Dr Jane Drakard - Researcher Profile

Biography

After graduating with BA Hons in Politics and Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK), I moved to Australia to undertake an MA in Southeast Asian history at Monash University. This was followed by a PhD in Southeast Asian History at the Australian National University and a period as an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Pacific and Asian History at the ANU. I took up a position at Monash University in 1995.

I am an historian of Southeast Asia, specialising in the field of Malay-Indonesian cultural and political history and in Sumatran history in particular. My research employs an interdisciplinary focus and much of my published work is informed by an interest in reading literary and other texts and by anthropological approaches to understanding culture.

Qualifications

SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY

Institution: Australian National University

Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Books

Drakard, J.E., 2003, Sejarah Raja-Raja Barus: Dua Naskah Dari Barus, Gramedia Pustaka Utama, Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient, Jakarta Indonesia.

Drakard, J., 1999, A Kingdom of Words: Language and Power in Sumatra, Oxford University Press, Selango Malaysia.

Drakard, J., Legge, J. (eds), 1996, Indonesian independence fifty years on, 1945-1995, Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Drakard, J., 1990, A Malay Frontier: Unity and Duality in a Sumatran Kingdom, Cornell Southeast Asia Program, New York USA.

Book Chapters

Drakard, J.E., 2008, Elusive landscapes: Australians and 'the Italian garden', in Australians in Italy: Contemporary Lives and Impressions, eds Bill Kent, Ros Pesman and Cynthia Troup, Monash University ePress, Melbourne, pp. 18.1-18.11.

Journal Articles

Drakard, J.E., 2012, Inscribing Sumatra: perceptions of place and space in Acehnese and Minangkabau royal letters, Bulletin de l'ecole Francaise d'extreme-Orient [P], vol 95-96, Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient, Paris, France, pp. 135-189.

Drakard, J., 1997, H.S. Barlow. Swettenham, Asian Studies Review, vol 21, Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne Vic Australia, p. 205.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

"Coolie" Voices: Oral history on a Sumatran tea estate.

Supervisors:

Drakard, J (Main), Blackburn, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Genealogy: The Why and How.

Supervisors:

Drakard, J (Main), Koh, E (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Reviving Naxalbari: Changes and continuities in Naxolite propaganda.

Supervisors:

Copland, I (Main), Drakard, J (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Carroll, J.

Program of Study:

Out of sight, out of mind: the Royal Australian Navy's sea transport & logistical support role, Vietnam, 1965-1972. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Drakard, J (Main), Copland, I (Associate).

Student:

Dyt, K.

Program of Study:

Against the Stream: Buddhism, Marxism and Gender in the Narrative of a Vietnamese Nun. (Masters) 2009.

Supervisors:

Drakard, J (Main).

Student:

Fleming, C.

Program of Study:

MEMORIES OF HOME - LIFE STORIES OF VIETNAMESE AUSTRALIANS. (Masters) 2000.

Supervisors:

Markus, A (Main), Drakard, J (Associate).

Student:

Phillips, A.

Program of Study:

'THE MIRROR CRACKED': THE COLONIAL HISTORY-MAKING PROJECT AND ITS LEGACY IN BURMA, 1900 TO THE PRESENT. (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Drakard, J (Main), Caine, B (Associate).