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GEOFFREY ROBINSON CURRICULUM VITAE 2020 Department of History, UCLA 6265 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1473 Tel: 1-310-488-8567 Email: [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D. Cornell University, Department of Government, 1992 M.A. University of British Columbia, Department of Political Science, 1982 B.A. (Hon.) McGill University, Political Science and History, 1978 ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH POSITIONS Professor, Department of History, UCLA 2009-present Isaac Manasseh Meyer Visiting Fellow, National University of Singapore Nov. 2018 Visiting Professor, Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, Utrecht University 2013 Associate Professor, Department of History, UCLA 2000-09 Political Affairs Officer, United Nations Mission in East Timor 1999 Assistant Professor, Department of History, UCLA 1997-2000 Visiting Researcher, Center for Pacific Asia Studies, Stockholm University 1996-97 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 1995-96 Head, Southeast Asia Research Unit, Amnesty International, London, UK 1989-95 ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS Department of History Graduate Awards and Affairs Committee 2019-20 Academic Personnel Committee 2018-20 Faculty Advisory Committee, Luskin Center for History and Policy 2018-19 Field Coordinator, South and Southeast Asia Field 2017-18 Development Committee 2017-18 Academic Personnel Committee 2014-16 Bylaws Committee 2014-16 Speakers Committee 2014-15 Vice-Chair, Graduate Affairs 2005-12 Chair, Graduate Affairs Committee 2005-12 Chair, Graduate Awards Committee 2005-12 Field Coordinator, South and Southeast Asia Field 2002-04 Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee 2001-02 Advisory Committee 1997-98, 1999-2001 Center for Southeast Asian Studies Chair, Development Committee 2014-present Chair, FLAS Selection Committee 2018 Indonesian Studies Program 2008-present Faculty Advisory Committee 1997-present Center Director 2002-05 Chair, IDP in Southeast Asian Studies 2003-04 Director, Southeast Asia Program 1997-99 University of California Selection Committee, Antoon Van Dyck Visiting Chair 2019-2020 Departmental Representative, UCLA Legislative Assembly 2018-2022 Faculty Advisory Committee, Dutch Studies Program 2018-present Chair, CAP Ad Hoc Review Committee 2016 Director and Visiting Professor, UC EAP Netherlands 2013-2015 Advisory Committee on International Development Studies 2000-01, 2001-02 Academic Senate Library Committee 1998-2001 HONORS AND AWARDS Raphael Lemkin Book Award, the Institute for the Study of Genocide 2019 Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship Award, National University of Singapore 2018 UC Pacific Rim Research Program, Faculty Initiative Grant 2013-15 British Library Endangered Archives Programme, Major Research Award 2005-08 ACLS/NEH/SSRC, International Area Studies Fellowship 2002-03 UCLA Senate Research Grant 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2007-08 Isaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship 1995-96 Cornell Southeast Asia Program Fellowship 1987-88 SSHRC of Canada Doctoral Fellowship 1982-86 Cornell Southeast Asia Program Fellowship for Dutch Language Training 1984 U.S. Education Department FLAS Fellowship for Indonesian Language Training 1983 Allan Oliver Gold Medal for Economics and Political Science, McGill University1978 MacKenzie Award for Canadian History and Politics, McGill University 1977 University Scholar, McGill University 1976, 1977, 1978 LANGUAGES Indonesian: speaking, writing and reading fluency Dutch: reading fluency French: reading fluency Swedish: reading ability EDITORIAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES Peer reviewer of manuscripts and proposals for: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, University of Hawaii Press, American Historical Review, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Citizenship Studies, Critical Asian Studies, Indonesia, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Genocide Research. Geoffrey Robinson – Curriculum Vitae 2 Advisory Board, Amsterdam University Press Series on War, Conflict and 2019-2022 Genocide Studies. Board Member, Documenting Global Voices (DGV), UCLA 2019-2020 Harry J. Benda Book Prize Committee, Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) of the 2018-2020 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) International Advisory Board, Jurnal Sejarah [Journal of History] Indonesia 2017-present Member, Board of Directors, American Institute for Indonesian Studies 2013-present Humanities Expert, California Women’s Institute Learning Project, Heidi 2018-present Duckler Dance company and Just Detention International (JDI) President, Board of Directors, Khmer Arts Academy (KAA), a Cambodian 2005-2014 cultural organization based in Long Beach and Phnom Penh