M. IDEA People
Craig Thorburn
Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the IDEA program
Craig has worked at the community level with NGOs , development agencies and bilateral aid programs in Indonesia for over 20 years. His research interests are in the management of common-property resources, customary rights, decentralisation and regional governance issues.
Bruce Missingham
Assistant Lecturer and Coordinator of Graduate Studies of the IDEA Program
Bruce's research and teaching focus on issues related to the anthropology of development, environmental change and social movements in Thailand and Southeast Asia. He is also currently conducting research on ethnic minorities and natural resources management in rural Victoria.
Phone: (03) 9905 9874
Fax: (03) 9905 2948
Priya Rangan
Geography and Environmental Science and Associate Program Coordinator, IDEA
Priya Rangan is Senior Lecturer in economic and development geography at the School of Geography and Environmental Science. Her research and teaching centre on issues linked with international and regional development and sustainable management of common property resources. Her current research focuses on the economic geography of the medicinal plant trade in South Africa. She has also worked and published extensively on resource-based conflicts, regional development, and natural resource management in South Asia.
Christian Kull
Geography and Environmental Science
Christian is Senior Lecturer in GES and his research
focus is on three broad programs that investigate the social processes
that transform landscapes in developing countries:
1. Environmental transformations and their causes.
2. The politics of conservation and development, specifically with
respect to natural resource management, and
3. Fire
management: local practice, science, and policy.
Phone:
(03) 9905 2913
Fax: (03) 9905 2948
Susan Blackburn
Politics
Susan Blackburn is Senior Lecturer in politics in the School of Political and Social Inquiry. Her teaching areas are Southeast Asian politics, the politics of development, foreign aid and non-government organisations, and gender in Asian politics. She is currently completing a book on Indonesian women and the state and commencing a new research project on women in post-conflict situations. Her publications cover Indonesian politics, foreign aid and non-government organisations, and women in Indonesia.
Chris Cocklin
Geography and Environmental Science
Cocklin is Professor in the School of Geography and Environmental Science and Director of the Monash Environment Institute. His teaching and research interests include issues surrounsding environmental change and human security, global environmental regulatory regimes, natural heritage and sustainable development. Chris serves on a wide range of global advisory committees on environmental regimes, and as a consultant for resource management in the Mekong Delta.
Denise Cuthbert
Women's studies
Denise Cuthbert is Associate Professor in the School of Political and Social Inquiry. Her research and teaching interest include feminist and cross cultural issues, with a focus on research methodologies. Her recent research explores the relations between white settler and indigenous communities in post-colonial contexts in Australasia. Denise is also engaged in researching the pedagogy of higher education employed in research training.
Penelope Graham
Anthropology nationalism, gender, and indigenous cultures in Southeast Asia
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Political and Social Inquiry and Director, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash Asia Institute. Her teaching and field research interests, primarily in island Southeast Asia, focus on migrants, refugees and the politics of belonging; gender, governance and cross-border labour migration; and questions of identity, ethnicity and nationalism. Her current research project deals with religiosity in anthropologies of place, diaspora and transnational communities
Jim Peterson
Geography and Environmental Science
Jim Peterson's interest in sustainability has grown out a desire to apply a long experience of terrain analysis and spatial modelling to the testing of sustainability criteria against terrain attributes. This application is relevant to planning land development projects. This interest is a culminating one; an outcome of research interests across a range of topics pursued in many environments: Arctic, Sub-Arctic, Antarctic, Sub-Antarctic, Australian (mainly SE) New Guinean, Chinese, and Mediterranean. Something of his application of thematic mapping and spatial modelling for sustainability assessment is found at this webpage.
Lynette Russell
Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies
Lynette is Director of the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University. She trained as an archaeologist before turning to historical and Indigenous studies and the application of application of post-colonial theory. She has published numerous journal articles in the areas of Aboriginal History, post-colonialism and representations of race. Her book "Savage Imaginings" (Australian Scholarly Publications) examines historical and contemporary constructions of Aboriginality. She has also written "A Little Bird Told Me" (Allen and Unwin), edited "Colonial Frontiers: Indigenous-European Interactions in Settler Colonies" (Manchester University press, 2001) and co-edited "Constructions of Colonialism: Perspectives on Eliza Fraser's Shipwreck" (Leicester University Press)
Nigel Tapper
Geography and Environmental Science
Nigel Tapper is Professor of Environmental Science and Head of the School of Geography and Environmental Science. His teaching and research interests lie in the area of environmental change and variability and associated impacts in the Australia-Southeast Asian region. Recent research projects have examined climate-fire and climate-health relationships in Southeast Asia and traditional knowledge systems in Indonesia, Australia and Southern Africa.