EHITO KIMURA (Updated as of August 2015) Department of Political Science Tel. 808.956.8630 University of Hawai i at Manoa Fax. 808.956.6877 2424 Maile Way, Saunders Hall Rm. 610 Email: ehito@hawaii.edu Honolulu, HI 96822 EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Positions 2013 present Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai i at Manoa 2007-2013 Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai i at Manoa. 2006-2007 Walter H. Shorenstein Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University. 2004 Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2001-2002 Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2000-2001 Teaching Fellow, Yale University. 2000 Research Assistant, Yale University. Education 2006 PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison (Political Science) 2001 MA Yale University (International Relations) 1996 BSFS Georgetown University (International Relations) Fellowships, Grants, and Awards 2013-2014 Visiting Fellow, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University 2011 College of Social Science Excellence in Teaching Award, UHM 2011 Nominated for Board of Regents Excellence in Teaching Award, UHM 2010 Grant from NRC Title VI Funding, DoED ($16,510) 2009 Nominated for National Asia Research Program (NARP) Fellow 2006-2007 Shorenstein Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University. 2005-2006 University of Wisconsin-Madison Dissertator Fellowship. 2004-2005 Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellow. 2004-2005 UW - Center for Southeast Asian Studies Fellowship (declined). 2002-2004 Foreign Language Assistance Scholarship (FLAS). 2001 Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship for Advanced Indonesian Abroad (COTIM). 2000-2001 Yale Young Leaders Fellow Tuition Fellowship Award. 2000 Yale Southeast Asian Council Summer Fellowship. 2000 The International Human Rights Schell Summer Fellowship. 2000 Yale Center for International and Area Studies Summer Grant. 1
RESEARCH Book Manuscript Kimura, Ehito. Political Change and Territoriality on the Indonesian Archipelago, Contemporary Southeast Asia Series, Routledge Press, 2012. Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals Kimura, Ehito. The Struggle for Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Suharto Indonesia. Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, April 2015, pp. 73-93. Kimura, Ehito. Changing the Rules: Historical Conjunctures and Transition in Indonesia, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, vol. 51, no. 3 (December 2010): 248-261. Kimura, Ehito Proliferating Provinces: Territorial Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia. South East Asia Research, vol. 18, no. 3 (September 2010): 415-449. Kimura, Ehito. Marginality and Opportunity in the Periphery: The Emergence of Gorontalo Province in North Sulawesi. Indonesia, no. 84 (October 2007): 71-95. Invited Articles Kimura, Ehito Indonesia in 2011: A Glass Half Empty Asian Survey, vol. 52. no.1 (January/February 2012). Kimura, Ehito Indonesia in 2010: A Leading Democracy Disappoints on Reform, Asian Survey, vol. 51. no.1 (January/February 2011). Chapters in Peer Reviewed Volumes Kimura, Ehito. Globalization and the Asia Pacific and South Asia. In The SAGE Handbook of Globalization, edited by Manfred B. Steger, Paul Battersby, and Joseph M. Siracusa, Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014. Kimura, Ehito Changing the Rules: Historical Conjuncture and Transition in Indonesia in Critical Conjunctures in Southeast Asian Politics, edited by Narayan Ganesan, ISEAS Press, accepted and forthcoming. [Peer reviewed separately and to be reprinted from Kimura, Ehito. Changing the Rules: Historical Conjunctures and Transition in Indonesia, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, vol. 51, no. 3 (December 2010): 248-261. 2
Published Book Reviews Review Essay: Politics after Suharto, in Asia Pacific World, (2012), Vol. 3, No. 2, autumn 2012, pp. 133-140. Review of Building-Democracy on the Sand: Advances and Setbacks in Indonesia. Edited by Willy Purna Samadhi and Nicolaas Warouw. PCD Press / DEMOS, Jakarta, 2009; Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia : A Southeast Asia Perspective. By Vedi R. Hadiz. Stanford University Press, 2010; Political Reform in Indonesia after Soeharto. By Harold Crouch. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2010; and Problems of Democratisation in Indonesia: Elections, Institutions, and Society. Edited by Edward Aspinall and Marcus Mietzner. