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Former Members and Visitors |
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| Name |
Research Area and Topics While at ARI |
| Prof KONG Lily |
Former Cluster Leader. Geographies of religion; cultural economy and cultural policy; constructions of ‘nation’ and national identity; constructions of ‘nature’ and environment |
| Prof ANDAYA Leonard |
Southeast Asian history |
| Prof BANDYOPADHYAY Sekhar |
History of nationalism and caste in colonial and post-colonial India; history of Indian migration and the Indian diaspora |
| Prof BARNES Robert Harrison |
Social anthropology, with a geographical focus on Indonesia |
| Prof BUDIANTA Melani |
Culture and politics of the Chinese in Malang |
| Prof JEFFREY Robin |
History of India in the second half of the 20th century; study of the cell phone's impact on India |
| Prof KRISHNA Sankaran |
Modern and contemporary India and Sri Lanka with a focus on ethnicity, nation-building, foreign policy, and political economy |
| Prof KRISHNA Venni Venkata |
Sociology of science; science and technology policy and innovation studies; social history of science |
| Prof MACKIE Vera Christine |
The embodied experiences of globalisation in the Asia-Pacific region |
| Prof MANGUIN Pierre-Yves |
History and archaeology of the coastal states and trade networks of Southeast Asia |
| Prof MEHTA Uday Singh |
Relationship between freedom and imagination; liberalism’s complex link with colonialism and empire; war, peace, and nonviolence |
| Prof WINICHAKUL Thongchai |
Cultural and intellectual history of early modern and modern Thailand and Southeast Asia, especially the encounters between Southeast Asian societies and the West |
| Prof XIA Ming |
Indo-Tibetan-Chinese interactions |
| Prof ZHOU Yongming |
Globalization; development; political ecology; nationalism; ethnicity; drugs and online politics |
| A/Prof SIGURDSSON Geir |
Comparative Western-Chinese philosophy, in particular with regard to Confucianism and education |
| A/Prof WHITTAKER Andrea |
Reproductive health in Thailand, the consequences of unplanned pregnancy in Thailand, medical travel and HIV and social isolation in Australia |
| Dr BENNEY Jonathan David |
Legal and rights activism in China, in particular, the rise and fall of the “rights defence” (weiquan) movement; the changing role of the lawyer in China; the party-state’s response to legal activism; the use of new media in activism |
| Dr CHAROENSIN-O-LARN Chairat |
Thai democracy and politics |
| Dr CHEN Shiwei |
Modern Chinese history |
| Dr CHO Philip Soung Soo |
Influence of popular religion on the development of Chinese science, technology and medicine during the social and cultural transformations of the 16th through 19th centuries |
| Dr DALY Patrick |
Material culture and social practices; long term human/environmental histories; politics and heritage; cultural heritage management in post-conflict/post-disaster situations |
| Dr DU Yongtao |
Late imperial China, in particular, subjects related to locality, spatial mobility, and geographical knowledge |
| Dr ERMAN Erwiza |
Labour relations and political economy of the mining sector |
| Dr HAMONIC Gilbert |
Social and cultural anthropology; ethno-history of pre-Islamic religions of Indonesia; urban studies; imaginative worlds; make-believes; history of mentalities in Indonesian archipelago |
| Dr HOPKINS Benjamin |
Modern South Asian history, in particular that of Afghanistan; British imperialism; role of the colonial state in creating the modern states in South Asia |
| Dr HOSSAIN Naomi |
Poverty; governance; social policy; social protection; gender; human security |
| Dr KASSIM-LAKHA Salim |
International migration, the Indian diaspora, globalization and development, and democratization and governance |
| Dr KWEE Hui Kian |
Processes and theories of colonialism, capitalism, Chinese ethnicity, migration and networks in maritime Southeast Asia from the eighteenth century to the present |
| Dr LARSSON Tomas Henrik |
Processes of state formation; the comparative political economy of development in Southeast Asia |
| Dr MAROLT Peter Wolfgang |
Social theory; urban and cultural/political geographies; post-disciplinary studies pertaining to globalization, the Internet, and China |
| Dr MILLER Michelle |
Decentralisation; democratization; political and legislative development; government policy-making processes; state and nation-building; constructions of national identity; civil and political rights; human security |
| Dr MOORE Elizabeth |
Southeast Asian art and archaeology; remote sensing; the relationship of manmade change and the landscape |
| Dr RUTTEN Mario |
Rural entrepreneurship and labour relations in India, Indonesia, and Malaysia; Indian migrants in Europe |
| Dr SAGAR Rahul |
Political theory, particularly republican and democratic theory; politics and society of India, particularly India’s foreign policy |
| Dr SAXER Martin |
Effects of China’s rapid economic growth, its strategic decisions to secure influence and natural resources in adjacent countries, and its efforts to prevent unrest |
| Dr SHIMAZU Naoko |
Cultural history of diplomacy, with a focus on the Bandung Conference of 1955 |
| Dr SURESH T.G. |
Critical globalization studies and the comparative political economy of India and China; urban labor regime and labor in global production networks |
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