Professor Ann Kumar
Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University
 Professor, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories
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Qualifications
- 1970, Ph.D. Australian National University
- 1965, B.A. O.S. A.N.U. Honours, Australian National University
Academic Awards and Distinctions
- 2003 Centenary Medal
- 1998-2000 Vice-President, Australian Academy of the Humanities
- 1997 Honorary Professorship: Research Professor, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (only the second such appointment made by the Institute)
- 1992 Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities
- 1988 Dutch Ministry of Education and Sciences Medal
- 1965 University Medal, A.N.U.
- 1965 University Women's Prize
Research
Major interests are: the nation-state in contemporary Southeast Asia; Indonesian politics; Indonesian Islam; Impact of the West on Indonesia; Indonesian history; Indonesia's Writing Traditions; Javanese theatre; Early Japanese history.
Present Appointments
- Director, International Centre of Excellence for Asia and the Pacific Studies
- Professor, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
- Associate Director, Centre for Research on Language Change, Australian National University
Previous Appointments
- 1993 - 1996 Dean, Faculty of Asian Studies
- 1988 Reader, Asian History Centre, ANU
- 1986 - 1992 Head, Asian History Centre, ANU
- 1981 - 1987 Senior Lecturer, Asian History Centre, ANU
- 1972 - 1980 Lecturer, Department of Asian Civilisations, ANU
- 1971 Senior Tutor, Department of Asian Civilisations, ANU
Courses Taught
- Islam Alternatives in Southeast Asia
- Indonesia: Politics, Society and Development
- Representing Asia on Film: Southeast Asia
- Representing Asia on Film: East Asia
- Colonialism and Resistance in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines (Indonesia component)
- State, Society and Politics in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines (Indonesia Component)
- Nationalism and Social Change in Asia
- Foreign Policy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia
- Modern Indonesia
- Approaches to the Study of Society
- Islam: History and Institutions (Indonesian topics)
- Technology, Innovation and Society in Asia (Indonesian section)
- Arts Faculty course LANG 3002: Translation Across Languages: Specialised Material
- Indonesia's Heritage
- Clio in Asia
- Islamic Alternatives in Southeast Asia
- Honours reading courses
- Readings in Southeast Asian Culture
- Readings in Asian Societies and Histories A
- Readings in Asian Societies and Histories B
Publications
Books
- Surapati, Man and Legend: a Study of Three Babad Traditions Leiden, (E.J. Brill), pp.421 (1976)
- The Diary of a Javanese Muslim: Religion, politics and the pesantren 1883-1886 Faculty of Asian Studies Monographs: New Series No. 7, Canberra, pp.177 (1985)
- Illuminations: Writing Traditions of Indonesia (with John H. McGlynn), New York and Tokyo (Weatherhill), pp.298 (1996)
- Java and Modern Europe: Ambiguous Encounters London (Curzon), pp.459pp (1996)
- Candi Bahasa (with John H. McGlynn), forthcoming.
Book Chapters
- Indonesia and Malaysia in The Civilizations of Monsoon Asia A.L. Basham (ed.), Sydney (Angus and Robertson), pp.133-178 (1974)
- The Peasantry and the State on Java: Changes of Relationship, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries in Indonesia: Australian Perspectives James J. Fox et al., Canberra, Research School of Pacific Studies, pp.577-599 (1980)
- A Legacy of Two Homelands: Chinese Manuscript Literature in Illuminations (with Ian Proudfoot, Kumar and McGlynn eds., pp.201-212 (1996)
- Java: a Self-critical examination of the nation and its history in The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies: Responses to Modernity in the Diverse States of Southeast Asia and Korea, 1750-1900 A.J.S.Reid ed., Macmillan, pp.321-343 (1997)
- Pancasila Plus, Pancasila Minus in Islam: Essays on Scripture, Thought and Society: A Festschrift in Honour of Anthony H. Johns Peter G. Riddell and Tony Street eds., Leiden, Brill; vol. XXVII of the series 'Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science', edited by H. Daiber and D. Pingree (1997)
- Imagining Women in Javanese Religion: Goddesses, Ascetes, Queens, Consorts, Wives in Other Pasts: Women, Gender and History in Early Modern Southeast Asia Barbara Andaya, ed.
