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TeachingI enjoy teaching, and I teach units in a wide range of subjects: Indonesian language, Asian and Indonesian Studies, Anthropology and Women’s Studies. I mainly teach the lower levels of Indonesian language and I find it very satisfying to see students progress from rank beginner level to social competence. I love to integrate my experience of living in villages and towns in Indonesia into language classes. I teach two Honours-level social theory units and these advanced undergraduate units:
Indonesia
Society and Culture
Gender Relations in Asia
Religion, Politics and Society in Asia
Environment in Asia: Concepts and Controversies SupervisionsI have been nominated for several Excellence in Teaching Awards for supervising Honours, Masters and PhD students. I welcome enquiries from interested prospective research students. I find supervisions a very satisfying part of my work, and love to be kept at the cutting edge of research by my research students. Some of the MA and PhD theses listed below have won prizes and some have been awarded Distinctions (usually awarded to only about 5% of postgraduate theses); many chapters have been published as articles in prestigious international journals; and some are being published as books: Challenging Gender Norms: Five Genders Among the Bugis in Indonesia by Sharyn Graham Davies (Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2007); Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Beyond Gender Binaries also by Sharyn Graham Davies (London: RoutledgeCurzon, in press); Chinese Identity in Post-Suharto Indonesia by Chang-Yau Hoon (Brighton and New York: Sussex Academic Press, 2008) and Feminist Movements in Contemporary Japan by Laura Dales (Routledge, 2009). I am now a proud “grandmother” as several of my former students are now successful academics in their own right.
Here are the topics of some of the Masters and PhD theses I have supervised:
Legitimising the Union of Myanmar Through Primary School Textbooks (prize-winning M.Ed. thesis by Nick Cheesman)
Feminist Praxis And Agency In Contemporary Japan (Laura Dales)
Hunters, Wedding Mothers, and Androgynous Priests: Conceptualising Gender among Bugis in South Sulawesi, Indonesia (Sharyn Graham)
Organisational Guanxi and State Owned Enterprises in South-west China (Stephen Grainger)
Rural Women, Poverty and Social Welfare Programs in Indonesia (Rasita Purba)
Globalizing Local Girls: The Representation of Adolescents in Indonesian Female Teen Magazines (this thesis by Suzie Handajani was awarded a Distinction)
Reconceptualising Ethnic Chinese Identity in Post-Suharto Indonesia (this thesis by Chang-Yau Hoon was awarded a distinction) ResearchI am an anthropologist; I have specialised in the study of contemporary society and culture in Indonesia, with a particular focus on gender relations. I have conducted long-term fieldwork in Bali and West Sumatra, areas chosen for their contrasting cultures within the Indonesian nation-state – the mainly Hindu Balinese are patrilineal and strongly patriarchal, while the Minangkabau are strongly Muslim and have a matrilineal society. I make a point of always choosing beautiful field sites.
I enjoy conceptualising new research and writing projects, and this is evidenced in numerous editing and research leadership roles. One of my recent projects was a special issue of the UWA feminist journal Outskirts, which I co-edited with one of my former students, Dr. Laura Dales. The issue is on “Feminist Engagements in Other Places”. See http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/archive/volume17. Another collaborative project was the book, Women and Work in Indonesia (Routledge 2008), which I co-edited with Michelle Ford.
One of my passions at the moment is a comparative project on adolescence in Indonesia. I am Team Leader of this large Australia Research Council Discovery Project on “Ambivalent Adolescents in Indonesia”. In conjunction with this project my team and I are producing many publications and organising many activities, including a Symposium on Islamic Education in Indonesia. See details of the Symposium here. Two other outcomes of this project are a special issue of the Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs devoted to “Islamic Education in Indonesia” (vol. 42(1), 2008), and a special issue of the electronic journal, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, on “Indonesian Youth Today: Body, Sexuality and Gender”, (18, 2008, http://intersections.anu.edu.au).
I have recently completed an AIGRP-funded project “Madrasah (Islamic Day School) Governance and its Effectiveness”, with my colleague, Dr Raihani.
