PUBLICATION LIST, SERVICE RECORD, AWARDS AND GRANTS
Nationality: Malaysian
Religion: Islam
Current Status: Independent Scholar; Director ASERA, Life Member, Cambridge
Email: wazir@wazirjahan.net
Website: www.wazirjahan.net
EDUCATIONAL STATUS:
| 1954 - 69 | : Primary and Secondary School Convent Bukit Nanas , K Lumpur |
| 1969 - 72 | : B Soc Sc (U of Singapore/NUS) |
| 1972 - 74 | : M Phil ( Econs) London School of Economics & Pol. Sciences ((LSE) , U of London |
| 1974 - 77 | : PhD (Anthropology) London School of Economics & Pol. Sciences (LSE) U of London |
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
| 1972 | : Ford Foundation SEAsian Fellowship for Doctoral Research in Econonic Anthropology |
| 1974 | : Commonwealth Scholarship for Doctoral Research in Economic Anthropology |
| 1977 | : Raymond Firth Award for Best Doctoral Research and Thesis (LSE: Anthropology) |
| 1981 | : Lee Foundation, Travel Fellowship Grant. |
| &1984 - 85 | : Fulbright Fellow, (Chicago and Harvard (Radcliffe) |
| 1988 | : Canadian Asean Fund Travel Fellowship |
| 1990 | : British Council Travel Fellowship |
| 1990 | : British Academy Fellowship (LSE) |
| 1991 | : Visiting Professorship, Institute of Anthropology, U. of Oslo |
| 1995 | : Visiting Professorship, ISLCAA) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
| 1996 | : Visiting Professorship (CASA), University of Amsterdam |
| 2000 | : Visiting Professorship, University of Victoria, Wellington |
| 2001 | : Rotary Gold Medal for Outstanding Contributions to the Social Sciences |
| 2001 | : Visiting Professorship (CICHE) University of Kent at Canterbury |
| 2001 | : Visiting Professorship, Ethnographic Museum University of Oslo |
| 2003 | : Chair, Andrews Chair (Asian Studies) Univ. of Hawaii |
| 2004 | : Sanggar Sanjung Award, USM for Most Outstanding International Scholar |
| 2005 | : Award for Best Academic, Penang State , Women and Family Dev. Council |
| 2005 | : Distinguished Fellow, Social Institute of Malaysia (ISM) |
| 2006 | : Fellow (Prof) Clare Hall, U. of Cambridge |
| 2007 | : Life Member, Clare Hall, U. of Cambridge |
| 2007 | : Senior Research Fellow, Asia-Europe Institute (AEI) University of Malaya |
PUBLIC /ACADEMIC SERVICE RECORD:
| 1974 | : Tutor, Faculty of Economics, University of Malaya |
| 1975 - 78 | : Lecturer, University of Malaya |
| 1978 - 2004 | : Lecturer, Assoc Prof and Professor in Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Retired 2004 |
| 1978 - 2004 | : Senator, USM |
| 1978 - 79 | : Chairperson, Anthropology/Sociology (USM) |
| 1978 - 91 | : Convenor, Women and Children's Research Group (KANITA), USM |
| 1980 | : Member of the Mal. Br. Of the Royal Asiatic Soc. |
| 1985 - 87 | : Member, Promotions Committee, Category A, USM |
| &1988 - 90 | : President, Women's Association, USM |
| 1991 - 2001 | : Convenor, Women and Human Resource Studies Unit (KANITA), USM |
| 1991 - 2001 | : Intensification of Research Priority Areas (IRPA) Soc. Sc. Research Panel , Member |
| 2001 - 04 | : Director-General, Academy of Social Sciences (AKASS) |
| 1993 - 96 | : Founding President, SE Asian Association for Gender Studies (SAMA) |
| 1996 | : International Editorial Board, Anthropological Forum (Univ. of West. Australia) |
| 1996 | : International Editorial Board, Br. Medical Anthropological. Review, Univ. of London |
| 1999 - 2004 | : Advisor, Universiti Putra Malaysia (Faculty of Human Ecology) |
| 1999 - 2004 | : Academic Assessor (Promotions) UKM |
| 1999 - 2004 | : Chairperson, Research & Resource Committee, Women & Fam Council. Penang |
| 2000 - 02 | : Council Member, Penang Heritage Trust (PHT) |
| 2000 - 04 | : Chairperson, Soc. Sc. Research Committee |
