| Name | Research Area and Topics / Organisation While at ARI |
|---|
| Prof Anne BLACKBURN | Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, with a Special Interest in Buddhist Monastic Culture and Buddhist Participation in Networks Linking Sri Lanka and Mainland Southeast Asia before and during Colonial Presence in the Region |
| Prof Anthony REID | History of Islam and Christianity in Indonesia/Malaysia |
| Prof Bernard ARPS | Social and Political Processes in Which Language Plays a Formative Role |
| Prof Bernard FORMOSO | Ethnicity and the Study of Religious Institutions in the Context of Globalization |
| Prof Charles Ian HARRIS | Aspects of Theravada Buddhist Ethics and Politics, Buddhist Political Activism in Pre-Pol Pot Cambodia, with Particular Emphasis on Wider Southeast Asian Networks |
| Prof Dennis CHENG | Yijing, Intellectual History of Late Imperial China |
| Prof Haimei SHEN | Gender and Ethnicity in Southwest China |
| Prof Himanshu PRABHA RAY | History of Archaeology in India, Seafaring and Maritime Contacts, Digital Mapping of Archaeological Sites Through Satellite Imagery |
| Prof Janet Alison HOSKINS | Study of Transnational Religion, Material Culture, Immigration and Media |
| Prof Judith NAGATA | Religion, Ethnicity and Culture in North America and Southeast Asia |
| Prof Keiko TOSA | Cultural Anthropology and Folklore, Buddhist Missionary Work, Assimilation Policy and Religious Conflict |
| Prof Lily KONG | Geographies of Religion, Cultural Economy and Cultural Policy, Constructions of ‘Nation’ and National Identity, Constructions of ‘Nature’ and Environment |
| Prof Marcus BINGENHEIMER | Chinese Buddhist Networks in South East Asia |
| Prof Mayfair YANG | Anthropology of Religion, Modernity and the state, China Studies, Gender and Media Studies |
| Prof Po-kan CHOU | Formation of Chinese Buddhism through the Re-Organisation of Buddhist Doctrines and Practice; Buddhist Scriptures by Chinese Buddhist Elites |
| Prof Stanley Bryan TURNER | Former Cluster Leader. Social Theory of Religion, Sociology of Piety |
| Prof Steven KEMPER | Anagarika Dharmapala, Focusing on the Rise of a Buddhist Modernism, Associated with His Career in India, Burma, Thailand, Japan, England, and Sri Lanka |
| Prof van der Tjitse Pieter VEER | Comparison of Religion and Nationalism in India and China, Anthropology, Indo-Iranian Languages and Cultures |
| Prof Yongjia LIANG | World Renunciation, Esoteric Buddhism, Territorial Cults, Chinese Intellectual Tradition |
| A/Prof Alexander David PALMER | Local Ritual Traditions, Transnational Religious Movements, Faith-Based Volunteering and NGOs in the Chinese World and Southeast Asia |
| A/Prof Gabriele MARRANCI | Identity, Muslim Migration/Immigration, Urban Sociology, Globalisation, Fundamentalism, Political Islam, Secularisation Processes, Criminology, Anthropology of Music |
| A/Prof Gary BELL | Indonesian Law, United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods |
| A/Prof Jeffrey SAMUELS | Intersection of Religion, History and Culture in South and Southeast Asia |
| A/Prof Johan FISCHER | Theoretical and Empirical Focus on the Proliferation of Halal Commodities on a Global Scale |
| A/Prof Julia HUANG C. | Buddhist Transnationalism, NGO-ness, Charities and Faith-Based Organizations, Charismatic Leadership, Gender and Religion, Taiwan: The Chinese Diaspora (in Malaysia and the United States) |
| A/Prof Julius BAUTISTA | Catholicism, Christianity, Southeast Asia, Philippines, Timor-Leste, Pedagogy |
| A/Prof Michael FEENER | Former Cluster Leader - Intellectual and Cultural History of Islam in the Middle East and Southeast Asia |
| A/Prof Robbie GOH | Nineteenth Century English Literature (particularly R. L. Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Fin De Siecle Gothic writing), Speculative Fiction, Urban Landscapes, Christianity in Asia, Advertising and related topics |
