Diller
Dr Diller [BA(WilliamsColl); MA(JohnsH); PhD(Cornell), FAHA; Reader, Southeast Asia Centre] is a Thai language and linguistics specialist. His recent research work has been in historical linguistics and Southeast Asian scripts, and he has a professional interest in the connections between cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics. He has contributed over 60 publications to journals and monographs, including to standard reference works such as the 'Thai and Lao' section in W. Bright (ed) The World's Writing Systems (Oxford, 1996). Dr Diller is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Life Member of the Siam Society and is a member of the Australian Linguistics Society; the Linguistic Society of America; and the Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. He is Foundation Director of the National Thai Studies Centre.
For more details see: http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/cvs/diller_cv.html
Email: Anthony.Diller@anu.edu.au
Alan Dupont
Mr Alan Dupont [MA (ANU), Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre] has research interests in Political and strategic developments in East Asia, especially East Timor and Indonesia; transnational security issues; intelligence; and Australian Defence. His publications include; 'Is There an Asian Way?' Survival, vol 38, no.2 (Summer 1996), 'The Australia-Indonesia Security Agreement', Australian Quarterly, vol.68, no.2 (Winter 1996), The Environment and Security in Pacific Asia, (June 1998) and 'Transnational Crime, Drugs and Security', Asian Survey, Vol. 39 no.3 (May/June 1999). He is also a strategic analyst for the Department of Defence, a freelance Journalist and a diplomat to South Korea and Indonesia.
Email: alan.Dupont@anu.edu.au
Penny Edwards
Dr. Edwards [BA Chinese (London); MPhil International Relations (Oxford); PhD History (Monash)] is a Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Cross Cultural Research where she is researching a cultural history of colonial Burma. Her special interests are cultural (trans)nationalisms, ethnicity, gender identity and Chinese Diaspora in colonized and postcolonial Southeast Asia. Her works on nationalism include her forthcoming book Colonial Cambodia: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945 (Michigan University Press) and 'Imaging the Other in Cambodian Nationalist Disprogram before and during the UNTAC Period' in S. Heder and J. Ledgerwood (Eds) Power, Politics and Violence in Cambodia ( New York, 1996). Her studies of gender include 'Restyling Colonial Cambodia: French Dressing: Indigenous Custom and National Costume' (Fashion Theory Volume 5, Issue 3, 2002); 'Propagender: Marianne, Joan of Arc and the Export of French Gender Ideology to Cambodia' in T. Chafer and A. Sackur Ed Promoting the Colonial Idea: Visions of Empire in France (London, 2002); 'Womanising Indochina: Fiction, Nation and Cohabitation' in J. Clancy-Smith and F. Gouda (Eds) Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism (Charlottesville, 1998).
Email: penny.edwards@anu.edu.au
Pierre van der Eng
Dr Pierre van der Eng [BA, MA, PhD(Groningen, Neth.); Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Economic History, Faculty of Economics and Commerce] specialises in the economic and agricultural development of Indonesia and Southeast Asia. He is currently researching the historical Domestic Product of Thailand and Vietnam; and the Rice Economy of Southeast Asia, 1850-1990. His publications include 'The Silver Standard and Asia's Integration into the World Economy, 1850-1914', Review of Asian and Pacific Studies (1999), 'Food for Growth: Long-Term Trends in Food Supply in Indonesia, 1880-1995', Journal of Interdisciplinary History, (2000) and 'Indonesia's Growth Performance during the Twentieth Century' in A. Maddison (ed.) The Asian Economies in the Twentieth Century (London, 2002). He is a member of the Association of Asian Studies in Australia; the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand; and the Economic History Association (USA).
Email: Pierre.VanDerEng@anu.edu.au
Greg Fealy
Dr Fealy [BA (Hons), PhD (Monash); Research Fellow in Indonesian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies] specialises in Islamic culture and politics in Indonesia and post-independence political history. He has closely studied the political behaviour of Indonesia's largest Islamic organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), and has written numerous articles on this topic and co-edited the only English-language book on NU (Nahdlatul Ulama, Traditional Islam and Modernity in Indonesia), (Monash Asia Institute, 1996). His most recent publication was Rethinking Indonesia (Crawford House 2000). His research interests have included campus dakwah (proselytisation) movements, militant Islamic groups and the functioning of Indonesia's legislatures. Dr Fealy is a member of the Asian Studies Association of.
