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Andrew Abalahin

Andrew J. Abalahin (Cornell University, 2003) is a historian of modern Southeast Asia, specializing in the late colonial period in Indonesia and the Philippines and in social history and the history of sexuality. Currently he is working on a monograph based on his dissertation, “Prostitution Policy and the Project of Modernity:  A Comparative Study of Colonial Indonesia and the Philippines, 1850-1940.”  His research and teaching interests include world history, Chinese and general Asian history, colonialism and nationalism, and the role of Islam and Christianity in societies of Southeast and East Asia.  He brings together many of these concerns in a recent article, “A Sixth Religion?: Confucianism and the Negotiation of Indonesian-Chinese Identity under the Pancasila State,” in the collection Spirited Politics: Religion and Contemporary Life in Contemporary Southeast Asia (Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 2005). Courses he teaches include World History, Asia’s Dynamic Traditions, Muslim and Christian Asia, Colonialism and Decolonization, Southeast Asia to 1800, Southeast Asia in the Modern World, and History of the Philippines.