Barbara Watson ANDAYA, Ph.D.

Emerita

Email: bandaya@hawaii.edu

Educational Background

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1975
M.A., University of Hawaii, 1969
B.A., University of Sydney, 1962

Barbara Watson Andaya is Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai’i and former Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. In 2005-06 she was President of the American Association of Asian Studies. Educated at the University of Sydney (BA, Dip.Ed.), she received an East West Center grant in 1966 and obtained her MA in history at the University of Hawai’i. She subsequently went on to study for her Ph.D. at Cornell University with a specialization in Southeast Asian history.

Her career has involved teaching and researching in Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and since 1994, Hawai’i. She maintains an active teaching and research interest across all Southeast Asia, but her specific area of expertise is the western Malay-Indonesia archipelago. In 2000 she received a John Simon Guggenheim Award, which resulted in The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Southeast Asian History, 1500-1800. She is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asia and is also General editor of the new Cambridge History of Southeast Asia.

Specializations

Christianity and religious change in Southeast Asia, ca. 1500-present, Women and gender in early modern Southeast Asia, Social issues in contemporary Southeast Asia.

Courses

ASAN 202: Introduction to Asian Studies
ASAN 496: Religions of Island Southeast Asia
ASAN 600: Contemporary Issues in Southeast Asian Studies
ASAN 630: Globalization in Southeast Asia

Selected Publications

Submitted: “Dress, Identity and Anxieties: Cross-cultural Interactions in Early Modern Southeast Asia.” In Refashioning Identities: The Politics of Dress in Southeast Asia, ed. Pattaratorn Chirapravati.
In press: “Women, Globalization, and Religious Change in Southeast Asia,” In Routledge Handbook of Islam in Southeast Asia, ed Khairuddin Aljunied.
“Local History and Identity: Teaching Tin Mining in 18th Century Perak.” In Wang Gungwu and Malaysia, ed. Danny Won Tze Ken and Lee Kam Hing. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, pp. 93-110. 2021.
2021. “Bringing the Gender History of Early Modern Southeast Asia into Global Conversations.” In A Companion to Gender History, Second Edition, ed. Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 319-334.
2021. “Religion and Commerce in Southeast Asia.” In the Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian Commercial History. Ed. David Ludden. New York: Oxford University Press.
Chinese Translation of “Come Home, Come Home!’ Chineseness, John Sung and Theatrical Evangelism in 1930s Southeast Asia.” In Beida Quyu Guobie Yanjiu (The PKU Journal of Area Studies), 2021.
“Revisiting Kepulauan Riau: Shifting Relationships in a Province of Islands.’ In The Riau Islands: Setting Sail, ed. Francis Hutchinson and Siwage Dharma Negara. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, pp. 51-186, 2021.
“Negotiating Ambiguities: Female Rule in Muslim Asia during the Early Modern Period.” World History Connected e-journal 17.3, October 2020.
2020: “Recording the Past of ‘Peoples without History’: Southeast Asia’s Sea Nomads.” Asian Review, 32, 1 (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok): 5-32, 2021.
2020. “Ambiguous Seas, Ambiguous Women: Contrasting Fortunes in Southeast Asia’s Early Modern Contact Zones.” In Encounters & Connected Histories: The East Indies and Singapore Before 1819. Singapore: National Museum, pp. 99-115.
2020. “Rethinking the Historical Place of ‘Warrior Women’ in Southeast Asia.” In Women Warriors in Southeast Asia, ed. Vina A. Lanzona and Frederick Rettig London and New York: Routledge, pp. 267-294.
2020. “Negotiating Ambiguities: Female Rule in Muslim Asia during the Early Modern Period.” World History Connected e-journal 17.3, October 2020.
2020. “Recording the Past of ‘Peoples without History’: Southeast Asia’s Sea Nomads.” Asian Review, 32, 1 (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok): 5-32.
2020. “The ‘Knowledge Economy’ and Tin Mining in Nineteenth-century Malaya.”
“Foreword” In Narciso Tan, Pugót: Head Taking, Ritual Cannibalism, and Human Sacrifice in the Philippines. Vibal Foundation Inc., Manila: Philippines, 2020.
“The Mysterious Ocean: Underwater Kingdoms, Sea Creatures and Saintly Miracles in Early Modern Southeast Asia and Europe.”Nalanda Srivijaya Centre Working Paper Series. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2019.
“Contextualizing the Global: Marketing Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity in Malaysia and Indonesia.” In Globalizing Asian Religions: Management and Marketing, ed. Wendy Smith et al, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 179-204, 2019.
“Christianity in Asia.” In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Ed. David Ludden. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.219, 2018.
“Women, Globalization, and Religious Change in Southeast Asia.” in Women of Asia: Globalization, Development, and Gender Equity, ed. Mehrangiz Najafizadeh and Linda L. Lindsey. New York: Routledge, pp. 139-153, 2018.
“The Perak Sultanate: Transitioning into the 21st Century.” Trends in Southeast Asia, No. 22. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2018.
“Audible Pasts: History, Sound and Human Experience in Southeast Asia.” Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Humanities 25, Supp. 1: 1-19, 2018.
“Exchanging Fashion: Cross-Cultural Influences in Southeast Asia and Early Modern Europe.” TAASA Revew: The Journal of the Asian Arts Association of Australia 27, 1: 4-6, 2018.
“Early Christianity and Asian Interactions.” NSC Highlights 8 (Mar-May): 3-4, 2018.
“Speaking to the Spirits: Thinking Comparatively about Women in Asian Indigenous beliefs.” In Gender in Focus: Identities, Codes, Stereotypes and Politics, ed. Andreea Zamfira, 2018.
“Imagination, Memory and History: Narrating India-Malay Intersections in the Early Modern Period.” In Narratives, Routes and Intersections in pre-Modern Asia, ed. Radhika Seshan (Routledge), 2017.