Email: greg.fealy@anu.edu.au
James J. Fox
Professor Fox [BA(Harv.); BLitt, DPhil(Oxford); FASSA; Director, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies] specialises in Indonesian anthropology and history, as well as, in the study of Austronesian populations. His publications include; Harvest of the Palm (Cambridge, Mass., 1977); The Flow of Life: Essays of Eastern Indonesia, (1980), To Speak in Pairs: Essays on the Ritual Languages of Eastern Indonesia(1988), and Poetic Powers of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality (1997). His most recent publication (with Dionsio Babo Soares) is Out of the Ashes: Destruction and Reconstruction of East Timor.
Email: jjf400@coombs.anu.edu.au
John Funston
Dr John Funston [PhD, (ANU)] has research interests in the domestic politics of Malaysia and Thailand, Foreign Policy and ASEAN Political Developments. His publications include 'Malaysia: UMNO's Search for Relevance' in, (eds) Daljit Singh and Anthony Smith; Southeast Asian Affairs, (2001), 'Political Reform in Thailand: Real or Imaginary?' in Asian Journal of Political Science 8(2) (Dec 2000), and 'Challenges Facing ASEAN in a More Complex age' in Contemporary Southeast Asia, 21 No. 2 (August 1999 and updated in Panorama July 2000).
Email: john.funston@anu.edu.au
Nijmeh Hajjar
Dr Hajjar [Bachelor's Degree (Arabic), Postgraduate Dip Ed (Arabic), B.Journalism (Beirut), Postgraduate degree in Journalism & Communication (Brussels), PhD (Syd) Lecturer, South & West Asia Centre] specialises in Arabic language studies, literature, culture and society, Islam, the mass media in the Middle East and Europe, and the role of women in Middle Eastern cultures. Her publications include 'Ameen Rihani's disprogram on Progress, 'Justice and Democracy: Dynamics of theory and Practice', in N. Oueijan, A. Eid, C. Kfoury & D. Salameh, Khalil Gibran & Ameen Rihani: Prophets of Lebanese-American Literature, (1999), pp. 133-173; 'Immigrant Arabic Poets and Writers and the Modern Arab Renaissance', in Voices, Canberra, (Winter 1993), pp. 44-50.
Email: Nijmeh.Hajjar@anu.edu.au
Tim Hassall
Tim Hassall [BA (Macq.), MA (Syd.), Grad Dip Ed (Syd), Grad Dip Arts (Syd), PhD (ANU)] is a lecturer with the Southeast Asia Centre. His main research interest is the acquisition of linguistic politeness by second language learners, and his publications include the articles 'Requests by Australian learners of Indonesian' (Journal of Pragmatics 2003, Vol 35) and 'Modifying requests in a second language' (International Review of Applied Linguistics 2001, Vol 39).
Email: Timothy.Hassall@anu.edu.au
Hal Hill
Professor Hal Hill [Mec (monash), PhD (ANU). H.W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies, Division of Economics] has research interests in the economies of ASEAN, especially Indonesia and the Philippines; industrialisation and foreign investment in East Asia and Australia's economic relations with the Asia-Pacific region. His Key Publications include: The Indonesian Economy since 1966: Southeast Asia's Emerging Giant (1996, 2nd edition, 1999) and, Indonesia's Industrial Transformation (1997). He is a consultant for the Australian Government, the Indonesian Government, the World Bank, the Asian Development bank, and several United Nations agencies as well as an occasional op-ed contributor to several Australian and Asian newspapers and magazines.
Email: hal.hill@anu.edu.au
M. B. Hooker
Professor Hooker [LLB, LLM (Cantab); Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law] is a specialist in the Adat (traditional) and Islamic law of Southeast Asia. His publications include; 'Adat Laws in Modern Malaya' (Oxford, 1972); (ed) 'Islam in Southeast Asia' (Leiden, 1983); 'Islamic Law in Southeast Asia' (Singapore, 1984); and (with K. Endicott, et al) Malaysia and the 'Original People' (NY, 1996).