| A/Prof Sor Hoon TAN | Chinese philosophy, Pragmatism, Moral and Political Philosophy from Cross-Cultural Comparative Perspectives |
| Asst Prof Nurfadzilah YAHAYA | History of Southeast Asia; History of Indian Ocean; History of Islamic World; Global and International History; Colonialism and Imperialism, Environmental History, History of Infrastructure, Legal History, Islamic law |
| Asst Prof Kikue HAMAYOTSU | Islam and Politics in Indonesia and Malaysia |
| Asst Prof Levi MCLAUGHLIN | Rise of New Religious Movements in the Modern Era |
| Dr Aarif JAMAL | Law and Religion, Muslim legal Traditions, Comparative Law, Legal and Political Theory |
| Dr Aga ZUOSHI | Ethnic Minorities' Involvement with Social Development in China |
| Dr Alexey KIRICHENKO | Early Modern and Colonial Period History, Monastic Buddhism, Historiography, Organization and Representations of Political Power in Burma as well as History of Other Southeast Asian Countries |
| Dr Al MAKIN | Classical Islamic Literature, particularly on the Early Concept of Prophet-Hood, Public Intellectual Debates in the Current Islam in Indonesia |
| Dr Amelia FAUZIA | Islamic Philanthropy and Other Faith-Based Philanthropic Organisations |
| Dr Andrea ACRI | Hinduism and Indian Philosophies, Sanskrit and Old Javanese Languages and Literatures, Intellectual History of the Indic World |
| Dr Arskal SALIM | Islamic Legal Theory, Law and Muslim Politics, Islam and Human Rights, Legal Anthropology of Muslim Societies |
| Dr Bernardo BROWN | Forms of Religiosity that Emerge in Transnational Contexts and the Encounter of Different World Christian Traditions |
| Dr Carter HIGGINS | Religious Studies, South Asian Studies, Asian Studies, Anthropology, Modern Cultural History |
| Dr Catherine SCHEER | Cambodia’s Indigenous Minorities and Anthropology of Christianity in Continental Southeast Asia |
| Dr Chiara FORMICHI | Trained in Islamic studies (University of Rome, Italy) and the History of Southeast Asia (SOAS, London), Islam in Southeast Asia, Inter-Asian Connection, Relationship between Islam and the State, Ideas of the Islamic State, Modernity, Sectarianism, Religion Minorities. |
| Dr Deepa NAIR | Rise of Religious Nationalism in India, Globalization and South Asian Diaspora, Education and Curriculum Reform in South Asia |
| Dr Duoduo XU | Oral Traditions, Comparative Literature, Ancient Greek Philology, History of Writing, Language Documentation of Minority Populations and Cultures of China |
| Dr Erni BUDIWANTI | Ethno-Religious Groupings and Minorities in Indonesia and Malaysia |
| Dr Fabian GRAHAM | Chinese religion, Spirit Possession, Temple Ritual and Material Culture |
| Dr Giuseppe BOLOTTA | History and Cultural Politics of Childhood and Youth in Thailand, Development, Religion, and Humanitarianism in Southeast Asia, Transnational Governance of Childhood, Politics of Children’s Rights in the Global South |
| Dr Gustav BROWN | Islam in Indonesia, Social Psychology, Gender |
| Dr Heinz SCHEIFINGER | Relationship between Religion (especially Hinduism) and the Internet |
| Dr Hongxuan LIN | Progressive Articulations of Islam across the Islamicate World, with a particular focus on Indonesia. |
| Dr Jeremy KINGSLEY | Religious Authority and Local Governance in Eastern Indonesia, Transnational Law, Anthropology |
| Dr Joanna Claire COOK | Democratization of Religious Practice in Thailand |
| Dr Joanne WAGHORNE | Interrelation of Globalisation and Religion in Contemporary Hindu Organisations, Movements in India and the Diaspora |
| Dr Joshua Samuel GEDACHT | Relationship between Colonial Era War-Making, Islamic Networks, and the Reconfiguration of Religious Connections in Indonesia and the Philippines |
| Dr Juliana FINUCANE | Interreligious Relations, New Forms of Religious Cosmopolitanism and Missionary Activity |
