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Leonard Andaya is Professor of Southeast Asian History at University of Hawaii at Manoa

University of Hawaii at Manoa

The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii system...

. His concentration is in the modern history of Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia, South-East Asia, South East Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. The region lies on the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic...

, particularly that of Malaysia, Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

, the southern Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

, and southern Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

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Andaya received his BA in History from Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

, and his MA and PhD in Southeast Asian history from Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

. He has also taught and held research positions at the University of Malaya

University of Malaya

The University of Malaya is located on a campus near the centre of Kuala Lumpur, and is the oldest university in Malaysia. It was founded in 1905 as a public-funded tertiary institution...

, Australian National University

Australian National University

The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...

, and Auckland University. He is married to Barbara Watson Andaya

Barbara Watson Andaya

Barbara Watson Andaya is an American historian and author who studies Indonesia and the Malay archipelago. She teaches courses in Asian Studies as a full professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and is director of the University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She was President of the...

, a historian and scholar of similar topics at the same university.

Publications

• The Kingdom of Johor (1975)
• The Heritage of Arung Palakka: History of South Sulawesi (Celebes) in the Seventeenth Century (1981)
• History of Malaysia (with Barbara Watson Andaya
  Barbara Watson Andaya
  Barbara Watson Andaya is an American historian and author who studies Indonesia and the Malay archipelago. She teaches courses in Asian Studies as a full professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and is director of the University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She was President of the...
  
  , 1982, revised edition, 2000)
• The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period (1993)
• Leaves of the Same Tree: Trade and Ethnicity in the Straits of Melaka (2008)
• Cambridge History of Early Modern Southeast Asia (with Barbara Watson Andaya, forthcoming).