Virginia G. Hooker
Professor Hooker [BA(Oriental Studies) (ANU); PhD(Monash)]; Convener of the Southeast Asian and South Asian Studies Program] specialises in Malay literature, history and politics; Islam in Southeast Asia; and, in contemporary Indonesian culture. Professor Hooker is interested in strengthening links between the ANU and Government, business, and secondary teachers of Indonesian language. Her publications include; (with A. Milner) Perceptions of the Haj: Five Malay Texts (Singapore, 1984); Culture and Society in New Order Indonesia (ed) (KL, 1993) and Writing a New Society: Social Change through the Novel in Malay (Allen & Unwin, 2000) O.W. Wolters: Obituary and Appreciation (2001) and 'Introductory Essay' to John Leyden's Malay Annals (2001). She is a member of the editorial advisory boards for several journals, including Journal Pengajian Melayu; and is on the Editorial Board for the Southeast Asian Publications Series. She is currently a council member of the ASAA.
Email: Virginia.Hooker@anu.edu.au
Terry Hull
Dr Terence Hull [PhD (ANU), Convenor of the Graduate Studies in Demography, Research School of Social Sciences] has carried out a variety of research projects on family planning, child survival, breastfeeding, infertility, and demographic trends. In 1979 he set up the International Population Dynamics Program in Demography, and carried out a series of projects in China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. His current research interests include: the politics of family planning in Indonesia; fertility trends in Indonesia; the adaptation of reproductive health to family planning programs in Asia; evaluating the impact of village midwives in Halmahera; health service delivery systems in Irian Jaya, and abortion related deaths in Australia.
Email: Terry.Hull@anu.edu.au
Peter A. Jackson
Dr Peter A. Jackson [BA (UNE), MA (Macquarie), PhD (ANU); Fellow, in Thai History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies' Division of Pacific and Asian History]. Dr Jackson specialises in the cultural history of modern Thailand and his main research interests are the histories of Buddhism, gender, sexuality, capitalism and globalisation in Thailand. Dr Jackson's books include: Dear Uncle Go: Male Homosexuality in Thailand (Bangkok, 1995); Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand (co-edited with Nerida Cook, Chiang Mai 1999); Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives (co-edited with Gerard Sullivan, New York 1999); Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand (co-edited with Gerard Sullivan, New York 2000); and Gay and Lesbian Asia: Identity, Community, Culture (co-edited with Gerard Sullivan, New York 2001). He is currently writing a history of gay and lesbian Bangkok and studying the impact of globalisation and capitalism on Thai religion in the 1990s.
Dr Jackson's full research profile is available on line at: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pah/research-jackson.htm
Email: Peter.Jackson@anu.edu.au
Ragbendra Jha
Professor Jha [PhD, Professor, Division of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Executive Director of Australia South Asia Research Centre] has research interests in Public economics, macroeconomics, and development economics with special reference to the Indian economy. His publications include: Modern Public Economics, (1998), Macroeconomics for Developing Countries (1994), 'Towards a more rational IMF Quota Structure: some Suggestions for the Creation of a New International Financial Architecture' with M. Saggar in Development and Change, vol. 31, no. 3 (2000) and 'Components of the Wholesale Bid-Ask Spread and the Structure of Grain Markets: the Case of Rice in India', with KVB Murthy, H.K.Nagarajan and A, Seth, Agricultural Economics, Robin Boadway and Baldev Raj (eds.) (2000).
Email: r.jha@anu.edu.au
Gavin Jones
Professor Gavin Jones [BA (UNE), PhD (ANU), FASSA] took up the position of Head, Division of Demography and Sociology, Research School of Social Sciences after holding the position of Coordinator of the Demography Program from 1990 to 1996. He has been at the ANU since 1975, first as a Senior Fellow in Demography. Professor Jones' research interests cover a wide field, focusing particularly on population policy, the relationships between population growth and economic development, urbanization, marriage and divorce, fertility determinants, and the demographic aspects of educational trends and labour markets. His geographic focus is on South-East and East Asia, particularly Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
Email: Gavin.Jones@anu.edu.au
Benedict Kerkvliet
Professor Benedict Kerklivet [BA (Whitman), MA, PhD (University of Wisconsin), FAHA, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies]. His research interests include comparative politics and Southeast Asian and agrarian politics. His publications include Everyday Politics in the Philippines (1990) and, Land Struggles and Land Regimes in the Philippines and Vietnam during the 20th Century (Amsterdam, CASA, 1997).
