The IIAS distinguishes between seven categories of fellows:
1. research fellows
2. senior visiting fellows
3. professorial fellows
4. visiting exchange fellows
5. affiliated fellows
6. ESF fellows
7. Dutch seniors
More detailed information can be obtained via the IIAS secretariat: +31-071 - 527.22.27. As it is one of the policies of the IIAS to stimulate (inter)national exchange, we will gladly mediate in establishing contacts and availability in delivering lectures, organizing seminars, etc.
1. Research Fellows (post PhD, <40 years)
a. individual
b. attached to a programme, i.e. 'Changing Lifestyles in Asia'; 'Cultural Traditions in
Endangered Minorities of South and Southeast Asia'; 'International Social Organization in East and Southeast
Asia: Qiaoxiang Ties in the Twentieth Century').
They are attached to the IIAS for 1 to 3 years, carrying out independent research and fieldwork,
and organizing an international seminar once per year.
At present the IIAS is host to ten research fellows. Below you will find an overview of their names and research
topics:
Dr Cynthia G.H. Chou (Singapore): Dr Chou is working within the programme Cultural
Traditions in Endangered Minorities of South and Southeast Asia on 'Money, Magic and Fear: exchange and
identity amongst the Orang Suku Laut (sea nomads) and other groups in Riau and Batam, Indonesia'.
Until 1 June 1997
Dr Will A.G. Derks (the Netherlands): Dr Derks' topic is 'The Search for Malayness' within the
collaborative framework of Changing Lifestyles.
Until 1 July 1997
Dr Michel Hockx (the Netherlands): Dr Hockx is carrying out research on 'Literary Societies and
the Literary Field in Pre-war Republican China (1911-1937)'.
Until 1 August 1997
Dr John Knight (United Kingdom): Dr Knight was selected as a new individual research fellow.
He is specialized in Japan Studies and will work on 'A Social
Anthropological Study of Contemporary Japanese Forestry: Commercial and Environmental
Perspectives'
Until 1 September 1999
Dr Prabhu P. Mohapatra (India): Dr Mohapatra is studying 'The Making of a Coolie: recovering
the experience of indentured Indian migrants in the Caribbean sugar plantations, 1838-1918'.
Until - 16 September 1996
Dr Shoma Munshi (India): Dr Munshi is working on the topic 'The Representation of Women
in Media, Both Print and Visual, in India' within the framework of the programme Changing Lifestyles.
Until 1 April 1997
Dr Jeroen C.M. Peeters (the Netherlands): Dr Peeters cooperates with other fellows in the
programme Changing Lifestyles, investigating 'Islamic Youth Groups in Indonesia: globalization and
universalism in a local context'.
Until 1 May 1997
Dr Angela Schottenhammer (Germany): Started mid-April 1996 with 'History of the Overseas
Trade of Quanzhou in the Chinese Province Fujian from the 10th to the early 14th centuries' as an individual
fellow.
Until 15 April 1998
Dr Michael P. Vischer (Switzerland): Dr Vischer, working within the programme Cultural
Traditions in Endangered Minorities of South and Southeast Asia, is undertaking research in 'Origin Structures:
a comparative socio-cosmological study'.
Until 1 February 1997
Dr Yong Zhang (People's Republic of China): Dr Zhang's research topic is 'Taxation Laws in
East Asia'.
Until 15 September 1997
expected:
One vacancy (for three years, within the third research programme 'International Social Organization in East and Southeast Asia: Qiaoxiang Ties in the Twentieth Century') is expected to be filled by the end of August 1996.
The IIAS is saying farewell to Dr Jan Houben (departure: 1 July), taking up an NWO fellowship to start research on the three-year project 'Theory and Practice of the Pravargya Ritual: Developments in the Vedic and Post-Vedic periods'. Dr Houben will be stationed at the Kern Institute of Leiden University, and he will remain affiliated to the IIAS, Dr Marijke Klokke (departure: 1 July), continuing two part-time jobs with the Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania, and the University Library), and Dr Deborah Tooker (departure: 1 August, continuing her job with Le Moyne College, Syracuse, USA). We wish them all the best in their future careers, and want to thank them for the valuable contributions they have made to the Institute.
