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I I A S F E L L O W S
Mr Jan Eerik Leppanen
Socio-genetic Marginalisation in Asia Pro-
gramme
Sponsered by NWO
Socio-genetic Marginalisation and Vulner-
able Ethnic Groups in Southwest China
1 September 2005 - 1 September 2008
Dr Melody LU
Sponsered by MEARC/ IIAS
Gender, Migration and Family in East and
Southeast Asia
1 February 2006 - 1 September 2009
Dr Shao-li LU
Department of History, National Chengchi
University, Taiwan
Sponsered by NSC
Homo Alchemy: Japan’s Chemical Industry
and the Transformation on the Culture of
Body in Colonial Taiwan
1 October 2008 - 31 March 2009
Prof. Kurt Radtke
Research fellow within the Energy Pro-
gramme Asia
Sponsered by CASS/KNAW and IIAS
The Impact of “Globalization” on Security
Issues (in particular “Energy”) in East Asia
1 October 2007 - 30 June 2008
Prof. Carla Risseeuw
Leiden University, the Netherlands
Ageing in Asia and Europe
1 January 2008 - 1 January 2010
Prof. Hyun Joon SHIN
Institute for East Asian Studies, Sungkong-
hoe University, Korea
IIAS Professor, holder of the European
Chair of Korean Studies
History and Present of Popular Culture in
Korea from Inter-Asia(n) Perspective
21 January 2008 - 21 January 2009
Dr Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner
Socio-genetic Marginalisation in Asia Pro-
gramme
Sponsered by NWO
Human Genetics and its political, social, cul-
tural and ethical Implications
17 September 2001 - 1 September 2009
Ms Suli SUI
Socio-genetic Marginalisation in Asia Pro-
gramme
Sponsered by NWO
Socio, ethical and legal Issues of genetic
Testing in Chinese Context - A Socio-science
Approach to the Practice of genetic Testing
in China
1 September 2005 - 1 September 2008
Dr Takayo TAKAHASHI
Waseda University, Japan
Ethnic Identity of Okinoerabu Islanders in
Japan
1 January 2008 - 31 December 2008
Dr Thomas Wilkins
Center for the Pacific Rim, University of
San Francisco, United States
Stationed at the Branch Office Amster-
dam
Systems of Allignment in the Asia Pacific
26 May 2008 - 6 July 2008
General
Prof. Ien ANG
Centre for Cultural Research, University of
Western Sydney, Australia
Stationed at the Branch Office Amsterdam
Asia from Down Under: Regionalism and
Global Cultural Change
5 May 2008 - 7 June 2008
South Asia
Dr MariaPiera Candotti
Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Sponsered by the J. Gonda Foundation
Playing by the Rules’: How new Grammars
reinterpreted Panini
1 May 2008 - 30 September 2008
Dr Peter Custers
Religious Tolerance and Intolerance - The
Historical Experience of Bangladesh
22 October 2007 - 22 October 2008
Dr Silvia d’Intino
Collège de France, Institute d’Extreme Ori-
ents, Paris, France
Sponsered by the J. Gonda Foundation
The Skandasvamibhasya on the Rgveda
1 May 2008 - 30 September 2008
Dr Andrew Glass
University of Washington, Department of
Asian Languages and Literature, United
States
Visiting Numata Professor, Leiden Univer-
sity/IIAS
Gandhāran Buddhism
1 April 2008 - 1 June 2008
Prof. Jan Houben
Leiden University, the Netherlands
Vedic Ritual in Asian-European Context
1 July 2008 - 1 July 2009
Dr Binu JOHN
Sponsered by IIAS
Colonialism, Communalism, and Com-
merce: The Mappila Muslims of Kerala,
India (1900-1948)
1 February 2008 - 1 May 2008
Dr Alex McKay
School of Oriental and African Studies,
London University, United Kingdom
The History and Culture of the Indo-Tibetan
Himalayas
1 October 2000 - 1 May 2008
Dr Ghulam NADRI
Georgia State University, Department of
History, United States
Sponsered by the Georgia State University
A History of the Indigo Industry and Trade in
Pre-Colonial and Colonial India
16 May 2008 - 23 June 2008
Dr Prasanna Kumar PATRA
Socio-genetic Marginalization in Asia Pro-
gramme
Sponsered by NWO
Cross-cultural comparative Study of Genetic
Research in India and Japan
15 December 2005 - 15 December 2008
Prof. Om Prakash
Delhi School of Economics, University of
Delhi, India
Sponsered by the Van den Bergh-van
Heemstede Foundation
The Trading World of the Indian Ocean,
1500-1800
27 June 2008 - 29 July 2008
Dr Ellen Raven
Leiden University, the Netherlands
Researcher within the South and Southeast
Asia Art and Archaelogy Index (ABIA)
Sponsered by the J. Gonda Foundation
South and Southeast Asia Art and Archael-
ogy Index
1 June 2003 - 1 June 2008
Ms Rituparna ROY
From across the Shadow Lines: Tracing the
Trajectory of Bengali Hindu Refugees in the
Novels of Amitav Ghosh
1 January 2008 - 31 December 2008
Dr Markus Schleiter
Sponsered by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Localized Statehood: Social and Cultural
Practices of a ‘Tribal’ Development Project
in India
1 April 2008 - 30 September 2008
Dr Marta Sernesi
Sponsered by the J. Gonda Foundation
A Preliminary Study of the Collected Works
(gSung-’bum) of Blo-Idan sNying-po (14th
Century): a Contribution to the Study of
the “latter Transmission Period” (phyi-dar)
based on Bon Textual Evidence
1 October 2008 - 28 February 2009
Prof. Alexander Stolyarov
Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of
Oriental Studies, Moscow, Russian Federa-
tion
Annotated Database of Early Mediaeval
North Indian Copper Plate Grants
6 October 2008 - 14 November 2008
Mr Vincent Tournier
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris,
France
Sponsered by the J. Gonda Foundation
Enriching an Ongoing Study on the textual
History of Mahāvastu I.1-338 and the Settle-
ment of a specific Conception regarding the
Career of Bodhisattva
1 December 2008 - 30 April 2009
Mr Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology,
Madras, India
Sponsered by the J. Gonda Foundation
The Recovery and Reception of Classical
Tamil Literature in late 19th and early 20th
Century Colonial Tamilnadu
1 October 2008 - 31 December 2008
Southeast Asia
Dr Birgit Abels
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Sponsered by NWO/Rubicon
Sounds of (Be)longing. Islam, Place and
Music in the Philippine Sulu Archipelago:
The Bujau.
