Adrian Vickers Adrian Vickers i(A56888 works by)
Gender: Male
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'Professor Vickers researches and publishes on the cultural history of Southeast Asia. His research utilises expertise in the Indonesian language as well as drawing on sources in Balinese, Kawi (Old and Middle Javanese) and Dutch. He has held a series of Australian Research Council grants (Discovery and Linkage), the most recent looking at modern and contemporary Indonesian art, Cold War history, and labour and industry in Southeast Asia. As part of a linkage grant on the history of Balinese painting, he is preparing a virtual museum, continuing previous pioneering work in eResearch and teaching.' (Source : University of Sydney website)

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  • His The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia's Northern Trading Network (with Julia Martinez) won a Queensland Literary Award (History Book Award) in 2016.

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