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 Lenore Lyons
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Dr Lenore Lyons is Director of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS) at the University of Wollongong, Australia, a position she has held since 2005. Lenore spent a number of years living in Singapore in the early 1990s. During this time she joined the Singaporean feminist organisation, the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE), and later completed a PhD on the women’s movement in Singapore (Griffith University, 1999). Her long term interest in the women’s movement in Singapore culminated in 2004 with the publication of her book A State of Ambivalence: The Feminist Movement in Singapore, published by Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden. This book explores the place of AWARE in the Singaporean women’s movement. Her ongoing work on NGO activism resulted in a workshop on civil society in Singapore held in 2004. Papers from this workshop were published as “Democracy and Civil Society: NGO Politics in Singapore” in a special edition of Sojourn in October 2005.
In 2004, Lenore was awarded two Discovery grants by the Australia Research Council (ARC). In the Shadow of Singapore (), jointly held with Dr Michele Ford, Sydney University, examines the impact of cross-border interactions between Riau Islanders and Singaporeans. The second project, Trans/national activism: Organizing for Domestic Worker Rights in Southeast Asia, explores the growth of migrant worker advocacy groups in Singapore and Malaysia. She joins ARI from September 2006 to work on these projects.
She joins ARI as a Visiting Affiliate from 01 Sep - 15 Dec 2006.
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 Edriana Noerdin
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Edriana has been active in the women’s movement since 1986, where she began participating in study groups during the time when these groups were popular in universities. She first established a women’s group with four women colleagues in 1989, called Kelompok Kebangkitan Perempuan Indonesia which was subsequently changed to Yayasan Perempuan Mardika.
At the beginning of the reformation period, Edriana co-founded the Indonesian Women’s Coalition for Justice and Democracy. For the past two years, Edrinana is active as a gender consultant for various international and multi-lateral organizations, such as Yayasan Tifa, UNDP’s Partnership, and ILO. She was also a gender specialist for Hickling, a Canadian consultant institute which assisted the Indonesian government in formulating programs to eliminate poverty, using a pro women perspective.
Based on her observation that there is lack of data that are segregated by gender or those that uses a feminist perspective, Edriana with a number of colleagues, established the Women Research Institute (WRI) which aims to be a study and research center that is founded on feminist perspective, focusing on the impact of decentralization on communities, and particularly on women. Another WRI program, is to prepare people at the local level to participate in shaping development in their regions. Also to ensure that the people participate in decision making concerning government budget allocation at the local level, that is equal for women, men and children. WRI develops a feminist methodology in every research.
She joins ARI as a Visiting Affiliate from 07 - 27 August 2006.
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 Sita Aripurnami
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Her involvement in the women’s movement started in 1984 when she intensely participated in discussions on labor and land eviction issues. This later influenced the establishment of the women’s organization, Kalyanamitra in 1985, as Sita also became concern with gender awareness education. Sita is active both at the national and international scene, she was a member of Asia Pacific Women, Law and Development (1988-1996) and Global Fund for Women (1989-1996). Sita has been speaker as well as participant in various meetings, such as the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo (1994) and the 1995 UN Women’s Conference in Beijing. In 1996-1997, Sita attained her Master’s degree on gender studies from The London School of Economic and Social Science, England. When she returned to Indonesia in 1997, along with a number of colleagues, Sita established INSIST (Institute for Transformative Social Sciences) in Yogyakarta.
During the refomation era, Sita was intensely involved in the advocacy of victims of violence, beginning with victims of sexual violence of the 1998 May Tragedy. At the beginning of the establishment of The National Commission on Violence Against Women, Sita worked in their “Strengthening the Capacity of Service Provider Organizations for Women Victims of Violence”. Two years later, Sita embarked on a new endeavor, holding the position of Program Manager of “Indonesia Masa Depan”, an initiative of The National Commission on Human Rights. Her task was to manage a “scenario planning” of the best and worst situation of Indonesia in year 2010.
On 2001-April 2004, Sita who is also the mother of four children, became program advisor for UNDP’s Partnership Program. Since 2001, Sita received many requests from various organizations, such as ILO, TIFA, dan Elsam, and also Hickling, to serve as consultant and gender evaluator. Since 2002 to this moment, Sita is active in the Women Research Institute which aims to expand into a study and research center founded on gender perspective, for the purpose of observing the impact of decentralization on the daily lives of women.
