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1 PERSONAL PARTICULARS Full Name : Assoc. Prof Dr. Shanthi Thambiah EDUCATION Ph.D (Social Anthropology) University of Hull, UK M.Phil (Social Anthropology) University of Cambridge, UK B.A. (Hons) (South East Asian Studies) University of Malaya, Malaysia PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE January 1995 Current Lecturer, University of Malaya Taught at the undergraduate and graduate level and was the programme coordinator for the Gender Studies Programme CONSULTANCY EXPERIENCE OR SERVICES RENDERED Period: 2013 Client Organisation: UNDP & Economic Planning Unit Brief job description: Inclusive Growth in Malaysia: Where are the Women? In the National Human Development Report, Malaysia, UNDP &EPU. (co-authored with tan beng hui)** Period: Client Organisation: UNDP & Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development Brief job description: Study to Support the Development of National Policies and Programmes to Increase and Retain the Participation of Women in the Malaysian Labour Force Period: Job title: Resource Person Client Organisation: Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development -NIEW Brief job description: Gender Focal Point Training for several ministries Period: Client Organisation: UNDP & Economic Planning Unit (EPU), Government of Malaysia Brief job description: Millennium Development Goal - MDG 3 Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women Period: Job title: Technical Advisor Client Organisation: UNDP &, Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development Brief job description: National Action Plan to Empower Single Mothers Period: Client Organisation: NAM Institute for the Empowerment of Women, Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development Brief job description: Gender Mainstreaming in Development Planning: Concepts, Approaches, Strategies and Tools Period: Client Organisation: NAM Institute for the Empowerment of Women, Ministry of Women, Family 27 June 2013 Page 1 of 7

2 and Community Development Brief job description: Gender Mainstreaming in Development Planning Period: Client Organisation: Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development & UNDP Brief job description: Issue and Strategy Paper on Gender Mainstreaming Employment and Human Resource Development (for consideration in the Ninth Malaysia Plan) Period: Client Organisation: National Council of Women s Organizations (NCWO) Brief job description: The NGO Shadow Report on the Measures Adopted by Malaysia to Give Effect to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW (CEDAW) Period: Client organisation: Government of Malaysia Brief job description: National Report on the Measures Adopted by Malaysia to Give Effect to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) EDITORIAL & EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS AND BOOK SERIES Period: 2010 Position: Editor (Special Issue) Name of Journal: SARJANA City, Country: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Period: 2000 Position: Editorial Board Member Name of Journal: SARJANA City, Country: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia OFFICIAL POSITIONS HELD IN ACADEMIC / PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES Period of membership (year to year): current Position held: Committee Member Organisation: NAM Institute for the Empowerment of Women City & Country: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Period of membership (year to year) : Position held: Committee Member Organisation: Malaysian Social Science Association (MSSA) City & Country: Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Period of membership (year to year): Position held : Committee Member Organisation: Southeast Asian Association for Gender Studies, Malaysia City & Country: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia SHORT BIOGRAPHY Shanthi Thambiah was trained in Social Anthropology at the University of Malaya, University of Cambridge and the University of Hull, United Kingdom. She is Associate Professor and the former Coordinator of the Gender Studies Programme, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya. She has also held several visiting research fellowships such as the Asian 27 June 2013 Page 2 of 7

3 Public Intellectual fellowship at Kyoto University and the Fulbright fellowship at the University of California (Berkeley). Her current research interest are in the areas of gender, migration and identity; gender and work; families in flux and gender relations, gender and public policies. At ARI she will be working on Muslim female migrant workers questioning the normative values of men as providers and protectors of women. KEYNOTES & PLENARIES Date of event: 31 Oct st Nov 2012 Title of plenary presentation: Reflections on gender studies in the post-feminist era: Implications and challenges on young scholars Venue: KANITA, University of Science, Malaysia City & Country: Penang, Malaysia Organisers: KANITA, USM Date of event: 24 Nov Nov 2011 Title of plenary presentation: Men as Providers and Protectors of Women in Islam: The Need for Evidence Based Rethinking of Qiwamah Venue: Holiday Inn City & Country: Amman, Jordan Organisers: MUSAWAH Date of event: 16 June June 2010 Title of plenary presentation: Gender, Status and Power in Polygamy: The Dominant Use of Discourse in the Novel Pujangga Melayu by Mohd Affandi Hassan Venue: University of Malaya City & Country: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Organisers: Faculty of Languages, University of Malaya Date of event: 25 June June 2009 Title of plenary presentation: Development, Conservation and Contested Terrain: Ethnicity, Livelihoods, Gender and Marginalization in the Tinjar, Sarawak, Malaysia Venue: Norwegian University of Science and Technology City & Country: Trondheim, Norway Organisers: Norwegian University of Science and Technology Date of event: 9 Feb Feb 2009 Title of plenary presentation: The Impact of Gender Studies on Work, Life and Relationships: A Study of the Graduates of the Gender Studies Programme, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya Venue: UNESCO, Bangkok City & Country: Bangkok, Thailand Organisers: UNESCO RESEARCH PROJECTS / PROGRAMMES / INITIATIVES & COLLABORATIONS Duration: Title of project/programme/initiatives: Changing Orders: Gender, Livelihoods, Resource Rights and Natural Resource Management Co-Investigator: Rebecca Elmhirst (University of Brighton, UK) Bernadette Resurreccion (Asian Institute of Technology) Co-investigator(s): Rebecca Elmhirst & Bernadette Resurreccion Collaborators: University of Malaya, University of Brighton, UK and AIT, Bangkok Name of collaborating organisation/awarding organisation: Norwegian Research Council Project/award amount: Ringgit Malaysia RM120, June 2013 Page 3 of 7