Email: ben.kerkvliet@anu.edu.au
Ann L. Kumar
Dr Kumar [BA (Oriental Studies), PhD (ANU); FAHA; Reader, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories] is a specialist on Indonesian History, politics and religion. Her current work includes pre-historic connections between Indonesia and Japan. She has a secondary research interest in philology and traditional Indonesian literature. Amongst her publications are Surapati, man and legend: a study of three Babad traditions (Leiden, 1976); The Diary of A Javanese Muslim: Religion, Politics and the Pesantren, 1883-1886 (Canberra, 1985); (ed. with J.H. McGlynn) Illuminations: Writing Traditions of Indonesia (NY & Tokyo, 1996); Java and Modern Europe: Ambiguous Encounters (Curzon, 1997). She is Consultant Editor with the Lontar Foundation in Jakarta; a reviewer for several international journals, including the Journal of Asian Studies, American Ethnologist, a number of European Journals and the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; and vice-president and treasurer of the Council of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She also holds and Honorary research Professorship at the Nordic institute of Asian Studies, and is a member of the founding committee for the Centre for research into Language Change, as well as a member of the founding committee of the National Institute for Social Change.
Email: Ann.Kumar@anu.edu.au
Li Tana
Dr Li [(PhD) ANU] specialises in Southeast Asian History. Her research interests include the socio-economic history of southern Vietnam, and Chinese in Southeast Asia. Amongst her major publications are; 'The Nguyen Cochinchina, Ithaca: SEAP (1997), Peasants on the move (1996), with Anthony Reid (eds), Southern Vietnam under the Nguyen (1993) and with Nguyen Cam Thuy, Chinese Epigraphic Material in Hochiminh City (1999).
Email: tana.li@anu.edu.au
Ross McLeod
Dr Ross H. McLeod [PhD (ANU); BE (Civ) (Melb); BA (Melb); Fellow; Indonesia Project, Economics Division] has research interests in The Indonesian economy; monetary policy; banking , insurance, finance; small business; and health policy. His Key publications include; (ed.) Indonesia assessment 1994: Finance as a key Sector in Indonesia's Development (1994), and (ed with Ross Garnaut) East Asia in Crisis: From Being a Miracle to needing one? (1998).
Email: Ross.McLeod@anu.edu.au
Christopher Manning
Dr Christopher Manning [BA (Oriental Studies), MA, PhD, Fellow, Economics Division] has research interests in Labour markets; regional development, poverty and economic development in East Asia with special reference to Indonesia and Southeast Asia. His publications include; Indonesian Labour in Transition: An East Asian Success Story? (1998), with Prema-chandra Athukorala, Adjusting to Labour Scarcity: Structural Change and International Labour Migration in East Asia, (1999), with Peter van Diermen, Indonesia in Transition: Social Consequences of Reformasi and Crisis, (2000) and Employment and Migration in Southeast Asia: Structural Change in the Greater Mekong Countries (2001, forthcoming). He is Head of the Indonesian Project, Division of Economics, RSPAS and APSEM.
Email: chris.manning@anu.edu.au
David G. Marr
Professor Marr [BA (Dartmouth); MA, PhD (Calif./Berkeley); FAHA; Professor, Pacific and Asian History Division, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies] is a specialist in Vietnamese history, politics and culture. His publications include Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945 (Berkeley, 1981); (ed. with A.C. Milner) Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries (Singapore, 1986); Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 1885-1925' (Berkeley, 1971); and Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power (Berkeley, 1995). Professor Marr is the president of the Vietnam Studies Association of Australia and will be at the ANU until December 2002
Email: david.marr@anu.edu.au
Ronald J. May
Dr May [MEc(Syd.); D.Phil(Oxford); Senior Fellow, Dept. of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies] is a specialist in the politics of the Philippines and Asia-Pacific nations, in general. His other research interest is in PNG and Philippines ethnicity. His publications include The Changing role of the Military in Papua New Guinea (1993), The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific (ed. with V. Selochan) (1998), and Political De-centralisation in a New State: the Experience of Provincial Government in Papua New Guinea (1997). Dr May is the director of the Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, Papua New Guinea.
