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IIAS Newsletter Regional Editors
(April 2003)Professor Touraj Atabaki - Central Asia Editor
Studied theoretical physics (BSc, MSc) and history at National University of Iran and University of London. Worked at Utrecht University, where he acquired MA and PhD. Holds the endowed chair of “Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia” at the Department of History of the University of Amsterdam. Senior research fellow at the International Institute of Social History.
Visiting fellow at the Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Russia. Visiting senior research fellow, the Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford.
Member of editorial boards of: Journal of Iranian Studies, Journal of Azerbaijani Studies, Review of International Affairs.Main research interest: comparative subaltern history.
Netty Bonouvrié, MA– South Asia Editor
n.c.bonouvrie@let.leidenuniv.nl
Professor Victor van Bijlert – Bengal Studies Editor
Dr Koen De Ceuster – Korea Editor
Assistant Professor at the Centre for Korean Studies at Leiden University. He got his MA in Sino-Japanese Studies in 1986, and his PhD in Japanese Studies (on a Korean subject: ‘From Modernization to Collaboration, the Dilemma of Korean Cultural Nationalism: the Case of Yun Ch’i-ho [1865-1945]’) in 1994, both from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).
Between 1986 and 1990, he stayed at the Academy of Korean Studies (South Korea) as a research student. From September 1990, until leaving for Leiden University in September 1995, he worked as a researcher at the Department of Oriental Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He has published a handful of articles on various aspects of modern Korean nationalism, its introduction and development. He is currently rewriting his PhD dissertation for publication as a book, tentatively titled ‘Moral Rectitude and Political Compromise in Colonial Korea. Portraits of Yun Ch’iho (1865-1945)’. He is an AKSE (Association for Korean Studies in Europe) Council member, and editor of the AKSE Newsletter.
k.de.ceuster@let.leidenuniv.nl
Professor Sandra Evers - Insular Southwest Asia Editor
Sandra J.T.M. Evers is Lecturer of Anthropology at the Free University of Amsterdam. She is specialized in Southwest Indian Ocean Studies, with a particular focus on Madagascar. Dr Evers’ field work and publications examine frontier societies and inequality within the context of globalization, poverty, rural and urban transformations, and sustainable development.
Stephan van Galen, MA – Mainland Southeast Asia Editor
s.e.a.van.galen@let.leidenuniv.nl
Dr J. Thomas Lindblad – Insular Southeast Asia Editor
Thomas Lindblad is associate professor in economic history affiliated with the departments of history and Southeast Asian Studies both at Leiden University. A Swedish-born, he studied economics in the United States and the Netherlands. He is specialized in the modern economic history of Indonesia yet he has also written extensively on the economic history of the wider region of Southeast Asia. His publications include the monographs Between Dayak and Dutch. The economic history of Southeast Kalimantan 1880-1942 (Dordrecht/Providence 1988) and Foreign investment in Southeast Asia in the twentieth century (Macmillan 1998), several edited works, for instance The historical foundations of a national economy in Indonesia, 1890s-1990s (Amsterdam 1996, Indonesian translation 2002) as well as the co-authored textbook The emergence of a national economy. An economic history of Indonesia, 1800-2000 (Allen & Unwin, 2002). At present he is a part-time research fellow at the IIAS working on a project on ‘Indonesianisasi and nationalization: The emancipation and reorientation of the economy and the world of industry and commerce in Indonesia between the 1930s and the 1960s’. j.t.lindblad@let.leidenuniv.nl
Mark Meulenbeld, MA - China Editor
Mark Meulenbeld studied Chinese Languages and Cultures at Leiden University, where he earned an MA in Chinese vernacular literature. After a year of interdisciplinary experiments in the Advanced Masters’ Programme of the CNWS in Leiden, he is currently studying Chinese religious literature of the Ming Dynasty at Princeton University.
Kristy Phillips, MA - Asian Art & Cultures Editor
Kristy is a graduate of the Journalism School (with High Honours) at the University of University of Carleton, Ottawa, Canada. In the Spring of 2000, she completed her MA degree with a concentration in South Asian Art History, and a secondary emphasis on Islamic Art History, at the University of Minnesota, USA. She is enrolled as a PhD student at the University of Minnesota further developing her interests during her MA studies. Her dissertation concerns ‘The Role of National Museums in Post-Independence India’, and other current research includes ‘The Construction of India in the Guise of the Indian Museum, 1875-1915’, ‘“Persian Art”: Its Conception and Consumption in Europe and the United States, 1930-1940’, ‘Vivan Sundaram and the Surrogation Performance in the Victoria Memorial Hall’, and ‘The National Museum of India and the “White Goddess” from Berkeley’. She is fluent in English (native speaker) and French, and has intermediate and basic knowledge respectively of Hindi and Sanskrit. Some at the IIAS may recognize her for her time spent working with the ABIA project up until December 2001. Kristy has moved to San Francisco, USA, in January 2002.
Margarita Winkel, MA - Japan Editor
Margarita Winkel is a graduate from Leiden University in Cultural Anthropology (1986) and in Japanese Language and Culture Studies (1992). Her book Souvenirs from Japan; Japanese photography at the turn of the century on tourist photography at the turn of the nineteenth century, appeared in 1991. At present she is writing a PhD thesis on cultural research in Japan’s early modern period and she teaches anthropology of Japan at the Centre for Japanese Studies at Leiden University. Her main interests are the intellectual and artistic worlds of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century urban Japan as well as the anthropology of contemporary Japanese society and that of other Asian countries in modern times.