Other members of the Asian Studies Centre Management CommitteeEva-Lotta E. Hedman, BA (Oregon), MA, Ph.D (Cornell University), is Senior Research Fellow in the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), the Department of International Development. Dr Hedman has an enduring interest in the contestation of state a
nd civil society in Southeast Asia, and a related engagement with scholarship on social movements and democratization in broader comparative perspective. With generous support from the Mellon Foundation (2003-07; 2007-), she has also focused her research more closely on questions of refuge and governmentality in Southeast Asia. Her publications include Conflict, Violence and Displacement in Indonesia (editor, 2008); In the Name of Civil Society: From Free Election Movements to People Power in the Philippines (2006) and Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century: Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Trajectories (co-author, 2000). Dr Hedman is Special Issue Editor (with M.J.Gibney) of Government & Opposition: The Refugee in Trans/National Politics and Society (2008), and has published many articles in refereed journals (Indonesia, Modern Asian Studies, South East Asia Research, Human Rights Law Review, Forced Migration Review), and numerous chapters in edited volumes. She has developed the Annual RSC-Mellon Workshops on Southeast Asia, which have focused on Conflict, Violence and Displacement in Aceh, Burma, Papua, Southern Philippines, and South Thailand since their inception in 2003. She is also the convenor of the Asian Studies Centre’s Southeast Asian Studies Seminar Series at St Antony’s. She serves on the editorial board of Government & Opposition. Paul Irwin Crookes, Ph.D is Departmental Lecturer in the Political Economy / International Relations of China at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford. He gained both his MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge and has a BSc from the LSE. Dr Irwin Crookes joined the department following his time in Manchester where he was Lecturer in International Politics with special reference to China and East Asia. Prior to his time in Manchester, Dr Irwin Crookes was based in the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge, first as a post-doctoral Associate and later as an Affiliated Lecturer, where he taught at undergraduate and postgraduate levels on China’s international relations, global economic and trade integration, and EU-China policy. His research interests cover a wide range of East Asian political, economic and security issues, and he has recently published a monograph on intellectual property regime evolution in China and India, under the Brill imprint, and a policy research paper on China's emerging national innovation system for a European think-tank based in Brussels. paul.irwincrookes@area.ox.ac.uk Jan Knoerich, MA, Ph.D, is Departmental Lecturer in the Economy of China at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford. Prior to his arrival at Oxford, he spent several years working on international investment and development issues for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. Dr Knoerich undertakes research on the Chinese economy and in the areas of international investment policy, international trade and economic development. His main publications include “Gaining from the Global Ambitions of Emerging Economy Enterprises: An Analysis of the Decision to Sell a German Firm to a Chinese Acquirer” in Journal of International Management 2010 (Vol. 16 No. 2) and “Does Quality of Openness Affect Corruption?” (with Omer Gokcekus) in Economics Letters 2006 (Vol. 91 No. 2, pp. 190-196). His work for the United Nations included a book entitled “Investor-State Disputes: Prevention and Alternatives to Arbitration” (written and prepared with Anna Joubin-Bret), 2010 (United Nations: New York and Geneva). Polly O’Hanlon, MA, Ph.D, is Professor of Indian History and Culture in the Faculty of Oriental Studies. She has worked on various aspects of the social and intellectual history of early modern and modern India, and has a broader interest in histories of empire, gender and the body. With David Washbrook, she is convenor of the annual workshop on the history of Early Modern India jointly sponsored by the Faculty of Oriental Studies and the Asian Studies Centre at St Antony’s. Her recent publications include: 'Kingdom, household and body: history, gender and imperial service under Akbar' in Modern Asian Studies, 41.5: September 2007; 'Cultural Pluralism, Empire and the State in Early Modern South Asia' in Indian Economic and Social History Review, 44.3: 2007; 'Military Sports and the History of the Martial Body in India', in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 50.4: 2007; ‘What makes people who they are? Pandit networks and the problem of livelihoods in early modern western India’ in Indian Economic and Social History Review XLV. No. 3, July-September 2008, with C. Minkowski; ‘Narratives of Penance and Purification in Western India, c. 1650-1850’ in Journal of Hindu Studies, June 2009. rosalind.ohanlon@orinst.ox.ac.uk Janice Stargardt, BA, MA, D.Lett. is PACSEA Professorial Research Fellow in the Historical Archaeology and Geography of Asia in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Concurrently, she is Fellow, Tutor, and Director of Studies in Archaeology and Geography at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and Foreign Professor, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes IV, at the Sorbonne, Paris. Special interests within the fields of the historical archaeology and geography of South and South East Asia are the interactions between early historic societies and their environments, the spread of Buddhism outside India with the complex cultural changes accompanying it, long-distance, long-term maritime trade between South East Asia and South China and its position within mediaeval and early modern world economies. Among other international academic activities, she is Coordinator of the British Academy's Five-Year International Project on Relics and Relic Worship in the Early Buddhism of India and Burma, UK Member of the International Working Group on Remote Sensing in Archaeology coordinated by UNESCO and the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Member of the UK Policy Panel on Tropical Forests. Her major publications include four research books and monographs and 83 research articles, among them 'Chinese Silver in a tenth century Indonesian wreck' (with D.C. Twitchett 2004), published simultaneously in English in Asia Major and Chinese in Tang Studies; 'Mapping the Mind; some cultural cargos of ancient South East Asian maritime trade,' in Fishbones and Glittering Symbols ed. Kallen, A. and A. Karlstrom (2003); Tracing Thought through Things : the Oldest Pali Texts and the Early Buddhist Archaeology of India and Burma (Royal Netherlands Academy Monograph, 2000); and The Ancient Pyu of Burma. Vol. 1, Early Pyu Cities in a Man-Made Landscape (Cambridge & Singapore 1990 repr. 1991). Christine Wong, BSc (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Ph.D (California, Berkeley) is Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary China Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies and Said Business School, University of Oxford. Before joining Oxford University in September 2007, she was the Henry M. Jackson Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington. Outside academia, she has held positions in the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (Manila). She has held consultancies for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, OECD, UNICEF, and DFID. Dr Wong’s current research focuses on issues of public finance and public sector reform in China. She has published widely on economic reform, fiscal reform, rural industrialization, and the problems of central-local relations in China. Her most recent publication was Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality (co-edited with Vivienne Shue), (2007). She has been co-author or joint author of several recent studies of fiscal policy issues published by the World Bank. She was principal author of China: National Development and Subnational Finance, a Review of Provincial Expenditures (April 2002). She is also editor and principal author of two previous books on China’s public finance: Financing Local Government in the People’s Republic of China, (1997); and Fiscal Management and Economic Reform in the People's Republic of China (with Christopher Heady and Wing T. Woo), (1995, 1996).
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