Who Are We?


Who are we? Internationalising South Asian Scholarly Data is an Australian-funded project with its secretariat based at the South Asia Research Unit (SARU), Curtin University of Technology in Perth,Western Australia. two major initiatives are incorporated within the project; the South Asia Editorial Team for the Electronic Cultural Atlas Project based at the University of California, Berkeley and SouthAsiaNet, based at the University of New England, Australia.
Collaborators Internationalising South Asian Scholarly Data
Chief Investigators
Professor John McGuire
Professor Robin Jeffrey
Dr Maggie Exon
Professor Marika Vicziany
Professor Howard Brasted

The project is managed by the South Asia Research Unit (SARU), Curtin University of Technology
Director, Professor John McGuire

Collaborating Institutions
Other collaborators are:

Curtin University of Technology

- Department of Media and Information. Area Coordinator Information Studies, Dr Maggie Exon
- Library and Information Service. South Asia Specialist Librarian, Lynne Vautier
La Trobe University
- School of Social Sciences. Professor Robin Jeffrey, Professor of Politics
Monash University
- National Centre For South Asian Studies. Director, Professor Marika Vicziany
- Monash Asia Institute. Director, Professor Marika Vicziany
University of New England
- Asia Centre. Director, Professor Howard Brasted

Project Coordinator
Miriam Allan
South Asia Research Unit
School of Social Sciences
Curtin University of Technology
PO Box U1987, Perth 6845
Ph: +61 8 9266 4482
Fax: +61 8 9266 3166
Email: m.allan@curtin.edu.au

Project Officers

Dr Peter G. Friedlander
Open Learning Buddhism/Hindi Co-ordinator
Asian Studies Program
La Trobe University
Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia
Ph: (03) 9479 2064
Fax: (03) 9479 1880
Email: p.friedlander@latrobe.edu.au

Dr Andrew Messner
Asia Centre
University of New England
Armidale NSW Australia 2351
Ph (02) 6773 2186
Fax (02) 6773 2978
Email: amessner@metz.une.edu.au

Tim Thornton
Project Officer-Monash Asia Institute
Project Officer- Dept of Economics
Monash University
Caulfield VIC 3145
Ph: +61 3 9903 1125
S Fx: 61 3 9903 1128
Email: tim.thornton@buseco.monash.edu.au

Project Advisor
Dr Denis Wright
SouthAsiaNet, University of New England

GIS Advisor
Associate Professor Larry Crissman
Australian Centre of the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network (ACASIAN)
Griffith University

The Project would like to thank Dr Ian Johnson, Dr Andrew Wilson and Dr Jim Masselos of the University of Sydney for invaluable assistance with establishing the project.