Barbara Watson Andaya (born 7 June 1943) is an Australian historian and author who studies Indonesia and

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. She has also done extensive research on women's history in Southeast Asia, and of late, on the localization of Christianity in the region. She teaches courses in Asian Studies as a full professor at the

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi system and houses the main offic ...

, and has served as director of the university's Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She was President of the American Association for Asian Studies from 2005 to 2006.

Biography

Born on 7 June 1943, she received her

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and Dip.Ed. from the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...

. In 1966 she received an East-West Center grant to study for her

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in history at the Hawaiʻi. Subsequently, she went on to complete her Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

. She is married to Leonard Andaya, a historian and scholar of similar topics at the same university. Awarded a Guggenheim Award in 2000, it resulted in ''The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Southeast Asian History, 1500–1800'' (a ''

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'' Academic Book of the Year in 2007).

Publications

* ''Cambridge History of Early Modern Southeast Asia'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), (with Leonard Andaya). * *''A History of Malaysia'', Second Edition (Macmillan: Basingstoke and London, 2001). (with Leonard Y. Andaya). *''Other Pasts: Women, Gender and History in Early Modern Southeast Asia'' (Honolulu: Center for Southeast Asia Studies, 2000). *''To Live as Brothers: Southeast Sumatra in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries'' (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1993). *'' Raja Ali Haji, The Precious Gift ( Tuhfat al Nafis). An Annotated Translation'' (Oxford in Asia: Kuala Lumpur, 1982). (with Virginia Matheson). *''Perak, the Abode of Grace. A Study of an Eighteenth Century Malay State'' (Oxford in Asia: Kuala Lumpur, 1979).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Andaya, Barbara 1943 births Living people 20th-century Australian historians 21st-century Australian historians Historians of Southeast Asia Presidents of the Association for Asian Studies Australian women historians University of Sydney alumni University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni Cornell University alumni Australian expatriates in the United States