Curriculum Vitae
William Augustus Collins, Ph.D.
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Education
1979 Ph.D. Anthropology, “With Distinction,” University of California, Berkeley.
1975 C.Phil. Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
1970-71 Indonesian Studies, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Netherlands.
1967-68 Cambodian Language, Art and Archaeology of Southeast Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, England.
1967 MA Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
1966 BA Anthropology major, Linguistics minor, University of California, Berkeley.
Awards and Fellowships
2001-04 Rockefeller Foundation, World Monument Fund, Center for Khmer Studies, “Urban Youth Culture in Cambodia”
1987-88 Social Science Research Council, Indochina Studies Award, "The Cham refugee communities in California and Malaysia."
1979-80 Social Science Research Council, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, "The Guritan epic tradition in South Sumatra."
1970-73 Foreign Area Fellowship Program (Ford Foundation), Doctoral fieldwork (initially for Cambodia then changed to Indonesia); dissertation write-up. “Besemah Concepts, a Study of a People of South Sumatra”
1968-70 Ford Foundation Special Career Fellowship, Graduate studies in Anthropology.
1967 Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, Berkeley Grant-in-aid for Masters Thesis research and write-up.
Languages
Able to do research in: Dutch3, Malay/Indonesian5, Besemah5, French4, Khmer3, German3.
Also have studied: Arabic1, Sanskrit1, Latin3, Cham1, Javanese2, Spanish3.
[5=superior, 1=beginning]
2002-2004
Country Director, The Asia Foundation, Dili, East Timor, and Chief of Party, USAID Cooperative Agreement entitled “Access to Justice.” As Country Director, my responsibilities include developing and managing governance, civil society, human rights, economic and other development assistance programs in East Timor; leading program development and management of office operations and staff; developing long range vision, goals and niche for TAF in East Timor. As Chief of Party for a multimillion dollar, multi-year USAID project, my responsibilities include close liaison with USAID; design, implementation, and evaluation of programs in public sector and civil society sector to increase access to justice; identification and guidance for appropriate specialists, long and short term consultants; preparation of concept papers, reports; organization of workshops and conferences; preparation of workplans, implementation plans, reports to USAID; oversight of Finance Manager and overall responsibility for financial management of cooperative agreement.
2001-2002
Project
Funding: Rockefeller
Foundation, World Monument Foundation, New York
Position:
Project Manager at the Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia to
organize a multi-year study of urban youth culture. The project focuses on the outlook towards
work and career, sexuality, society and national institutions among the
generation of youth in their late teens and early twenties, born since the end
of the Khmer Rouge regime.
2000-2002
Vice
Chair, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley. My
tasks include seeking, administering and reporting on grants from government,
foundations, corporate and private donors to support the activities of the
Center and its affiliated faculty and graduate students; organizing major
international conferences; facilitating periodic symposia and colloquia to
enhance understanding of Southeast Asian countries on campus; and designing
programs to strengthen instructional resources and fostering communication
between scholars on campus and K-16 teachers and students and the public of the
wider community. My tasks also include
advising graduate students and occasionally teaching topics in Southeast Asian
studies.
1997-2000
Acting President, Center for
Advanced Study, Phnom Penh.
Chief Executive Officer of a Cambodian NGO devoted to socio-cultural
research for development projects. My
tasks are to identify resources and potential projects, design project
proposals and budgets, recruit and train staff for project teams, supervise
project implementation, undertake a principal role in some research projects,
write or edit final project reports, submit detailed financial reports to
funders.
1999
Project
Funding: DFID (Department for
International Development, UK)
Position: Project manager and principal investigator on an impact survey of effectiveness of voter education materials utilized in connection with the national elections of 1998; survey of voter awareness and knowledge regarding commune elections scheduled for 1999-2000.