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2010. Review: Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis, edited by Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu, in the Journal of Japanese Political Science, (2010), 11:150-152. Review: Social Science and Power in Indonesia: edited by Vedi Hadiz and Daniel Dhakidae, Jakarta Post, February 2, 2005. Other Publications Kimura, Ehito. The Problem of Transitional Justice in Post-Suharto Indonesia. Middle East Institute. Pathways to Transitional Justice in the Arab World Reflections on the Asia Pacific Experience, February 21, 2014. http://www.mei.edu/content/pathways-transitional-justice-arabworld-%e2%80%95-reflections-asia-pacific-experience. [Translated and published in 移行 は歓迎しても 正義は拒否する : ポスト スハルト時代のインドネシアにおける 移行期の正義 (Transitional Justice) の問題, インドネシア ニュースレター 85 号, April 30, 2014.] Invited Lectures and Presentations The Politics of National and Local Apologies in Contemporary Indonesia CSEAS Colloquium, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, June 26, 2014. Truth, Justice, and the Indonesian Way? Reflections and observations on transitional justice in the post-suharto era, Universitas Pelita Harapan and CSEAS-Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, October 14, 2013. Indonesia's Failure of Justice at the Special Seminar on Politics of Justice in Indonesia, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, June 20, 2012. Global-Local connections in Indonesia s Transitional Justice at Localizing Global Justice: Rethinking Law and Human Rights in Southeast Asia, Weatherhead Institute for East Asian Studies, Columbia University, New York City, New York, November 4-5, 2011. 3
A Glass Half Empty: Indonesia in 2011, University Southeast Asia seminar, Weatherhead Institute for East Asian Studies, Columbia University, New York City, New York, November 3, 2011. Changing the Rules: Historical Conjuncture and Transition in Indonesia at Critical Conjunctures in Southeast Asian Politics, Royale Bintang Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 3-5, 2009. Proliferating Provinces: The Vertical Politics of Territorial Fission in Indonesia Southeast Asia Forum Speaker Series, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, April 30, 2007. Territorial Involution? New Province Formation in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia, at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies Brownbag Series, University of California Berkeley March 15, 2007. Marginality and Opportunity in the Periphery: The Emergence of Gorontalo Province in North Sulawesi, at Islam, Regionalism, and New Institutions: A Decade of Radical Transformation in Indonesia, Yale Indonesia Forum Workshop, Yale University, March 3 2007. Provincial Proliferation on the Indonesian Archipelago, at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies Friday Forum Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin Madison, January 27, 2006. The Politics of Pemekaran: Some Preliminary Observations from Northern Sulawesi at Workshop on Ethnicity and Local Politics, LIPI (Indonesian Institute of Science), Jakarta, Indonesia, May 31, 2005. The Politics of Pemekaran: Some Preliminary Observations from Northern Sulawesi, at PERCIK, Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia, April 29, 2005. Paper Presentations: Refereed Conferences "Apology and Membership in Post-Suharto Indonesia" AAS-in-Asia, National University of Singapore, July 18, 2014. Positioning Indonesia: Negotiating Global and Local forms of Justice in Indonesia at Between the Mountain and the Sea: Positioning Indonesia, Gajah Mada University and Yale University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, July 9 10, 2012. The Limits of Cascade at the panel International Organizations and Autocracy at the International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 23, 2011. Decentralization, Democratization, and the Politics of a Territorial Free-for-All in Post-Suharto Indonesia at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, March 26-29, 2009. The New Regionalist Movements of Post-Authoritarian Indonesia at UC Berkeley-UCLA Joint Conference on Indonesia: Ten Years After: Reformasi & New Social Movements in Indonesia, 1998-2008, University of California Berkeley April 25-26, 2008. 4
Regional Autonomy, Indonesia-style, at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 20-23, 2006. Provincial Proliferation and Regionalism in Indonesia, at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 6-9, 2006. Decentralization, Local Elites, and State Formation in Indonesia at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC., September 1-4, 2005. The Structure of Diversity or Ada Apa dengan Pemekaran? at the 4th International Symposium of the Journal Antropologi Indonesia in the Changing Global Context: Building Cooperation and Partnership?, University of Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia, July 12 15, 2005. Nationalism and Identity Formation in East Timor: The Case of Submerged Networks at Northern Illinois Univ. Student Conference on Southeast Asia, DeKalb, Illinois, March 1, 2002. 5
