VISITING FELLOWS ARCHIVE

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2007 Visiting Fellows

Dr Michele Ford

Dr Michele Ford joins us from Sydney University as a visiting fellow to work with Dr Lenore Lyons on their ARC Discovery Project on Riau.

Dr Ravi Palat

Dr Ravi Palat joins CAPSTRANS as a Senior Visiting Fellow from January - June 2007. Dr Palat is Associate Professor of Sociology at State University of New York, Binghamton. While in Wollongong, Dr Palat will conduct research and organise a workshop on "Hegemony and the Roots of Fundamentalisms".

Dr Alison Broinowski

Dr Broinowski joined us as a Senior visiting fellow in August 2007. She is mainly working on an ARC funded-project, with Prof Wenche Ommundsen, related to Asian Australian writing. Together they conducted a successful two day workshop on Asian/Australian Values, held at the University of Wollongong (22-23 Nov 2007).

Professor Angie Tran

Prof Tran was a Senior Visiting fellow from 1 June - 25 August 2007. She is a Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Pacific Rim Studies Institute, California State University, Monterey Bay. During her stay, Prof Tran worked on a series of publications dealing with labour relations in Vietnam, and is also part of an ARC research team (with CAPSTRANS UOW researchers Dr Ganguly-Scrase, A/prof Hannan, Dr Crinis) focusing on the: "The Clothing Industry in the Asia Pacific: Managing Constant Change".

Dr Rie Makita

D Makita joined us as a postdoctoral writing fellow from May to October 2007. Over the period of her fellowship, she has worked on several publications, including a published book, dealing with poverty, inequality and development in Bangladesh.

Dr Hanae Katyama

Dr Katyama was a postdoctoral writing fellow for the period May to December 2007. Her field of specialisation is socio-linguistics, particularly focusing on the linguistic differences of stand-up comedy in Japan and the USA. She completed a book manuscript and several publications during her stay. She will commence a position in Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney in 2008.

Rashmi Umesh

Rasmhi joined us from Auckland University, New Zealand where she completed her PhD in development economics. She was a postdoctoral writing fellow from September to December 2007. During her stay she prepared several papers on globalisation, development and poverty in India for submission to leading refereed journals.

Dr Ho Wai Yip

Dr Ho Wai-Yip is an Assistant professor at the Hong Kong institute of education. He joined us for one month (July-August 2007) as a short term postdoctoral writing fellow, where he completed research on ethnic identity and postcolonialism.

2006

Dr Ooi Keat Gin

Dr Ooi Keat Gin joined us as a Senior Visiting Fellow in November 2006. Dr Ooi is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia. While at CAPSTRANS he spent time conducting research in Wollongong and in Canberra.

Dr Shun Ohno

Dr Ohno joined us as a Postdoctoral Writing Fellow from July - December 2006. Dr Ohno is working on a series of publications related to the Nikeijin.

Professor Lakshmi Subramaniam

Professor Lakshmi Subramaniam joined us as a Senior Visiting Fellow from September to November 2006. Dr Subramaniam is Senior Fellow in History at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India. While at CAPSTRANS she organised a workshop titled “Culture, Identity and Performance: Diaspora South Asians” held on the 13 November 2006.

Dr Ding Weiguo

Dr Ding joined us from the School of Business, Southern Yangtze University in China. She is currently working on a study of FDI in China and a comparison between foreign-invested enterprises and local enterprises. She joined us from February to July 2006.

Professor Hu Xiaobo

Professor Hu joined us as a Senior Visiting Fellow from June to August 2006. He is currently Professor of Political Science and Director of the China Program at Clemson University, South Carolina. While in CAPSTRANS Professor Hu convened a workshop comparing the Chinese and Indian middle-classes.

2005

Dr Shalmalee Palekar

Dr Palekar, formerly of Sophia College, University of Mumbai, works in the areas of literary/cultural, feminist and postcolonial studies. She joined CAPSTRANS from January to December 2005. Her current research focuses on representations of women's sexuality in Indian cinema ("Bollywood", "Parallel" and regional). Looking specifically at South Asian and South Asian-Australian diasporic contexts, the research theorises the silences and gaps in these representations.

Professor Heather Sutherland

Professor Sutherland joined us from the Free University of Amsterdam, visiting CAPSTRANS from January 2003 to December 2005.

Professor Ken Young

Professor Young, a former Director of CAPSTRANS, joined us as Visiting Professorial Fellow from June 2002 to May 2005.

2004

Professor Chang Kyung-Sup (February 2004 - February 2005)

Professor Chang from the Department of Sociology at Seoul National University. He is joined us from February 2004 to February 2005. He was involved in collaborative research in the transformation of urban-rural relationships and the peasant perception of social and economic opportunity structure in late industrialisation.

