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The Selection Committee is pleased to announce that fellowships have been awarded to Amporn Jirattikorn and Ngo Thi Ngan Binh. Congratulations to both. The committee had a difficult time deciding among the excellent applications and thanks to everyone who applied.
Amporn Jirattikorn
PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Texas (Austin), will come to the ANU for six months to work on her dissertation 'Shan Noises: Transnational Migrants, Popular Music and Nation of the Shan of Thailand'.
Ngo Thi Ngan Binh
PhD candidate in anthropology at Cornell University, will come to the ANU for seven months; her dissertation is on 'Manhood and the Market: Reconstituting Masculinity in Contemporary Ho Chi Minh City'.
Doctoral
DUC, Dao The
PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Washington.
Host area: Department of Anthropology, RSPAS.
Period: October 2004 - August 2005.
Research Topic: Pilgrimage and Religious Resurgence in Contemporary
Vietnam.
MUSIKAWONG, Sudarat
PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Host area: Faculty of Asian Studies.
Period: Sept 2004 - February 2005.
Research Topic: Mediating Memories of the 1970s in Thai Cultural Production.
Postdoctoral
GAYNOR, Jennifer
PhD candidate in anthropology and history at the University of Michigan,
AnnArbor.
Host area: Department of Anthropology RSPAS.
Period: January - November 2005.
Research Topic: Liquid territory: Sama Subordination on the Edges of
Governance.
WELSH, Bridget
Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Host area: Department of Political and Social Change, RSPAS.
Period: September 2004 - February 2005.
Research Topic: Mob Justice: Keroyokan in Indonesia.
Doctoral
BARRETT, Tracy, doctoral fellow. Tracy is PhD candidate in history
at Cornell University.
Host Area: Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of
Pacific and Asian Studies.
Period: August 2003-March 2004.
Research Topic: Chinese Organisations in French Indochina, 1870-1945.
LAMBRECHT, Curtis, doctoral fellow. Curt is a PhD candidate
in political science at Yale University.
Host Area: Department of Political and Social Change, Research School
of Pacific and Asian Studies.
Period: June 2003-April 2004.
Research Topic: Violence and the State in Burma.
PATERSON, Lorraine, doctoral fellow. Lorraine is a PhD candidate
in history at Yale University.
Host Area: Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of
Pacific and Asian Studies.
Period: October 2003 - May 2002
Research Topic: Tenacious Texts: Vietnam, China and Radical Cultural
Intersections, 1890-1930.
YODER, Laura S. Meitzner, doctoral fellow. Laura is a PhD candidate
in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University.
Host Area: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and
Asian Studies.
Period: November 2003- April 2004.
Research Topic: Contesting Custom: Sifting the Legacies of Land and
Natural Resource Claims in East Timor.
Posdoctoral
VALVERDE, Dr Caroline Kieu Linh, postdoctoral fellow. Caroline
obtained her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Host Area: The Centre for Cross Cultural Research.
Period: April - December 2004.
Research Topic: Making Transnational Viet Nam: Vietnamese American Community-Viet
Nam Linkages through Money, Music and Modems.
ZABIELSKIS, Peter, postdoctoral fellow. Peter is a PhD candidate
in cultural anthropology at New York University.
Host Area: School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts.
Period: September 2003-June 2004.
Research Topic: House, Self and Society: The Cultural Space of Identity
in the Multi-ethnic City of George Town, Penang, Malaysia.
Doctoral
BELLOWS, Laura, doctoral fellow. Laura is a PhD candidate in
anthropology and gender studies at the University of Virginia.
Host Area: Gender Relations Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian
Studies.
Period: Nine to twelve months.
Research Topic: Changing Tradition: An Ethno-anatomy of Contemporary
Balinese Bodies and Sexualities.
HANH, Duong Binh, doctoral fellow. She is a PhD candidate in
anthropology at the University of Washington.
Host Area: Anthropology Department, Research School of Pacific and Asian
Studies.
Period: Five months, beginning late December 2002 or early January 2001.
Research Topic: From Local to Global: Representation and Ethnic Relations
in Vietnam.
NISHIZAKI, Yoshinori, doctoral fellow. A PhD candidate in political
science at the University of Washington.
Host Area: Faculty of Asian Studies.
Period: Seven months
Research Topic: The Weapon of the Strong: Ideological Domination of
Thailand's Rural Patrimonial Democrat.
Post-Doctoral
PEDERSEN, Lene, postdoctoral fellow. Lene has a PhD in anthropology
from the University of Southern California and is currently at SUNY,
Alfred, NY.
Host Area: School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts.
