PERSONAL PARTICULARS Name: Prof Kathryn Robinson EDUCATION Ph.D (Anthropology) Australian National University B.A. (Hons) (Anthropology) University of Sydney PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2007 - current Professor, Department of Anthropology RSPAS, Australian National University (research and postgraduate supervision) 1995-2007 Senior Fellow, Department of Anthropology RSPAS, Australian National University (research and postgraduate supervision; Head of Department 1998-2002; Associate Director RSPAS 1997-1999) 1993-1995 Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, The University of Newcastle (Medical Sociology plus Gender Studies, Southeast Asian Studies) 1991-1992 Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Anthropology (Medical Sociology), The University of Newcastle, NSW 1988-1990 Senior Lecturer, Anthropology and Comparative Sociology, Macquarie University, Sydney 1985-1987 Lecturer, Anthropology and Comparative Sociology (Anthropology of Southeast Asia), Macquarie University (Comparative sociology, Development studies and Southeast Asian studies) 1984-1985 Visiting Fellow, School of Modern Asian Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane. Seconded as Senior Academic consultant to the Social Science Field Research Training Station (PLPIIS) Hasanuddin University, Ujung Pandang, Indonesia 1982-1983 Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Sydney (Third World Studies) 1980-1982 Lecturer, Anthropology and Comparative Sociology (Anthropology of Southeast Asia), Macquarie University. (Comparative sociology, development studies and Southeast Asian studies) 1
CONSULTANCY EXPERIENCE OR SERVICES RENDERED 2007-2010 Social Baseline Study for the Rio Tinto Sulawesi Nickel project. Social, historical and cultural study of the location of a mine prior to full exploration and development 2005 - Review of AusAID s approach to community development 1995-, Australian International Development Assistance Agency (AusAID) /International Development Support Services (IDSS). With Dr Andrew McWilliam 2005 Training in cross cultural sensitivity for the International Section of the Commonwealth Department of Environment and Heritage (June 20, 22) 2002 - current Community Participation Period Contract, Australian International Development Assistance Agency (AusAID) /International Development Support Services (IDSS) 2002 Gender and Community Participation Adviser, East Timor Community Water Supply and Sanitation Project (AusAID/IDSS) 2001 Community Participation in Privatisation of Electricity Supply, Indonesia (Lembaga Demografi Universitas Indonesia for the Asian Development Bank) Team member 2001 Gender and Community Participation Advisor, Project Identification Mission, Indonesia Water Supply and Sanitation, (AusAID/IDSS) 2001 Gender Advisor, BAREG Institutional Strengthening Project (Regional Environmental Agency), Bali. (AusAID / Coffey MPW) 2000 Community Participation Advisor, BAREG project (Regional Environmental Agency), Bali. (AusAID funded, implemented by Coffey MPW) 2000 Community Participation and Gender Specialist, East Timor Rural Water Supply Design Mission (AusAID/IDSS) 2000 Appraisal of Indonesia Gender Needs Study (AusAID) 1991 - current Period Contract: Women and Development. IDSS / Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (AusAID). [This contract has been continuously successfully renewed since 1991] 2
1999 Academic Consultant, Mangrove Rehabilitation Project, South Sulawesi (Department of Anthropology, University of Indonesia and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, funded by the Macarthur Foundation) 1995, 1998 Instructor, Family Planning Association Consultants Training Course, Canberra 1998 Instructor (Global Issues Expert) Confidence Training for Business Women, Jakarta. 23-27 February with Ministry of Women s Affairs (NCDS for IASTP / AusAID) 1995-1996 Evaluation of Streetwize Comics/ Vietnam Youth Federation Project- production of AIDS information comics (AusAID/Streetwize Comics) Team member 1993-1994 Women and Population (Writing Policy Papers for submission to the OECD DAC) (AusAID) (with M. Winn) 1992-1993 Social and Economic Monitoring, Vanuatu Pastures Improvement Project. (GRM International/AusAID) Gender advisor 1992 Design Document, Vanuatu Rural Water Supply. (AusAID/DSS) Sole consultant 1991 Instructor, FIELDLINCS Programme for Infectious Disease Control, Jogjakarta, Indonesia (WHO) 1991 Development of guidelines for environmental impact assessment. (AusAID/ Scott & Furphy). Team member responsible for social and economic infrastructure projects 1990 Development of guidelines for social impact assessment. Asian Development Bank / IDSS Team member, Anthropological inputs 1989 Evaluation of Lombok Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Scheme; Appraisal of Design for Lombok-wide Extension; Appraisal of Design Document for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project in East Kalimantan and Sumbawa (Indonesia). (AusAID). Team member responsible for Women in Development and Community Development.) 1987 Evaluation of Tongan Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (Women and Development Network / AIDAB). Sole consultant 3
