Professor Anthony Reid
BA, MA, Hon D.Lit (Victoria University of Wellington); PhD in History (Cambridge University), FBA, FAHA
Emeritus Professor, School of Culture, History and Language
College of Asia & the Pacific
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Areas of expertise
- Asian History 210302
Research interests
History of Southeast Asia, with particular interests in Indonesia and Malaysia, early modern history, nationalism, minorities, social, economic and religious history, and Sumatra. Having recently completed a new history of Southeast Asia, he is exploring the interface between history and geology in Indonesia's natural disaster record.
Biography
Anthony Reid was a member of ANU's former Department of Pacific & Asian History from 1970 1999, after an initial position teaching Southeast Asian History at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur (1965-70). In 1999 he became founding Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA, Los Angeles, and in 2001 founding Director of the Asia Research Institute of NUS in Singapore. He retired to Canberra in 2009, though accepting visiting positions at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University (2009-10), and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2012-13).He was honoured with the Fukuoka Prize for Asian Culture (Academic) in 2002 and the Life Achievement Award of the Association of Asian Studies in 2011. He has been a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities since 1987 and the British Academy since 2008.
Researcher's projects
History, Environment and Natural Disasters in the Indian Ocean Region
Aceh History
'Going Native': Adventurers in 19th Century Asia
History of gender relations in Southeast Asia
Publications
- Reid, A 2018, book review of 'A History of Ayutthaya: Siam in the Early Modern World', American Historical Review, vol. 123, no. 1, pp. 205-206pp.
- Reid, A 2017, 'Fragile paradise: Bali and volcanic threats to our region', New Mandala (Blog), pp. online.
- Reid, A 2017, 'Recognising Global Interdependence through Disasters', in Michelle Ann Miller, Mike Douglass & Matthias Garschagen (ed.), Crossing Borders: Governing Environmental Disasters in a Global Urban Age in Asia and the Pacific, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 21-40pp.
- Reid, A 2017, 'Italy's 'white raja': the fabulous life of Celso Cesare Moreno', Asian Currents, pp. online.
- Reid, A 2017, 'Improbable recruit became pioneer and leader in his field', Asian Currents, pp. online.
- Reid, A 2017, Book review of 'Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia: Gillian Maclaine and His Business Network', Enterprise and Society, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 731-733pp.
- Reid, A 2017, 'Regional Networks of Knowledge: The Penang Collège Générale and Beyond', in Peter Zabielskis, Yeoh Seng Guan & Kat Fatland (ed.), Penang and Its Networks of Knowledge: Essays on Society, Culture and History, Areca Books, Penang, Malaysia.
- Reid, A 2017, 'The hybrid maritime actors of Southeast Asia', in Christian Buchet & Gérard Le Bouëdec (ed.), The Sea in History - The Early Modern World, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, TBC, pp. 112-122pp.
- Reid, A 2016, 'Revisiting Southeast Asian History with Geology: Some Demographic Consequences of a Dangerous Environment', in Greg Bankoff and Joseph Christensen (ed.), Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World: Bordering on Danger, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 31-53.
- Reid, A 2016, 'Humanities in Indonesia for a Global Age', Humaniora, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 3-11.
- Reid, A 2016, 'Building Cities in a Subduction Zone: Some Indonesian Dangers', in Michelle Ann Miller and Mike Douglass (ed.), Disaster Governance in Urbanising Asia, Springer, Singapore, pp. 45-59pp.
- Reid, A 2016, 'Bhinneka Tunggal Ika: Paradoxes of Religious Pluralism in Southeast Asia', Studia Islamika, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 387-404pp.
- Reid, A 2016, 'Why did Aceh Lose its Nineteenth Century Independence? Comparisons with Siam and Other States', Heritage of Nusantara: International Journal of Religious Literature and Heritage, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 161-182pp.
- Reid, A 2015, 'Historical Thought and Historiography: Southeast Asia', in James D Wright (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 82-88.
- Reid, A 2016, 'Two hitherto unknown Indonesian tsunamis of the seventeenth century: Probabilities and context', Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 88-108.
