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Dr Trudy Jacobsen

Dr Trudy Jacobsen

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Dr Trudy Jacobsen is ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology and the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies of the Monash Asia Institute

Biography

Dr Jacobsen's fascination with Southeast Asia began in 1983, when her family moved to Sulawesi. She had always been interested in people. These interests coincided during the next two decades spent living and later working in the region, primarily in Cambodia. Despite heroic attempts to avoid academia (including a brief stint as a radio DJ in Kazakhstan) she succumbed to the inevitable and took courses in anthropology, archaeology, women's studies, Sanskrit, and Asian history at the University of Queensland before graduating with a PhD in 2004 that combined all these disciplinary interests.

Since then Dr Jacobsen has held research fellowships at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University, Brisbane, and the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, as well as lecturing undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in the culture, history and politics of Asia and Southeast Asia, and genocide in theory and practice, at UQ. She has also lectured past and contemporary gender issues in Southeast Asia at the Centre for Khmer Studies and Norton University in Cambodia. Before taking up her present position Dr Jacobsen was a project advisor at the Buddhist Institute in Phnom Penh.

Qualifications

Research

Dr Jacobsen's research interests include:

Her interests include the histories, politics and cultures of mainland Southeast Asia, especially Cambodia; Southeast Asia in comparative historical analysis; gender and sexuality in past and present Southeast Asia; the construction and retention of social mores and legitimatory processes in mainland Southeast Asia; gender dimensions of violence, punishment and genocide in Southeast Asia.

Projects

Intersections of Desire, Duty and Debt: Sexual Contracts in Burma and Cambodia (ARC Discovery Project 2006-2009)

The Situation of Daun Chi in Cambodia (Buddhist Institute/HBF-Asia Project on Gender & Buddhism 2005-2006)

Fellowships, Grants & Awards

Publications

Books and Edited Volumes

Trudy Jacobsen, Lost Goddesses: Female Power and its Denial in Cambodian History. Copenhagen : NIAS Press, 2006 (forthcoming).

Trudy Jacobsen, Charles Sampford and Ramesh Thakur (eds), The End of Westphalia? Re-Envisioning Sovereignty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 (forthcoming).

Book Chapters

Beyond the apsara: Tradition and trajectories in Cambodian politics. In Kazuki Iwanaga, Women's political. Participation and representation in Asia: Obstacles and challenges. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2006 (forthcoming). Maha-upasika selathaw roboh satrei neung bunn knong Kampuchea 'kandal' [Maha-upasika, women's morality and merit in Middle Cambodia]. In Researching Buddhism and Culture in Cambodia. Phnom Penh: Buddhist Institute, 2006.

Women and society in pre-Angkorian Cambodia: An historical analysis.Proceedings of the 2 nd Annual Conference on Gender and Indochina, 3-4 March 2001. Bangkok, Thailand: Women's Action and Resource Initiative, 2001.

Journal Articles

Paying through the nose: Punishment in the Cambodian past and lessons for the present. South East Asia Research 13, 2 (July 2005): 235-256.

Re-thinking 'traditional' values: Women's associations in post-revolutionary Cambodia. Pandora's Box 2003: Different women, different lives, same struggle. 11-28.

Autonomous queenship in pre-classical Cambodia, 1 st-9 th centuries CE.Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 13, 3 (November 2003): 357-375.

Brimming vessels, empty hands: Women and power in the age of Angkor.Proceedings of the History Research Group, 13 (2002): 10-25.

Gupta artistic tradition in the reign of Kumaragupta I Mahendraditya, 414-456 AD. Access History 2, 1 (Spring 1998): 23-32.

Newspaper Articles

Kampuchea Krom: Facts behind the friction, Phnom Penh Post, March 10-23, 2006, p. 7.

Sex slaves or power pawns? Phnom Penh Post , February 10 - 23, 2006, p. 6.

Assassinations and aphrodisiacs, Phnom Penh Post, December 30, 2004-January 13, 2005, p. 9.

The temple of the thousand foreskins, Phnom Penh Post, December 16-29, 2005 , p. 7.

Encyclopedia Entries

Southeast Asia : Modern period. In Tanya Laplante (ed.), The encyclopedia of women in world history. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 (forthcoming).

Southeast Asia : Ancient period. In Tanya Laplante (ed.), The encyclopedia of women in world history. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 (forthcoming).

Shinsawbu. In Tanya Laplante (ed.), The encyclopedia of women in world history. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 (forthcoming)

Temporary marriage. In Melissa Ditmore (ed.), The historical encyclopedia of prostitution. New York: Greenwood Press, 2006 (online resource).

Book Reviews

David Snellgrove, Angkor - before and after: A cultural history of the Khmers ( Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2004). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society15, 2 (July 2005): 258-259.

Claude Markovitz (ed), A history of modern India, 1480-1950, trans. Nisha George and Maggy Hendry ( London: Anthem, 2002). Australian Journal of Politics and History 50, 3 (September 2004): 460-461.

Ann R. Kinney with Marijke J. Klokke and Lydia Kieven, Worshipping Siva and Buddha: The temple art of east Java ( Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 14, 2 (July 2004): 159-160.

Saveros Pou, Choix d'articles de khmerologie/Selected papers on Khmerology ( Phnom Penh: Reyum, 2003). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 14, 2 (July 2004): 161-162.

Interviews

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