Staff

Head of School

• Professor James Chin, Professor of Political Science
  
  Research areas: Political parties and elections, comparative politics, Pacific islands, Chinese diasporas

Deputy Head of School (Research)

• Professor Joern Dosch, Professor of International Relations
  
  Research areas: Politics and international relations in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific area

Deputy Head of School (Education)

• Assoc. Prof  Helen E. S. Nesadurai, Associate Professor in International Studies

  Research areas: Globalization and its governance, regional governance and ASEAN; Asia-Pacific regionalism

 Senior Lecturers

•  Dr Sharon A. Bong, Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies

          Research areas: Feminist standpoint epistemologies; rights and sexualities in religions; qualitative researching and analyses using ATLAS.ti

•  Dr Yeoh Seng Guan, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies 
  
  Research areas: Anthropologies of the city, media, religion, and gender; cosmopolitanisms; civil society & subaltern agencies; visual ethnography; regional focus on Southeast Asia.
  

• Dr Andrew Ng Hock Soon, Senior Lecturer in Literature

  Research areas: Gothic and horror literature and film, postmodern narratives, Asian literatures and critical theory

• Dr Julian C. H. Lee, Lecturer in International Studies

  Research areas: Malaysian politics, multiculturalism in Malaysia and Australia, and moral policing   

Lecturers

• Dr Wong Chin Huat, Lecturer in Journalism

Research areas: elections and electoral systems, ethnic politics, quantitative textual analysis

• Dr. Sony Jalarajan Raj, Lecturer in Journalism

       Research areas : Asian Media studies, Journalism, public sphere formation, qualitative textual analysis

• Mr Callum Gilmour, Lecturer in Communications

      Research areas : Sports sociology, Space, Identity in sport

• Dr Jonathan Driskell, Lecturer in Film and Television Studies

      Research areas : Film Studies  

• Dr Joel David Moore, Lecturer in International Studies

      Research areas : Political Economy,Human Behaviour

Sessional Lecturers

• Mr Ang Hean Leng - Malaysian Studies (ATS2685/ATS3685)
• Mr Jeswant Singh - Online Journalism (ATS2787)
• Ms Poh Bei Yan - American Music and Popular Culture (ATS1343)
• Dr Selvamany P. Gabriel - Publicity and Promotion (ATS2814)
• Dr Selvamany P. Gabriel - Communication Research Methodology (ATS3453)

Research Fellow

        Dr Linda Quayle, PhD (Melbourne) 21 Nov 2011 - 20 Nov 2012
        Dr Akiko Morishita PhD (Kyoto) 1 Dec 2010 - 30 Nov 2011
        Dr Patricia Goon PhD (Central Queensland) 1 Jan 2011 - 31 Dec 2011

Filmmaker in Residence

        Mr Fikri Jermadi - 2011