Anthony C. Milner
Professor Milner [BA(Monash); MA, PhD(Cornell); FASSA]; is a specialist in Malaysian history and political culture. Since 1991 he has also been concerned with Australia's relations in the Asian region, serving as Director of the Australian Academy of Social Science's Australia-Asia Perceptions Project. He is presently researching a monograph on Malay ethnicity. His books include; (ed. with A. Gerstle) Recovering the Orient (Chur, Switz., 1994 ); The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya'(Camb., 1995 & 2002); and, (ed. with Mary Quilty) Australia in Asia (Melb., 1996-2000, 3 vols.). He is on the editorial boards of the Southeast Asian Publication Series of the Asian Studies Association of Australia; the Cambridge Asia-Pacific Series; the Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs; and, the Australian Journal of International Affairs. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society in London and a member of the Commonwealth Government's foreign Affairs Council.
Email: Anthony.Milner@anu.edu.au
Wendy Mukherjee
Dr Mukherjee [BA (Syd.); PhD(ANU); Visiting Fellow, Southeast Asia Centre] specialises in the literature of West Java and is presently engaged in a research project on work and images of women in manuscript traditions. Her publications include 'Kaum Muda and Kaum Tua in West Java: The Literary Record' in P. Riddel and T. Street, Islamic Philosophy Theology and Science' , (eds.) (1997), 'Wawacan Durieat Nu tew Pegat' and 'Wawacan Enden Supenti' in Ensiklopedi Sunda: Alam, Manusia dan Budaya (ed. Ajip Rosidi200) and Modern Sundanese Poetry: Voices form West Java in Sundanese and English (2001). She has recently edited a volume of the Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs entitled Empowered Women (1997).
Email: Wendy.Mukherjee@anu.edu.au
Milton E. Osborne
Dr Osborne [PhD(Cornell); Visiting Fellow, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories] is a specialist in Cambodian history and in the history of Southeast Asia in general. His text Southeast Asia: an introductory history has passed through seven editions (St Leonards, NSW, 1979-1997). His other publications include River road to China: the Mekong River expedition, 1866- 1873 (New York, 1975); The French presence in Cochinchina and Cambodia: Rule and Response (1859-1905) (NY, 1969); and Before Kampuchea: Preludes to Tragedy (Sydney, 1979).
John C. Powers
Dr Powers [BA(HolyCross); MA(McMaster); PhD(Virg.); Reader, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories] is a specialist in Asian religions with a specific focus on Buddhism in India and Tibet. Dr Powers is currently working on a book about histories of Tibet by Tibetan and Chinese writers, and how these relate to current trends in ethnonationalism. Amongst his publications are An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (Ithaca, 1995); A Concise Encyclopaedia of Buddhism (Oxford, 2000); Hermeneutics and Tradition in the Samdhinirmocana-sutra (Leiden, 1993); and, (with J. Fieser) Scriptures of the World's Religions (1997). Dr Powers is on the editorial board of Curzon Press; editor of a series of academic books on Buddhism for Snow Lion Publications and co-editor of two scholarly electronic archives: Buddhist Studies and Tibetan Studies. He is Vice-President of the Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and a member of the American Academy of Religion; the Association of Asian Studies; the International Association of Tibetan Studies; the Asian Studies Association of Australia; and the International Association of Buddhist Studies.
Email: John.Powers@anu.edu.au
Ian M. Proudfoot
Dr Proudfoot, BA(Oriental Studies), PhD(ANU); Senior Lecturer, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories]. His areas of research specialisation are in literacy, printing, and colonial education in nineteenth century Muslim Southeast Asia as well as in the ideologies and genres of classical Malay literature. He has published a number of books and papers including Early Malay Printed Books KL, 1993); The Print Threshold in Malaysia Clayton, Vic., 1994); as well as contributions to Illuminations (New York, 1996), edited by Ann Kumar & John McGlynn and The New World Project (Sydney, 2002), edited by Greg Lockhart. His most recent publication is 'A 'Chinese' Mousedeer comes to Paris' in Archipel no. 61 (Paris 2001).
