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Professor Adrian Vickers is a renowned scholar in Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Sydney, holding the title of Professor of Southeast Asian Studies. He is affiliated with the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre and the Vere Gordon Childe Centre. His research focuses on Indonesian history, Balinese art, and Australian-Indonesian relations, with a particular emphasis on cultural history and digital humanities.
Education: PhD (Sydney), BA (Hons) (Sydney). His work has been supported by grants from the Australian Research Council and the Getty Foundation. Notable projects include the Multilingual Australia and Virtual Museum of Balinese Painting.
Research Interests: Asia-Australia relations, labour history, maritime Southeast Asia, and Panji epic traditions. He has authored influential books like The Pearl Frontier (2015) and A History of Modern Indonesia (2013). His articles explore themes like Indonesian revolutionary solidarity, historical revisionism, and inter-Asia referencing methodologies.
Awards: Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2014), Brayton Wilbur Jr Fellowship (2018), and multiple literary awards for The Pearl Frontier. He has supervised over 35 PhD candidates and teaches courses on Southeast Asian history and culture.
Current Projects: Leading Opening Australia’s Multilingual Archive (ARC Discovery Grant) and Site and Space in Southeast Asia (Getty Foundation). Serves on editorial boards of journals like Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities.