| 2001 - 04 | : Director, Women's Development Research Centre (KANITA), USM |
| 2001 - 06 | : President, Pan Pacific SEAsian Women's Assoc. Penang Chap. |
| 2000 - 05 | : Penang Museum Board Member |
| 2002 - 04 | : Key Consultant, Min of Women, Family and Community, Malaysia |
| 2003 - 09 | : TODA Institute of Peace and Policy, Council Member, Honolulu |
| 2004 | : Advisor on Muslim Heritage, Penang Heritage Trust (PHT) |
| 2004 | : Executive Director, Academy of Socio-Economic Research (ASERA) |
| 2004 | : Member, Panel of Experts, UNESCO Committee for the Social Sciences |
| 2005 | : Member, State Advisory Council for Women, Malaysia (Education Res.) |
| 2005 - 09 | : Member, National Advisory Council for Women |
| 2007 - 09 | : Member Editorial Board, Globalisations and Rethinking Globalisation (Taylor and Francis: Routledge) |
| 2009 | : Member of Administrative Committee for the Establishment of the Jawi Peranakan Museum and Institute of Ethnology, Penang Malay Society (Pemenang) |
| 2010 | : Volunteer for Social Advocacy on Tanjong Tokong ; writer of the Dossier on Tanjong Tokong |
| 2011 | : Assessor for Projects on Think City Sdn Bhd.,A subsidiary of Khazanah Nasional |
| 2011 | : Executive Director of Intersocietal and Scientific (INAS) an affiliate of ASERA; committed to applied research on conservation and heritage |
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
| 1981 | : Ma' Betise' Concepts of Living Things, Athlone Press: London; Berg: Oxford (2004) (author) |
| 1990 | : Emotions of Culture: A Malay Perspective, Oxford Univ. Press: Sing. (Ed. & Author) |
| 1992 | : Women and Culture: Between Malay Adat and Islam, Westview Press: Boulder |
| 1993 | : Gendered Fields: Women, Men, Ethnography, with D Bell & P Caplan (eds), Routledge: London ( co-ed & author) |
| 1995 | : Male and Female in Developing SEAsia , Berg: Oxford (ed & author) |
| 2002 | : Cultural Minorities of Peninsular Malaysia: Survivals of Indigenous Heritage with M Razha Rashid,(co-eds & author) Academy of Soc. Sciences/ Toyota Foundation:USM |
| 2009 | : Straits Muslims ed : Diasporas of the Northern Passage of the Straits of Malacca Straits G.T.: George Town (ed and author) |
Occasional Papers(OP), Chapters(C) , Articles(A) and Book Reviews(BR)
| 1973 | : "The Varying Effects of Urbanisation and Urban Growth on the Soc.Org. of African Towns and Cities: Some Theoretical considerations, in Manusia dan Masyarakat (Man & Society), 2: 52-62 (A) |
| 1980 a | : "The Nature of Kinship in Ma'Betisek Villages", in Federation Museum Journal, ns 25:119-136 (A) |
| 1980 b | : "The Affinal Bond: A Review of Ma' Betisek Marriages on Carey Island" in Federation Museum Journal, ns 25: 137-150 (A) |
| 1980 c | : "Children of the Garden: Concepts of Size, Space and Time in Child-Socialization among the Ma'Betisek and the Malays" in Federation Museum Journal, ns. 25:151-55 (A) |
| 1980 d | : "Evaluative Research on Women and Children: Aims and Methodology" in KANITA Papers March 1:14-18 (A) |
| 1981 | : "Ma" Betisek Concepts of Humans, Plants and Animals" in Bijdragen Tot de Taal, Land-en, Volkenkunde, 137,35-60 (A) |
| 1982 | : "An Evaluation of Participatory Research as a Method in Developing Community Skills and Decision-Making" in Convergence: Int. Journal of Adult Education. 15 (4):52-59 (A) |
| 1983 | : "Malay Women's Movements, Leadership and Processes of Change" in Int. Soc. Science Journal, 35 (4):719-731 (A) |
| 1984 a | : "Malay Wives and Midwives" in Social Science and Medicine 18 (22):159-166 (A) |
| 1984 b | : AC Milner 1982 Kerajaan Malaya: Political Culture on the Eve of Colonial Rule Univ. of Arizona Press: Tucson Series : Mono, of the Assoc. of Asian Studies No 40 Review in Kajian Malaysia / J Of Malaysian Studies. June 1984 (BR) |