- Reid, A 2015, 'Rum and Jawa: The Vicissitudes of Documenting a Long-Distance Relationship', in A.C.S. Peacock and Annabel Teh Gallop (ed.), From Anatolia to Aceh: Ottomans, Turks, and Southeast Asia, British Academy and Oxford University Press, London, pp. 25-44.
- Reid, A 2015, A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads, Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, UK.
- Ito, T & Reid, A 2015, 'Introduction: A New Source for Seventeenth Century Aceh', in Takeshi Ito (ed.), Aceh Sultanate: State, Society, Religion and Trade. The Dutch Scources, 1636-1661., Brill, Leiden, pp. 1-12pp.
- Reid, A 2015, 'History and Seismology in the Ring of Fire: Punctuating the Indonesian Past', in David Henley and Henk Schulte Nordholt (ed.), Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Duree Perspective, Brill, Leiden, pp. 62-77.
- Reid, A 2015, 'Religious Pluralism or Conformity in Southeast Asia's Cultural Legacy', Studia Islamika, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 387-404.
- Reid, A 2015, 'Early Modernity as Cosmopolis: Some suggestions from Southeast Asia', in Sven Trakulhun and Ralph Weber (ed.), Delimiting modernities: conceptual challenges and regional responses, Lexington Books, London, pp. 123-142.
- Reid, A 2015, 'Lessons of Tambora ignored, 200 years on'; Asian Currents (ASAA Newsletter), April 14, 2015
- Reid, A 2014, 'Population history in a dangerous environment: How important may natural disasters have been?', Masyarakat Indonesia: Majalah Ilmu-Ilmu Sosial Indonesia, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 505-526.
- Reid, A 2014, 'Urban Respectability and the Maleness of (Southeast) Asian Modernity', The Asian Review of World Histories, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 147-167.
- Reid, A 2014, 'Turkey as Aceh's Alternative Imperium', Archipel, vol. 87, no. 87, pp. 81-102.
- Reid, A 2014, 'Three Reasons Southeast Asian History Matters', Dongnanya Yanjiu, vol. 2014, no. 4, pp. 4-10.
- Reid, A 2014, 'Writing history in a dangerous environment: how does the 'ring of fire' make a difference?', Shakai keizai shigaku / Shakai Keizai Shigakkai, vol. 79, no. 4, pp. 3-15.
- Reid, A 2014, 'Indonesian manuscripts in the Vatican Library', Southeast Asia Library Group Newsletter, vol. 46, pp. 51-60.
- Reid, A 2014, 'Religion in Early Modern Southeast Asia: Synthesising Global and Local', in Judith Schlehe and Evamaria Sandkuhler (ed.), Religion, Tradition and the Popular: Transcultural Views from Asia and Europe, transcript Verlag, Germany, pp. 51-74.
- Reid, A 2013, 'Crossing the great divide: Australia and eastern Indonesia', in Marshall Clark and Sally K. May (ed.), Macassan History and Heritage: Journeys, Encounters and Influences, ANU ePress, ANU, Canberra, Australia, pp. 41-53.
- Fujita, K, Momoki, S & Reid, A, eds, 2013, Offshore Asia: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia Before Steamships, ISEAS Publishing, Singapore.
- Momoki, S & Reid, A 2013, 'Introduction: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia', in Fujita Kayoko, Momoki Shiro and Anthony Reid (ed.), Offshore Asia:: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia Before Steamships, ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, pp. 1-15.
- Reid, A 2013, 'Patani as a Paradigm of Pluralism', in Patrick Jory (ed.), Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand, NUS Press - National University of Singapore, Singapore, pp. 3-30.
- Daly, P, Feener, R & Reid, A, eds, 2012, From the Ground Up: Perspectives on Post-Tsunami and Post-Conflict Aceh, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.
- Reid, A 2012, Historical Evidence for Past Tsunamis in the Java Subduction Zone, Asia Research Institute Working Paper no. 178, Singapore, pp.1-9. http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publication_details.asp?pubtypeid=WP&pubid=2091
- Bautista, J & Reid, A 2012, 'Introduction: Materiality in a Problematically Plural Southeast Asia', in Julius Bautista (ed.), The Spirit of Things: Materiality and Religious Diversity in Southeast Asia, Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, New York USA, pp. 1-10.