4 Duration: Title of project/programme/initiatives: Migration and Social Change: A Study of Female Indian Plantation Workers In Malaysia Name of collaborating organisation/awarding organisation: University of Malaya Research Grant (UMRG) Project/award amount: RM60500 Duration: Title of project/programme/initiatives: When Home is Networked for Work: A Study of ICT enabled home-based Work among Women in Malaysia (UMRG) Co-investigator(s): Loh Lee Lee Ludher Collaborators: Name of collaborating organisation/awarding organisation: University of Malaya Research Grant (UMRG) Project/award amount: RM Duration: Title of project/programme/initiatives: Foreign Domestic Workers in Malaysia: Exploring the Intersections of Gender, Migration and Health Principal investigator(s): Denise Spritzer Co-investigator(s): Shanthi Thambiah & Wong Yut Lin Collaborators: Ministry of Health, University of Malaya & University of Ottawa Name of collaborating organisation/awarding organisation: Ministry of Health Project/award amount: RM Duration: Title of project/programme/initiatives: A Study on the Impact of Polygamy on the Quality of Family Life amongst Muslims in Malaysia Principal investigator(s): Noraini Othman Co-investigator(s): Shanthi Thambiah, Rashidah Shuib, Noraida Endut & Sisters in Islam Collaborators: National University of Malaysia (UKM), University of Malaya (UM), University of Science, Malaysia (USM) & Sisters in Islam Name of collaborating organisation/awarding organisation: Global Fund for Women Project/award amount: RM75000 Workshops, seminars & conference held resulting from or related to research projects: Presented paper on "Polygamy and Quality of Family Life Amongst Muslims in the Klang Valley, Malaysia" at the Centre for South East Asian Studies, University of Kyoto, 7th February 2008 Duration: Title of project/programme/initiatives: Fertility Decline and Transformation of Intimacy in Malaysia and Japan: A Comparative Study Name of collaborating organisation/awarding organisation: The Nippon Foundation Project/award amount: RM75000 Workshops, seminars & conference held resulting from or related to research projects: 27 June 2013 Page 4 of 7

5 Thambiah, Shanthi (2010) Fertility Decline and Transformation of Intimacy in Malaysia and Japan: A Comparative Study, Proceedings of the Regional Workshop for the Asian Public Intellectual, Osaka, Japan Duration: Title of project/programme/initiatives: A Study of Poverty, Economic Activities and Livelihood Strategies from a Gender Perspective in the Loagan Bunut National Park, Sarawak Name of collaborating organisation/awarding organisation: Centre for Poverty and Development Studies, University of Malaya Project/award amount: RM30000 Workshops, seminars & conference held resulting from or related to research projects: 1. Development, Conservation and Contested Terrain: Ethnicity, Livelihoods, Gender and Marginalization in the Tinjar, Sarawak, Malaysia Paper presented at Workshop on Re-visiting, Re- thinking Gender in Development, Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology, June A Study of Poverty, Economic Activities and Livelihood Strategies from a Gender Perspective in Several Communities along Sungai Tinjar, Sarawak (paper presented at Workshop on CPDS Research Output, 13th & 14th May 2009) Duration: Title of project/programme/initiatives: An Impact Study of the Presence of the Foreign Domestic Workers on the Institution of the Family in Malaysia Type of collaboration; - Name of collaborating organisation/awarding organisation: University of Malaya Research Grant (UMRG) Project/award amount: RM50000 Workshops, seminars & conference held resulting from or related to research projects: Foreign Domestic Workers in Malaysia: Challenges in Cross Border Care Work paper presented in the panel Confronting Marginalization: Cross-National Perspective, 10th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Mundos de Mujeres/Women s Worlds 2008, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 3rd July to 9th July 2008 Duration: Title of project/programme/initiatives: The Impact of Gender Studies on Work, Life and Relationships: A Study of the Graduates of the Gender Studies Programme, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya Principal investigator(s): Ruhana Padzil Co-investigator(s): Shanthi Thambiah & Maimuna Hamid Merican Collaborators: University of Malaya Name of collaborating organisation/awarding organisation: University of Malaya (Vote F) Project/award amount: RM34000 Workshops, seminars & conference held resulting from or related to research projects: The Impact of Gender Studies on Work, Life and Relationships: A Study of the Graduates of the Gender Studies Programme, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, paper presented at the UNESCO Women s Studies And Gender Research Networking Conference Bangkok, 9-13 February 2009 PUBLICATIONS for the last 5 years including forthcoming publications 27 June 2013 Page 5 of 7

