Dr Jacqueline Aquino Siapno
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Indonesian Studies Room 225 Tel: +61 3 8344 6561 (PoliSci) / 8344 3559 (Asia Institute) |
Background
Jacqueline Aquino Siapno is originally from Pangasinan, Philippines. She is the author of Gender, Islam, Nationalism and the State in Aceh: The Paradox of Power, Co-optation and Resistance (Routledge Curzon 2002); Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures: Volume I: Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources, Leiden: Brill, 2003; and co-editor, Between Knowledge and Commitment: Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peace-building in Regional Contexts, Osaka: Japan Center for Area Studies, 2004. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of California-Berkeley, in South and Southeast Asian Studies, in 1997, her undergraduate studies at Wellesley College, Masschusetts, and her Master’s at SOAS, University of London, both in Political Science. She has had teaching and research fellowship appointments at ANU, Canberra, University of California at Berkeley, Riverside, and Irvine. In addition to her academic work, she has also worked with grassroots organizations, NGOs, and political parties in East Timor, Aceh, Indonesia and the Philippines. She has worked as a consultant, external evaluator, and trainer for UNDP, OXFAM, Concern-Worldwide, UNIFEM, and government departments in East Timor, in the areas of rural development and gender issues. She is currently Associate Editor of the six-volume Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) project, Leiden: Brill, ongoing. . She also lives in Dili, East Timor, where she teaches half of the year at Universidade da Paz (UNPAZ).She envisions her contribution to the field of Political Science and Asian Studies as that of producing critiques of conventional approaches to poverty assessment, governance, democratisation, international security, international human rights, and international political economy from a gendered perspective and with subtle and sensitive attention to the politics of class, race, religion, rank, ethnicity, language and translation.
Jacqueline also teaches in the Political Science department.
Research Interests
Jacqueline's research interests include art and politics in Southeast Asia, political performativity, women’s labor and the economy, post-conflict reconstruction and development administration, women and public health issues, comparative studies of Muslim societies, and dance forms in Southeast Asia. She has conducted extensive fieldwork and published articles on Islam and social movements in Mindanao, the contradictions between feminism and nationalism in Aceh, East Timor, and the Philippines, state terror in Aceh, and other issues.