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Penny Edwards
EDUCATION
1995-99 Ph.D., History. Monash University, Australia
Dissertation: “Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945”
Supervisors: David Chandler, Ian Mabbett.
Examiners: Anthony Reid, Thongchai Winichakul.
1993-1994 Fulbright Scholar, Department of Government, Cornell University
1990-92 M.Phil., International Relations. Oxford University.
Dissertation: “China and the Communist Party of Kampuchea, 1970-1982”
1981-1985 B.A. Hons Class I. Chinese.
School of Oriental and African Studies, London University
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
2007 Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
2006 Project Director, Initiating Urban Studies in Cambodia; Visiting Scholar for the Rockefeller Program in Building Capacity in Higher Education; Academic Advisor at the Centre for
Khmer Studies, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2002-2006 Research Fellow, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University, Canberra
2005 Director, Buddhist Institute History Project, Cambodia
2002 Harold White Fellow, National Library of Australia
2000-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University, Canberra.
1995 Head, Chinese Research Unit, Centre for Advanced Study, Interdisciplinary Research Project on Ethnic Groups, Cambodia.
1992-93 Research and Analysis Officer, Information and Education Division, United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
GRANTS & AWARDS
2003 John T. and Catherine T. McArthur Research and Writing Grant (Program on Global Security & Sustainability)
2002 Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006)
2001 Australian National University Faculties Small Research Grant
2000 Centre for Cross Cultural Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
1999 Monash University Postgraduate Publications Award
1996 Commonwealth Scholarship
1995 Monash University Postgraduate Scholarship
1994 Robert Menzies Travel Award
1993 Fulbright Travel and Maintenance Award, Cornell University.
1990 Economic and Social Science Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship
1985 British Council Postgraduate Scholarship to China 1985-1986
1985 Chinese Book Prize, SOAS
BOOKS AND JOINTLY EDITED PUBLICATIONS
· Cambodge: the cultivation of a nation (1860-1945) Honolulu: Hawai’i University Press. March 2007. 349 pp.
· The Buddhist Institute: A Short History/Provatasaa sangkaep niy vicisthaan preahputsasanna bundit 1921-2005. Ed, Penny Edwards. 2005. 132 pp.
· Lost in the Whitewash: Aboriginal-Asian Encounters in Australia, 1901-2001 Ed. Penny Edwards and Shen Yuan-fang. Canberra: Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. 2003 167 pp.
· Beyond China: Migrating Identities Ed. Shen Yuan-fang and Penny Edwards. Canberra: Centre for the Study of Chinese Southern Diaspora, Australian National University. 2002. 108 pp.
· Pigments of the Imagination: Rethinking Mixed Race Special issue of Journal of Intercultural Studies, January 2007, Vol. 28, 1. Ed. Penny Edwards, Jacqueline Lo, Debjani Ganguly
JOURNAL ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS
· La creacíon de una religíon de la nacíon y su lenguaje: el protectorado francés (1863-1954) y la Dhammakãy, in John Marston and Elizabeth Guthrie, Eds. El budismo en Camboya, historio y ethnografía México: El colegio de México, 2006. 109-148.
· “Subscripts: Reading Cambodian Pasts, Presents and Futures through Graffiti” in Expressions of Cambodia: the Politics of Tradition, Modernity and Change, eds. Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier and Tim Winter. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2006. 223-36.
· “Power and Mobility in Colonial Cambodia” in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Volume 37, No. 3, 421-443.
· “Grounds for Protest: Placing Shwedagon Pagoda in Colonial and Postcolonial Burma” Journal of Postcolonial Studies Volume 9, No. 2 (2006). 197-211.
· “Taj Angkor: Enshrining l’Inde in le Cambodge” in France and ‘Indochina’: Cultural Representations ed. Kathryn Robson and Jennifer Yee. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005. 13-27.
· “Outside In: Sino-Burmese Encounters” in China Inside Out: Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism eds. P. Nyírí and J. Breidenback Ed. (Budapest and New York: Central European University, 2005. 205-237.
· “Making a Religion of the Nation, and its Language: the French Protectorate and the Dhammakay, 1885-1945” in History, Buddhism and New Religious Movements in Cambodia eds. John Marston and Elizabeth Guthrie. Honolulu: University of Hawaii’i Press, 2004. 63-85.
· “Relocating the Interlocutor: Taw Sein Ko (1864-1930) and the Itinerancy of Knowledge in British Burma”South East Asia Research Volume 12, No. 3 ( 2004): 277-335.
· “Mixed Metaphors: The Transcolonial Trope of the ‘Half-Caste Woman” Balayi: Culture, Law and Colonialism Volume 3, No. 6 (2004): 41-61.
· “On home ground: Settling Land and Domesticating Difference in the ‘non-settler’ colonies of Burma and Cambodia”Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Volume 3, No. 4 (2003)
· “Time travels: locating xinyimin (new migrants) in Sino-Cambodian histories” in Globalizing Chinese Migration: Trends in Europe and Asia eds. Pal Nyírí and Igor Saveliev. Burlington, UK: Ashgate Press. 2002. 254 - 290.
· “Half-Cast: Staging Race in British Burma,” Journal of Postcolonial Studies Vol. 5, 3 (2002): 279-293
· “Propa-Gender: Marianne, Joan of Arc and the Export of French Gender Ideology to Cambodia” in Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France eds. Tony Chafer and Amanda Sackur. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. 116-132.
· “Restyling Colonial Cambodia (1860-1954): French Dressing, Indigenous Custom and National Costume”Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture Volume 5, Issue 3, November 2001: 1-28. (To be anthologized in French Colonial Indochina: A Reader. Ed. Eric Jennings. University of Nebraska Press).
·“Womanizing Indochina: Fiction, Nation and Cohabitation in Colonial Cambodia, 1890-1930”in Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism eds. Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. 1998. 108-130.
· “Imaging the other in Cambodian nationalist discourse before and during the UNTAC period”in Propaganda,Politics and Violence in Cambodia eds. Stephen Heder and Judy Ledgerwood. Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. 50-72
· “Ethnic Chinese in Cambodia” Co-authored with Chan Sambath, in W. Collins (Ed.) Ethnic Groups in Cambodia. Phnom Penh: Center for Advanced Study, Monograph. 1996. 109-175
RECENT SERVICE
2006 Member of the Board, Centre for Khmer Studies
2006 Associate Editor, Siksacakr (Journal of Khmer Studies)
2004-2006 Vice-President, Research Committee, Buddhist Institute, Cambodia
2004-2005 Research Consultant (Pro Bono), Buddhist Institute, Cambodia
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