Email: i.proudfoot@anu.edu.au
George Quinn Craig.Reynolds@anu.edu.au
Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson [BA (Hons) (Sydney), PhD (ANU) Head, Department of Anthropology] specialises in Indonesia and Southeast Asia; development; gender; traditional architecture; and medical Anthropology. Her recent publications include: 'Government Agency, Women's Agency: feminism, fertility and population control' in M. Jolly and K. Ram (eds) Borders of Being (2001), 'Gender, Islam and nationality: Indonesian domestic servants in the middle East' in K.M. Adams and S. Dickey (eds), Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia (200), 'Looking for Father-Right: the Asian values debate' and 'Australian-Asian relations' in J. Docker and G. Fischer (eds), Race, Colour and Identity in Australia and New Zealand, and 'Gender, How is it constructed? , in D. Emmerson (ed) Indonesia beyond Suharto, NY 1999). Dr Robinson is a consultant to AusAID and for the National Asian Development Bank.
Email: Kathryn.Robinson@anu.edu.au
Chintana Sandilands
Ms Chintana Sandilands [Grad Dip, (ANU), MA Economics (Thammasat University, Bangkok), BA Economics (2nd class Hons) (Thammasat University, Bangkok) Lecturer in Thai, Faculty of Asian Studies] specialises and has research interests in; Thai art and economics, Thai language and cultural studies, Thai politics, Thai history and social problems in Thailand. She has recently published 'Profit or Loss from October 1973' AseanFocus virtual journal (January 2002); with Ass. Prof. John Clark, The Economic Base of Thai Artists, (2001), Teaching Thai Language to Foreigners: Lessons from Australia, (2001), and with A. Diller, 'Thailand - Franchising the Golden Chilli' AseanFocus virtual journal (September 2000).
Email: Chintana.Sandilands@anu.edu.au
Richard T. Shand
Dr Shand [PhD (Iowa); Executive Director, Australia South Asia Research Centre, RSPAS] is a South Asia specialist with expertise in economic, agricultural and industrial development. His publications include (with K.P. Kalerajaan) Economics in Disequilibrium (New Delhi, 1994); Rural Development in Malaysia (KL, 1984); and, Technical Change in Asian Agriculture (Canberra, 1973).
Email: Richard.Shand@anu.edu.au
Suryohudoyo Supomo
Dr Supomo [PhD (ANU)] specialises in Indonesian and Javanese language and literature as well as Indonesian ancient history. His publications include: Bharatayuddha: an Old Javanese Poem and its Indian Sources (New Delhi, 1993); 'Indic Transformation: The Sanskritisation of Jawa and the Javanisation of the Bharata' in P Bellwood, J J Fox and D Tryon (eds), The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Canberra, 1995); 'Classical Javanese Writings: The Sovereignty of Beauty' in A Kumar (ed) Illuminations: Writing Traditions in Indonesia (New York, 1996). His most recent publication is 'Some Problems in Writing about Contemporary life' in Sumanas?ntaka' Bijdragen tot de taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde, 2001, vol, 157, no 1 Dr Supomo is a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Asian Studies.
Email: Supomo@anu.edu.au
Nicholas Tapp
Nicholas Tapp [BA (Hons), (Cantab), MA (London). PhD (London) Senior Fellow, Department of Anthropology] specialises and has research interests in Southeast Asia and China, development, Hmong, minorities and the state, history, locality, and transnationals. His recent publications include 'Sovereignty and Rebellion: the White Hmong of Northern Thailand' (London 1989), 'Minority Nationality in China: policy and practice' in R.H. Barnes, A. Grey and B. Kingsbury (eds) Indigenous Peoples of Asia (1995), 'Social Aspects of China Fir Plantations in China' The Commonwealth Forestry Review 74(4) (1996), and 'Ritual relations and identity: Hmong and others' and 'A new stage in Thai regional studies: the challenge of local histories' in A. Turton (ed) Civility and Savagery: Social Identity in Tai states, (2000). Dr Tapp was the president of the Hong Kong Anthropological Society 1986-89.