- Reid, A 2012, 'Provincialising Anglo-America', in Zawawi Ibrahim (ed.), Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalising World, Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, Selangor, Malaysia, pp. 51-57.
- Reid, A 2012, 'Indonesia's New Prominence in the World', in Anthony Reid (ed.), Indonesia Rising: The Repositioning of Asia's Third Giant, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, pp. 1-13.
- Reid, A, ed., 2012, Indonesia Rising: The Repositioning of Asia's Third Giant, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.
- Reid, A 2012, 'Ningen to kankyou no rekishi ni mukete: Kado ni kokka wo juushi shite katarunoha yameyou' [Towards Human and Environmental History: Let's not 'over-state'] translated. Keizai seminar, vol. 8, no. 667, pp. 32-41.
- Reid. A 2012. Historical Evidence for Past Tsunamis in the Java Subduction Zone. Asia Research Institute Working Paper no. 178, Singapore (Feb 2012), 9 pages. www.ari.nus.edu.sg/docs/wps/wps12_178.pdf
- Reid, A 2011, 'Chinese on the Mining Frontier in Southeast Asia', in Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang (ed.), Chinese circulations : capital, commodities, and networks in Southeast Asia, Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., pp. 21-36.
- Reid, A, Feener, M & Daly, P, eds, 2011, Mapping the Acehnese Past**, KITLV Press, Leiden.
- Reid, A 2010, To Nation by Revolution: Indonesia in the 20th Century, NUS Press - National University of Singapore, Singapore.
- Reid, A 2010, 'Hybrid Identities in the Fifteenth Century Straits', in Geoff Wade and Sun Laichen (ed.), Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century: The China factor, NUS Press - National University of Singapore, Singapore, pp. 307-332.
- Reid, A 2010, 'The cold war: why we need cooperation in data collection', in (ed.), The Role of Archives in Documenting a Shared Memory of the Cold War: Asia-Pacific Perspective, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, pp. 92-96.
- Reid, A 2010, 'Singapore between Cosmopolis and Nation', in Karl Hack, Jean-Louis Margolin, and Karine Delaye (ed.), Singapore from Temasek to the 21st Century: Reinventing the Global City, NUS Press - National University of Singapore, Singapore, pp. 37-54.
- Reid, A 2010, Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Morgan, D & Reid, A, eds, 2010, The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 3: The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Reid, A 2010, 'Revolution and federalism: Indonesia and Malaysia compared', Asian Currents, vol. 66, pp. 5-7.
- Reid, A 2010, 'Islam in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean Littoral, 1500-1800: Expansion, Polarization, Synthesis', in David Morgan and Reid (ed.), The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 3: The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 427-469.
- Reid, A 2010, 'Revolutionary State Formation and the Unitary Republic of Indonesia', in Jacques Bertrand, André Laliberté (ed.), Multination States in Asia: accommodation or resistance, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 29-50.
- Reid, A & Morgan, D 2010, 'Introduction: Islam in a Plural Asia, 1200-1800', in David Morgan and Reid (ed.), The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 3: The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1-17.
- Reid, A 2010, 'Violence at Sea: Unpacking "Piracy" in the Claims of States over Asian Seas', in Robert J. Anthony (ed.), Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers: Violence and Clandestine Trade in the Greater China Seas, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, pp. 15-26.
- Reid, A 2010, 'Aceh and the Turkish Connection', in Arndt Graf, Susanne Schroeter and Edwin Wieringa (ed.), Aceh: History, Politics and Culture, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, pp. 26-38.
- Reid, A 2010, 'Jewish-Conspiracy Theories in Southeast Asia: are Chinese the Target?', Indonesia and the Malay World, vol. 38, no. 112, pp. 373-385.
- Reid, A 2010, 'Family Names in Southeast Asian History', in Zheng Yangwen and Charles J-H MacDonald (ed.), Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity, NUS Press - National University of Singapore, Singapore, pp. 21-37.
- Reid, A & Macdonald, C 2010, 'Introduction (Personal names in Asia: History, culture and identity)', in Zheng Yangwen and Charles J-H MacDonald (ed.), Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity, NUS Press - National University of Singapore, Singapore, pp. 1-20.