| Dr Katharine McGREGOR | History, Memory, Violence and Cross-Cultural Responses to Criminal Trials in Indonesia |
| Dr Keping WU | Religion and Development in Contemporary China, Anthropology of Christianity, Ethnic and Religious Pluralism in Southwest China, Conversion and Buddhism in Contemporary Southeast China |
| Dr Kyuhoon CHO | The Conceptualization of the Category ‘Religion’ in Modern Korea, the Public Role of Buddhism and Christianity in a Globalised Korea, the Religious System of North Korea, and Religion as an Alternative Communication System in Modern Global Asia |
| Dr Lang CHEN | Religious Ideas, Praxis, and Pursuits of Urban, Educated Chinese from the Late Imperial, History of Tiantai Buddhism in the 16th to 17th Century |
| Dr Lei Kuan (Rongdao) LAI | Modern Chinese Religions, Identity Production and the Changing Landscape in Modern Chinese Buddhism |
| Dr Nan OUYANG | Sacred Spaces in East Asia, Modern Chinese Religion, and Chinese Historical Geography |
| Dr Mark MEULENBELD | Various Aspects of Daoism, New Project on “The Ritual Ecology of Local Religion: A Daoist Village in the Hills of Central Hunan” |
| Dr Mark STANFORD | Cultural Evolution, Evolution of Co-operation, Moral Psychology, |
| Dr Mei Feng MOK | Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Everyday Life, Transnationalism, Cultural Networks |
| Dr My (May) NGO | How Constructions of both the ‘Sacred’ and the ‘Secular’ are Negotiated within the Humanitarian and Development Field, and how an Examination of These Processes Render into Question Values that are Assumed as Universal and Neutral |
| Dr Natalie LANG | Urban Religion, Hindus in Singapore, Religion and the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Dr Nasir TAMARA | Islam and Politics, with a Focus on Globalization and Violence in the Name of Religion |
| Dr Noorhaidi HASAN | Political Islam in Contemporary Indonesia and Other Muslim-Populated Countries in Southeast Asia |
| Dr Nurfadzilah YAHAYA | History of Southeast Asia, History of Indian Ocean, History of Islamic World, Global and International History, Colonialism and Imperialism, Environmental History, History of Infrastructure; Legal History, Islamic law |
| Dr Philip FOUNTAIN | Emerging Engagements between ‘Religion’ and International Aid and Development |
| Dr Rachel RINALDO | Gender, Religion, Globalisation and the Nation-State with a Focus on Indonesia |
| Dr Richard WEISS | South Asian Religion, in Particular Tamil South Indian Hinduism |
| Dr Robin BUSH | Islam and Politics in Indonesia, Changing Roles of Mass-Based Religious Organisations, Religion and Development, Social Justice |
| Dr Ronit RICCI | Comparative Literature, South and Southeast Asian cultures |
| Dr Ronojoy SEN | Religion, State and Civil Society in India |
| Dr Santi ROZARIO | Gender, Religion (especially Islam), Modernity and Sustainability, Islam, Genetics and Identity, Women, Development, NGOs, Microcredit, Health (Childbirth) and Education, Inter-Religious Communal Relations, Migration and Identity |
| Dr Tabassum KHAN | Emergent Identities of Indian Muslim youth within Contexts of Economic Liberalization and Neoliberal Globalization |
| Dr Till MOSTOWLANSKY | Shia Networks Which Transcend the Modern Frontiers of Tajikistan, Pakistan, Iran and India through Development and Charity |
| Dr Yang YANG | Transnational Religious Networks between China and Southeast Asia, Politics of Ethno-Religious Identity of the Hui Muslims in Northwestern China |
| Dr Yijiang ZHONG | Religion and Modernity in East Asia, Exploring these Issues from the Thematic Perspectives of Authority, Epistemology and Space |
| Dr Ying Ruo SHOW | Gender and Religion, Chinese Buddhism, Chinese Diaspora, Oral Traditions and Ethnography of Ritual Performances |
| Dr Zeliha Gul INANC | Cultural Heritage and History Education in SEA, Higher Education for Refugees, Contemporary Religious Art and Architecture |
