Professor James Warren

PhD (SE Asian History) ANU

Professor Warren has held positions at ANU, Yale University, as a Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University and the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He has been awarded grants by the Social Science Research Council and the Australia Research Council and is a Fellow of The Australian Academy of the Humanities. Professor Warren's major publications include, The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898 (1981); Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore,1880-1940 (1986); At the Edge of Southeast History (1987); Ah Ku and Karayuki-San :Prostitution and Singapore Society,1870-1940 (1993); The Sulu Zone, the World Capitalist Economy and the Historical Imagination (1998); and Iranun and Balangingi: Globalization,Maritime Raiding and the Birth of Ethnicity (2001).In 2003, James Warren was awarded the Centenary Medal of Australia for service to Australian society and the Humanities in the study of Ethnohistory. He teaches units on Southeast Asian social history ,on researching and writing history in a trans disciplinary context , and, on colonialism, literature and social context.


James Warren, Professor, School of Asian Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch 6150, Australia Email: J.Warren@murdoch.edu.au