Dr Jakkrit Kuanpoth (May 2004 - November 2004)

Dr Kuanpoth, from the School of Law, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand, was involved in a joint research project aimed at strengthening the academic collaboration between CAPSTRANS and Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University.

Dr Li Tana

Dr Li is from the Australian National University in Canberra. She was visiting CAPSTRANS until February 2005, working with Dr. Julia Martínez on a study of the overseas Chinese in North Vietnam.

Dr Luke Nottage (February 2004 - December 2004)

Dr Nottage joins us from the Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney. He presented a seminar on 13 May 2004. His research interests include contract law, product liability, civil dispute resolution (especially arbitration), corporate governance, cyber-law, and legal education, mostly comparing developments in Japan or transnationally.

2003

Professor Alastair Davidson (October 2002-October 2003)

Professor of Citizenship Studies at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. Professor Davidson is a world renown scholar of Marx and Gramsci and of the formation of the State, democracy and citizenship in Australia. Professor Davidson's current research interests include: the history of human rights, democracy, citizenship and honour, vengeance and the rule of law.

Associate Professor Assafa Endeshaw (December 2003 - January 2004)

Associate Professor Assafa Endeshaw of the Centre for Asia Pacific Technology Law and Policy (CAPTEL) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore was involved in researching responses of Asian developing countries to continuing expansion of intellectual property.

Dr Stephen Frost (August 2003)

Dr Frost visited CAPSTRANS from the Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong. He presented a seminar on “The implications for Labour of China's Direct Investment in Cambodia”.

Mr Max Lane (2002 - 2003)

Mr Lane was involved in research on a book on political radicalism and political change in Indonesia since the 1990s, a monograph on the history of the Hasta Mitra publishing house, as well as further translations of the works of Pramoedya Ananta Toer.

Dr John Minns (February 2003 - December 2003)

Dr Minns, from the Australian National University, was involved in collaborative research with members of CAPSTRANS.

Dr Sanjay Roy (July 2003 - October 2003)

Dr Roy, from North Bengal University, was involved in research on Human Rights violations of both refugee and indigenous populations in India.

2002

Dr Jan Breman (December 2002)

Retired Dean of Asian Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Dr Jean Couteau (October 2002 - December 2002)

A distinguished scholar in the field of Balinese Studies, Dr Couteau has published widely on Balinese arts and culture. His latest book (with Georges Breguet) is entitled Les Calendriers Tika de Bali, published by SOMOGY/Editions D'Art, PAris, 2002.

Dr Abdul Haris (November 2002 - January 2003)

Centre of Population and Policy Studies at Gadjah Mada University in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. While at CAPSTRANS Dr Haris researched migration and ethnicity in the Asia Pacific.

Dr Lin Miao (February - March 2002)

School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Dr. Lin's research interest focuses on the interaction of science and technology with public policy, especially on the science and technology policy for competitiveness, sustainability, and security. While at CAPSTRANS, he worked on two projects: 1) a theoretical and empirical investigation of the evolution and governance of strategic technology alliances initiated by key public R&D programs in China: the case of State Hi-Tech R&D Program, sponsored by the Natural Science Foundation of China and China's Science Foundation for Postdoctoral Fellows; and 2) a program on the management model for the State Hi-Tech R&D Program in the 21st Century, sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, P. R. China.

Mr Xiang Biao (2002)

Mr Xian is a D.Phil (PhD) candidate of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Whilst at CAPSTRANS Xiang was doing his dissertation research on Information Technology Professionals from South India (particularly from Andhra Pradesh) in Australia.

2001

Professor Hye-kyung Lee (July 2001 - August 2002)

Department of Sociology, Pai Chai University Korea, and the Director of KMRN (Korean Migration Research Network).

2000

Professor Aleksandra Alund (March 2000)

Linkoping University, Sweden.

Professor Naran Bilik (May - June 2000)

Director of the Institute for Nationality Studies in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Wang Su (China National Institute for Educational Research). Professor Bilik undertook collaborative work with Associate Professor Robyn Iredale on the ARC funded project, “Impacts of the Internal Mobility of Minority Nationalities on education, training, skills transfer and ethnic identity”.

Ms Gong Xu (2000)

Deputy Chief, Policy Division, Policy Bureau, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

Dr Rogelia Pe-Pua (2000)

Senior Lecturer in Social Science and Policy at University of New South Wales. Whilst at CAPSTRANS Dr Pe-Pua worked on a study of welfare measures for Filipino overseas contract workers.

Professor Carl-Ulrik Schierup (March 2000)

Linkoping University, Sweden.

Professor Syafri Sairin (March - April 2000)

Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Gadja Mada University, Indonesia. Whilst at CAPSTRANS Professor Sairin undertook research on Indonesian migrants in Eastern Malaysia, and extended this research to examine Indonesian migrants in Australia.