Professor
Anthony Reid
(Director, Asia Research Institute)
BA, MA (Hons), PhD University of Wellington, Victoria.
Tel: (65) 6516 3810
Office: ARI, Tower Block #10.01, 469A Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259770
Email: ariar@nus.edu.sg
Anthony
Reid is a historian of Southeast Asia, who has at
different times worked on political, economic, social
and intellectual history, both on a Southeast Asian
canvas and in particular studies of Aceh, South
Sulawesi, Sabah, and twentieth century Indonesia.
Born and bred in New Zealand, he held positions
at the University of Malaya (1965-70), and the Research
School of Pacific and Asian Studies of the Australian
National University (1970-99), where he ended as
Professor of Southeast Asian History, and coordinator
of projects on the Economic History of Southeast
Asia, and the Chinese Southern Diaspora. In 1999
he went to the University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA) as Professor of History and founding Director
of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
In 2002 he became founding Director of the Asia
Research Institute at NUS, Singapore. His wife,
Dr Helen Reid, is with him in Singapore, and two
children in the UK and USA. From 2002-07 he was founding Director of the Asia Research Institute at NUS, where he continues to work.
CURRENT
RESEARCH:
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Early
modern Southeast Asian History, social-economic
history of Southeast Asia, and issues of ethnic,
national and religious identity in Indonesia
and East Malaysia |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
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The
contest for North Sumatra: Atjeh, the Netherlands
and Britain, 1858-1898. Kuala Lumpur, OUP/UMP,
1969. 333 pp. Indonesian translation 2004. |
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The
Indonesian National Revolution, 1945-1950.
Hawthorn, Vic. Longmans Australia, 1974. 193
pp. Indonesian translation 1996. |
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The
Blood of the People: Revolution and the End
of Traditional Rule in Northern Sumatra. Kuala
Lumpur, OUP, 1979. 288 pp. Indonesian translation
1986. |
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Southeast
Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680. Vol.I:
The Lands below the Winds. 1988. 275 pp.;
Vol.II: Expansion and Crisis, 1993, 390 pp.
New Haven, Yale University Press. Indonesian
and Japanese and translations; Thailand edition
(Silkworm) |
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Charting
the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia.
Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1999, 298pp. |
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An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and other Histories of Sumatra. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2005, 439pp. |
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"... a historian of SE Asia, who has
at different times worked on political, economic,
social and intellectual history, both on a
SE Asian canvas and in particular studies
of Aceh, South Sulawesi, Sabah, and twentieth
century Indonesia...”
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