Associate Professor
220A Ellis Hall
Tel. (740) 593-0392
E-mail: collinse@ohio.edu
Ohio University faculty member since 1991
Education
Ph.D., Theories of Cultural and Political Interpretation (Interdisciplinary), University of California, Berkeley (1991) M.A., Folklore, University of California, Berkeley (1986) M.P.H., Health Education, University of California, Berkeley (1967) B.A., Political Science (with Distinction), University of California, Berkeley (1964)
Specializations
- Religions of Southeast Asia
- Southeast Asian Intellectuals
- Human Rights
Courses Taught
- CLWR 181: Introduction to the Study of Religion
- CLWR 269B: Religion, Gender and Sexuality
- CLWR 321: Introduction to Hinduism
- CLWR 331: Introduction to Buddhism
- CLWR 387: Theories of Religion
- CLWR 481/581: Myth and Symbolism
- CLWR 483/583: Contemporary Religious Thought
- CLWR 531: Expressions of Buddhism in Southeast Asia
- CLWR 571: Buddhism
- CLWR 691: Contemporary Southeast Asian Intellectuals
- INST 103: Introduction to Asia
- INST 610A: Islamic Societies in Comparative Perspective: Africa and Southeast Asia (team taught with the director of African Studies Program, Dr. Stephen Howard)
Recent Publications on Indonesia
Indonesia Betrayed: How Development Fails. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
Pierced by Murugan’s lance : ritual, power, and moral redemption among Malaysian Hindus. DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, 1997
PDF Files of Articles and Book Chapters
The Politics of Ritual Performance and Ritual Authority Among Murugan’s Malaysian Devotees forthcoming in “Ritualizing In, On, and Across the Boundaries of the Indian Subcontinent” ed. Linda Penkower and Tracy Pintchman. [Click on the photos below to enlarge them.]
The Chariot of Murugan on Thaipusam
A devotee with piercing and an offering of small pots of milk suspended from hooks on his chest
The milk offering form of vow fulfillment promoted by reformers
Islam is the Solution: Dakwah and Democracy in Indonesia. Kultur Vol. 3 (2003).
“Islam and the Habits of Democracy: Islamic Organizations in Post-New Order South Sumatra.” Indonesia 78 (2004).
“The Struggle for Political Reform in South Sumatra” in Autonomy and Disintegration in Indonesia. Damien Kingsbury and Harry Aveling, eds. Routledge Curzon (2003).
Indonesia: A Violent Culture? Asian Survey 42:4 (2002)
Multinational Capital, New Order Development and Democratization in South Sumatra. Indonesia 71 (2001).
To Know Shame in Malay Societies. With Ernaldi Bahar. Crossroads 14 (2000).
(Re)negotiating Gender Hierarchy in the New Order: A South Sumatran Field Study Asia Pacific Viewpoint 37:2 (1996).