| 1985 a | : "Women in Industry: Electronic Women". In Inside Asia, 6:20-21 (A) |
| 1985 b | : "History and the Interpretation of Culture: A Commentary on the Sullivan-Milner Debate from point of View of an Anthropologist". in Kajian Malaysia / J of Malaysian Studies, 3 (!):163-168 (A) |
| 1985 c | : J Schwartz, "The Sexual Politics of Jean-Jacques Rousseau", Univ. Of Chicago Press: Chicago 1984 in Kajian Malaysia / J of Malaysian Studies (BR) |
| 1985 d | : H Strange, Rural Malaysian Women: Tradition and Transition, Praeger Special Studies: New York 1981 Review in Kajian Malaysia / J .of Malaysian Studies (BR) |
| 1985 e | : A Y Hing, NS Karim, R Talib, Women in Malaysia, Pelanduk: P Jaya 1984, Review in Ilmu Masyarakat, April-Sept. 1985 (BR) |
| 1986 | : N Heyzer, Working Women in SEAsia, Open Univ. Press: N York. Review in Inside Asia, (BR) |
| 1987a | : "Ritual, Ethnicity and Transculturalism in Penang", with R Rashid in Sojourn 3(1) 62-78 (A) |
| 1987 b | : "The Status of Malay Women in Malaysia: From Culture to Islam and Industrialization" in International Journal of Sociology of the Family, 17(1) 41-45 (A) |
| 1990 a | : "Research on Women in Southeast Asia: Current and Future Directions" in Women Studies International: Nairobi and Beyond. The Feminist Press: New York (C) |
| 1990 b | : "Introduction: Emotions in Perspective" in Emotions of Culture: A Malay Perspective. Oxford Univ. Press: Singapore (C) |
| 1990 c | : "Prelude to Madness: The Language of Emotion in Courtship and Early Marriage" Ibid, Oxford Univ. Press: Singapore |
| 1991 a | : S Howell, Che Wong: Society and Cosmos, Chicago Univ. Press. Review in Journal of SEAsian Studies (BR) |
| 1992 a | : Taming the Winds of Desire, Univ. of California. Press Berkeley. Review in Journal of SEAsian Studies (BR) |
| 1992 b | : "Women and Human Resource Development in SEAsia", SAMA, Penang 1 (A) |
| 1992 c | : "Wanita dan Kerja: Satu Pendekatan Teoritis" in Dedication to S Husin Ali ed. Ikmal Said and Halim Ali, PSSM: K Lumpur (C) |
| 1993 a | : "Malaysian Traditional Medicine: A Recovery" in The Malaysian Development Experience, INTAN: K Lumpur (C) |
| 1993 b | : "Women and Politics in Malaysia" in Women in Politics, UNESCO Series on Monographs and Occasional Papers 84-131 (C) |
| 1993 c | : "With Moyang Melur in Carey Island" in Gendered Fields: Women, Men, Ethnography, eds D Bell, P Caplan and W J Karim, Routledge: London |
| 1993 d | : "Epilogue: The "Nativised" Self and the Native", Ibid 248-251 |
| 1993 e | : "Gender Studies in SEAsia", in SEAsian Journal of Soc. Sciences 21:1, 98-113 (A) |
| 1994 | : "A Theory of a Distinction of Words Roughly Answering to Sex" in Kajian Malaysia June-Dec. 12:1, 160-64 (A) |
| 1995 a | : "Bilateralism in SEAsia" in Male and Female in Developing SEAsia, ed. WJ Karim, Berg: Oxford (C) |
| 1995 b | : "Introduction: Feminist Anthropology and SEAsian Realities". Ibid ed. W J Karim, Berg: Oxford (C) |
| 1995 c | : "Fatimah: Kisah Perjuangan Puteri Rasulullah", in Ali Shariati, Review in Manusia dan Masyarakat (BR) |
| 1995 d | : "Cultural Transformation and the Future of Humankind" in Pendidikan Tinggi/Higher Education 2:2 ( A) |
| 1995 e | : "Understanding Reproductive Change" in B Egero and M Hammarskjold, Lund Univ. Press in Social Science and Medicine (BR) |
| 1995 f | : Indigenous Minorities of Peninsular Malaysia: Selected Issues and Ethnographies. INAS: Penang (Co-ed and author) |
| 1995 g | : Promoting Promising Scholarship in the Social Sciences. Academy of Social Sciences: Penang |