Member, Board of Director, United States-East Timor Society (USETS) 2000-2016 DOCTORAL STUDENTS Graduated Placement Nhung Tuyet Tran (History)* Associate Professor, University of Toronto Jessica Elkind (History)* Associate Professor, San Francisco State University Christina Firpo (History)* Associate Professor, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Awet Weldemichael (History)* Associate Professor, Queen’s University, Canada Laura Gifford (History) Scholar in Residence, George Fox University Robert Sierakowski (History) Assistant Professor, University of the West Indies-Mona Rajashree Mazumder (History) Assistant Professor, Union College, Schenectady, NY Terenjit Sevea (History) Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Christopher Bray (History) Visiting Professor, Pitzer College Steve Rodriguez (History) Lecturer, Pasadena City College Melvin Lebe (History)* Ph.D awarded 2012 (retired) Dahlia Setiyawan (History)* Teacher of History, Windward School, Los Angeles Pearlie Baluyut (Art History) Assistant Professor, Cal State San Bernardino Lene Pederson (Anthropology, USC) Associate Professor, Central Washington University Jennifer Esperanza (Anthropology) Associate Professor, Beloit College Brent Luvaas (Anthropology) Assistant Professor, Drexel University Brian Bernards (Asian Lang. and Cultures) Assistant Professor, University of Southern California Rebekah Park (Anthropology) Applied Anthropologist, ReD Associates, New York Kimberly Clair (Women’s Studies) Lecturer, UCLA and UC Riverside Marie Berry (Sociology) Assistant Professor, University of Denver Julie Romain (Art History) Assistant Curator for South Asia, LACMA (deceased) Gustav Brown (Sociology) Postdoctoral Fellow, National University of Singapore Nicole Iturriaga (Sociology) Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Germany Geoffrey Robinson – Curriculum Vitae 3 Saskia Nauenberg (Sociology) Humanities Research Program Manager, UC Santa Cruz Amy Rothschild (Anthropology, UCSD) Assistant Professor, Ithaca College, NY Current Progress to Degree Caty Husbands (History)* ABD/Teaching Fellow, Noel Community Arts School Otto Stuparitz (Ethnomusicology) ABD *Chair or Co-chair of Doctoral Committee HONORS THESES SUPERVISED Lan Mai Ha, “Democracy and Dissent: The Nhân Văn – Giai Phẩm Affair of 1956-1958 in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.” History, 2013-04. Maya Richardson, “Ending the Rohingyan Genocide: Accountability and Prospects for Affecting Change.” Global Studies, 2018-19. Thianne Le, History, 2019-2020. CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED “The Past and Future of Human Rights: Assessing the State of Genocide Accountability,” with the Luskin Center for History and Policy and the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law, April 11, 2018. “1965 Today: Living with the Indonesian Massacres,” with the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 1-2, 2015. “The Antonym of Forgetting: Global Perspectives on Human Rights Archives,” with Dr. Michelle Caswell, School of Information Sciences, UCLA, October 13, 2013. “Indonesia in Global and Transnational Perspective” with the Indonesian Studies Program of UCLA’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies, April 27-28, 2012. “Indonesia and East Timor: Legacies of Violence,” with the Indonesian Studies Program of UCLA’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies, April 15-16, 2011. “Indonesian Subjectivities,” with Indonesian Studies Program of UCLA’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies, May 21-22, 2010. “Indonesian Studies Graduate Student Conference,” with Indonesian Studies Program of UCLA’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies, April 17-18, 2009. Geoffrey Robinson – Curriculum Vitae 4 PUBLICATIONS Books, Monographs and Edited Volumes The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. (Winner of the 2019 Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide.) Musim Menjagal: Sejarah Pembunuhan Massal di Indonesia, 1965-66. Jakarta: Komunitas Bambu, 2018. 1965 Today: Living with the Indonesian Massacres, eds. Martijn Eickhoff, Gerry van Klinken and Geoffrey Robinson, Special Issue, Journal of Genocide Research, Vol 19, 3 (2017). ‘If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die’ – How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. East Timor 1999: Crimes against Humanity. Jakarta & Dili: HAK Association & Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy, 2006. The Dark Side of Paradise: Political Violence in Bali. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995. Indonesia and East Timor: Power and Impunity - Human Rights under the New Order. London: Amnesty International, 1994. Philippines: The Killing Goes On. London: Amnesty International, 1992. The Politics of Violence in Modern Bali: 1882-1966. Ph.D dissertation, Cornell University, 1992. Islamic Resurgence and the Stability