6 Authored Book and Monograph Thambiah, Shanthi, Nik Safiah Karim & Lai Suat Yan. (forthcoming) English-Malay Annotated Gender Glossary. University of Malaya Press pg Thambiah, Shanthi. (2007). Gender Mainstreaming in Development Planning: Concepts, Approaches, Strategies and Tools: A Course Module. Kuala Lumpur: NAM Institute for the Empowerment of Women, Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development. pg Edited Book Thambiah, Shanthi & Raihanah Abdullah (eds). (2010). Doing Gender Studies and Selected Issues in the Study of Gender. Special Issue of the Journal SARJANA. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya. Book Chapter Thambiah, Shanthi. (2012). Between Malay Kinship and Islamic Marriages: Negotiating Polygamy from Past to Present in Malaysia, in Yoko Hayami, Junko Koizumi, Chalidaporn Songsampan & Ratana Tosakul (eds), The Family in Flux in Southeast Asia: Institutions, Ideology, Practice, Kyoto University Press and Silkworm Books. Thambiah, Shanthi. (2009). The Paradoxes of Diversity and Commonality in Identity Formation: The Ethnicisation of the Bhuket of Sarawak in Lim Teck Ghee, Alberto Gomes and Azly Rahman (eds), Multiethnic Malaysia: Past, Present and Future, UCSI & SIRD, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, pg Thambiah Shanthi. (2009). Women's Contribution to the Malaysian Economy and Their Changing Roles: The Need for Gender Responsive Policies in Nungsari Ahmad Radhi and Suryani Senja Alias (eds), Readings on Development: Malaysia 2057.Uncommon Voices, Common Aspirations. Khazanah Merdeka Series, Khazanah Nasional, Kuala Lumpur. pg Thambiah, Shanthi. (2008). Gender Studies Programme: University of Malaya in Cecilia Ng & Rasidah Shuib (eds), A Profile of Women and Gender Studies in Malaysia. Penang: Women's Development Research Centre, University Sains Malaysia Thambiah, Shanthi. (2007). The Emergence of the Ethnic Category Bhuket: Diversity and the Collective Hunter-Gatherer Identity in Borneo in Sercombe, Peter & Sellato, Bernard (eds), Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo s Hunter-Gatherers in the 21st Century. Denmark: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, NIAS, pg Refereed Article Thambiah, Shanthi (forthcoming). Reclaiming the Eclipsed Female in the Sacred: Semai Women s Ritual and Religious Knowledge in Malaysia, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde** Thambiah, Shanthi (forthcoming). Rainforest Art as Instrument for Social Stratification: Basketwork and Mat Making Traditions of the Bhuket of Sarawak, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Malay World** Thambiah, Shanthi. (2012). Book Review. Brooks, Ann and Theresa Devesahayam (2011). Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets: Asian and Western Perspective. London: Routledge, in Asian Journal of Social Sciences, 40 (2012), Thambiah, Shanthi. (2010) The Productive and Non-(Re) productive Women: Sites of Economic Growth in Malaysia, Asian Women, Summer 2010, Vol. 26 No 2. pg June 2013 Page 6 of 7

7 Thambiah, Shanthi. (2010). The Development and Growth of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, SARJANA, Vol. 25, Number 3,(special issue), November 2010, pg 7-26 Mohammad Redzuan Othman & Shanthi Thambiah. (2010). Doing Gender Studies and Selected Issues in the Study of Gender: An Introduction, SARJANA, Vol. 25 (special issue), November 2010, pg 1-5 Ruhana Padzil, Shanthi Thambiah, Pauline I. Erera & Maimuna Hamid Merican. (2010). Motivation to do Gender Studies and its Impact on Employment and Graduate Studies: A Study of the Graduates of the Gender Studies Program, University of Malaya, SARJANA, Vol. 25 (special issue), Number 3, November 2010, pg ANY OTHER INFORMATION Excellent Service Award, University of Malaya, 2011 Asian Public Intellectual Fellowship, Kyoto University, June 2013 Page 7 of 7