We are also working together, with Dr Chang-Yau Hoon (my former PhD student), on another ARC Discovery Project, “Education for a Tolerant and Multicultural Indonesia”. This is a three-year project, 2009-2011. We are conducting fieldwork in different sites in Indonesia in 2009 and 2010, and will be generating a significant body of research not only on religious and citizenship education in Indonesia, but also more generally on inter-faith dialogue, the multiculturalism discourse and citizenship in Indonesia. Publications since 2002-2009Books and Special Issues of Journals 2008d Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, Special Issue on “Islamic Education in Indonesia”, vol. 42(1) (Guest Editor)
2008 Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Special Issue on “Indonesian Youth Today: Body, Sexuality and Gender”, 18 (Guest Editor)
http://intersections.anu.edu.au
2008 Women and Work in Indonesia (Michelle Ford and Lyn Parker (eds),
Routledge.
2007 Outskirts: feminisms along the edge, Special Issue on “Feminist Engagements in Other Places”, 17 (Guest Co-editor with Laura Dales)
http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/
2005 The Agency of Women in Asia (Lyn Parker ed.). Singapore: Marshall Cavendish.
2004 Intersections: Gender, History & Culture in the Asian Context, Special Issue on “Indonesian Women: Histories and Life Stories”, 10 (Guest Editor) http://intersections.anu.edu.au
2003 From Subjects to Citizens: Balinese Villagers in the Indonesian Nation-State. Copenhagen: NIAS Press (sole author)
2003 Jurnal Antropologi Indonesia, Special Issue on Bali, 70 (Guest Co-Editor with Arlette Ottino)
Articles in Scholarly Refereed Journals
2009 “Religion, Class and Schooled Sexuality among Minangkabau Teenage Girls,” Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 165 (1): 62-94.
2008 “To Cover the Aurat: Veiling, Sexual Morality and Agency among the Muslim Minangkabau, Indonesia,” Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 16.
http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue16_contents.htm
2008 (with Elisabeth Jackson) “‘Enriched with Knowledge’: Modernisation, Islamisation and the Future of Islamic Education in Indonesia,” Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, Special Issue on “Islamic Education in Indonesia”, vol. 42 (1): 21-54.
2008 “Theorising Adolescent Sexuality in Indonesia,” Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Special Issue on “Indonesian Youth Today: Body, Sexuality and Gender”, 18.
http://intersections.anu.edu.au
2007 “Of Faith and Feminism: Imagining Discursive Feminist Space for Muslim Women,” Outskirts: feminisms along the edge Special Issue on “Feminist Engagements in Other Places”, 17.
http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/archive/volume17/parker
2003 “Developing an Indigenous Modernity: Birth in Bali”. Jurnal Antropologi Indonesia, 70,
Special Issue on Bali: 20-40.
2002 “The Power of Letters and the Female Body: Female Literacy in Bali,” Women’s Studies International Forum, 25, 1, Jan-Feb 2002: 79-96.
2002 “The Subjectification of Citizenship: Student Interpretations of School Teachings in Bali,” Asian Studies Review, 26, 1: 3-38.
This article won the Asian Studies Review prize for best article of 2002.
Chapters in Edited Books
2008 (with Michele Ford) “Introducing Women and Work in Indonesia’” in Women and Work in Indonesia, Routledge, pp. 1-16.
2005 “Introduction. Introducing Women’s Agency” in The Agency of Women in Asia (Lyn Parker ed.). Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, pp. 1-25.
2005 “Resisting Resistance and Finding Agency: Women and Medicalized Birth in Bali,” in The Agency of Women in Asia (Lyn Parker ed.), Chapter 3. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, pp. 62-97.
Other Scholarly Public Output
2006 “Islamic Veiling: Religious Devotion and Sexual Morality Among Minangkabau Adolescent Girls in West Sumatra” NIASnytt Asian Insights, no.2 July, pp.7-9.
2005 “Uniform Jilbab” Inside Indonesia, 83, July-Sept., pp.21-22.
2003 Entry on “The Balinese” in Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, Human Relations Area Files, Yale University |