She joins ARI as a Visiting Affiliate from 07 - 27 August 2006.
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 Dr Marja-Leena HEIKKILA-HORN
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Marja-Leena Heikkila-Horn graduated in 1996 with a Ph.D. in Comparative Religion from Abo Akademi University in Turku, Finland.
The title of her doctoral dissertation is Santi Asoke Buddhism and Thai State Response.
She has published two books in Finnish on Southeast Asian history, in 1991 and 2000, and a book on individual rights and human rights in the Hindu-Buddhist tradition in Southeast Asia, also in Finnish. She often writes columns in one Finnish newspaper on Southeast Asian politics, and more seldomly in "The Nation" in Bangkok. She teaches Southeast Asian Studies at Mahidol University International College since 2000.
She joins ARI as a Visiting Affiliate from 17 July - August 2006.
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 Dr Theresa W DEVASAHAYAM
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Theresa W. Devasahayam was a Research Fellow in the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS) at the University of Wollongong before joining ARI as a Visiting Affiliate.
Holding a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology and an M.A. in Public Administration from Syracuse University, New York, U.S.A., Theresa’s research interests include globalization and women’s status, unskilled female labour migration in Southeast Asia, ageing and its implications for female working caregivers, and women’s fertility and reproductive health and rights. In the past, Theresa’s professional record includes holding the position of Associate Population Affairs Officer in the Emerging and Social Issues Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and acting as consultant to the Country Technical Services Teams (CST) of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Bangkok, Thailand.
Her time at ARI will be spent completing a project on the Roman Catholic Church in Singapore and its advocacy efforts for foreign domestic workers.
She joins ARI as a Visiting Affiliate from 17 July 2006 to 31 December 2006.
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 Dr Carool Kersten
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Carool Kersten is pursuing a PhD in the Study of Religions at SOAS in London, writing a thesis on the methodology and hermeneutics of the Muslim intellectuals Mohammed Arkoun, Hasan Hanafi and Nurcholish Madjid. Between July and September he will spend time at NUS as a visiting research affiliate to collect material for this project.
He holds an MA (c.l. 1987) in Arabic Language and Culture from the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and spent more than ten years working in Saudi Arabia. Since 2002, he has taught courses on Southeast Asian Islam and history in the Thai and Southeast Asian Studies Program at Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand. His writings have appeared in a number of learned journals and edited volumes. White Lotus in Bangkok published two of his translations of Dutch travelogues on Southeast Asia.
While at ARI, he looks forward to participating in the activities of the Religion and Globalisation cluster.
He joins ARI as a Visiting Affiliate.
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 Dr Christoph Marcinkowski
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Christoph Marcinkowski (b.1964 in Berlin) is an award-winning scholar in Islamic, Southeast Asian, and Iranian studies and has spent several years in Iran (1984-86) and Malaysia (1995-2004).
He had been Senior Research Fellow (1999-2002) and Associate Professor of History (2002-04) at the International Institute of Islamic Thought of Civilization (ISTAC), Kuala Lumpur, and Associate Research Scholar and member of the editorial staff of Encyclopaedia Iranica at the Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University, New York City (2004-05).
Currently, he is Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as well as Visiting Affiliate at the Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore. He has published eight books and about 60 articles in distinguished academic journals, in particular on issues pertaining to Islamic history and culture in Iran, Iraq, and Southeast Asia.
Presently, he is working on a project related to the contemporary Iraq-Iran issue. Among his recent books are From Isfahan to Ayutthaya. Contacts Between Iran and Siam in the 17th Century (Singapore, 2005) and Shi’ite Islam in Southeast Asia. Basic Concepts, Historical Aspects, Contemporary Implications (Singapore, forthcoming).
Dr Marcinkowski can be contacted at whilst at ARI. He is also contactable via emails and , and tel no. 9084-6955.
He joins ARI as a Visiting Affiliate for 1 year, wef 03 July 2006.
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 Prof Ezra B.W. Zubrow
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Ezra is Professor of Anthropology and Adjunct Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo as well as Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Geographic Information Analysis. He also is on the graduate faculty of the University of Toronto and is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Cambridge. He has written some 10+ books, 100+ articles, and received more than $17 million dollars in grants.
His research presently is focused on GIS, demography and the geography of social policy –particularly heritage.
