Faculty Details

Leonard Andaya

Professor of History
Sakamaki A412

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Educational Background

B.A. (magna cum laude), Yale University, 1965
M.A., Cornell University, 1969
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1971 

Research / Teaching / Specializations

The history of pre-modern Southeast Asia with current research interest on the process of ethnic identity formation in the early modern period (1500-1800)

Distinctions

Visiting Professor of History, University of Malaya, 2007
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 2007
Fullbright-Hayes Senior Research Fellowship, 2000
Senior Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, 2000
Appointed Sr. Research Fellow, University of Leiden
1998

Courses Taught

ASAN 393S: Field Study in Southeast Asia
ASAN 750C: Research Seminar on Southeast Asia
HIST 305: History of Southeast Asia to 1800
HIST 306: History of Southeast Asia 1800 to Present
HIST 406: Modern Philippines
HIST 408: Modern Indonesia
HIST 655 Seminar: History of Island Southeast Asia

Recent Publications

Leaves of the Same Tree: Trade and Ethnicity in the Straits of Melaka, Honolulu: UH Press. 2008.

Ethno-Nation, Nation-State and Regionalism in Southeast Asia, Global Area Studies for the 21st Century. Kyoto, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 1996. 131-149

The Bugis-Makassar Diasporas Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 68, 1 (1995) 119-138

The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period, Honolulu: UH Press. 1993

Malay Peninsula In Encyclopedia of Islam, New edition, Vol. VI. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 1987

A History of Malaysia (co-authored with B. Watson Andaya). New York: St. Martin's Press. 1982.