TEACHING Courses 2015 (Spring) POLS 120 Intro to Global Politics POLS 680 Asian Politics 2014 (Fall) POLS 110A Intro to Political Science (Honors) POLS 640 Comparative Politics 2012 (Fall) POLS 110A Intro to Political Science (Honors) POLS 640 Comparative Politics 2012 (Summer) POLS 307B Politics of Southeast Asia (Online) 2012 (Spring) POLS 110A Intro to Political Science (Honors) POLS 390: Political Inquiry and Analysis 2011 (Fall) POLS 305: Global/Comparative Politics POLS 600: Scope and Methods 2011 (Spring) POLS 315 International Relations POLS 640 Comparative Politics 2010 (Fall) POLS 699 Directed Reading 2010 (Spring) POLS 305 Global/Comparative Politics POLS 305 Global/Comparative Politics 2009 (Fall) POLS 110A Intro to Political Science (Honors) POLS 780 Politics of Regions Graduate Seminar POLS 600 Scope and Methods (guest lecture) 2009 (Spring) POLS 305 Global/Comparative Politics POLS 640 Comparative Politics Graduate Seminar 2008 (Fall) POLS 307B Politics of Southeast Asia POLS 780 Politics of Regions Graduate Seminar POLS 600 Scope and Methods (guest lecture) 2008 (Spring) POLS 305 Global/Comparative Politics POLS 305 Global/Comparative Politics 2007 (Fall) POLS 307B Politics of Southeast Asia POLS 600 Scope and Methods (guest lecture) 6
SERVICE Department and University Service 2015-2016 Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Political Science Curriculum Committee, Department of Political Science 2014-2015 Member, General Education Focus Board, Oral Focus Interim Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Political Science (Spring) 2012-2013 Member, General Education Focus Board, Oral Focus. Member, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Executive Committee. Member, Dean s Advisory Committee on Indonesia. 2011-2012 Member, Grants and Awards Committee, Department of Political Science. Member, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Executive Committee. Member, Dean s Advisory Committee on Indonesia. 2010-2011 Co-Chair, Grants and Awards Committee, Department of Political Science. Member, Search Committee, Department of Political Science Member, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Executive Committee 2009-2010 Member, Admissions Committee, Department of Political Science. Member, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Executive Committee. 2008-2009 Interim Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Political Science (summer). Member, Hiring Committee, Department of Political Science. 2007-2008 Member, Admissions Committee, Department of Political Science. Representative, Political Science Faculty, University Festival. Department and Campus and Professional Service Presenter, State and Society in Southeast Asia, Asian Studies Development Program Summer Institute on Southeast Asia, East-West Center, June 23, 2011. Organizer and Presenter, Tips for the Job Market The Job Talk and The Campus Visit, Department of Political Science Brown Bag, University of Hawai i at Manoa, October 25, 2010. Discussant: Democracy and Crisis in Thailand at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, April 2, 2011. Discussant, "The Red Shirts' Uprising: A Challenge to Old Paradigms about Thai Society." University of Hawai i at Manoa, April 23, 2010. 7
Moderator, Panel Discussion on Southeast Asia and Political Science, University of Hawai i at Manoa, February 27, 2009. Discussant, Local Politics in Indonesia: Aspirations and Prospects at Indonesian Conference and Cultural Events (ICCE), Hawaii Imin International Conference and Hale Halawai, Honolulu, Hawai i, April 24, 2009. Invited Speaker, Peace Building and Conflict Resolution Aceh: Overview of Issues at Beyond Tsunami: International Conference and Cultural Event of Aceh University of Hawai i at Manoa, October 22-23, 2008. Invited Speaker, Evolution, Devolution, and Involution: Reflections on Indonesia s Territorial Resilience from an Institutional Perspective at the Political Science Colloquium, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai i at Manoa, February 29, 2008. Professional Affiliations Board Member, American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) Member, American Political Science Association Member, Midwest Political Science Association Member, Association of Asian Studies Community Service Organizer for Distinguished Lecture Series (Benedict Anderson), 2012 Organizer for Watada Lecture Series (Teresia Teaiwa), 2012 Interviewed by Honolulu Advertiser on May 19, 2010 about political events in Thailand. References: Available upon request 8