He is at ARI to develop a heritage management system for Aceh. Finally, he is the President of the Buffalo Center Chapter of the United University Professions. This is the biggest chapter (several thousand members) of the biggest higher education union in the United States.
Ezra Zubrow
President, UUP Buffalo Center Chapter
Professor Anthropology University at Buffalo
Sr. Research Scientist National Center for Geographic Information Analysis
Honorary Fellow University at Cambridge
1 -716 645 2414 x146 phone
1-716 645 3808 fax
Department of Anthropology
MFAC 380 PO 610005
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York USA
14261-0005
He joins ARI as a Visiting Affiliate for 1 month, wef 25 May 2006.
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 Mr Koh Keng We
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Koh Keng We is currently a PhD student with the Department of History in U. of Hawaii at Manoa. His previous research with the Department of Sociology in N.U.S. included the inter-generational transitions in a Chinese temple in Singapore, and the early business career of Eu Tong Sen in British Malaya, Singapore and South China between 1870 and 1920.
His research interests in Southeast Asia include the histories of power and state-formation, colonialism, economic history, religion, diasporic networks and cultures, cultures of communication and cultures of consumption.
He is also interested in the interactions and comparisons between Southeast Asia and other regions in Asia and the Middle East in the abovementioned areas. During his stint at ARI, he will be writing his dissertation, "Moving People and the Making of a Colonial Frontier", on the relationships between mobility, identities and colonialism in the formation of the Anglo-Dutch border between Singapore and Ba tavia between the 1780s and 1860s, with an especial focus on Riau.
He joins ARI as a Visiting Affiliate from 02 May 2006 to 01 February 2007.
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 Dr Simon Barraclough
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Simon Barraclough read for an honours degree in political science at the Australian National University before taking his master’s degree through the London School of Economics and Political Science and the School of Oriental and Asian Studies, The University of London.
His doctorate was obtained from the Department of Government at the University of Queensland. He teaches in the field of health policy and international health relations, and has researched and written on the political economy of health systems in developing countries, international investment in health services, health industry exports, international health relations and tobacco control policies in developing countries.
Recent publications include “The Malaysian Tobacco Industry, Globalisation and Public Health: New Opportunities for Tobacco Control”, in Mohd Hazim Shah and Phua Kai Lit (eds) Public Policy, Culture and the Impact of Globalisation in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur: Persatuan Sains Social Malaysia, 2004), “Tobacco control and gender in Southeast Asia. Part I: Malaysia and the Philippines,” (with Martha Morrow) (Health Promotion International, 2003, vol. 18, no. 3), and “Tobacco control and gender in Southeast Asia. Part II: Singapore and Vietnam”, (with Martha Morrow) (Health Promotion International, 2003, vol. 18, no. 4).
He joins ARI as a Visiting Affiliate from 02 - 06 May 2006.
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 Mr KIM JeeHun
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He is a DPhil student in sociology at the University of Oxford. Whilst a visiting affiliate at ARI from April 2006, he conducts field research in Singapore and Korea.
His doctoral dissertation, titled "managing family obligations in transnational contexts," investigates career and family issues of professional migrants, focusing on their intergenerational family relations in temporary migration and population ageing contexts, using qualitative methods. His research interests are [transnational and professional] migration, sociology of ageing and intergenerational relations, and urban sociology.
He joins ARI as a Affiliate for 1 year, wef 12 April 2006.
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 Dr Andrew T H Tan
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He is Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies, King’s College London, and teaches at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK. From 11 April to 5 May, he is Visiting Fellow at the Asian Research Institute, Singapore, to complete his next book, A Handbook of Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia.
He is working on the phenomenon of the "new" terrorism in Southeast Asia, investigating the extent of his penetration in the region and its implications for counter-terrorism.
His areas of expertise are in defense studies, terrorism, Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific security. Andrew's advice on regional security issues is much sought after. He has written, edited or co-edited eight books. His recent sole-authored book, Security Perspectives of the Malay Archipelago: Security Linkages in the Second Front in the War on Terrorism, has been described by Stephen Walt, Dean of Harvard’s JFK School as ‘a major contribution to our understanding of regional security.’ His latest book, The Politics of Terrorism (London: Routledge, 2006), has just appeared. His tenth book project, The Politics of Maritime Power, which he will co-write wtih some of America's leading experts, will appear in 2007.
He joins ARI as a Visiting Affiliate for 1 month, wef 11 April 2006.
