Notes on Contributors
Warwick Anderson
is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of Anthropology and the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, where he was previously an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow (2012–17). His books include The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia (Melbourne 2002; Duke 2006); Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines (Duke 2006; Ateneo de Manila 2007); The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen (Johns Hopkins 2008), which was awarded the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association of the History of Medicine (2010), and the Ludwik Fleck Award of the Society for Social Studies of Science (2010). He has edited (with Gabriela Soto Laveaga) a forum in History and Theory (2020) on decolonizing histories of science; and (with Susan Lindee) a special issue of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (2020) on genetic studies of Indigenous peoples in the Pacific and Australasia.
Bronwen Douglas
is Honorary Professor in the School of Archaeology & Anthropology, College of Arts & Social Sciences, the Australian National University. Her work combines global and regional histories of the human and spatial sciences with the ethnohistory of encounters in Oceania from the sixteenth century. She is the author of Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania 1511–1850 (2014); Collecting in the South Sea: The Voyage of Bruni d’Entrecasteaux 1791–1794 (co-edited, 2018); Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750–1940 (co-edited, 2008); and many articles and book chapters.
Francis A. Gealogo
is Professor and former Chairman of the Department of History of Ateneo de Manila University and former Commissioner of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines. He currently holds the Horacio de la Costa Professorial Chair in History at the Ateneo de Manila. He obtained his BA and MA in History, and PhD in Philippine Studies, major in History from the University of the Philippines Diliman. He was Fulbright Senior Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Rene Descartes Senior Fellow at Utrecht University. His article “The Philippines in the World of the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19” was awarded as one of the Most Outstanding Scientific Papers of the National Academy of Science and Technology.
Janet Alison Hoskins
is Professor of Anthropology and Religion at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Her books include The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism (2015 University of Hawai’i), The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on History, Calendars and Exchange (1996 University of California, Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies, Association for Asian Studies), and Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of People’s Lives (1998 Routledge). She is the contributing editor of four books: Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (with Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Hawaii 2014), Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia (1996), A Space Between Oneself and Oneself: Anthropology as a Search for the Subject (1999) and Fragments from Forests and Libraries (2001). She served as President of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion, American Anthropological Association, from 2011–13.
Hilary Howes
is an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at The Australian National University. Her research to date addresses the German-speaking tradition within anthropology and archaeology, focusing on Austrian, German, Russian and Swiss collectors and collecting in Australia and the Pacific region. Her current project ‘Skulls for the Tsar: Indigenous Human Remains in Russian Collections’ (2021–2024) offers the first detailed investigation of the acquisition of Indigenous human remains from Australia, New Zealand, and the broader Pacific by the Russian Empire during the long 19th century. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow on Matthew Spriggs’ ARC Laureate Fellowship project ‘The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific: A Hidden History’ (2015–2020) and an employee of the Australian Embassy in Berlin (2011–2015), where her responsibilities included facilitating the repatriation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ancestral remains from German collecting institutions.
Sandra Khor Manickam
is Assistant Professor of History at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is a historian of colonial Malaya and Southeast Asia with a focus on the history of medicine and colonialism in the first half of the twentieth century. Her book on the history of racial science and anthropology, Taming the Wild: Aborigines and Racial Knowledge in Colonial Malaya, was published with NUS Press in 2015. Her current work focuses on the intersections of medicine, colonialism and war under British colonialism and Japanese occupation. Her most recent article entitled “Andō’s Ambiguities in Malaya: The Life of a Japanese Medical Doctor Between British and Japanese Empires” was published in East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal. She also undertakes research on the history of race and genetics in Malaysia today for which she has received the Dutch L’Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science (FWIS) fellowship in 2019 hosted at NIAS, Amsterdam.
Hans Pols
is Professor at the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is interested in the history of colonial medicine and the transformation of medical research and health practices during and after the process of decolonisation. His research has focused on the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia, and on psychiatry and mental health. His book Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. Apart from investigating the history of medicine in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia, he is currently involved in several projects that aim to shape the future of mental health care in Indonesia.
Florentino Rodao
holds PhDs from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1993) and the University of Tokyo (2007) and is now Professor of Contemporary History at the Complutense University. Rodao has taught at Keio University, the Ateneo de Manila, University of Wisconsin, Universidad de Puerto Rico, and the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He works on Japanese history and Spanish interactions with East Asia. He is the author of Franquistas sin Franco. Una historia alternativa de la Guerra Civil Española desde Filipinas (“Francoists without Franco. An Alternative History of the Spanish Civil War from the Philippines,” Granada: 2012), and Españoles en Siam, 1540–1939. Una contribución al estudio de la presencia hispana en Asia Oriental (“Spaniards in Siam, 1540-1939. A Contribution to Research on Spanish Presence in East Asia,” Madrid: 1997).
Ricardo Roque
is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa) and an Honorary Associate in the Department of History, University of Sydney. He works on the history and anthropology of colonialism, race sciences, collections, archives, and cross-cultural contact in global and imperial histories. He is the author of Headhunting and Colonialism: Anthropology and the Circulation of Human Skulls in the Portuguese Empire (Palgrave 2010). He has edited Crossing Histories and Ethnographies: Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste (with E. G. Traube, Berghahn 2019), on archival and fieldwork approaches to colonial history; and Luso-tropicalism and Its Discontents: The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism (with W. Anderson and R. Ventura Santos, Berghahn 2019), on critical histories of luso-tropicalist racial imaginaries.
Fenneke Sysling
is Assistant Professor at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. She specializes in the history of science and colonialism and her interests include colonial heritage, museum objects, race, the body and natural history. She is the author of Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia, published in 2016. Her current project looks at the history of medical experimentation in Southeast Asia. She has also published articles on the history of the human sciences and technologies of the self, and on the history of colonial objects in natural history museums.