Professor EmeritusAdrian Vickers

F.A.H.A. PhD (Sydney), BA (Hons) (Sydney)

Professor Vickers researches and publishes on the cultural history of Southeast Asia. He has held a series of Australian Research Council grants (Discovery and Linkage), the most recent of which is a large team project re-examining Australian history through a multilingual lens, Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia. His previous projects looked at modern and contemporary Indonesian art, Cold War history, and labour and industry in Southeast Asia. He has created a virtual museum on the history of Balinese painting, continuing previous pioneering work in Digital Humanities and teaching. His books include the highly popular Bali: A Paradise Created (2012), The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia's Northern Trading Network (2015, with Associate Professor Julia Martínez), A History of Modern Indonesia (2013) and Balinese Art: Paintings and Drawings of Bali, 1800-2010 (2012). Professor Vickers has supervised more than 35 PhD theses to completion, and has taught subjects on Southeast Asian history and culture from first year undergraduate to Honours and Masters levels. Professor Vickers is frequently asked to comment on Indonesia and Australian-Indonesian relations for national and international media.