EmPr Robert Cribb

20022022

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Biography

Robert Cribb grew up in Brisbane, Australia, and spent much time as a child wandering the bush and the Barrier Reef with his botanist parents. After completing his undergraduate studies in Asian History at the University of Queensland, he took his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, with a thesis on Jakarta during the Indonesian revolution, 1945-1949. After graduating, he taught at Griffith University and the University of Queensland (both in Brisbane) and as guest lecturer at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. He held research positions at the Australian National University, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, where he was also director for two years. He re-joined the Australian National University at the beginning of 2003.

 

Research interests

Robert Cribb's research interests focus mainly on Indonesia, though he has some interest in other parts of Southeast Asia (especially Malaysia and Burma/Myanmar) and in Inner Asia. The themes of his research are: mass violence and crime; national identity; environmental politics; and historical geography. Current research projects include: the origins of massacre in Indonesia; 'Puppet states revisited: Empire and Sovereign Subordination in Modern Asia' (with Li Narangoa); and War crimes and the Japanese Military, 1941 - 1945  (with Sandra Wilson).

Qualifications

BA (Hons)(Queensland) PhD (SOAS)

Researcher's projects

The origins of massacre in Indonesia. Examines the deep and shallow roots of the 1945 and 1965 massacres in Indonesia.

Puppet states revisited (with Li Narangoa). Examines the concept of puppet states as it has been used in international studies and suggests ways it can be stripped of its judgemental aspects and used as an analytical term.

War crimes and the Japanese Military, 1941 - 1945 (with Sandra Wilson). Asks why the Japanese military committed the crimes for which so many were tried.


Education/Academic qualification

History, PhD, Jakarta in the Indonesian Revolution, SOAS University of London

1 Oct 197931 Dec 1983

Award Date: 17 Apr 1984

External positions

Director, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

19971999

Gastdocent, Leiden University (Universiteit Leiden)

1 Jul 199331 Dec 1993

Lecturer, University of Queensland (UQ)

1 Jul 199031 Dec 2002

Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies

Oct 1988Jun 1989

Lecturer, Griffith University

1 Jul 198331 Dec 1986

Expertise Areas

  • Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
  • Asian History
  • Professional Ethics (incl. police and research ethics)
  • History and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science)
  • HISTORICAL STUDIES
  • Law and Society

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