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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:History of modern India
Country of origin: India
Period of stay at IIAS: October – December 2007
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research topic: Meanings of Freedom: Decolonization and Politics of Transition in West Bengal, 1947-52

Chan-Liang WU

Field: Chinese intellectual history
Country of origin: Taiwan
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/09/2009 - 01/09/2010
Status: IIAS Professor, holder of the European Chair of Chinese Studies; Sponsored by IIAS, BICER and the Ministry of Education Taiwan
Home institute: National Taiwan University
Research topic: Zhu Xi and Sung Neo-Confucianism, Counter-Enlightenment in Modern China.

Field:Politics/History
Country of origin: Malaysia, Japan
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 December 2006 to 1 March 2007
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: Hiroshima City University
Research topic: The Re-organization of Islam in Cambodia
Field:Urban History
Country of origin: Great Britain
Period of stay at IIAS: 7 May 2009 - 23 July 2009
Status: Affiliated fellow, stationed at Branch Office Amsterdam
Home institute: Centre for Metropolitan History, University of London
Research topic: City of Malacca
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Field:Early Chinese History; Confucian Classics
Country of origin: China
Period of stay at IIAS:
Status: Associate Professor
Home institute: Department of History, Peking University
Research topic: Study of Confucian Classics: Shangshu studies in 17-18 centuries
Field:History
Country of origin: USA
Period of stay at IIAS: 21 July 2009 - 14 August 2009
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Wake Forest University
Research topic: Tea in Nineteenth-Century Global Trade Networks
Field:History
Country of origin: Indonesia
Period of stay at IIAS: The Beginning of August till the end of October 2007
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: State Islamic University (UIN) Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau, Indonesia
Research topic: An Analysis of Intellectual Genealogy and Islamic Though in the Nineteenth Century Malay Riau Kingdom

Irina Morozova

Field: Modern History of Central and Inner Asia
Country of origin: Russia
Period of stay at IIAS: 24/04/2003 - 31/12/2010
Status: Affiliated fellow; sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
Home institute: Leiden University & University of Amsterdam
Research topic: The Transformation of Political Elites in Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia, 1924-2007: A Comparative Historical Analysis

Karuna Sharma

Field: History (Medieval India)
Country of origin: India
Period of stay at IIAS: 02/01/2006 - 02/01/2007
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute:
Research topic: From Reverence to Devaluation: Women and Labour in Medieval India c. 1200 - 1800

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Field:Early Javanese history, Indonesian epigraphy, Austronesian, Indo-European, Vedic and Avestan studies
Country of origin: Russia
Period of stay at IIAS: 9 January - 9 April 2006
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: Australian National University
Research topic: The Evolution of Austronesian Social Terminology and Early State Formation in Nusantara
Field:Social Anthropology, Folk Religion, Tourism
Country of origin: China
Period of stay at IIAS: June 20, 2007 – September 17, 2007
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Chinese Academy of Social Science
Research topic: Historical Memory and Identity: A Historical Anthropology Study of Manzu
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Field:Classical Indian Philosophy, different problems of ontology and epistemology
Country of origin: Russia
Period of stay at IIAS: 2 September - 30 October 2006; 10 January -10 March 2007
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Institute of philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
Research topic: Project "Indian Thinkers on Direct and Indirect Perception. Anthology of Texts with Introduction and Notes"
Field:Japanese History
Country of origin: Japan
Period of stay at IIAS: 20 August- 20 September 2008
Status: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Home institute: Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo
Research topic: The Start of the Dutch-Japanese “Contract-Trade” in the Eighteenth Century
Field:History and Culture of Tibet and the Indian Himalayas
Country of origin: New Zealand
Period of stay at IIAS: January 1995 – May 2009
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: Ex-SOAS, UCL
Research topic: History of the Kailas Pilgrimage
Field:Diplomatic and Political History
Country of origin: Osaka, Japan
Period of stay at IIAS: October 3, 2006 - October 2, 2007
Status: Affiliate Fellow
Home institute: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics Kobe University, Japan
Research topic: Prewar European-Japanese relations, 1931-41
Field:Political science and History
Country of origin: Kyrgyzstan
Period of stay at IIAS: January 2009
Status: Affiliated Fellow sponsored by the Open Society Institute
Home institute: International Strategic Research Institute under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic
Research topic: Formation of Political Elite in Kyrgyzstan
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Field:Indian history
Country of origin: Russia
Period of stay at IIAS: 3 May 2009 – 14 June 2009
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS
Research topic: Early Medieval North Indian Copper-plate Land Grants
Field:History
Country of origin: India
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 October 2008 - 27 December 2008
Status: Affiliated Fellow, sponsored by the J. Gonda Foundation
Home institute: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Research topic: Recovery and Reception of Classical Tamil Literature in 19th and early 20th century Colonial Tamilnadu

Ya-pei KUO

Field: History
Country of origin: Taiwan
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/02/2009 - 31/03/2010
Status: Affiliated Fellow, sponsored by NWO
Home institute:
Research topic: Cultural Wars in Early Twentieth Century China