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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

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