Barbara Watson Andaya

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Barbara Watson Andaya (born 7 June 1943) is an Australian historian and author who studies Indonesia and Maritime Southeast Asia. She has also done extensive research on women's history in Southeast Asia, and of late, on the localization of Christianity in the region. She teaches courses in Asian Studies as a full professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and has served as director of the university's Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She was President of the American Association for Asian Studies from 2005 to 2006. [1] [2]

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Born on 7 June 1943, she received her Bachelor of Arts and Dip.Ed. from the University of Sydney. In 1966 she received an East-West Center grant to study for her Master of Arts in history at the Hawaiʻi. Subsequently, she went on to complete her Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history at Cornell University. She is married to Leonard Andaya, a historian and scholar of similar topics at the same university. Awarded a Guggenheim Award in 2000, it resulted in The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Southeast Asian History, 1500–1800 (a Choice Academic Book of the Year in 2007). [2] [3]

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References

  1. "AAS Board of Directors". Association for Asian Studies. Archived from the original on 22 June 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Barbara Watson Andaya". University of Hawaiʻi . Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  3. 1 2 Andaya, Barbara Watson (2006). The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia . Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ISBN   978-0-8248-2955-1 . Retrieved 10 May 2014.