Benjamin Todd Hillman, PhD (ANU)
Crawford School of Economics and Government Email: [email protected] Australian National University ______
Current Position: Lecturer, Crawford School of Economics and Government Australian National University (since 2007, continuing appointment)
Teaching: Comparative Politics and Government Democratization in Asia Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Research: Chinese politics Local governance Democratization Ethnic conflicts
Previous Position: Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, November 2006 – June 2007
PUBLICATIONS (PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES)
‘Factions and Spoils: Examining Local State Behavior in China’, The China Journal, Vol 62, July 2010, pp1-18
‘China’s Many Tibets’ Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 11, No. 2, June 2010, pp 269-277.
‘Ethnic Tourism and Ethnic Politics in Tibetan China’, Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Jan 2009, pp. 1-6.
‘Macho Minority: Masculinity and Ethnicity on the Edge of Tibet’, with Lee-Anne Henfry, Modern China, April 2006 (32) pp 251-272
‘Monasticism and the Local State: Autonomy and Authority in a Tibetan Prefecture’, The China Journal, No. 54, July 2005, pp 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, pp 53-73
‘Paradise Under Construction: Minorities, Myths and Modernity in Northwest Yunnan’, Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2003, pp 177-190
‘Opening Up: The Politics of Poverty and Development in Rural China’, Development Bulletin, No. 61, May 2003, pp 47-50
‘China’s Mountain Poor: Integrating Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Protection’, Development Bulletin, No. 61, May 2003, pp 51-54
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BOOKS
Rural Governance in China: Village Autonomy and Natural Resource Management, with He Jun and Xu Jianchu (eds) (Beijing: China Agricultural University Press: 2007)
POLICY PAPERS
‘Deepening Democracy in Indonesia: Strengthening the Institutional Framework for Local Executive Elections’, UNDP Indonesia, 2010
‘Political Parties and Post-Conflict Transition: The Results and Implications of the 2009 Legislative Elections in Aceh”, Policy Brief No. 1/2010, CDI Policy Papers on Political Governance, Centre for Democratic Institutions, Canberra
‘Local Political Parties in Indonesia – The Aceh Test Case’, Australia Indonesia Governance Research Partnership, Policy Brief series, 2009
BOOK CHAPTERS AND EDITOR-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
'Development with Tibetan Characteristics', Wall Street Journal, 31 January, 2010
'Bullets to Ballots - Aceh in 2009', Far Eastern Economic Review, December 2009
‘Aceh Party Victory Legitimate Despite Threat’, The Jakarta Post, 8 July 2009
'Rethinking China's Tibet Policy', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 2008
'Money Can't Buy Tibetans' Love', Far Eastern Economic Review, Vol. 171, No. 3, 2008
‘Democracy and Peace-Building in Aceh: Report on Aceh Local Elections’, United Nations Development Program, Indonesia, 2007
‘Cuba after Castro’, The Diplomat, April-May 2007
‘Aceh’s Rebels Turn to Ruling’, Far Eastern Economic Review, Vol. 170, No. 1, January-February 2007
‘Village Elections and Natural Resource Management’ (in Chinese) in Rural Governance: village autonomy and natural resource management’ in Ben Hillman, He Jun and Xu Jianchu (eds) Beijing: China Agricultural University Press (2007) pp 86-100
Rural Governance, Village Democracy and Natural resource Management’, with He Jun, Li Zhinan and Su Yufang), in Rural Governance: village autonomy and natural resource management in Ben Hillman, He Jun and Xu Jianchu (eds) Beijing: China Agricultural University Press (2007) pp 11-22.
‘Indonesia: New Elections: Old-Style Politics’, Far Eastern Economic Review, Vol. 169, No. 1, January-February 2006
‘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) pp 65-84
‘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
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CONFERENCE & SEMINAR PAPERS
‘From Rebels to Politicians: the transformation of former combatants in Aceh, Indonesia”, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 30 March 2010
‘Political Parties in Post-Conflict Transitions: Lessons from Aceh, Indonesia’, Columbia University, 31 March 2010
‘Local Governance in China’, Association for Asian Studies annual convention, Philadelphia, 27 March 2010
'China’s Federal Future?', Conference on Principles of a Modern Federal Community, University of Adelaide, 27- 28 May 2008
‘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.
‘Ethnic Politics in the People’s Republic of China’, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, 6 December, 2005
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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, Journal of Asian Studies
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