Advisory Board
CASAAP Advisory Board Chair, Professor Peter Reeves:
Peter Reeves, Emeritus Professor of South Asian History at Curtin University was Visiting Professor and Head of the South Asian Studies Programme (SASP) at the National University of Singapore from June 1999 to December 2006. A Fellow of the Academy of Humanities in Australia, he has also taught at the Universities of Sussex, Western Australia and Michigan. His research interests are in the following areas: the political and agrarian history of northern India; the maritime history of the Indian Ocean since 1800; the history of fisheries in colonial and postcolonial South Asia; the history of Singapore’s inshore and culture fisheries; and the history of the Indian diaspora. He was Executive Editor of The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora (Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, October 2006) and with Dr Rajesh Rai he co-edited The South Asian Diaspora. Transnational networks and changing identities (London: Routledge, 2008).
Members
Ms Margy Burn: Assistant Director-General, Australian Collections and Reader Services at the National Library of Australia.
Professor Brij V. Lal: Professor, Division of Pacific and Asian History and The Pacific Centre, Australian National University
Dr Susan Maushart: academic, author, columnist, and social commentator
Mr Neville Roach: Chairman and CEO of Fujitsu Australia; Chairman of the Business (Migration) Advisory Panel, and Deputy Chairman of multicultural television network, SBS.
Dr Peter Stanley: Director, Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia.
