Council
ASAA Council
Executive
President: Professor Melissa Crouch
Law Faculty
University of New South Wales
melissa.crouch@unsw.edu.au
Vice-President: Associate Professor David Hundt
Faculty of Arts and Education
Deakin University
david.hundt@deakin.edu.au
Secretary: Dr Minerva Inwald
Judith Neilson Post-Doctoral Fellow in Contemporary Art University of New South Wales
m.inwald@unsw.edu.au
Treasurer: Dr Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan
University of Sydney
asaa.treasurer@gmail.com
Asian Studies Review Editor: Associate Professor Dirk Tomsa
Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy
La Trobe University
D.Tomsa@latrobe.edu.au
Publications Officer: Dr Yu Tao
School of Social Sciences
The University of Western Australia
yu.tao@uwa.edu.au
Council
Immediate Past President: Professor Kate McGregor
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
The University of Melbourne
k.mcgregor@unimelb.edu.au
China Councillor: Dr Josh Stenberg
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Sydney
josh.stenberg@sydney.edu.au
South Asia Councillor: Dr Nisha Thapliyal
School of Education
University of Newcastle
nisha.thapliyal@newcastle.edu.au
Southeast Asia Councillor: Associate Professor Sharyn Davies
Herb Feith Indonesia Engagement Centre
Monash University
sharyn.davies@monash.edu
Japan & Korea Councillor: Professor Kaori Okano
Department of Languages and Linguistics
La Trobe University
K.Okano@latrobe.edu.au
West, Inner and Central Asia Councillor: Professor Li Narangoa
College of Asia and the Pacific
The Australian National University
li.narangoa@anu.edu.au
Postgraduate Representative: Jorien van Beukering
School of Languages and Cultures
University of Queensland
j.vanbeukering@uq.edu.au
Postgraduate Representative: Soyeon Kim
Monash University
Soyeon.Kim@monash.edu
Teachers’ Representative: Dr Rebecca Cairns
Faculty of Arts & Education
Deakin University
r.cairns@deakin.edu.au
Library Representative: Xiaoju Liu
Chinese & Asian Studies
University of Melbourne
xiaoju.liu@unimelb.edu.au
General Councillor (Women’s Forum): Dr Sarah Gosper
Monash University
sarah.gosper@monash.edu
General Councillor (Conference): Associate Professor Joanna Elfving-Hwang
Curtin University
Joanna.Elfving-Hwang@curtin.edu.au
Non-voting members:
Editor, Asian Currents: Natasha Naidu
Faculty of Law and Justice
University of New South Wales
natasha.naidu@unsw.edu.au
Executive council position descriptions (download)
