EXPERTISE:

1. Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific

2. Asian History

3. Professional Ethics (incl. police and research ethics)

4. History and Philosophy of Science

5. Historical Studies

6. Law and Society

Robert Cribb is the Emeritus Professor in the Department of Political and Social Change at the Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs, Australia National University. 

He is a historian of modern Indonesia, with wider interests in other parts of Asia. He taught at Griffith University (1983-86) and the University of Queensland (1990-02) and as guest lecturer at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands (1993). He held research positions at the Australian National University, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, where he was also director for two years. He re-joined the Australian National University at the beginning of 2003.

Cribb’s research focuses on Southeast Asia. The themes of his research are: mass violence and crime, national identity, environmental politics and historical geography. His current research projects include: the origins of massacre in Indonesia, ‘Puppet states revisited: Empire and Sovereign Subordination in Modern Asia’ (with Li Narangoa) and War crimes and the Japanese Military, 1941-1945 (with Sandra Wilson). 

He completed his BA from the University of Queensland and his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

1. Modern Indonesia: A History Since 1945 (with Colin Brown) (Longman, 1995)

2. Historical Atlas of Indonesia (Routledge, 2000)

3. Digital Atlas of Indonesian History (NIAS Press, 2010)

4. Wild Man from Borneo: A Cultural History of the Orangutan (University of Hawaii Press, 2014)

5. Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1590-2010: Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia (Columbia University Press, 2014)