Faculty Details

Barbara Watson-Andaya

facultyimage Professor of Asian Studies
Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Moore 406

(808) 956-2676; (808) 956-4735
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Educational Background

B.A., University of Sydney, 1962
M.A., University of Hawaii, 1969
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1975 


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

 

Distinctions

Guggenheim Award 2000
Director of the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, 2003-present
President, Association for Asian Studies, 2005-2006
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2008
Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden, the Netherlands), Summer 2008
Raffles Chair in History, National University of Singapore, 2007-2008

 

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)

A History of Malaysia, 2nd ed., with Leonard Andaya.(Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001)

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

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)