Benjamin Todd Hillman, PhD (ANU) Email: [email protected]

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CURRENT POSITIONS: Lecturer, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University (ANU); Australian Research Coordinator, Australia Indonesia Governance Research Partnership (AIGRP)

EXPERTISE: research and analysis in local politics, decentralization, democratization, civil service reform, and poverty alleviation.

FOCUS REGIONS: China, Southeast Asia, Central America.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Spanish.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (RESEARCH/EDUCATION/TRAINING)

2007- Lecturer, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University • Teach post graduate courses on politics and public policy, including courses ‘Federalism and Decentralisation’ • Supervise research students

2007- Australia Research Coordinator, Australia-Indonesia Governance Research Partnership • Monitor research projects • Build networks between Australian and Indonesian researchers and institutions

2006-7 Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University • Research on local politics of decentralization and democratization in China and Indonesia, Contemporary China Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

2004 Tutor, Crawford School of Economics and Government and School of Social Sciences, Australian National University • Masters course: Governance and Institutions (comparative perspectives on the state, development, constitutional frameworks, party systems, and elections). • Undergraduate course: Ideas in Politics (an introduction to key concepts in political theory including democracy, rights, citizenship, law and order).

2004-5 Research Coordinator, Village Elections and Natural Resource Management Research Project, Centre for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge, Yunnan Province, PR China (funded by the Ford Foundation) • Developed analytical framework for investigating the effect of direct village elections on natural resource management, sustainable livelihoods and conflict resolution in China. • Coordinated six research teams. • Conducted preliminary training workshops for researchers in social science research methodology, participatory planning, interview techniques, and monitoring and evaluation procedures.

2003 Training Facilitator, Environmental Education for Sustainability The Nature Conservancy (USA), Yunnan Province, PRC • Facilitated workshops for local teachers in rural elementary schools on innovative approaches to environmental education (April-May 2003).

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (PROJECTS)

2007 Adviser, Aceh Government Transformation Project, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Jakarta, Indonesia (November 2007-March 2008) • Advise on program design for $15 million dollar provincial government reform project • Provide design inputs on concept note and project documents

2006 Project Manager, Aceh Local Elections Support Project, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Aceh, Indonesia (March-December) • Managed lead technical support project for Aceh’s first direct elections for provincial and district heads of government (funded by European Union, Spain and Netherlands). • Recruited and supervised national and international staff. • Coordinated other donors and NGOs engaged in election activities. • Facilitated discussions on conflict prevention between local government agencies, members of parliament, leaders of the former Free Aceh Movement and religious and community leaders. • Provided strategic advice on management and communications to the Aceh Independent Elections Commission (KIP). • Designed and implemented capacity building programs for KIP in management, logistics and communication. • Designed and implemented community-based activities for strengthening democratic participation. • Managed tenders and subcontractors including commercial contractors and local NGOs.

2005 Senior Adviser, Eastern Tibetan Training Institute (ETTI), Yunnan Province, PR China • Designed and established pilot rural vocational training program • Recruited and coordinated national and international staff. • Built partnerships and MoUs with local government agencies, Chinese educational institutions and international NGOs to expand operations and link services to other community-based poverty alleviation initiatives. • Advised on organizational development and management approaches for non-profits

2003-4 Project Coordinator, Jiulong Village Handicraft Development (Yunnan Province, PRC, in cooperation with Luoji Township government). • Designed and implemented project to rehabilitate a village-based lacquer ware industry. • Advised community leaders in business development and project management.

2002-3 Project Coordinator, Rishuwan Community School Project (Yunnan Province, PRC, funded by the New Zealand government). • Designed and implemented project for new community school in cooperation with community leaders and local government authorities.

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QUALIFICATIONS

2006 PhD in Political Science and International Relations (ANU) Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University Decentralization, local government and the politics of rural development

1999 BA (1st class Hons.) in Asian and International Studies (Griffith) School of Modern Asian Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane

1996 BA in Asian Studies and Political Science (Murdoch) Department of Asian Studies, Murdoch University, Perth ______

PUBLICATIONS (PEER REVIEWED)

‘Macho Minority: Masculinity and Ethnicity on the Edge of Tibet’, (with Lee-Anne Henfry) Modern China, April 2006 (32) 251-272

‘Monasticism and the Local State: Autonomy and Authority in a Tibetan Prefecture’, The China Journal, No. 54, July 2005, 22-52

‘The Rise of the Community in Rural China: Village Politics, Cultural Identity and Religious Revival in a Hui Hamlet’, The China Journal, No. 51, January 2004, 53-73

‘A Way out for Traditional Handicrafts during Market Integration: A Case Study of a Poor Village’ (in Chinese), Nongcun Jingji (Rural Economy), April 2005

