Virginia Hooker

Professor Virginia Hooker

Research

• Islam in Southeast Asia
• Contemporary Indonesian political culture
• Islam and social change in Indonesia
• Islam and the process of regional autonomy in Indonesia

Present Appointments

• Professor of Indonesian and Malay, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
• Fellow Australian Academy of the Humanities
• 2002-2007 Member, Board, Australia Indonesia Institute
• Interim Chair of the Board of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam, The University of Melbourne

Publications

• Tuhfat al-Nafis Kuala Lumpur (1982, reprinted 1998)
• The Precious Gift Tuhfat al-Nafis (with Barbara Watson Andaya), Oxford, Kuala Lumpur (1982)
• Tuhfat al-Nafis Sejarah Melayu Islam (1991, reprinted as Karya Agung in 1997), Yayasan Karyawan, Kuala Lumpur (1997)
• Culture and Society in New Order Indonesia, editor and contributor, Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur (1993, reprinted in paperback 1995)
• Writing a New Society: Social Change through the Novel in Malay, Allen and Unwin/University of Hawaii Press (2000) ['Outstanding Academic Title' award from Choice, American Library Association]
• A Short History of Malaysia: Linking East and West, Allen & Unwin (2003)
• Malaysia: Islam, Society and Politics, editor (with Norani Othman) and contributor, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (2003)
• Islamic Perceptions on the New Millennium, editor (with Amin Saikal) and contributor, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (2004)
• Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook, edited and compiled with Greg Fealy, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (2006)