Council

Nominations for the 2021-2022 ASAA council are now open. Members may vote by following this link.

Executive

President: Professor Edward Aspinall
Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
Australian National University
E: edward.aspinall@anu.edu.au

Vice-President: Associate Professor Kate McGregor
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
University of Melbourne
E: k.mcgregor@unimelb.edu.au

Secretary: Associate Professor Melissa Crouch
Law Faculty
University of New South Wales
E: melissa.crouch@unsw.edu.au

Treasurer: Dr Elisabeth Kramer
Sydney Southeast Asia Centre
University of Sydney
E: asaa.treasurer@gmail.com

Asian Studies Review Editor: Associate Professor David Hundt
Faculty of Arts and Education
Deakin University, Burwood Campus
E: david.hundt@deakin.edu.au

Publications Officer: Dr Georgina Drew
School of Social Sciences
University of Adelaide
E: georgina.drew@adelaide.edu.au

Immediate Past President: Prof. Kent Anderson
University of Western Australia
E: kent.anderson@uwa.edu.au

China Councillor: Associate Professor James Leibold
Politics and Philosophy
La Trobe University
E: j.leibold@latrobe.edu.au

South Asia Councillor: Dr Priya Chacko
Department of Politics and International Studies
University of Adelaide
E: priya.chacko@adelaide.edu.au

Southeast Asia Councillor: Professor Anoma Pieris
Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning
University of Melbourne
E: apieris@unimelb.edu.au

Japan & Korea Councillor: Associate Professor Rebecca Suter
Japanese Studies
University of Sydney
E: rebecca.suter@sydney.edu.au

West, Inner and Central Asia Councillor: Dr David Radford
Hawke Research Institute
University of South Australia
E: david.radford@unisa.edu.au

Postgraduate Representative: Mr Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan
Department of Indonesian Studies
University of Sydney
E: jarrah.sastrawan@sydney.edu.au

Library Representative: Dr Rheny Pulungan
Sir Louis Matheson Library
Monash University
E: rheny.pulungan@monash.edu

Non-voting members:

Editor, Asian Currents: Dr Ellen Kent
Australian National University
E: ellen.kent@anu.edu.au

Special Projects Officer: Dr Amrita Malhi
E: amrita.malhi@anu.edu.au

Asian Studies Review

Wang Gungwu Prize Winner 2019

Terje Toomistu “Embodied Notions of Belonging: Practices of Beauty among Waria in West Papua, Indonesia”, Volume 43, Issue 4 of Asian Studies Review (2019)

Wang Gungwu Prize Winner 2018

Belinda Rina Spagnoletti, Linda Rae Bennett, Michele Kermode, and Siswanto Agus Wilopo, "Moralising Rhetoric and Imperfect Realities: Breastfeeding Promotions and the Experiences of Recently Delivered Mothers in Urban Yogyakarta, Indonesia," 42, no. 1 (2018).

Wang Gungwu Prize Winner 2017

Ian Chalmers, "Countering Violent Extremism in Indonesia: Bringing Back the Jihadists," 41, no. 3 (2017).

Wang Gungwu Prize Winner 2016

Devleena Ghosh, "Burma-Bengal Crossings: Intercolonial Interconnections in Pre-Independence India," 40, no. 2 (2016).

Prize winning articles are available free to access on the journal website.

Latest Books

Women in Asia Series

Women, Work and Care in the Asia-Pacific

Edited by Marian Baird, Michele Ford, Elizabeth Hill
This book provides a comparative analysis of the social, economic, industrial and migration dynamics that structure women’s paid work and unpaid care work experience in the Asia-Pacific region. Each country-focused chapter examines the formal and informal ways in which work and care are managed, the changing institutional landscape, gender relations and fertility concerns, employer and trade union responses and the challenges policy makers face and the consequences of their decisions for working women.

South Asian Series

India and the Anglosphere: Race, Identity and Hierarchy in International Relations

Alexander E Davis
Building on postcolonial and constructivist approaches to international relations, this book argues that the same Eurocentric assumptions about India pervade the foreign policies of the Anglosphere states, international relations theory and the idea of the Anglosphere. The assertion of a shared cultural superiority has long guided the foreign policies of the US, the UK, Canada and Australia, and this has been central to these states’ relationships with postcolonial India.

Southeast Asia Series

Soul Catcher: Java's Fiery Prince Mangkunagara I, 1726-95

M. C. Ricklefs
Mangkunagara I (1726-95) was one of the most flamboyant figures of 18th-century Java. Professor Ricklefs here employs an extraordinary range of sources in Dutch and Javanese—among them Mangkunagara I’s voluminous autobiographical account of his years at war, the earliest autobiography in Javanese so far known—to bring this important figure to life. As he does so, our understanding of Java’s devastating civil war of the mid-18th century is transformed and much light is shed on Islam and culture in Java.

South Asia Series

Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka: Porous Nation

Anoma Pieris
This ambitious multiscalar spatial study of civil war in Sri Lanka offers an intersectional, de-ethnicised analysis of political sovereignty drawn out by the struggle for territory. Based on vital retrospective findings from the five-year postwar period, when wartime hostilities were still festering, it convincingly links ethnonationalism to postnational border politics, marketisation, militarised securitisation and illiberal democracy. This book argues that internecine conflict exposes the implicit violence within nation-state formations; mass human displacements heighten collective and individual ontological insecurity and neoliberalism makes the nation porous in unforeseen ways.