2. Senior Visiting Fellows (post-PhD)
The IIAS offers senior scholars the possibility to engage in research work in the Netherlands. The period can
vary from 1 to 4 months. The IIAS will be host to several senior visiting fellows in the period 15 August - 15
November 1996:
Dr Deepak Kumar (India)
Field of research: Indian colonial history
Proposed research: 'Science and Colonization: a comparative study of the Netherlands Indies and
British India, 1900-1945'
1 May - 1 September 1996
Prof. Dharma Kumar (India)
Field of research: Economic, social and cultural history
Proposed research: 'Trade as a Variable in Determining Lifestyles: Indian merchants in the Indian
Ocean Trade'
15 June - 31 August 1996
Dr Gwyn R. Campbell (South Africa)
Field of research: Malagasy / Indian Ocean history
Proposed research: 'The Origins of the Malagasy'
1 July - 1 October 1996
Dr Dilip Chandra (India)
Field of research: socio-politics
Proposed research: 'The Role of Islam in Contemporary Indonesia - an alternative perspective'
1 September 1996 - 1 January 1997
Dr Karin Kapadia (Norway/India)
Field of research: anthropology
Proposed research: writing of her book with the tentative title: 'Gender, Bonded Labour and Rural
Industry in South India'
1 October 1996 - 1 February 1997
Dr Tej R. Kansakar (Nepal)
Field of research: linguistics
Proposed research: 'The Grammar of Tantrakhyana - a classical Newari Text of the early 16th
century'
7 October - 15 November 1996
3. Professorial Fellows
The IIAS assists in mediating between universities in the Netherlands and Research Institutes in Asia, inviting
established scholars (minimum requirement: assistant professor level) to share their expertise with Dutch
scholars, by being affiliated to Dutch universities for a period of one to two years.
The IIAS has assisted in mediating between the University of Ramkhamhaeng, Thailand, and the Leiden
University. Dr Archara Pengpanich (an associate professor at the University of Ramkhamhaeng)
arrived in the Netherlands in January 1995. She is offering courses in Thai language and culture for two years
at the universities of both Amsterdam and Leiden.
Prof. Abdul Wahab bin Ali of the University of Malaya will be resident in the Netherlands from
1 May 1995 to 31 May 1997 as guest professor in Malayan Studies.
4. Visiting Exchange Fellows (post-PhD level)
The IIAS has signed several Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with foreign research institutes, thus
providing scholars with an opportunity to participate in international exchanges. The Nordic Institute for Asian
Studies (NIAS) in Copenhagen and the Australian National University (ANU) regularly send
scholars to the Netherlands to do research for a period from 1 to 6 months. In exchange, Dutch scholars can
apply to be sent abroad to the MoU institutes of the IIAS.
