IIAS NEWSLETTER
IIAS Newsletter Regional Editors
(November 2003)
Marjan Boogert, MA – Japan Editor
Marjan earned her undergraduate degree from Leiden University and is presently a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. She focuses on Tokugawa period history.
Her dissertation examines the daimyo elite in Edo, based on a study of ‘Matsudaira Yamato no kami nikki’, the diary of a daimyo who lived in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Netty Bonouvrié, MA– South Asia Editor
n.c.bonouvrie@let.leidenuniv.nl
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
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
Dr Ken Hammond – China Editor
Associate Professor and Department Head in History at New Mexico State University. He received an MA in East Asian Regional Studies in 1989 and completed his PhD in History and East Asian Languages in 1994, both at Harvard University. He has taught at New Mexico State University since 1994.
In 1999 he was a visiting researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences under a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2002-03 he was an Affiliated Fellow at IIAS. Ken was president of the Society for Ming Studies 1999-2001 and has published several articles and essays on Ming intellectual and cultural history, and edited The Human Tradition in Premodern China. He is currently completing a study of the Ming scholar-official Yang Jisheng and his legacy in contemporary China, and is editing the proceedings of the IIAS Worskhop on Wang Shizhen which he organized in Leiden in June 2003.
Kristy Phillips, MA - Asian Art & Cultures EditorKristy 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.
Dr Volker Grabowsky
Dr Volker Grabowsky lectures Southeast Asian history at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. He has specialized on the history and culture of the Tai peoples in northern Thailand and Laos. He worked at the Department of Southeast Asia Studies, Passau University (1990-94) and subsequently joined the Department of Thai and Vietnamese Studies, Hamburg University (1994-96), where he finished his postdoctoral thesis Population and state in Lan Na: a contribution to the demographic history of South East Asia (in German). From 1996 to 1999 he taught traditional Lao literature as a DAAD lecturer at the National University of Laos, Vientiane. He is currently working on ‘traditional Tai polities and state formation in pre-colonial Southeast Asia’. Among his recent publications (together with Andrew Turton) is The Gold and Silver Road of Trade and Friendship: The McLeod and Richardson Diplomatic Missions to Tai States in 1837, Chiang Mai: Silkworm (2003).
grabowsk@uni-muenster.de