Asia experts

Professor David Hill

Indonesian politics, culture and contemporary media

Professor of South-East Asian Studies, David Hill, is Fellow of Murdoch University’s Asia Research Centre. He is also the Consortium Director and Founder of the Australian Consortium for ‘In-Country’ Indonesian Studies.

Professor Hill researches political biography, the experience of exile, and contemporary media and culture in Indonesia.

He has written and co-authored several books on Indonesian media, politics, literature, and culture; including The Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy, Media, Culture and Politics in Indonesia, The Press in New Order Indonesia and Beyond the Horizon: Short Stories from Contemporary Indonesia.

Dr Kanishka Jayasuriya

Political, economic and legal change in Asia

Dr Kanishka Jayasuriya is the Acting Director of Murdoch University’s Asia Research Centre. His main expertise lies in political economy research, in particular globalisation and the transformation of state structures and law, and changes in the global order in the post-Cold War era.

He examines the changing political dynamics of regulatory institutions and social policy in advanced industrial and newly industrialising economies in East Asia.

Dr Jayasuriya directed research on the problematic emergence of the rule of law and institutional change in East Asia, and lectures on the politics and policies of the global financial crisis and its impact on Asia.

Dr Carolin Liss

Maritime piracy; social and political change across Asia

Dr Carolin Liss has researched maritime piracy in South-East Asia and Bangladesh and commented on recent commercial and public piracy incidents off the coast of Somalia.

Her interests include non-traditional security issues and the privatisation of the security sector, as well as social and political issues and changes in the Asian region. 

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Professor Garry Rodan

Political and economic development in East and South-East Asia

Garry Rodan is Director of Murdoch University’s Asia Research Centre and a Professor of Politics and International Studies.

He is currently researching the politics of accountability reform in South-East Asia in a three-year project funded by the Australian Research Council.

Mr Rodan writes extensively on Singapore’s political and economic development and on political regime directions in South-East Asia.

His books include Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in South-East Asia, The Political Economy of Singapore’s Industrialisation, Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia and The Political Economy of South-East Asia. 

Associate Professor Malcolm Tull

Economic theory, history and policy; Asian economic development; maritime economics

An expert in applied maritime economics, maritime economic history and Asian economic development, Associate Professor Malcolm Tull is the Dean of the Murdoch Business School and a fellow of Murdoch University’s Centre for Asian Studies.

He was principal investigator for the Asian History of Marine Animal Populations Project in 2006 and initiated his own investigation into Indonesian shark fishing as part of this multi-national project.

He teaches economic history, theory and policy and has authored several publications on maritime economics and economic history.

Professor Tull is Vice-President of the International Maritime Economic History Association and President of the Economic Society of Australia Inc, Western Australian Branch.

Professor James Warren

Socio-economic history and ethnohistory across South-East Asia

Murdoch Professor of South-East Asian Modern History, James Warren, specialises in South-East Asian social and economic history, Singapore-Chinese working class history and society since 1880, slavery and other forms of unfree labour.

He also researches climate, history and society in the Philippines.

In 2003 Professor Warren was awarded the Centenary Medal of Australia for service to Australian society and the humanites in the study of ethnohistory.

Dr Ian Wilson

Political economies and cultural politics in Asia

Dr Ian Wilson is a Research Fellow at Murdoch’s Asia Research Centre.

He examines the political economy of gangs, criminal networks, protection rackets, ethnic and religious militias and private security in Indonesia.

He has also investigated political corruption, cultural politics and the informal economy in Indonesia, in addition to his experience in policy formulation.