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Terance Bigalke

Director

Email: bigalket@EastWestCenter.org
Phone: 808-944-7323
Fax: 808-944-7070
Research Interests: Indonesian history, Southeast Asian regional history and international education issues

Directs the Center's education program, which includes graduate degree and certificate scholarship programs, short-term training and professional development programs. Active in promoting international education at the college and university level. From 1989-2001 was Malcolm Mouat Director of World Affairs, at Beloit College (Wisconsin), directing an office of international programs that encompassed off-campus study, international student support services, and summer intensive study of less-commonly taught languages. Also served as an adjunct member of the Beloit faculty, teaching regional history of Southeast Asia and modern Indonesia. Prior to this was Assistant Director of the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA) based at Ohio State University, and Program Officer with the Ford Foundation in Jakarta, Indonesia. Conducted research and study in Indonesia, the Netherlands, Thailand and Mexico and has made numerous national presentations on international education and has published on Indonesian history. Most recent publication is Tana Toraja: A Social History of an Indonesian People, published by Singapore University Press, May 2005. PhD in comparative world history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a focus on 19th and 20th century Indonesia. MA in Southeast Asian history as an East-West Center grantee at the University of Hawai'i.

Related Publications

Aceh After the Tsunami: As the Indonesian Province Rebuilds, the Challenges of Physical and Spiritual Recovery
Higher Education in Asia/Pacific: Quality and the Public Good
Tana Toraja: A Social History of an Indonesian People