Close cooperation with the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) and the Australian National University
(ANU) has resulted in a regular exchange of scholars. Contacts with Vietnamese universities will become more
regular in the near future, as it is hoped others will follow. The IIAS will be host to the following scholars in
the coming period:
ANU, Canberra
Dr Baogang He (University of Tasmania)
'The Politics of National Identity and Democratization in East Asia'
5 July - 5 October 1996
Dr Alison Murray (ANU, RSPAS)
'Cultural practice among the Kalinga of Luzon and the Kenyah of Kalimantan, Indonesia'
1 August 1996 - 1 February 1997
Dr Helen Creese (ANU, RSPAS)
'Balinese Chronicle Traditions'
3 to 4 months at the end of '96
NIAS, Copenhagen
Dr Bert Edström (Center for Pacific Asia Studies, Stockholm University)
project title: "Swedish-Japanese Relations, 1869-1996"
irregular visits to the Netherlands
Dr Mason Hoadley (Institute for East and Southeast Asian Languages, Lund University)
'The Feudalization of Central Java: A question of ownership, 1771-1812'
6 - 21 October 1996
Dr Geoffrey Robinson (Center for Pacific Asian Studies, Stockholm University)
'The Origins of Political Violence: rethinking the role of foreign powers in Indonesia's 1965 coup'
26 October - 16 November 1996
Dr Paulos Huang (Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Helsinki)
'Chu State Ethnology and Culture: The earliest Chinese Bamboo Slips Classics'
18 November - 13 December 1996
ÖAW, Vienna
Dr Max Nihom, finishing his book with the preliminary title 'Studies in Indo-Indonesian Saivism'
1 August - 1 December 1996
SASS, Shanghai
Prof. Huang Renwei (Shanghai Municipal Center for International Studies)
'The International Economic Environment of Asian-Pacific Area and the Competitiveness of China in the 21st
Century'
1 October - 20 December 1996
5. Affiliated Fellows (post-PhD level).
The IIAS can offer office facilities to fellows who have found their own financial support and who would like
to do research in the Netherlands for a particular period.
The IIAS is host to the following affiliates:
Dr Alex McKay (research award granted by the British Leverhulme Trust)
The History of the Multi-Faith Pilgrimage to Mount Kailas in Western Tibet
15 November 1995 - 15 November 1996
Prof. Chen Xiaoming (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, supported by the
Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences)
'Pluralistic Difficulties: contemporary Chinese culture in a transition period'.
15 December 1995 - 15 December 1996
Dr Kathinka R. Sinha-Kerkhoff (Asian development Research Institute, India) Affiliated to the
IIAS for the duration of the WOTRO-sponsored project 'Globalization and the Construction of Communal
Identities' until October 1999.
Dr Hans Hägerdal (University of Lund, grant from the Swedish fund 'Knut och Alice
Wallenbergs stiftelse'), collecting materials and ideas for a deeper study of colonial discourses and ideologies
in modern European history.
1 September 1996 - 1 September 1997
Dr Ian Kerr (University of Manitoba, Canada)
'Historical Research on Colonial India'
22 September - 27 October 1996
Dr Carine Guerassimoff (Lavoisier Foundation, French Ministry of Foreign relations)
'Chinese Migrations and Security in Asia Pacific Region'
1 October 1996 - 1 October 1997
6. ESF fellows
Selected by the Asia Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF-AC) and attached to the
IIAS.
Dr Françoise Delvoye (France)
"The Case of Nayak Bakhshu, Court-Musician to Sultan Bahadur Shah Gujurati (r. 1526-1537)" within the
framework of 'Social and Literary History of Court Musicians in Western India, 14th-18th century'.
She is employed by the ESF-AC for one year until 6 November 1996
Dr Joachim Mittag (Germany)
'Sources of Chinese Historiography and Historical Thinking from the beginnings to the Present'.
He will be employed via the ESF-AC and IIAS per 01-10-1996 until 01-10-1998, and will be stationed at the
Sinological Institute in Leiden.
7. Dutch seniors
Max. two Dutch seniors per year can apply for this position of max. 6 months each at the IIAS. A Dutch senior
should have obtained a PhD degree more than five years ago, and be academically very productive. The stay
at IIAS (not abroad!) can be used for further research. Funds are made available to finance the temporary
replacement for teaching activities of a senior at his/her home university.
Dr Lloyd L. Haft (Sinological Institute, Leiden University)
'Aspects of the Twentieth-Century Sonnet'
1 August 1996 - 1 February 1997
Dr Wim van Zanten (CA/SNWS, Leiden University)
rewriting a proposal 'Performing Arts in Asia: Traditions and Institutions'
1 July - 1 October 1996 (2.5 months)