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Dr Edward Aspinall's research has focused on Indonesian politics, especially democratisation and social movements. He is currently working on a book on the separatist conflict in Aceh.
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Dr Greg Fealy holds a joint appointment as research fellow in Indonesian politics in the Department of Political and Social Change, RSPAS and lecturer in Indonesian politics and history in the Faculty of Asian Studies. His main research interests are contemporary Indonesian political developments and Islamic political behaviour and ideology.
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Professor Paul Hutchcroft is head of the department.

Professor Ben Kerkvliet. His teaching and research is on Southeast Asia, especially agrarian politics and state-society relations in the Philippines and Vietnam.
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Dr Hyung-A Kim is a research fellow working on politics and history of modern Korea; politics of state policies and national identity; the mass culture movement (with particular reference to social change through globalisation in Northeast Asia).
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Professor Rikki Kersten has recently joined the department. Her main areas of research interest are: democracy and fascism; debates over war apologies and war guilt in Japan; contemporary Japanese politics and foreign policy; historical and philosophical revisionism.
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Dr Sally Sargeson holds a joint appointment as Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change and the Contemporary China Centre. She currently is researching the local politics of property reforms in rural China, and working on a Ford Foundation-funded project on women's property rights and agency in expanding urban areas of China.
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Dr Luigi Tomba joined the Department in August 2001 and holds a joint position with the Contemporary China Centre. His major research interests since joining ANU have been Chinese contemporary politics and society, labour markets and labour reform, urban politics, white collar workers, neighbourhood politics and governance, housing reform, residential segregation, consumption and social classes. Since 2005 he has been Co-editor, with Andrew Kipnis, of The China Journal.
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