EDITORIAL & EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS AND BOOK SERIES 1996 - current Editor, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Routledge OFFICIAL POSITIONS HELD IN ACADEMIC / PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES - 2010 (President); 2007-2008 (Vice-President) Asian Studies Association of Australia Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Fellow, Australian Anthropology Society Fellow, American Anthropological Association KEYNOTES & PLENARIES by title, venue & organizers 10-14 April Invited plenary speaker, Rights and cosmopolitan movements: Women s anti-violence movement in Indonesia Diamond Jubilee Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth, Keele University RESEARCH PROJECTS / PROGRAMMES / INITIATIVES & COLLABORATIONS Growing up in Indonesia: Experience, Diversity and Youth Transitions. Australia Netherlands Research Co-operation 2008-2011 Sulawesi Nickel project social baseline study Rio Tinto C$2.5 million (Rio Tinto Sulawesi Nickel social baseline) 2008-2012 ARC Discovery Grant (with Dr Andrew McWilliam), Being Muslim in Eastern Indonesia: Practice, politics and cultural diversity C.$520,000 2007-2010 ARC Discovery Grant (with Dr Andrew McWilliam), Being Muslim in Eastern Indonesia: Practice, politics and cultural diversity C$520,000 Academy of the Social Sciences/Academy of the Humanities, Seminar Grant $4000 (Internet mediated forms of sociality) ARC Asia Pacific Futures network, Seminar Grant $3500 (Internet mediated forms of sociality) 4
International Centre for Excellence in Asian and Pacific Studies (ICEAPS), International workshop on articulating environmental and social science approaches towards effective, collaborative management of coastal ecosystems in Indonesia (with Dr Carol Warren, Murdoch University and Professor Leontine Visser, Wageningen University, The Netherlands), $10,000-2008 ARC Discovery Grant, Ambivalent Adolescents in Indonesia (with Dr Lyn Parker UWA, Dr Pam Nilan U. of Newcastle and Dr Linda Bennett, La Trobe University $400,000 2004 - ARC Discovery Grant: Interpersonal and Family Relations in Transcultural/Transnational Marriages $279,000 2003-2007 ARC Linkage Grant, Diverse economies in Indonesia and the Philippines, (with Prof K Gibson, Dr A. McWilliam, Dr D. McKay) $700,000 1999 Mangrove Rehabilitation Project, Paojepe, South Sulawesi (with Department of Anthropology University of Indonesia) Funding from Macarthur Foundation, total funding US$200, 000 Conference grants related to the projects listed above PUBLICATIONS Authored Book and Monograph Gender, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia, London and New York: Routledge. Edited Book 2007 Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion, London: Palgrave. (with Tom Boellstorff and David Murray) The East and the West: Comparative Archipelagos, Anthropological Forum Special Issue. Vol 17 No 3 (November ). ( Book Chapter Islam, gender and politics in Indonesia, in L. Edwards and M. Roces (eds) Women in Asia, vol 1. Women and Political Power. London and New York, Routledge: 292-306. 2008 Islamic Cosmopolitics, human rights and anti-violence strategies in Indonesia, in P. Werbner (ed) Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Feminist, Vernacular and Rooted Perspectives. ASA Monograph. Oxford: Berg. (with Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt) Bodies in contest: gender difference and equity in a coal mine, in Lyn Parker and Michele Ford (eds) Women and Work in Indonesia. London and New York, Routledge: 120-135. 5
2007 Introduction, Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion, K. Robinson (ed). London: Palgrave: 1-22. Islamic influences on Indonesian feminism, in Tony Day (ed) Identifying with Freedom: Indonesia after Suharto. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books: 171-177. We, the ethnographers, in Brij V. Lal and Allison Ley. (eds) The Coombs book: a house of memories. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Muslim Women s Political Struggle for Marriage Law Reform in Contemporary Indonesia, in Amanda Whiting and Carolyn Evans (eds) Mixed Blessings: Laws, Religion and Women s Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region. Leiden, Brill:183-210 2005 (with Lois Bryson and Kathleen McPhillips) Turning public issues into private troubles: Lead contamination, domestic labour and the exploitation of women s unpaid labour in Australia, in Leslie king and Deborah McCarthy (eds) Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action, Lanham. MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 2004 Islam, gender and politics in Indonesia, in Virginia Hooker and Amin Saikal (eds.) Islamic Perspectives on the New Millennium. Singapore, ISEAS: 183-198. Refereed Article Anthropology of Indonesia in Australia the politics of culture, Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs (in press). 2008 The Culture of politics and the politics of culture in the Anthropology of Douglas Miles, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 9(3): 242-251. (with Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt) Period problems at the coal face, Feminist Review 89: 102-121. 2007 (with Andrew McWilliam) Asset based community development (ABCD) in Indonesia: Action research and the diverse economies of Buton and Ngada (Flores), Masyarakat Indonesia. Marriage Migration, Gender Transformations, and Family Values in the Global Ecumene, Gender, Place and Culture 14(4): 483-493. Idioms of vernacular humanism: the West and the East, Anthropological Forum, Special Issue East Indies, West Indies: Comparative Archipelagos 17(3): 241-255. Islamic influences on Indonesian feminism, Social Analysis Forum, Identifying with freedom: Indonesia after Suharto (ed Tony Day), 50(1) (Spring):171-177. 2004 Chandra Jayawardena and the ethical turn in Australian anthropology, Critique of Anthropology 24(4): 381-404. 6
(with Katherine Gibson, Deidre McKay and Andrew McWilliam) Negotiating alternative economic strategies for regional development, Development Bulletin No 65: 46-51. Published Translation 2005 (Ed. with Mukhlis Paeni) Tapak Tapak Waktu, Makassar Indonesia, Yayasan Ininnawa. Indonesian translation of Living through Histories. ANY OTHER INFORMATION 2008: Australian Teaching and Learning Council (formerly Carrick Institute) Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning 2007: Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia 2007: ANU Vice-Chancellor s Award for Excellence in Supervision 7