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tansen@iseas.edu.sg |
Tansen Sen is Associate Professor of Asian history and religons at Baruch College, The City University of New York. Currently he is visiting senior research fellow at the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. He received his MA from Peking University and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He has special scholarly interests in Buddhism, Sino-Indian relations, Indian Ocean trade, and Silk Road archeology. He has done extensive research in India, China, and Japan with grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Japan Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600-1400 (University of Hawai’i Press, 2003). He has co-edited China at the Crossroads: A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Victor H. Mair (special volume of Asia Major, vol. 19, issues 1-2, 2006) and guest edited a special issue of China Report (December 2007) on the connections between Kolkata (India) and China. He is currently working on a monograph that examines cross-cultural trade in Asia during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, a collaborative project on the Southern Silk Road, and creating a Web site to archive the history and experiences of the Chinese community in India. |
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Geoff Wade is a historian with interests in Sino-Southeast Asian historical interactions and comparative historiography. He has worked on a range of other related issues including early Islam in Southeast Asia, Chinese expansions, Asian commercial networks, Chinese textual references to Southeast Asia and the Cold War in Southeast Asia. His online database, Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu: An Open Access Resource (http://epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/), provides in English translation 3,000+ references to Southeast Asia as extracted from the Ming imperial annals, while his most recent edited work China and Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2009) comprises a 6-volume survey of seminal works on Southeast Asia-China interactions. |
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jayati@iseas.edu.sg |
Jayati Bhattacharya is a Visiting Research Fellow at the ISEAS , working on modern business history with special focus on South and Southeast Asia . She has a Ph.D from the Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi , India on the nexus between business communities and nationalist politics in India in the period of the national movement. She is at present working on the Indian business communities in Singapore. The research work attempts to situate the ethnic Indian business communities amongst the larger framework of the mosaic populace of Singapore to bring about continuity through generations into the context of the present day socio-economic order. Jayati has been fascinated by the business interactions between the different ethnic communities, which has enthused her to take up comparative studies, especially between the Chinese and the Indian business networks in Singapore which may later be extended to other parts of South East Asia . On a similar note, she is also keen to explore the various nuances of the family business networks between the two communities. At ISEAS, she has also been involved with the coordination, along with her colleagues, of a number of conferences and workshops dealing with historical and contemporary issues. One such workshop recently held was involved with the burning issue of the "Oil Palm Controversy" (March 2-4, 2009). Jayati is also involved in co-editing the publication of the proceedings of the workshop. Jayati had earlier worked as a Lecturer at Loreto College , Darjeeling in India and as a Guest Lecturer at the Qingdao University in Peoples’ Republic of China. |
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lucyliu@iseas.edu.sg |
Ms Liu Xi, Lucy currently conducts research on “Kang You Wei’s perceptions about India and the implication on China’s reform”. Her research interest is on intellectual interactions between China and India and their influence on policy making. Apart from her own research project, her work in the centre also includes administrative responsibilities such as organizing workshops, conferences and editing newsletters etc. Prior to joining the centre, Lucy pursued her Master Degree in Public Policy in Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS. She studied International Relations for her undergraduate degree in Fudan University, Shanghai. |
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angela@iseas.edu.sg |
Angela Faye Oon is a research associate at the Centre
who is currently creating a web project on Rabindranath Tagore. The
project will focus on his visits to East and Southeast Asia and include
a searchable annotated bibliography of his works and translations,
as well as studies of the man and his oeuvre. She also maintains the
NSC website. |
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Prasenjit Duara is Visiting Professorial Fellow at ISEAS; Raffles Professor of the Humanities and Director of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore and Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books on Chinese and East Asian history including Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (1988), which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS. His other books are Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (2003), Rescuing History from the Nation (1995), The Global and the Regional in China’s Nation-Formation , (Routledge 2009) and an edited volume on Decolonization (Routledge, 2004). His work has been widely translated into Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Duara has also contributed to volumes on historiography and historical thought including “Transnationalism and the Challenge to National Histories,” in Re-thinking American History in a Global Age , ed. Thomas Bender (2002). At present he is working on Religion and Citizenship in Asia and Hong Kong during the Cold War. |
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Professor John Miksic is Associate Professor in the Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore. Born 1946 in Rochester, New York, Dr Miksic studied at Dartmouth (B.A.), Ohio University (M.A.) and Cornell University (PhD). As a student he joined archaeological expeditions to northern Canada and Honduras, but over the last 40 years he has been based in Southeast Asia, conducting archaeological and historical investigations in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Burma and Cambodia. He has conducted major excavations at 15 sites in Singapore, bringing to light details of 14th-century life here. He is now engaged in organizing exhibitions for the 40th anniversary of the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, and the link between Singapore and Bengkulu, jointly organized by the national archives of Singapore and Indonesia. He is
a widely-published author with key works including: Archaeological
research on the "Forbidden Hill" of Singapore : excavations at Fort Canning (1985); Borobudur : golden tales
of the Buddhas (1990); Old Javanese Gold (1990); Earthenware in Southeast
Asia (2003); Early Singapore 1300s-1819: Evidence in maps, texts
and artefacts (ed. with Cheryl-Ann Low (2004); and Historical Dictionary
of Ancient Southeast Asia (2007). His most recent publication is
a translation of Denys Lombard’s “Jardins a Java” (Gardens in Java),
issued by the National Centre for Archaeological Research in Jakarta.
