Born 22 October 1930, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA. Divorced. US and Dutch nationalities; Italian residence.

Usual address: Il Picciolo, 53020 Montisi (Siena) Italy, tel. (0577)845057.


Education

Cornell University, Government Department and Southeast Asia Program; PhD 1961. Major field international relations, minor fields political theory and modern Asian history. Dissertation 'The Comintern and the Rise of Indonesian Communism.'

Harvard University, Soviet Area Program; MA 1954, major in Soviet government, minor fields Russian history and international relations.

University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1952-53, postgraduate work in Russian studies.

Bryn Mawr College, USA; BA 1952, summa cum laude with honors in Russian.

Catasauqua Public High School, Catasauqua Pennsylvania USA, graduated 1948.


Employment

Reader in Politics with reference to Southeast Asia at the University of London, 1976-1984. Principal responsibilities: teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Southeast Asian government and politics, and a postgraduate seminar on political ideology. Teaching and tutoring in various general undergraduate politics subjects, especially comparative politics. Supervision of research students in Southeast Asian Politics and Southeast Asian History.

Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1969-1976 (spring and summer terms of 1969 as visiting lecturer on the London-Cornell exchange scheme). Responsibilities as above.

Visiting lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Washington, 1968. Principal responsibilities: teaching a course on Southeast Asian government and politics and a seminar on Southeast Asia political problems.

Research associate, Cornell University, Modern Indonesia project, 1967-68. Principal responsibilities: research and writing on modern Indonesia, especially on the development of nationalist education, the evolution of military organization, and the history of the Communist movement

Visiting lecturer, Department of Government, Cornell University, 1966-67. Principal responsibilities: teaching a course on Southeast Asian government and politics, a seminar on Southeast Asian Communism, and a seminar on problems of Southeast Asia politics

Research associate, Center for International Studies, MIT, 1963-65. Principal responsibilities: research and writiing on the history and international role of Indonesian Communism.

Research associate, Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University, 1961-62. Principal responsibilities: research and writing on the history of Indonesian Communism and editing the book Indonesia.


Memberships and Appointments


Consultant, Southeast Asia Regional Exchange Program, Toyota Foundation, 1994 -.

Member of the academic advisory committee (wetenschapscommissie) of the Netherland Institute of War Documentation NIOD), 1999-2004.

Emeritus Reader in Southeast Asian Politics at the University of London, 1984-present.

Member, Joint Committee on Southeast Asia of the Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies, 1982-1988

External examiner and academic assessor of the History Department, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 1985.

External examiner in history for the University Sains Malaysia, 1981-1984

External examiner on Southeast Asian subjects for Kent University, 1979-82.

Member of the Board of Studies in Economics and Politics, and of the Board of Studies in History, University of London, 1970-1984

Member, editorial board of Modern Asian Studies, 1973-84, and corresponding member, 1984-86.

Member, Southeast Asia Library Group (coordinating body for European library collections), 1971-84; chairman, l981-83.

Member of the Library Committee, SOAS, 1971-72, and of its Advisory Subcommittee for Southeast Asia, 1971-84.

Member editorial board, Indonesia, 1966-68

Member advisory editorial board, Journal of Asian Studies, 1963-66.


Fellowships, grants etc.

Monash University, Melbourne Australia. grant for participation in conference on Indonesia in the 1950s, December 1992.

Australian National University, visiting scholar, Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1988.

SSRC/ACLS Joint Committee on Southeast Asia, funding for conference on industrializing elites in Southeast Asia, Sukhothai, Thailand, December 1986.

Thai Social Science Association, sponsorship of lectures to universities in Khonkaen, Pattani, Haadyai, and Chiengmai, 1985.

British Council, sponsorship of stay at University Kebangsaan Malaysia, as academic assessor of its history departmelnt, 1985.

Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, Singapore, grant for participation in workshop on armed separatism, Singapore, 1983

Rockefeller Foundation, scholar in residence at the Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio (Italy), 1981.

Japan Society for Asian Studies sponsorship as visiting scholar, Southeast Asia Research Center of Kyoto University, 1980.

SSRC-ACLS Joint Committee on Southeast Asia postdoctoral grant for research in the US, Oct.-Dec. 1978

Australian National University, visiting fellow in Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Research School of Pacific Studies, January-March 1976

School of Oriental and African Studies grants for field research 1972-73 (Thailand), 1978-79 (US and Netherlands), 1980 (Indonesia and Thailand)

SSRC postdoctoral research grant 1962-63 (US)

Ford Foundation foreign area fellowship 1958-60 (Indonesia)

Fels Fund fellowship 1957-58 (US)

Cornell Southeast Asia Program fellowship 1955-57 (US)

Cornell Modern Indonesia Project grants for research in the Netherlands 1954-55 and summers 1956 and 1957

Harvard Russian Research Center fellowship 1953-54

Fulbright fellowship 1952-53 (Netherlands)


Languages: Reading and speaking: Indonesian, Dutch, German, Thai, Italian; Reading only: Russian, French, Malay