Kathryn Robinson, BA (Hons) (Sydney), PhD (ANU)
Professor, Department of Anthropology

Email: kathryn.robinson@anu.edu.au

Research Interests

Indonesia and Southeast Asia; development; gender; traditional architecture; medical anthropology; Islam; Internet mediated social relations; cross-cultural marriages.

Key Publications

• 2007. Gender, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia, RoutledgeCurzon (Forthcoming)
• 2007. Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion. London: Palgrave (in press).
• 2006. 'Idioms of Vernacular Humanism: The West and the East'. In 'East Indies, West Indies: Comparative Archipelagos'. Special issue. Anthropological Forum 16 (3):241-55.
• 2002. Women in Indonesia : Gender Equity and Development. Indonesia Assessment Series. Singapore: ISEAS Press (ed. with Sharon Bessell).
• 2004 . 'Chandra Jayawardena and the Ethical "Turn" in Australian Anthropology'. Critique of Anthropology 24(4):381-404.
• 1986. Stepchildren of Progress: The Political Economy of Development in an Indonesian Mining Town. Albany NY: State University of New York Press.

Career Highlights

Senior Research Consultant, Social Service Research Training Centre, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia (1984-85); Consultant, AusAID, Asian Development Bank.