Natali Pearson is a Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow at the University of Sydney, specialising in maritime heritage in Southeast Asia. Her journey into Asian

Professor Ed Aspinall shares his journey into Asian Studies, which began when he lived in Indonesia as a teenager while his father worked as an

Ele traces her ‘origin story’ in Asian Studies/the study of Asia to her upbringing in Darwin as a child, where she began to learn the

Garry describes himself as primarily a political economist whose work is informed by political theory. It was only during his doctoral research, and something by

Jarrah’s Indonesian / Australian background and early childhood years growing up in Bali were formative of his interest in the history of Indonesia. During his

Yamini discusses her expertise as a combination of Animal Studies, Development Studies, and Geography, especially in a South Asian context. Asia – and specifically South