| 1995 h | : "Conspicious Consumption and Classes of Goods" in J. of Asian and African Studies, Sept. 52:1-14 (A) |
| 1996 a | : Gender and Empowermen. Wertheim Lecture Series, CASA, Univ. of Amsterdam: Amsterdam (OP) |
| 1996 b | : "Anthropology Without Tears: How a 'local" sees the "local" and the "global", in The Future of Anthropological Knowledge. Routledge: London (C) |
| 1997 a | : Jangan Lupakan Kami:Cendekiawan dalam Anthropologi Pribumi, (Don't Forget Us: The Intellectual in Indigenous Anthropology) Inaugural Professorial Lecture Universiti Sains Malaysia : Penang (OP) |
| 1997 b | : "Between the Prayer Room and the Japanese Carp Pond in a Malay House", in Review of Indonesia and Malaysia/RIMA, Dec. 31:2:121-40 |
| 1998 a | : A R Mubarak, Low Heng Chin, Quah Soon Hoe, in Women, Culture and Mental Health in Malaysia: An Inter-ethnic and Inter-regional Study, KANITA: Penang (Ed) |
| 1998 b | : Twenty Years of KANITA, Twenty Years of Gender, KANITA: Penang (Spec.Issue) |
| 1998 c | : Gender Studies in Malaysia and the New Globalistics of Gender Research, Occas. Paper. Malay Studies Series. Univ. of Victoria Wellington (OP) |
| 1998 d | : Constructing Emotions and World of the Orang Asli, Public Lecture. Univ. of Wellington: Victoria (OP) |
| 1998 e | : "Traditional Cosmologies, Indigenous Models and the Use of Alternative Medicine in Behavioural Models", in Behavioural Models in Medico-Health Research and Intervention, IMR/WHO:K Lumpur 121-28 (C) |
| 1998 f | : Shifting Cosmologies of Culture and Religion in Malaysia, Occasional. Paper Academia Sinica: Taipeh, April No 13 (OP) |
| 2002 a | : "Ethics for a Global Civil Society: Non-Western Perspectives" in Access Empowerment and Governance in the Information Age, MIMOS/NITC: K Lumpur (C) |
| 2002 b | : With Razha Rashid, Minority Cultures of Peninsular Malaysia: Survivals of Indigenous Heritage. Academy of Soc. Sciences: Penang (Co-ed and author) - Chap.1 Constructing Emotions and World of the Orang Asli, 13-26 - Chap.3 Material Culture as Technological Transformation: The Ma' Betise' and Kintaq Bong, 33-58 - Chap.5 Minorities of the Minority: Language Death and Patterns of Cultural Extinction. 69-74 |
| 2002 c | : "Philosophies of Gender Equality in Life-Long Learning" in Life-Long Learning, Asia-Europe Inst/ Univ. of Malaya: K Lumpur (C) |
| 2003 | : "Islam and America" J. of Peace and Policy: Special Ed. "Violence in a Nonviolent World" TODA Inst/Honolulu Vol: 8 pp 40-55 |
| 2009 | : "The Affairs of the Bogeyman: Class, Ethnicity and Migration across the Borders", in eds. Lim Teck Ghee, A. Gomes and A. Rahman eds. Multi-ethnic Malaysia: Past, Present and Future. Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD): Kuala Lumpur. |
| 2009 a | : "Ethnogenesis of the Straits Malays: An Early Civil Society in Formation" in ed. W. J. Karim, Straits Muslims: Diasporas of the Northern Passage of the Straits of Malacca. Straits G.T. George Town (C) |
| 2009 b | : "The Hadrami Diaspora in the Straits of Malacca: Economic and Political Empowerment at the Ocean's Edge" Ibid (C) |
| 2009 c | : "Hafiz Ghulam Sarwar (1873-1954) Philosophies of Islam, Civil Society and Civilisations" Ibid (C) |
| 2009 d | : "Hafiz Ghulam Sarwar: A Biographical Review". Straits G.T.: George Town |
| 2009 e | : "Editorial Note": Philosophy of the Qur'an. Straits G.T.: George Town. Pix |
| 2010 a | : "A Commentary on the Straits G.T. Edition of 2010": Life of Prophet Muhammad. Straits G.T: George Town. Pp xii-xvii |
| 2010 b | : "The Economic Crisis, Capitalism and Islam: The Making of a New Economic Order?" Globalizations : Special Issue. Globalization and Crisis Vol. 7 Issue 1 Feb-March, Routledge: London. 101-109. |
