Staff and affiliates

Staff

Listed in alphabetical order:

Hussain, Athar (Professor), Centre Director.
Research interests:
Contact details: a.hussain@lse.ac.uk

Kattumuri, Ruth (Dr), Co-Director.
Research interests: UK - India higher education, partnerships and knowledge exchange programs; Asia knowledge exchange programs; HIV/AIDS India; anthropological demography; quantitative methods for social research; health.
More information: Experts
Contact details: r.kattumuri@lse.ac.uk

Shih, Fang-long (Dr), Convenor of Taiwan Culture Research Programme.
Research interest key words: Confucianism; Taoism; Chinese Buddhism; Religion; Family; Gender; Ethnicity; Death; Modernity; Social Memory; Taiwan; Chinese Diaspora.  More information: Experts
Contact details: f.shih@lse.ac.uk

Shurtleff, Scott (Mr), Convenor of the Korea Foundation-LSE Academic Exchange Programme and ARC Centre Manager.
Contact details: s.shurtleff@lse.ac.uk
 

Management Committee Members -

(updated June 2008)

The Asia Research Centre draws on the research interests of colleagues in academic departments and institutes. The following list includes LSE colleagues who participate in the work of the centre and are members of its management committee, and shows their current research interests.

After the Chair, the members are listed below in alphabetical order omitting the Committee's Ex-officio members: Professor Athar Hussain; Dr. Ruth Kattumuri; and Scott Shurtleff.

Lord Stern, Nicholas (Professor), Chair of the ARC Management Committee
Professor Stern is the first holder of the IG Patel Chair which is associated with the Departments of Economics and Government and also heads the India Observatory based within the Asia Research Centre. He was Head of the UK Government Economic Service and led a Review of the Economics of Climate Change which was published in October 2006. More information: Experts; Publications
Contact details: n.stern@lse.ac.uk (via Personal Assistant k.quirk@lse.ac.uk)

Corbridge, Stuart (Professor) - Department of Geography & Environment
Research interests: Governance; participation and empowerment in eastern India; forest policies and politics in eastern India; traumatic spaces: Ayodhya and Bhuj; India Development theory. 
More information: Experts; Staff page; Publications

Feuchtwang, Stephan (Professor)- Department of Anthropology
Research interests: Chinese civilisation and modernity; religious and political charisma in Taiwan and China; making urban places in Taiwan and China; transmission of events of state violence in Germany, China and Taiwan over three generations
More information: Experts; Publications

Haacke, Jürgen (Dr) - Department of International Relations
Research interests: Regional security and international politics of Southeast Asia: ASEAN Regional Forum; China-Southeast Asia Relations; US-Southeast Asia Relations. 
More information: Experts; Publications

Hughes, Christopher R (Dr) - Department of International Relations
Research interests: Asia Pacific international relations with special interest in China, Chinese nationalism and the Taiwan issue. (Department of International Relations)
More information: Experts; Publications

Hunter, Janet (Professor) - Department of Economic History
Research interests: Economic and social development of modern Japan; the history of Anglo-Japanese economic relations; gender and industrialisation; Development of communications networks; Economic history of natural disasters.
More information: Experts; Publications

Kumar, Sunil (Dr) - Department of Social Policy
Research interests: Urban poverty and urban housing in South Asia; informal and formal institutions that act as an interface between these two aspects; housing tenure in India. 
More information: Staff page; Experts; Publications

Putzel, James (Dr) - DESTIN and Department of Anthropology
Research interests: South-East Asia, especially regional political economy, including agricultural reform and the politics of the Philippines.
More information: Staff page; Experts; Publications

Quah, Danny (Professor) - Departments of Economics, Head of Department
Research interests: Growth. Income inequality. Technology. Intellectual property rights.
More information: Experts; Publications

Sidel, John (Professor) - Departments of Government and International Relations
Research interests: International and comparative politics
More information: Experts; Staff page; Publications

