Interpreting Southeast Asia's Past: Monument, Image and Text

About the Authors

409 About the Authors Elisabeth A. Bacus received her PhD in anthropology (archaeology) from the University of Michigan, and is currently an independent scholar with affiliation as a Research Professor at the University of Akron. Previously, she was the Lecturer in Southeast Asian Archaeology at University College London, and a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at U.C. Berkeley. Her research interests in Southeast Asian archaeology include complex societies, political economy, gender, ceramics, and mortuary analysis. Current research includes the project entitled, Transformations in the landscapes of south-central Bali: an archaeological investigation of early Balinese states, and a mortuary-based study of social identities and relations in Bronze Age Thailand. Pierre Baptiste is Curator in charge of the Southeast Asian collection at the National Museum of Asian Art-Guimet, Paris. His area of research focuses mainly on the development and evolution of Indian artistic traditions in the Southeast Asian art. Claudine Bautze-Picron is a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris where she belongs to the research team ‘Mondes iranien et indien’ (UMR 7528). She also teaches Indian Art History at the Free University of Brussels. Robert L. Brown is Professor of Indian and Southeast Asian art history at the University of California at Los Angeles, and is Curator of South and Southeast Asian art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Phuthorn Bhumadhon currently is an adviser to the National Discovery Museum of Thailand. He is a former director of the National Museum in Lopburi and the Bangkok National Museum, and taught on Thai history and culture for some years at the Rajabhat University Institute in Lopburi. His main research is on the protohistory as well as seventeenth-century history of Thailand, and has many publications on these two topics. Emma C. Bunker is Research Consultant to the Asian Department of the Denver Art Museum and an Associate/Adjunct Member of the Art History Faculty, University of Pittsburgh. She received her graduate degree from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is a well-known authority on ancient Chinese and Khmer personal adornment, the art of the horse-riding tribes of the Eurasian Steppes and Central Asia, and Khmer art of Southeast Asia, and is currently researching the role of gold in Khmer culture. She has traveled extensively throughout Asia, especially in Cambodia, China, Central Asia, India, Russia, Mongolia, Singapore, Taiwan, and more recently in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Ambra Calo received her PhD from the Department of Art & Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her research focuses on the distribution of bronze drums throughout Southeast Asia as evidence of early trade networks and cultural spheres. After obtaining her BA degree from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in 1994, majoring in Psychology and Non Western Art, she obtained her MA degree in 2002 from SOAS, in the Department of History of Religion, focusing on early ceremonial practices and bronze drums in south China and north Vietnam. In her doctoral research, Calo expanded her region of interest focusing on the implications of 32 ISEA.indd 409 6/6/08 10:54:25 AM 410 ABOUT THE AUTHORS the cross-regional exchange of bronze drums, and hence, conducted extensive fieldwork in southwest China, Vietnam, and Indonesia from 2005 to 2007. Chap Sopheara received her BA from the Royal University of Fine Arts in 2002. She has conducted research on the Anlong Thom kilns. She is a ceramic conservator at the Ceramic Conservation Lab at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Chhay Visoth received his BA from the Royal University of Fine Arts in 2002 where he conducted research on the Anlong Thom kilns. He is an archaeologist at APSARA Authority in the Angkor Conservation Office, Cambodia. TzeHuey Chiou-Peng is an Associate Curator in the Spurlock Museum at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In addition to organizing special exhibitions and teaching on campus, she has also conducted collaborative research projects with institutions in China. Her research interests focus on interactions of early cultures in southwest China and its surrounding regions. Some of her recent publications are: ‘Horsemen in the Dian culture of Yunnan’ (in Gender and Chinese Archaeology, AltaMira Press, 2004), ‘Cultural implications of the Dian bronze styles’ (Antiquities of Eastern Asia, Wenwu Press, Beijing, 2004, in Chinese), ‘Notes on the collard disc-rings in Southwest China’ (in Sanxingdui and Cultures along the Yangzi, Sichuan...