Items in press include book chapters on Buddhism in Srivijaya, and
a book on 25 years of Singaporean archaeology, to be published by
the National Heritage Board. |
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areid@iseas.edu.sg |
Anthony Reid Anthony Reid (Professorial Fellow) is an historian , trained in New Zealand and at Cambridge, and now again based at the Australian National University after serving as founding Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA (1999-2002) and of the Asia Research Institute at NUS, Singapore (2002-7). The 30+ books he has written or edited chiefly concern the history of Southeast Asia, or the way it fits into broader patterns of world history. More specific interests are in Sumatra, Sulawesi, Sabah, and economic and religious history. His most recent books are: Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and political identity in Southeast Asia (Cambridge UP, 2010); Negotiating Asymmetry: China’s Place in Asia (co-edited 2009); Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia (co-edited, 2008); and The Chinese Pacific Diaspora, c. 1400-1940 (Selected readings, 2008). However his most-read work is the 2-volume Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, c.1450-1680 (Yale UP,1988-93), now also available in Chinese as well as Indonesian, Thai and Japanese translations. |
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jayani@iseas.edu.sg |
Jayani Bonnerjee is a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London. Her research engages with everyday lived spaces of Calcutta’s Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities through a focus on ideas of home, identity, belonging, cosmopolitanism and nostalgia, connecting the communities in the city as well as over diaspora in London and Toronto. She has wider research interests in postcolonial urbanism in Asia and critical geographies of diaspora. At the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre she will work on spaces of encounter in the city within the comparative diasporas programme. |
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LU Wan Wan (路弯弯) Lu Wan Wan is an undergraduate student at Yale University, Class of 2012. She majors in History of Art and is interested in the art of film making, as well as Buddhism and Buddhist art. Combining these two interests, she is currently working on a documentary video project related to Buddhism in Singapore, focusing on the redefinition and modernization of Buddhism within the young Chinese Singaporean community. |
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Lim Chen Sian Lim Chen Sian majored in Archaeology and Finance at Boston University and obtained his MA in Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is a familiar face in the local heritage scene and is involved in archaeological and heritage related work in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Egypt. Previously, he was head of the Research & Education Section at the Preservation of Monuments Board, and a Visiting Research Affiliate with Asia Research Institute NUS. He is currently also a Visiting Affiliate with the Southeast Asian Studies Programme NUS. His interests include the archaeology of colonial period (post-European contact) in Southeast Asia; material culture trends over the past millennium; settlement development; archaeological legislation; and public archaeology. Some of his recent projects include the excavations at the National Art Gallery Singapore; Banten Lama West Java; Kota Rentang Sumatra; Cot Me Aceh; Fort Serapong Singapore; and the Sentosa Integrated Resort Singapore. At the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, he will be undertaking
archaeological investigations on Buddhist period coastal and riverine
settlements in Sumatra. Other major projects for this year includes
the archaeological investigations at the National Art Gallery site
(former Supreme Court and City Hall) and the Victoria Concert Hall
in Singapore, and the continuation of the multi-year project with
Boston University and Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Arkeologi
Nasional Indonesia (National Centre for Archaeology) at Banten Lama
West Java. |
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Thomas Borchert is a Visiting Research Fellow at NSC and an Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Vermont in the United States. He is interested in contemporary forms of monasticism, particularly within Theravada Buddhism, and also in religion and politics in China and Thailand. He is currently working on a manuscript on the local, national and transnational conceptions of Buddhism through practices of monastic education among the Theravada Buddhists of Southwest China. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2006. |
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 anambiar@iseas.edu.sg |
Aparna Nambiar, a Life sciences graduate from NUS, began training in Bharatanatyam at the age of 4 in India. She has been in Singapore since 2004 and has been training and performing extensively under Singapore Cultural Medallion winner, Mrs. Santha Bhaskar. A passion for the arts diverted her career from research labs in bio sciences, to the NUS Center For the Arts in 2008. Aparna is currently working part-time as a research scholar at ISEAS and is developing a narrative in the vocabulary of Bharatanatyam, based on the Nalanda University and its relevance as an important cultural symbol for Asia. Working closely with NUS Indian Dance and Mrs Bhaskar, her work will be showcased as a series of performances between March 2010 and March 2011, under the umbrella of the NUS Arts Festival organized by the NUS Center For the Arts. |
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Zhang Xing is a PhD candidate at Peking University, China, and Martin Luther University, Germany. Her research focuses on Bengali literature and culture as well as the Chinese community in Kolkata. She has studied in Bangladesh and has done extensive fieldwork in Kolkata, India. Her dissertation examines the issues of the preservation of identity and cultural assimilation of the Kolkata Chinese. She has co-edited a special issue of the journal Overseas Chinese History Studies (Huaqiao Huaren lishi yanjiu) devoted to the Chinese community in India and written several articles and conference papers on the Kolkata Chinese. At the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, she will be working on the Chinese community in India as well as on Rabindranath Tagore’s visit to China in 1924 and his impact on Chinese literature. |
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Yuan Quan obtained her Ph.D. degree in Archaeology at Peking University, and works as a research fellow in the Centre for the Study of Chinese Archaeology, Beijing. Her research is organized around wide-ranging aspects of social religion and visual arts in medieval and late imperial China. At the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, she worked on the transformation of the Buddhist goddess Hāritī in East and Southeast Asia as well as the ceramic cargo from the Tang shipwreck excavated in Belitung, Indonesia. |
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