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 Dr Bhakta Gubhaju
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Bhakta Gubhaju is from Nepal. He has been with the Emerging Social Issues Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific at Bangkok, Thailand since 1998. His current responsibilities include monitoring demographic trends in the Asian and Pacific region, providing technical advisory services to ESCAP member countries in the analysis of census and survey data, organizing expert group meetings in population-related fields, and conducting training workshops on demographic issues. His present researches are focused on fertility, mortality and population ageing.
Prior to his assignment at Bangkok, Dr. Gubhaju worked at the Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat in New York from 1991 to 1998. Earlier, he has taught demography at the Australian National University. He has also worked in Fiji. His first employment was in 1973 as a demographer at the Ministry of Health in Nepal.
Dr. Gubhaju received his MA in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, United States in 1980 and pursued Ph.D in Demography at the Research School of Social Sciences, the Australian National University, Australia, graduating in 1984.
He has published numerous articles in fertility, infant and child mortality, adolescent reproductive health and population ageing in professional journals, such as Demography, Studies in Family Planning, Journal of Biosocial Science and the Asia-Pacific Population Journal. One of his latest papers on “below-replacement fertility in East and Southeast Asia: consequences and policy responses”, that he presented at the Workshop at the Asian MetaCentre, Singapore, was published by the Journal of Population Research, Australia. He is currently on the sabbatical leave programme ofthe United Nations from 3 April to 31 July 2006. He is based at the Asia Research Institute to undertake a study on Fertility Transition in Asia.
He joins ARI as a Visiting Affiliate for 4 months, wef 04 April 2006.
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 Dr SHIN Yoon Hwan
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He has taught comparative politics, Southeast Asian politics, and political anthropology at Sogang University, Seoul, for seventeen years. He obtained his Ph.D. from Yale in 1989 with a study on the origin and formation of big business in Indonesia. He previously served as Chairperson of the Department of Political Science (1995-96, 2000-01) and Director of the Institute for East Asian Studies (2001-2005) at the university. He is also a founding member of the Korean Association of Southeast Asian Studies as well as the Korean Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
His area of specialization is Indonesian studies with a special focus on her political economy and political change. Lately he has expanded his research interest into regional community building in East Asia and comparative election studies in Asia. He is the author of the book Political Economy of Indonesia: State, Capital, and Labor under Soeharto (2002, Korean) and edited dozens of books and wrote about forty articles on Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
He joins ARI as a Visiting Affiliate for 1 year, wef February 2006.
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 Dr Selvaraj Velayutham
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He is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow based at the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University. His current research (with Dr. Amanda Wise) is on transnational affect and the moral economies of migration. This research examines experiences of migration and long-distance relationships among South Indian temporary skilled migrants in Australia from an ethnographic perspective. Selvaraj has published widely on the topic of globalisation and transnationalism. He is the author of Responding to Globalisation: Nation, Culture and Identity in Singapore.
He is presently editing a book on Tamil Cinema: The Cultural Politics of India's Other Film Industry (forthcoming; Routledge). He is accompanied to ARI by his wife, Dr Amanda Wise, a research fellow at Macquarie University who specializes in multiculturalism and transnational studies. During his stay at ARI, they will be co-authoring a journal article on Transnational Affect and Second Generation Tamil Migrants.
He joins ARI as an Affiliate for 3 months, wef December 2005.
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 Dr Michael Nai-Chiu Poon
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Michael Nai-Chiu Poon’s research focus is on history and documentation of Christianity in Southeast Asia. He is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia, Trinity Theological College, Singapore; Convener of the Documentation Study Group of the International Association for Mission Studies; and Editor of the Christianity in Asia Series of the Australasian Theological Forum Press. He collaborates with Yale University Divinity School Library, Payap University and Hong Kong Baptist University Library on the Documentation of Christianity in Asia Consortium project. He also serves as Honorary Research Associate in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Fellow of Saint John’s College, Hong Kong University.
He is a naturalized Canadian. He was first trained as a physicist in the University of British Columbia (B.Sc., M.Sc.). He then received his degrees in theology in the University of Toronto (M.Div.) and Balliol College, University of Oxford (D.Phil.). In 1999 he received a Medal of Professional Merit from the Macao Government for his contribution in education.
He joins ARI as an Affiliate 01 October 2005 - 30 September 2006.
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