Period: Ten months.
Research Topic: Constructions of Caste, Power, and Hierarchy in Bali:
A Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Colonialism on Traditional Elites.
THAWNGHMUNG, Ardeth Maung, postdoctoral fellow. Ardeth has a
PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
where she is currently teaching part time.
Host Area: Department of Political and Social Change, Research School
of Pacific and Asian Studies.
Period: Seven months.
Research Topic: Paddy Farmers and the State: The Political Basis of
Legitimacy in Rural Burma.
Doctoral
GOODMAN, Thomas, University of Hawaii.
Host Area: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts.
Period: For 10 months.
Research Topic: Sosolat Trade Network of Eastern Indonesia.
Post-Doctoral
BOELLSTORFF, Dr Tom, Department of Anthropology, University
of California, Irvine
Host Area: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and
Asian History.
Period: July 2001 for 5 months.
Research Topic: The Gay Archipelago Postcolonial Sexual Subjectivities
in Indonesia.
Email: tboellst@uci.edu
STASCH, Dr Rupert, Department of Anthropology, Reed College,
Portland, Oregon.
Host Area: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and
Asian History. Arriving: August 2001 for 10 months.
Research Topic: Alterity, Mourning, and Festivity among Korowai of West
Papua/Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
Email: rupert.stasch@reed.edu
TRAN, Dr Angie, Social and Behavioural Sciences Center, California
State University, Monterey Bay.
Host Area: Department of Political and Social Change, Research School
of Pacific and Asian History.
Period: June 2001 for 3 months.
Research Topic: Prospects and Challenges of Sustainable Development
Growth and Gender Equity in the Vietnamese Textile and Garment Industries.
Email: angi_tran@monterey.edu
Postdoctoral
James Anderson returned to his home university (History, University
of North Carolina at Greensboro) in August. During his eight month fellowship,
he completed a draft of his book manuscript on the significance of the
Nung Tri Cao rebellion in the Sino-Vietnamese frontier. At the University
of North Carolina, he has teaching relief until the January 2002 in
order to finish revising the manuscript.
Email: jamesa_27410@yahoo.com
or jaander2@uncg.edu
Christopher Duncan used his eight month fellowship to edit a book,
which has been submitted for publication, and complete eight chapters
of his book on Christian conversion and ethnic identity among the Tobelo
people of Halmahera, Indonesia. He plans to complete that book during
a fellowship he has recently accepted in the United Kingdom.
Email: Duncan.Christopher@NMNH.SI.EDU
Doctoral
LeeRay Costa, during a six month fellowship, finished her dissertation
and returned to the University of Hawaii to successfully defend it.
Her topic concerns gender and modernity discourses among NGOs in northern
Thailand. Since the fall 2001 semester, she has been an Assistant Professor
in Anthropology and Women's Studies, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia.
Email: lcosta@hollins.edu
Jonathan London made substantial progress on his dissertation during
his six month fellowship. In April he returned to the Department of
Sociology, University of Wisconsin at Madison to finish writing about
the state, society, and social welfare in Vietnam, particularly in Quang
Nam-Da Nang, during the 1990s.
Email: london@ssc.wisc.edu
Eric Ratliff also used his five month fellowship to make significant
progress writing a dissertation on development and desire in the Philippine
sex industry. He is currently in the Philippines although his academic
home is the Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.
Email: earatliff@mail.utexas.edu
Meredith Weiss had a six month fellowship and nearly finished her dissertation
on civil society and coalition building during Malaysia's political
reform process of the 1980s-1990s. After returning to Yale University,
she finished and submitted. During 2001-2000, she is a lecturer in that
university's Department of Political Science.
Email: meredith.weiss@yale.edu
Post-Doctoral
Dr Jacqueline A. Siapno (University of California-Irvine) finished
a book manuscript on contemporary history and politics in Aceh. It will
be published by Curzon Press in 2001.
Email: j.siapno@politics.unimelb.edu.au
Dr Kim Ninh (Asia Foundation, San Francisco) also completed her book
on the intellectuals and their political activities in northern Vietnam
during the 1940s-1960s. The University of Michigan Press will publish
it in 2001.
Email: KNinh@asiafound.org
Doctoral
One of the 1999 Doctoral Fellows, Mr Peter Lape finished his PhD. at
Brown University in May 2000, and is now working at the University of
Washington.
Email: plape@u.washington.edu
The other Doctoral Fellow, Mr Evan Winnet, has returned to Stanford
University where he is finishing a dissertation on contemporary drama
in Indonesia.
Email: evanwinet@hotmail.com