“Gender Legacies and Modern Transitions.” In Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia, ed. Robert W. Hefner. London/New York: Routledge, pp. 31-42, 2018.
(with Leonard Y. Andaya). A History of Malaysia, Third Edition(MacmillanPalgrave: Basingstoke and London). A completely revised and updated edition of 6 below, 2017.
“Gathering ‘Knowledge’ in the Bay of Bengal: The Letters of John Adolphus Pope, 1785-1788.” In Penang and its Networks of Knowledge, ed. Peter Zabielskis, Yeoh Seng Guan & Kat Fatland. Penang: Areca Books, pp. 35-60, 2017.
“Seas, Oceans and Cosmologies in Southeast Asia.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 48, 3 (October): 349–371, 2017.
“Glocalization and the Marketing of Christianity in Early Modern Southeast Asia.” Religions 8 (1): 7, 2017.
(with Leonard Y. Andaya). “Divergence, Convergence, Integration. Port Cities and the Dynamics of Multiple Networks, 1500-1900.” In Alan Chong et all, eds. Port Cities: Multicultural Emporiums of Asia, 1500-1900. Singapore: ACM, pp. 10-29, 2016.
“Islam and Christianity in South-East Asia, 1600-1700.” Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 11 South and East Asia, Africa and the Americas (1600- 1700), ed. David Thomas and John Chesworth. Leiden: Brill, pp. 15-28, 2016.
“Islam and Christianity in Southeast Asia 1600-1700”. Working Paper No 3 (A longer version of 8 above). ISEAS- Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, 2016.
“Imagination, Memory and History: Narrating India-Malay Intersections in the Early Modern Period”. In Narratives, Routes and Intersections in pre-Modern Asia, ed. Radhika Seshan. London: Routledge, pp. 8-35, 2016.
2016: (with Leonard Y. Andaya). A History of Malaysia, Third Edition(Macmillan: Basingstoke and London).
2016: ‘Rivers, Oceans and Spirits: Gender and Water Cosmologies in Southeast Asia.’ TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 4, 2 (July) 239-26.
2015: (with Leonard Y. Andaya) A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830. Cambridge University Press.
2015: “Come Home, Come Home!” Chineseness, John Sung and Theatrical Evangelism in 1930s Southeast Asia.” Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Freiburg (Germany) Occasional Paper No. 3
2015: “The Glocalization of Christianity in Early Modern Southeast Asia.” In Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1350-1800, ed. Ooi Keat Gin and Hoang Anh Tuah (London: Routledge), pp. 233-49.
2014: “Connecting Oceans and Multicultural Navies: A Historian’s View on Challenges and Potential for Indian Ocean-Western Pacific Interaction.” In Converging Regions: Global Perspectives on Asia and the Middle East, ed. Nele Lenze and Charlotte Schriwer (Ashgate).
2014: ‘Gathering “Knowledge” in the Bay of Bengal: The Letters of John Adolphus Pope, 1785-1788.” Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society87, 2: 1-19.
2009: “Between Empires and Emporia: The Economics of Christianization in Early Modern Southeast Asia.” In Empires and Emporia: The Orient and World Historical Space and Time, ed. Jos Gommans. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient52, 4-5: 963-97.
2008: “Women and the Performance of Power in Early Modern Southeast Asia.” In Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History, ed. Anne Walthall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 22-44.
2006: “Oceans Unbounded: Transversing Asia across ‘Area Studies.'” Journal of Asian Studies 65, 4 (November): 669-90. Republished in a revised form in the e-journal Japan Focus.
2006: “Studying Women and Gender in Southeast Asia: A ‘State of the Art’ Essay.” International Journal of Asian Studies 4, 1:1-24.
2006: The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Southeast Asian History. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. Paperback edition, 2008.
2001: (with Leonard Y. Andaya). A History of Malaysia, Second Edition (Macmillan: Basingstoke and London). Translated into Thai in 2006, with a Chinese translation in progress.
2000 [edited collection]: Other Pasts: Women, Gender and History in Early Modern Southeast Asia (Honolulu: Center for Southeast Asia Studies).
1993. To Live as Brothers: Southeast Sumatra in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).
1982 (with Virginia Matheson). Raja Ali Haji, The Precious Gift (Tuhfat al Nafis). An Annotated Translation (Oxford in Asia: Kuala Lumpur)