Professor Sarah Shair-Rosenfield “Overcoming Uncertainty in New Democracies”

Professor Sarah Shair-Rosenfield is an A.T. Steele awardee for her work “Overcoming Uncertainty in New Democracies.” This book length manuscripts seeks to answer questions such as why are new democracies so much more likely to drastically and/or repeatedly reform their systems of elections when compared to older, more established democracies?

Professor Hjorliefur Jonsson “Seeing Thai: Interethnic relations in popular culture and ethnography in Thailand, 1950-2014”

Peter Suwarno, Local Performances of Dakwah: A Case of Islamization of Java, Javanization of Islam

Aaron S.

Deepak Chhabra, Retro Branding of Khadi: A Sustainable Heritage Tourism Marketing Perspective

The Agnes Smedley Collection (Post-War China)

Agnes Smedley was an American journalist best known for her work documenting and publicizing the Japanese incursions in China in the late 1930’s. Ms. Smedley was also very active in relief efforts and procurement of medical supplies for affected Chinese citizens.

Mimijac Palgen Cambodian Photographic Collection

The Mimijac Palgen Photographic Collection is available for research at the Luhrs Reading Room, Hayden Library 4th floor. Digital copies for most of the collection are available here. The negatives for the photographs may be viewed in the Luhrs Reading Room by appointment with the curator.

Description by Robert Spindler, Special Collections, ASU Libraries.

The Guardian of the Flame Sri Lanka Manuscript Collection

The Guardian of the Flame Collection is available for research at the Luhrs Reading Room, Hayden Library 4th floor. A portion of the collection has been individually photographed and described here.

William Sage is an alumnus of ASU, whose collection of nearly 350 artifacts was built during the early 1970s when he worked in Laos. Along with basketry, musical instruments, jewelry, betel nut paraphernalia, weapons, pipes and forms of money, Sage collected 18 complete ‘costumes’ from 11 different Lao ethnic groups. Sage’s collection is an attempt to represent the ethnic diversity of the country.

Jane Hanks is an anthropologist with long term research interests in Thailand, particularly the ethnic groups that live in mountainous Northern Thailand. Her collection of over 130 artifacts were largely acquired between the years of 1951 and 1979 when she and her husband, fellow anthropologist Lucien Hanks, lived and worked in Thailand. The collection is mostly comprised of textiles, clothing and other personal items made and used by Northern Thai ethnic groups such as the Akha, Lisu and Mien.