- Reid, A. & Zheng Yangwen 2009. Negotiating Asymmetry: China’s Place in Asia. Singapore: NUS Press.
- Reid, A 2009, 'Fr Pecot and the Earliest Catholic Imprints in Malay', in Jan van der Putten & Mary Kilcline Cody (ed.), Lost times and untold tales from the Malay World, NUS Press - National University of Singapore, Singapore, pp. 177-185.
- Reid, A 2009, 'Escaping the Burdens of Chineseness', Asian Ethnicity, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 285-296.
- Reid, A 2009, 'Is there a Batak History?', in Domink Bonatz, John Miksic, J David Neidel and Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz (ed.), From Distant Tales: Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Highlands of Sumatra, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 104-119.
- Reid, A 2009, 'Introduction: Negotiating Asymmetry: Parents, Brothers, Friends and Enemies', in Anthony Reid and Zheng Yangwen (ed.), Negotiating Asymmetry: China's Place in Asia, NUS Press - National University of Singapore, Singapore, pp. 1-25.
- Reid, A 2009, 'Introduction: Chineseness Unbound', Asian Ethnicity, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 197-200.
- Reid, A 2009, 'Indonesian Studies at the Australian National University:Why so late?', RIMA: Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 51-74.
- Reid, A 2009, 'Indonesia, Aceh and the Modern Nation-State', in Minako Sakai, Glenn Banks and J H Walker (ed.), The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia, National University of Singapore, Singapore, pp. 84-100.
- Reid, A & Yangwen, Z, eds, 2009, Negotiating Asymmetry : China's Place in Asia, NUS Press, Singapore.
- Reid, A, ed., 2009, 'Chineseness Unbound: Boundaries, Burdens and Belongings of Chineseness outside China'. Special issue Asian Ethnicity, 10:3.
- Reid A & Gilsenan, M ed. 2008. Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Reid, A 2008, 'Historical Thought and Historiography: Southeast Asia', in William A. Darity (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd ed), MacMillan Reference USA, Detroit, pp. 82-88.
- Reid, A, ed. 2006. Verandah of Violence: The Historical Background of the Aceh Problem. Singapore/Seattle: Singapore University Press/University of Washington Press,
- Reid, A 2005, An Indonesia Frontier: Acehnese & Other Histories of Sumatra, Singapore University Press, Singapore.
- Reid, A 2004, 'Continuity and Change in the Austronesian Transition to Islam and Christianity', in Peter Bellwood (ed.), The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, ANU ePress, Australia, pp. 333-350.
- Chambert-Loir, H & Reid, A 2002, 'Introduction', in Henri Chambert-Loir and A J S Reid (ed.), The Potent Dead: ancestors, saints and heroes in Contemporary Indonesia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney and University of Hawai?i Press, Hololulu, pp. xv-xxvi.
- Reid, A 2002, 'Island of the Dead: Why do Bataks erect Tugu?', in Henri Chambert-Loir and A J S Reid (ed.), The Potent Dead: ancestors, saints and heroes in Contemporary Indonesia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney and University of Hawai?i Press, Hololulu, pp. 88-102.
- Chambert-Loir, H & Reid, A, eds, 2002, The Potent Dead: ancestors, saints and heros in Contemporary Indonesia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney and University of Hawai?i Press, Hololulu.
- Reid, A 2001, 'South-East Asian Population History and the Colonial Impact', in Ts?ui-jung Liu, James Lee, David Sven Reher, Osama Saito and Wang Feng (ed.), Asian Population History, Oxford University Press, United States, pp. 45-62.
- Reid, A 2001, 'Understanding Melayu (Malay) as a source of Diverse Modern Identities', Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 265-313.
- Reid, A 2001, 'Outsider Status and Economic Success', in Michael R Godley and Grayson J Lloyd (ed.), Perspectives on the Chinese Indonesians, Crawford House Publishing, Hindmarsh, pp. 67-82.
- Reid, A 2001, 'Asian Trade Networks', in S Sugiyama and Linda Grove (ed.), Commercial Networks in Modern Asia, Curzon Press, UK, pp. 261-264.
- Reid, A 1999, 'Studying Asia in Asia', Asian Studies Review, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 141-51.
