Alumni Southeast Asia

Field:History
Country of origin: USA
Period of stay at IIAS: June - July 2008
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: University of Hawai’i
Research topic: The Localization of Christianity as a "Minority" Religion in Southeast Asia before 1900
Field:Early modern Southeast Asian history, with specialization on Indonesia and Malaysia
Country of origin: USA
Period of stay at IIAS: 29 May - 28 August 2008
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Department of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Research topic: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period
Field:Disaster Studies
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 September 2004 – 31 August 2008
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: Professor of Modern History, Department of History, University of Hull, UK
Research topic: Cultures of Coping: Community and Natural Hazard in the Philippines
Field:Art History
Country of origin: Great Britain
Period of stay at IIAS: 10-17 July 2006; 15 March to 15 April 2007
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Research topic: (a) Early textile collection from Eastern Indonesia in the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden; (b) Photographic collections from Flores and the Solor Islands (Eastern Indonesia) in the KITLV.

Birgit Abels

Field: Cultural Musicology
Country of origin: Germany
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/10/2007 - 01/02/2010
Status: Affiliated Fellow, sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Home institute: University of Amsterdam, IIAS
Research topic: Of Islam, Ancestors, and Translocality in Borderlands: Identity Negotiation and the Performing Arts among the Bajau Laut of Southeast Asia

Field:Social Anthropology, Southeast Asian Studies
Country of origin: Singapore
Period of stay at IIAS: 25 November 2008 – 20 January 2009
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: University of Copenhagen, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies
Research topic: The Gift of Territory: The Orang Suku Laut of Indonesia
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Field:Literary/historical studies, Indonesia, Bali
Country of origin: Australia
Period of stay at IIAS: 15 November-20 December 2004
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Australia
Research topic: A Literary History of Bali
Field:Astrology
Country of origin: Malaysia
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 April – 30 April 2008
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Research topic: Malay Astrology: A Study based on Manuscripts
Field:Universiteit Leiden
Country of origin: Belgium
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 January 2007 – 31 December 2007
Status: Affiliated fellow, sponsored by Gonda
Home institute: Universiteit Leiden
Research topic: Candi, Space and Landscape. A Study of Dristribution, Orientation and Spatial Organization of Central Javanese Temple Remains
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Field:Southeast Asian Studies
Country of origin: Germany
Period of stay at IIAS: 10 July - 10 August 2008
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: University of Khartoum
Research topic: Development of Islamic political parties in Post-Soeharto Indonesia