‘Paradise Under Construction: Minorities, Myths and Modernity in Northwest Yunnan’, Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2003, 177-190

‘Opening Up: The Politics of Poverty and Development in Rural China’, Development Bulletin, No. 61, May 2003, 47-50

‘China’s Mountain Poor: Integrating Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Protection’, Development Bulletin, No. 61, May 2003, 51-54

‘Chinese Nationalism and the Belgrade Embassy Bombing’, in Leong H. Liew Wang Shaoguang (ed.) Chinese Nationalism, Democracy and National Integration in China (London: Routledge Curzon, 2003) 65-84

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PUBLICATIONS (OTHER)

‘Democracy and Peace-Building in Aceh: Report on Aceh Local Elections’, United Nations Development Program, Indonesia, 2008.

‘Cuba after Castro’ The Diplomat, April-May 2007, 94-95.

‘Aceh’s Rebels Turn to Ruling’, Far Eastern Economic Review, Vol. 170, No. 1, January-February 2007, 49-53.

‘Indonesia: New Elections: Old-Style Politics’, Far Eastern Economic Review, Vol. 169, No. 1, January-February 2006, 26-29.

‘Developing Paradise: Tourism and Rural Poverty in China’s Shangri-la’, in Xu Jianchu and Steven Mikesell (eds.) Landscapes of Diversity: Indigenous Knowledge, Sustainable Livelihoods and Resource Governance in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia, Yunnan Academy of Science, 2003 ______

BOOK REVIEWS

‘Tibet and China in the Twenty first Century: non-violence versus state power’ by John Heath, Far Eastern Economic Review, April 2006

‘State Growth and Social Exclusion in Tibet’ by Andrew Martin Fischer, review essay, Far Eastern Economic Review, December 2005

‘Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities and Other Subaltern Subjects’ by Dru Gladney, review essay, China Journal, Vol. 55, January 2006

‘Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in China’ by Ian Johnston, review essay, China Journal, Vol. 55, January 2006

‘Social Connections in China’, edited by Thomas Gold, Doug Guthrie, and David Wank, review essay, The China Journal, Vol. 53, January 2005

‘Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China’ by Stevan Harrell, review essay, The China Journal, Vol. 52, July 2004, 125-7

‘Mutual Empowerment of State and Peasantry’ by Xu Wang, review essay, The China Journal, Vol. 52, July 2004, 116-8

‘China’s Tibet Policy’ by Dawa Norbu, review essay, The China Journal, January 2003, 196-8

‘Discovering Chinese Nationalism’ in China by Zheng Yongnian, review essay, Asian Studies Review, March 2001, 218-20

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CONFERENCE & SEMINAR PAPERS

‘Implementing Elections in Aceh: Political and Administrative Challenges’, Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Asia and Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 23 October 2006.

‘Decentralization and Local Governance: Lessons from China’, Graduate Studies in Political Science Program, Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia, 16 January 2006.

‘Islam in China’, National Institute for Islamic Studies, Semarang, Indonesia, 17 January 2006.

‘Political Parties and Democracy’, Panel presentation at televised public forum on local elections in Indonesia sponsored by newspaper Independent Voice (Suara Merdeka) Semarang, Indonesia, 16 January 2006.

‘The Politics of Islam in China’, seminar, Universitas Nasional (UNAS), Jakarta, Indonesia, 30 December, 2005.

‘Political Change and Local Economic Development in China and Indonesia’, presentation, WALHI (Indonesian Forum for the Environment), 12 December 2005.

‘Ethnic Politics in the People’s Republic of China’, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, 6 December, 2005.

‘Tourism and socioeconomic change in ethnic minority communities in China’, seminar presentation, Griffith University, December 3, 2004

‘Elections in Poverty-Stricken Villages in China,’ Faculty of Asian Studies Seminar Series, Australian National University, June 2004

‘Poverty and Rural Governance in Western China’, presentation at Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), February 1, 2004

‘Governance: A Conceptual Framework’, Concept Paper Series, Centre for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge, Kunming, China, 2003

‘The Meaning and Implications of Ecotourism’, Tourism Bureau, Diqing Prefectural Government, Yunnan, China, November 2002

‘Tourism as a Poverty Alleviation Device,’ III Conference on Montane Mainland Southeast Asia (sponsored by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations), Lijiang, China, August 2002

‘Shangri-la and the Politics of Identity,’ presentation given at ‘Official and Vernacular Identifications in the Making of the Modern World’, The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Collaborative Research Network Workshop, Kunming, China, July 2002

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

Editorial Board Member, The China Journal Academic Referee, The China Journal, China Quarterly, Asian Studies Review, East Asian History Chairman of the Board, The Eastern Tibetan Training Institute

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