1 September 2007 - 1 September 2008
Prof. Leonard Andaya
University of Hawaii, Department of His-
tory, United States
Sponsered by Fulbright-Hays
A World beyond the Center: Interlocking
Regional and Local Socio-Economic Net-
works in Eastern Indonesia, c. 1400-1800
29 May 2008 - 28 August 2008
Dr Barbara Andaya
Asian Studies Program, University of
Hawaii, United States
Which also Beareth Fruit: Christian Minori-
ties in Southeast Asia, 1511-1945
29 May 2008 - 28 August 2008
Dr Greg Bankoff
School of Asian Studies, University of
Auckland, New Zealand
Cultures of Coping: Community and Natural
Hazard in the Philippines
1 September 2004 - 31 August 2008
Dr Mathias Diederich
University of Khartoum, Sudan
Development of Islamic political parties in
Post-Soeharto Indonesia
10 July 2008 - 10 August 2008
Dr Michele Ford
The University of Sydney, Australia
In the Shadow of Singapore: The Limits of
Transnationalism in Insular Riau
1 January 2008 - 1 January 2010
Prof. Mashudi Kader
School of Humanities, University Sains
Malaysia, Malaysia
IIAS Professor, holder of the European
Chair of Malay Studies
Sponsered by Ministry of Education in
Malay
The Morphology and the Movementsof Con-
stituents in the Syntax of Classical Malay
1 October 2006 - 1 October 2008
Dr Nico Kaptein
Leiden University, the Netherlands
Islam and State in the Netherlands East
Indies: The Life and Work of Sayyid ‘Uthmân
(1822 - 1914)
1 May 2006 - 1 May 2009
Dr Lenore Lyons
Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transforma-
tion Studies, University of Wollongong,
Australia
In the Shadow of Singapore: The Limits of
Transnationalism in Insular Riau
1 January 2008 - 1 January 2010
Dr Dipika Mukherjee
Negotiating Languages and Forging Iden-
tities: Surinamese-Indian Women in the
Netherlands
1 December 2006 - 1 January 2009
Dr Nathan Porath
Sponsered by the United States Institute
of Peace (USIP)
Islamic Education, Secular Education and
Civil Society in South Thailand
1 March 2007 - 31 August 2008
Prof. Hein Steinhauer
Department of Southeast Asian Languages
and Cultures, Leiden University, the Neth-
erlands
Ethnolinguistics with a special Emphasis on
Southeast Asia
1 September 1998 - 1 September 2008
IIAS fellows
Central Asia
Dr Irina Morozova
Moscow State University, Russian Federa-
tion
Stationed at the Branch Office Amsterdam
& Leiden
Sponsered by the Alexander von Hum-
boldt Stiftung
Conflict, Security and Development in the
post-Soviet Era: Towards regional economic
Cooperation in the Central Asian Region
24 April 2003 - 31 December 2008
East Asia
Dr Mehdi P. Amineh
Stationed at the Branch Office Amsterdam
& Leiden
Programme Coordinator of Energy Pro-
gramme Asia
Sponsered by KNAW/CASS and IIAS
Domestic and Geopolitical Energy Security
for China and the EU
1 September 2007 - 1 September 2010
Prof. Wim Boot
Leiden University, the Netherlands
Japanese and Korean Languages and Litera-
tures
1 September 2006 - 1 September 2009
Dr Mo CHEN
Institute of West-Asian and African Stud-
ies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,
Beijing, China
Research fellow within the Energy Pro-
gramme Asia
Sponsered by CASS/KNAW
Domestic and Geopolitical Challenges to
Energy Security for China and the EU
1 April 2008 - 30 June 2008
Prof. Hei-yuan CHIU
Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica,
Taiwan
IIAS Professor, holder of the European
Chair of Chinese Studies
Sponsered by BICER
Religion, Occultism and Social Change in
Taiwan
1 September 2007 - 1 September 2008
Prof. Shi DAN
Energy Economic Research Centre, Chi-
nese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing,
China
Research fellow within the Energy Pro-
gramme Asia
Sponsered by CASS/KNAW
Domestic and Geopolitical Challenges to
Energy Security in China and the EU
1 June 2008 - 31 October 2008
Prof. Yang GUANG
Chinese Academy for Social Sciences, Bei-
jing, China
Stationed at the Branch Office Amster-
dam
Domestic and Geopolitical Challenges to
Energy Security for China and the EU
Sponsered by CASS/KNAW
China Energy Security towards the Middle
East and Africa
21 May 2008 - 28 May 2008
Dr Masae KATO
Socio-genetic Marginalisation in Asia Pro-
gramme
Japan in “Asia” in relation to the “West” as a
Reference Group
1 March 2005 - 1 September 2008