Email: nicholas.tapp@anu.edu.au
Andrew Walker
Dr Andrew Walker [BA (Hons) (Sydney), PhD (ANU) Research Fellow, Dept Anthropology] is interested in Mainland Southeast Asia; resource management; borders, space and place; tracking and transport systems; regulation and globalisation. His publications include: The Legend of the Golden Boat: Regulation, Trade and Traders in the Borderland of Laos, Thailand, Burma and China (1999), 'Women, space and history: long distance traders in North-western Laos', in Grant Evans (ed) Laos: Culture and Society (1999), and 'Borders, frontier communities and the state: cross-river boat operators in Chiang Khong, Thailand' Canberra Anthropology (October 1996).
Email: andrew.walker@anu.edu.au
Peter Warr
Professor Peter Warr [B.Sc. (Sydney), M.Sc. (London), Ph.D. (Stanford), FASSA; John Crawford Professor of Agricultural Economics; Director, Poverty Research Centre, Division of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies]. His research Interests include economic development and causes of and solutions to poverty. Professor Warr's most recent publications are; 'Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth: The Asian Experience' in Asian Development Review vol. 19 (1), (June 2001) 49-65, 'Welfare Effects of an Export Tax: Thailand's Rice Premium', in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 83 (4), (November 2001), 903-920, 'Targeting Poverty', in Asia Pacific Economic Literature, vol. 14 (May 2000), 1-10, 'What Happened to Thailand?', in The World Economy, vol. 22 (July 1999), 631-650. He is a Member of the Board of the National Thai Studies Centre.
Email: Peter.Warr@anu.edu.au
Amrih Widodo
Dr Amrih Widodo [BA, Drs. (Sanata Dharma University); MA (Cornell) Lecturer, Southeast Asian Centre] specialises in Cultural Forms of Grass-root Movement, and the Politics and Poetics of Performing Arts in Indonesia. His publications include 'Samin in the New Order: The Politics of Encounters and Isolations' in J. and B. Schiller (eds), Imagining Indonesia: Cultural Politics and Political Cultures, Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, SEA Series No. 97, 1997 and "The Stages of the State: Arts of the People and Rites of Hegemonisation," Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, Special Issue Performances, Dept. of Southeast Asian Studies, The University of Sydney, Volume 29, 1994.
Email: amrih.widodo@anu.edu.au
Helmut H.E. Loofs Wissowa
Dr Loofs-Wissowa [Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, DipLangOr (Paris); Dphil (Switzerland); Commandeur Palmes Académiques; Visiting Fellow, Southeast Asia Centre] specialises in the archaeology, art history, and Palaeoanthropology of Southeast Asia with special reference to the Indo-Chinese peninsula. He is presently engaged in research on non-identified relic Hominoids in Asia and their representation in mythology, epics, figurative art and symbolism.
Peter Worsley
Professor Peter Worsley [BA (Hons) (Sydney) PhD, Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Asian Studies] is currently researching 'The Sumanasantaka, an Ancient Javanese Kakawin of the Thirteenth Century'. His previous publications include: 'Mpu Tantular's Kakawin Arjunawijaya and Conceptions of Kingship in Fourteenth Century Java' in Variation and Transformation: Perspectives in the study of Indonesian Literatures, the Royal Institute for Linguistics and Anthropology; Unlocking Australia's Language Potential, Profiles of 9 Key Languages in Australia Volume 5, Indonesian/Malay (1994), The Babad Buleleng: A Balinese Dynastic Genealogy. Bibliotheca Indonesiaca 8, (1972), and Part II 'The Indian Origin of the Old Javanese Kakawin Siwaratrikalpa, in A, Teeuw, Th. P.. Galestin et alia, Siwaratrikalpa of Mpu Tanakung. An Old Javanese Poem, its Indian Source and Balinese Illustrations, Bibliotheca Indonesica 3 (1972).
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