| 2010 a | : 'Saving Tanjong Tokong', Penang Economic Monthly, Issue 12:10. pp 26-32. |
RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED 1
| 1979 - 81 | : UNICEF, "Women, Children and Family Development in Underserved Areas in Kedah Malaysia" / KANITA |
| 1979 - 81 | : IDRC "Child-Rearing Practices in Malaysia" |
| 1981 - 83 | : Prime Minister's Dept. Malaysia/NACIWID " Women ,Culture and Family Development in Underserved Areas in Malaysia" |
| 1983 - 86 | : Ford Foundation "Belief Systems of the Ma'Betise, of Carey Island" |
| 1989 | : UNESCO, "Cultural Transformation and Ethnicity in Malaysia" |
| 1989 - 91 | : Ford Foundation "Women Living Under Syariah Law in Malaysia" |
| 1992 | : UNESCO, "Environment, Culture and Indigenous Minorities in SEAsia" |
| 1992 | : ASEAN Women Entrepreneurial Fund, Govt. Of Canada, "Gender and HRD" |
| 1994-96 | : Toyota Foundation, "Indigenous Minorities of Peninsular Malaysia" Study of Cultural Conservation of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia |
| 1996-98 | : Royal Government of the Netherlands, "Cultural Conservation of Indigenous Minorities of Peninsular Malaysia" |
| 2002 - 04 | : IRPA, Min. of Science, Technology & Environment "Wetlands, Mangrove Rainforests and Innovations in Social Science Methodologies" |
| 2002 - 04 | : IRPA, Min. of Science, Technology & Environment "Social Safety Net and Gender" |
| 2002 - 03 | : Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development, "A National Study of Family Transformations in the Context of Changing Trends in Women's Work and Lifestyle in Malaysia" |
| 2002 - 03 | : Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development, "A National Study on Information and Communication Technologies and Gender" (INFOCOM) |
| 2003 - 04 | : IRPA, Min. of Science, Technology & Environment 'Globalisation, Work and Gender" |
| 2006 - 08 | : Toyota Foundation 'Asia-Pacific Network on the Empowerment of Women Migrant Workers' |
| 2011 | : Thinkcity (Khazanah Nasional), Culinary Heritage of the Malays and Straits Muslims of Northern Malaysia |
| From 1978-2011.Excluding Grants for Travel, Book publications National Seminars and Conferences. Also excluded are unpublished papers presented at national and international conferences, reports and newsletters. | |
NATIONAL AND GLOBAL ACHIEVEMENTS
- First Woman to live with the Orang Aslis (indigenous minorities) of Malaysia 1972-74.
- First Malaysian to win the Raymond Firth Award at the London School of Economics for best anthropological research thesis. 1977
- Pioneer of Gender Studies in Malaysia. 1978-2001
- Founder and Founding President of the Southeast Asian Association for Women (SAMA) 1995.
- Founder of the first Woman's Development Research Centre in a Malaysian University (USM). 2001-2004
- Co-Founder of the Academy of Socio-economic Research and Analysis (ASERA), first academic NGO devoted to economic justice. 1996
- First Woman to be appointed to the Andrew's Chair in the University of Hawaii, Manoa. 2003
- First Malaysian to win a Competitive Fellowship to Clare Hall, Cambridge, now First Malaysian Life Member 2006.
- Highest number of international visiting Professorships obtained competitively by a social scientist in a public university in Malaysia until 2005
- First Adviser for Muslim Affairs, Penang Heritage Trust ( PHT) 2008-currently
- Co-Founder of the Jawi Peranakan/Malay Museum; Proposal written in 2005, Museum founded in 2008
AREAS OF SPECIALISATION
- Cultural Minorities Cultural Transformation and Heritage (Orang Asli; Malays)
- Women, Gender and Development (Malaysia and Global)
- Practical Islam, Civil Society and Welfare (People) Economics
- Migration, Globalisation and Development