- No gift or imitation: the birth of modern historiography and political thought in Java in Modernity in Southeast Asia volume ed. G. Lockhart (forthcoming)
- The State and Status of the Nation in Autonomy and Disintegration in Indonesia Damien Kingsbury and Harry Aveling eds., Routledge Curzon, London and New York (2003)
Journal Articles
- Dipanagara (1787-1855) in Indonesia No.13, pp.69-118 (April 1972)
- Javanese Historiography in and of the 'Colonial Period': a Case Study in Perceptions of the Past in Southeast Asia Anthony Reid and David Marr, eds., Asian Studies Association of Australia Southeast Asia Series No. 4, pp.187-206 (1979)
- Developments in four societies over the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries in The Development of Indonesian Society in Harry Aveling (ed.), Queensland U.P., pp.1-44 (1980)
- Javanese Court Society and Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century: the record of a Lady Soldier: Part I: The Religious, Social and Economic Life of the Court in Indonesia 29 pp.1-46 (May 1980)
- Javanese Court Society and Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century: the record of a Lady Soldier: Part II: Political Developments: the Courts and the Company 1784-1791 in Indonesia 30 pp.67-111 (October 1980)
- "The 'Suryengalagan Affair' of 1883 and its Successors: Born Leaders in Changed Times in BKI 138 2/3, pp.251-284 (1982)
- On Variation in Babads in BKI 140 2/3, pp.223-247 (1984)
- Opening a 'Life' in Asian Studies Association of Australia Review vol.10, no. 2, pp.2-9 (Nov. 1986)
- Literary Approaches to Slavery and the Indies Enlightenment: van Hogendorp's Kraspoekol in Indonesia (Cornell University), 43, pp.43-65 (1987)
- Islam, the Chinese and Indonesian Historiography in Journal of Asian Studies (Review Article), vol. 46, no.3, pp.603-616 (August 1987)
- Ethnicity, Gender, and Subordination: Another Return to Old Batavia in ASAA Review (Review Article), vol 12:1, pp.94-100 (1988)
- A Swedish View of Batavia in 1783-4: Hornstedt's Letters in Archipel 37, pp.247-262 (1989)
- Article on Indonesian studies in Australia in ASAA Review (1990)
- Kingship and Religion: Looking from Java to Japan in Semaian 5, Looking in odd Mirrors: the Java Sea VJH Houben, HMJ Maier and W van der Molen (eds), Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden, pp.258-288 (1992)
- Does Japanese Have an Austronesian Stratum in Pan-Asiatic Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics January 8-10 1996 Institute of Language and Culture, Mahidol University, vol.l1 pp.522-543 (1996)
- Explorings and Reflections on Southeast Asian History in Our Cultural Heritage John Bigelow ed., The Australian Academy of the Humanities, Canberra, pp.170-178 (1997)
- An Indonesian Element in the Yayoi: The evidence of Biological Anthropology in Anthropological Science 106/3, pp.265-276 (1998)
- Encyclopedia-izing and the Organization of Knowledge: A Cross-Cultural Perspective in BKI vol. 155-3, pp.470-488 (1999)
- Lexical Evidence for Early Contact Between Indonesian Languages and Japanese in Oceanic Linguistics 39/2, pp.219-255 (December 2000)
- The Refugee Crisis and the Humanities in Symposium 22 (October 2002)
- Numerous reviews in American, Canadian, European and Southeast-Asian journals.
Encyclopaedia contributions
- Sarikat Islam in Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition, 1995) (1994)
- The Wali Sanga in Early Modern History, Didier Muller Heritage Encyclopaedia Anthony Reid ed. (1996)
- Chinese Manuscript Literature in Didier Muller Heritage Encyclopaedia (with Ian Proudfoot), John H. McGlynn ed.
Memberships
- 1996-: Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Treasurer 1996-2003; Vice-President Academy Council 1998-9