Stafford, Charles (Professor) - Department of Anthropology
Research interests: China and Taiwan, especially childhood; learning; education; kinship; nationalism; and the development of historical consciousness. 
More information: Staff page; Experts; Publications

Westad, A (Professor) - International History
Research interests: Chinese foreign relations history; history of the Chinese Communist Party; international relations in east Asia during the Cold War. Currently finishing a history of the Chinese Civil War, 1945-50.
More information: Experts; Publications

Honorary Fellows of the Asia Research Centre

• Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, elected ARC Honorary Fellow in 1997.

Centre visitors

Sir Ratan Tata fellows

CR Parekh fellows

Philippine fellows

KC Wong fellows (Wong Post-Doctoral Fellow of the British Academy)

Asia Research Centre (ARC) Visiting Research Fellows/ Affiliates

Current (as of April 2008)

• Dr. Ehtisham Ahmad (email: s.e.ahmad@lse.ac.uk) (mini-bio)
• Dr. Shunji Cui (email: s.cui@lse.ac.uk)
• Dr. Imran Chaudhry (email: i.s.chaudhry@lse.ac.uk)
• Dr Mutsumi Hirano (email: m.hirano@lse.ac.uk)
• Dr Lawrence Saez (email: l.saez@lse.ac.uk. Please click the Expert page for more information.)
• Dr Xiangqun Chang (email: x.chang@lse.ac.uk. Please click here to view Dr Chang's Personal webpage.)
• Mr Martin Jacques (email: m.jacques@lse.ac.uk; martinjacques1@aol.com)
• Professor Reinhard Drifte (Please click here to visit Professor Drifte's homepage.)

Previous ARC Honorary Associates

• Mr Shinichiro Uda, Honorary Associate December 1998- July 2008
• Professor James Cotton
  Formerly ARC visiting fellow and Centennial Professor, Department of International Relations

Previous Visiting Fellows

2006-07

• Dr. Kerry Brown (UK)
• Dr. Deok Soon Hwang (Republic of Korea)
• Ms Shuli Lin (short-term visitor, People's Republic of China)
• Dr. Joel Ruet (France). webpage.
• Dr. Hyun-Bang Shin (UK). webpage.
• Mr Xuelin Wang (short-term visitor, People's Republic of China)
• Mr Shan Yuan (short-term visitor, People's Republic of China)

2005-06

• Dr Rumi Aijaz (India)
• Dr Se-Hyun Ahn (short-term visitor, Republic of Korea)
• Professor Yulei Rao (People's Republic of China)
• Dr Zhenlong Zheng (People's Republic of China)
• Dr Bi-yu Chang (UK)
• Ms Linda Lin-Chiao Wang (short-term visitor, Taiwan)
• Professor Mu Qiao (People's Republic of China)
• Professor Chengyao Lei (People's Republic of China)
• Professor Jianbo Chen (People's Republic of China)
• Professor Gerald Tan (Australia)
• Professor Yeon-Myung Kim (Republic of Korea)

2004

• Professor James Cotton (Australia)
• Dr Shu-hsien Chang (Taiwan)
• Professor Jiang Ping (Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, People's Republic of China)
• Dr Jinmin Wang (Zhejiang University, People's Republic of China)
• Professor Mushtaq Mirani (Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan)

2003

• Dr Liselotte Odqaard
• Dr Teresa Tadem
• Mr Masaaki Tonedachi

2002-03

• Dr Maneesha Tikekar

2000-02

• Professor Harry Gelber (University of Tasmania and Boston University)
• Dr Guo Yan (Peking Univesity, Peking)

2000-01

• Dr Elaine Elliott (Australian National University)

1998-99

• Professor Maurice Meisner, LSE Visiting Centennial Professor

Before 1999

• Dr Jean Dreze (Delhi School of Economics)
• Dr Panitan Wattanayagorn (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)

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