MAI Staff Research Profiles
Director
Dr Max M RichterProf Marika Vicziany
Former Director, Monash Asia Institute
and National Centre for South Asian Studies
Marika.Vicziany@monash.eduMass poverty, Ethnic/Religious minorities in India, Pakistan and Western China, and Regional Security
Centre Directors
Dr Penny GrahamDr Wendy SmithCentre of Southeast Asian Studies
Penny.Graham@monash.eduAnthropology of Southeast Asia; Ritual, religion and conversion; Asian labour migration; Nationalism, ethnicity and the state; Orality and literacy
Dr Robyn Spence-BrownCentre for Malaysian Studies
Wendy.Smith@monash.eduCross-cultural management; employee relations in Asia; Japanese management transfer; international business; social protection in Malaysia; globalized religious organizations; managing religious diversity in the workplace; Islamic work ethics.
Japanese Studies Centre
Robyn.Spencebrown@monash.eduJapanese sociology; social stratification and inequality; the organisation of work; industrial relations; images of Japanese society; meta-theories of Japanese society; Japanese-English translation; theories of translation
Research Fellows
Dr Naiyana (Tikky) WattanapenpaiboonDr Faridullah BezhanAsia Pacific Health & Nutrition Centre
Tikky.Wattanapenpaiboon@monash.eduNutrition and Health in the Asia Pacific with special focus on Thailand; Food Scientist; Pharmacist; Epidemiologist; Bio-Statistician; Laboratory Methodologist
Dr Jemma PurdeyAfghani Literature, Satire, War and Anti-war Literature
Writer-in-Residence
Centre of Southeast Asian Studies
Jemma.Purdey@monash.eduHerb Feith Biography; Chinese in Indonesia
Teaching Staff
Dr Angelo Andrea Di CastroSharmini SherrardArchaeology of South and Central Asia
Adjunct Research Fellows
| Name | Specialist area | |
|---|---|---|
| Emeritus Professor David Chandler | David.Chandler@monash.edu | Cambodia, Pol Pot and Genocide in Cambodia |
| Professor Mark Wahlqvist Asia Pacific Health and Nutrition Centre |
Mark.Wahlqvist@monash.edu | National and International Nutrition Science, Education and Policy; Clinical Nutrition and Internal Medicine |
| Prof A.K. Bagchi Institute of Development Studies, Kolkatta |
Amiya.Bagchi@gmail.com | Indian economy |
| Prof Zenon Pudlowski | Zenon.Pudlowski@monash.edu | Engineering Education in the Asia Pacific Region |
| Dr Joost Coté Deakin University |
Joost.Cote@monash.edu | Colonial Urban Culture with special reference to Java; Semarang: Colonization of Central Sulawesi; Kartini and sisters |
| Mr Hashim Abdulhamid | Hashim.Abdulhamid@monash.edu | Arabic-Malay lexicography |
| Dr Judith Shaw (Senior Research Fellow) | Judith.Shaw@monash.edu | Microfinance and Micro-enterprise Development, Labour Migration and Migrant Remittances, the Asian Garment Manufacturing Sector, Politics of Post-Tsunami Reconstruction |
| Dr Andrew Robert Cock | Andrew.Cock@monash.edu | Political and economic dynamics of agrarian change; peripheral states and peripheral territorial spaces in the modern international system; the governance of agriculture, energy, and climate change in the Southeast Asian region and at a global level. |
| Mr Ian Adie | Ian.Adie@monash.edu | International business |
| Dr Jayant Bapat | Jayant.Bapat@monash.edu | Hindu Deities and Temples |
| Mr Farhan Bokhari International Journalist, Financial Times (London) |
Regional Security in South and Central Asia; Asia Pacific Regional Security Dialogues member | |
| Ms Rita Camilleri | Rita.Camilleri@monash.edu | Malaysian Politics |
| Dr Lance Castles | Lance.Castles@monash.edu | Darul Islam and Indonesian Elections |
| Mr Paul Cheater | Paul.Cheater@monash.edu | The relationship between Western and Afghan Music Education |
| Ms Helene Chung-Martin | Helene.ChungMartin@monash.edu | China; Biography |
