Barbara Watson ANDAYA

Professor (T) Asian Studies
Moore Hall 406
(808) 956-2676/(808) 956-4735
bandaya@hawaii.edu

Educational Background

B.A., University of Sydney, 1962

M.A., University of Hawaii, 1969

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1975

Distinctions

Guggenheim Award 2000

Director of Center for Southeast Asia Studies, 2003-present

President, Association for Asian Studies, 2005-06

Research/Teaching Specializations

Christianity and religious change in Southeast Asia, ca. 1500-present.

Women and gender in early modern Southeast Asia

Social issues in contemporary Southeast Asia

Courses Taught

ASAN 202: Introduction to Asian Studies

ASAN 496: Religions of Island Southeast Asia

ASAN 480: Culture and Economy of Southeast Asia

ASAN 498: Women in Southeast Asia

ASAN 628: Southeast Asian Development: Costs and Benefits.

ASAN 750: Research and the Field in Southeast Asia

Recent Publications

The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006)

History of Malaysia, 2ed coverA History of Malaysia, 2nd ed. With Leonard Andaya. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001)

Other Pasts: Women, Gender and History in Early Modern Southeast Asia. (Honolulu: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i 2000)

2006 forthcoming: "Oceans Unbounded: Traversing Asia across 'Area Studies'" Journal of Asian Studies (November 2006)

"History, Headhunting and Gender in Monsoon Asia: Comparative and Longitudinal Views." Journal of South East Asia Research 12, 1 (2004): 13-52.

"Gender History, Southeast Asia and the 'World Regions' Framework." in Companion to Gender History eds. Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wisner-Hanks. (Blackwell Publishing, Malden MA/Oxford), 2004, pp. 323-42.

"Localising the Universal: Women, Motherhood and the Appeal of Early Theravada Buddhism." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 33, 1 (February, 2002): 1-30.

"From Temporary Wife to Prostitute: Sexuality and Economic Change in Early Modern Southeast Asia." The Journal of Women's History, Vol. 9 No. 4 (Feb. 1998): 11-34.

To Live as Brothers Southeast Sumatra in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993).

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