Donald K. Emmerson
Donald K. Emmerson is a professor at Stanford University, where he is a senior fellow in the Stanford Institute for International Studies, heads the Asia/Pacific Research Center's Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF), and teaches courses in international relations and international policy studies. An instance of the latter is his Winter 2004 offering on "Southeast Asia: Issues and Perspectives."
Emmerson lectures frequently on Southeast Asian topics. In 2003, for example, he spoke to university audiences at Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, and Princeton. He has also testified before Congress on Southeast Asian subjects, most recently in 2001 and 1999. In 1999, for the Carter Center, he observed Indonesia's national election in Ambon and the UN-administered vote on autonomy in East Timor.
Among Emmerson's writing projects for 2004 are a book, What Is Indonesia? Identity, Calamity, and Democracy; an edited collection, Seeing Southeast Asia: Spectres of Reflection; and articles and chapters on Southeast Asian regional identity, U.S. policies towards Islamism, and Indonesian politics. His most recent publications include "Situating Southeast Asian Studies: Realm, Guild, and Home," in Anthony Reid, ed., Southeast Asian Studies for a Globalized Age: Pacific Persectives (2004); "[Indonesia:] A Year of Living Dangerously?" in the Journal of Democracy (January 2004); and "Reviving Liberalism, Respecting Local Context" in The Responsive Community (Summer 2003). Other recent writings include pieces on democracy, regionalism, security, and Southeast Asia in the Brown Journal of World Affairs, the Van Zorge Report on Indonesia, and YaleGlobal; in edited volumes such as Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, The Asia Pacific in the New Millennium, and The Many Faces of Asian Security; and in newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times. In 2001 Gramedia (Jakarta) published his expansion and Indonesian translation of a volume he edited, Indonesia Beyond Suharto (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999).
Prior to moving to Stanford in 1999, Emmerson was a professor of political science and Southeast Asian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His Yale dissertation, Indonesia's Elite, was published in 1976. He and his wife, Carolyn, have two daughters. As an undergraduate at Princeton, he majored in international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School. Born in Japan the son of a foreign service officer, he grew up mainly overseas. Given that background, he should speak more languages than he does.
In 2004 on the Stanford campus, SEAF will host a visiting scholar, Dr. Patricia Martinez of the University of Malaya, in January-April; sponsor a pre-publication workshop on "Southeast Asia in Political Science" in June; help organize a conference on "French and American Approaches to Islam and the Muslim World" in September; host a Stanley Foundation conference on Southeast Asian regionalism later in the fall; and follow up on the Report of the National Commission on U.S.-Indonesian Relations that SEAF co-sponsored and co-published in 2003.
The Forum will also continue to host visiting speakers. From its formation in September 1999 through December 2003, SEAF has sponsored or co-sponsored apperances by 48 experts and practitioners knowledgeable about Southeast Asia. In 2003 they included, for example, former Thai Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan, former Philippine Defense Secretary (Ret.) General Angelo Reyes, Malaysiakini columnist Dr. M. Bakri Musa, and National University of Singapore Prof. Anthony Reid.
M. Bakri Musa, M.D.
Malaysian-born Bakri Musa, a surgeon in private practice in California, is a columnist for Malaysiakini. Apart from scientific articles in professional journals, Bakri.s credits have appeared in such publications as The New Straits Times, The Star, Education Quarterly, The Edge, Far Eastern Economic Review, and the International Herald Tribune. He has been a commentator on National Public Radio.s Marketplace program.
He has published three books: The Malay Dilemma Revisited: Race Dynamics in Modern Malaysia, Malaysia in the Era of Globalization, and An Education System Worthy of Malaysia.
He may be contacted at bakrimusa@juno.com
Patricia Martinez
Patricia A. Martinez is a Malaysian who is Senior Research Fellow for Religion and Culture and head of the Intercultural Studies Research at the Asia-Europe Institute of the University of Malaya.
She is the first non-Muslim Malaysian with a Ph.D. in Religion, specialization Islam, having studied in both the USA and the Middle East. Using her knowledge of Arabic and Islamic texts and tradition, she employs interdisciplinary analyses in her presentations and publications on Islam in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, Women and Islam and Christian-Muslim relations. Her latest project researched the identity and Islam of ordinary Muslims in Malaysia. She has been awarded a Fulbright in Islamic Studies at Ohio and Stanford Universities for 2003-4.
Bridget Welsh
Bridget Welsh is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asia Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University. She works on Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Myanmar and is interested in democracy, violence and conflict in developing nations as well as international political economy. Prof. Welsh was a Fellow at the Institute for Strategic and International Studies at the National University of Malaysia in Bangi and has taught at Hofstra University. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.
She has written extensively on contemporary Malaysian politics, elections, vigilante violence in Southeast Asia, transnational issues in Southeast Asia, international political economy and is the editor of the newly-released book, Reflections: The Mahathir Years.