| Dr Ian Coghlan | Ian.Coghlan@monash.edu | Tibetan Buddhism |
| Dr Leon Comber | Leon.Comber@monash.edu | Malaysian Insurgency |
| Dr Rizal Damanik | Rizal.Damanik@monash.edu | Functional food, Nutraceutical, Nutrition for pregnant and lactating women, and Food safety |
| Dr Sue Downie | Sue.Downie@monash.edu | Development Studies, Australian Aid, Peace-keeping, Peace-building and development with special reference to Cambodia and East Timor missions, Dissemination of information in cross-cultural context (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand) |
| Mr John Fuhrman | Facilitator of collaborative research and training programmes between Asia and Australia | |
| Dr Joan Grant (History) | Australian-Vietnamese diplomatic relations, 1975–2005 | |
| Ms Istutiah Gunawan | Istutiah.Gunawan@monash.edu | Cultures of Southeast Asia with special focus on Indonesia |
| Ms Smita Gupta Journalist, Times of India, Outlook |
India; Indian General Elections; Human rights violations, with special focus on communal and caste violence | |
| Dr Alexandra Haendel | alexandra.haendel@monash.edu | History of Art and Archaeology; Classical Temples of Southeast Asia (Cambodia and Java); Ancient Angkor |
| Ms Elisabeth Hames-Brooks | Elisabeth.Hames-Brooks@monash.edu | Indonesia; Australia-Asia relation; Poetry |
| Ms Chooi Hon Ho | Chooihon.Ho@monash.edu | Chinese in Australia and the Chinese diaspora |
| Dr Lea Jellinek | Lea.Jellinek@monash.edu | Indonesia, Poverty Specialist Action research on recycling of waste in villages in Indonesia |
| Dr Martand Joshi | Culture of Konkan | |
| Dr Hyung-Min Kim | HyungMin.Kim@monash.edu | Australia - Korea Trade and Technology Transfer |
| Dr Peter Laird | Peter.Laird@monash.edu | Malaysian Shamanism and Culture; Traditional and tribal medicine; Multilingual geneological documentation and visualization software for indigenous researchers, Anthropologists and Sociologists |
| Dr Shalini Mathur | India-Australian Trade and Innovation; Academic linkages with Japanese Universities | |
| Dr Meei-Shyuan Lee | Meei-Shyuan.Lee@monash.edu | Nutritional Science and Public Health Nutrition with special focus on Asia; Bio-Statitiscian and Epidemiologist |
| Prof S. D. Muni Professor of Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; India's special envoy to Laos and Cambodia |
Regional Security in the Asia Pacific | |
| Ms Katy Munson | Katy.Munson@monash.edu | Artist; Fine Art research with special focus on Asia (Vietnam, Burma, Tibet and Buddhism) |
| Ms Uyen Nguyen | Uyen.Nguyen@monash.edu | Asian Films Project |
| Mr Nurul Mu'az Omar | Politics, International Relations and Healthcare issues; Malaysian Youth and Democracy | |
| Dr Maya Raganathan Manipal Institute of Communication, Karnataka, India |
Maya.Ranganathan@monash.edu | Ethnic conflict in Kashmir and Sri Lanka and the use of the internet |
| Dr Sarita Sahay | Hindu mythology, folklore and tribal studies, women studies, adolescent studies | |
| Dr Ahmad Sarmast | Ahmad.Sarmast@monash.edu | Music and Culture of Afghanistan and Central Asia |
| Dr Gayle Savige | Gayle.Savige@monash.edu | Educationist; Dietician; Regional School Nutrition Programs, Cross-cultural Aged-care |
| Prof Shamsul, A.B. | World authority on Malaysian Civilisation and Culture | |
| Dr Girija Shrestha | Girija.Shrestha@monash.edu | Gender and Housing, Urban Planning and Management, Urban Governance |
| Mr William Steele | William.Steele@monash.edu | Australia-Malaysia Relations; researching, with Prof Vin D’Cruz, the notion of the ‘necessary Other’ in the writings of David Martin (Hungarian born Ludwig Detsini, 1915–1997) |
| Dr Pradeep Taneja | Pradeep.Taneja@monash.edu | China-India Relations |
| Dr Annette Van den Bosch | Annette.VanDenBosch@monash.edu |