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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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Nicholas Farrelly graduated from the ANU with honours in Asian Studies in 2003. After a period as a research assistant, translator and tutor in various parts of the University he travelled to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. In Oxford he completed an MPhil in Development Studies and is currently finalizing his doctoral qualification. He maintains interests in Thai and Burmese politics and in other social and cultural issues across the length and breadth of mainland Southeast Asia. Nicholas is increasingly focused on issues of conflict and development in northeast India. As part of his role at the ANU, jointly funded by the Faculty of Asian Studies, Nicholas teaches the core courses for the Master of Asia-Pacific Studies program. With Andrew Walker he is the co-founder of 'New Mandala'.
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Dr Greg Fealy holds a joint appointment as fellow and senior lecturer 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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Dr Tyrell Haberkorn joins PSC faculty as a Research Fellow. Dr Tyrell Haberkorn graduated from University of North Carolina and completed her MA and Ph.D. at Cornell University, where she graduated in 2007. She held a postdoctoral position in the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Colgate University from 2007 to 2009. She specialises in research on human rights, political violence, social change and sovereignty. Her research interests also include arbitrary detention, comparative histories of state violence, comparative histories of socialism and Southeast Asia (Thailand). Her recent publication include 'An Unfinished Past: The 1974 Land Rent Control Act and Assassination in Northern Thailand' (Critical Asian Studies 41/1, 2009), 'At the limits of imagination: Ajarn Angun Malik and the meanings of politics' (Position: Thai Feminist Review, 2007) and 'Collusion and influence behind the assassinations of human rights defenders in Thailand' (article 2, 2005). She is currently working on various manuscripts to be published in late 2009.
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Professor Paul Hutchcroft joined PSC as the new Head of Department in August 2008. His research interests include state formation and territorial politics, the politics of patronage, political reform and democratic quality, state-society relations, structures of governance, and corruption.
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Dr Tamara Jacka joined the department as a senior fellow in July 2009. Her main research interests are in gender relations and social change in contemporary China; women in rural-urban migration; the Chinese women's movement; approaches to gender and development; and gender, family conflict and suicide.
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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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Dr Andrew Walker joined PSC as a Senior Fellow at the end of June 2009. Andrew graduated in anthropology from the University of Sydney in 1983. He then spent ten years as a public servant and consultant, ending up as a public transport planner in rural New South Wales. He came to ANU in 1993 to do a PhD in anthropology. This resulted in The Legend of the Golden Boat: Regulation Trade and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, China and Burma (1999). Since 2002 he has been working in the Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program (RSPAS, ANU) focusing on environmental management, agricultural transformation and social change in northern Thailand. He co-authored (with Tim Forsyth of the London School of Economics) Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers: The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand (2008) and edited Tai Lands and Thailand: Community and State in Southeast Asia (2009). He is currently writing a book about supernatural, economic and political power based on his fieldwork in a northern Thai village. Andrew is co-convenor (with Nicholas Farrelly) of 'New Mandala' a blog which provides 'anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on mainland southeast Asia'.
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Mr Ken Ward is a Research Associate at PSC, working with Dr Greg Fealy on his ARC research projects. Ken's interest in Indonesian politics arose in the 1960s when he was studying Indonesian and Malayan Studies at Sydney University. Ken graduated in 1970 after completing a thesis on the Partai Muslimin, which was published that year by Cornell University. He did a Master of Arts at Monash University in 1970-72, writing in turn a thesis on the Indonesian Elections of 1971. This appeared as a Monash University monograph in 1974. Ken taught politics at Monash in 1973-74 as a tutor and senior tutor. Although he left the academic world and entered government, Ken maintained his interest in Indonesia and was Indonesia analyst at the Office of National Assessments in 1982-84 and again in 1996-2005. He retired from government service in 2005 and began research on Indonesian politics and particularly Indonesian terrorism, the latter remaining his principal research interest. Ken was appointing Visiting Fellow to PSC in 2009 as part of his role as a Senior Research Fellow on the three-year ARC-funded 'Origins and Development of Terrorism in Indonesia' project.
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