Project
Funding: WHO (World Health
Organization)
Position: Project manager and principal investigator on a study of health care seeking behavior and preferences in Kampong Chhnang in connection with health care reform and the proposed introduction of user fees for services in the public health care system. In depth interviews with families in rural and urban areas, and with upper, middle and poor socio-economic groups.
Position: Project manager and principal investigator on an assessment of governance and management training provided to government and non-government development officials in four provinces by the Cambodian Institute for Human Rights. Both survey evaluation and in-depth interviewing techniques employed.
Project
Funding: JICA (Japanese
International Cooperation Agency)
Position: Project manager and principal investigator on a qualitative study of criteria by which donors in Cambodia allocate funding to local NGOs, to assist Japanese formulation of their new support policy.
Position: Project manager on an effort to create a database of the private sector in Cambodia from existing published and unpublished resources, to lay the groundwork for future MPDF/IFC studies and projects.
Project
Funding: UNCDF (UN Capital
Development Fund)
Position: Project manager and principal investigator on a qualitative study of the UNDP/CARERE Local Planning Process and its impact on civil society, with a focus on the case of Battambang province. Analysis of the relations between government authorities, Village Development Committees and Pagoda Committees.
1998
Project
Funding: Forum Syd and Diakonia (Swedish
Development NGOs)
Position: Project manager and principal investigator on a qualitative study of grassroots civil society in the context of rural development efforts in Northwest Cambodia. The nature of informal village leaders in self-help projects contrasted to government led development projects.
Position: Project manager and principal investigator on a survey evaluation in fourteen provinces to assess the impact of good governance and election education training of government officials that was conducted by the Cambodian Institute for Human Rights.
Project
Funding: DFID (Department for
International Development, UK)
Position: Project manager and principal investigator on a baseline survey of voter knowledge and awareness in nineteen provinces prior to and in support of the voter education campaign that preceded the Cambodian national elections of 1998.
Project Funding: UNDP/ILO (International Labor Organization)/CARERE Private Sector Development Unit
Position: Project manager for three micro-economic research studies conducted by international consultant to assist the formation of business associations in the rice milling and brick making industries in Northwest Cambodia. Studies in the variation of entrepreneurial adaptation within industries.
1997-1998
Project Funding: IOM (International Organization for Migration)/CRS (Catholic Relief Services)/WVI (World Vision International)
Position: Project manager for three qualitative studies conducted by international consultant on trafficking of women and children from Vietnam to Cambodia and from Cambodia to Thailand and reintegration of trafficked Cambodian women. A study of the exploitation and coping strategies of vulnerable women.
1997
Position: Project Manager for an assessment of the socio-economic context for small business development in Northwest Cambodia. A study of Cambodian entrepreneurship in rural areas.
Position: Principal investigator on an evaluation of the Japanese supported Road Construction Center in the Cambodian Ministry of Public Works and Transport. An analysis of the politics of donor rivalry in infrastructure development.
Position: Principal investigator on a study of governance structures of Cambodian Non-Government Organizations, with a special focus on the crisis in “Ponleu Khmer.” A study of the conflict between Western and Cambodian concepts of authority over money.
Position: Project Manager on a feasibility study for the placement of new primary schools in the flood-prone areas of Kampong Chhnang province. The social, economic and physical (hydrographic) context for designing appropriate new school structures.
1996-1997
Project Funding: UNESCO/Toyota
Foundation
Position: Technical
Advisor and Visiting Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Archaeology of
the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh. Teaching social anthropology to art and
archaeology students, and participating in the effort to reform and modernize
the curriculum and teaching methods.
Attempts were made to introduce a unit credit system, and a system of
majors within the Faculty; to improve record keeping; to develop incentives for
local teaching staff; to enhance the teaching and research capacity of junior
faculty.
1995-1997
Senior Researcher at the Preah
Sihanouk Raj Academy, Phnom Penh, a Cambodian think-tank devoted to
policy oriented research.
1997
Project Funding: CIPE (Center for International Private Enterprise) [National Endowment for Democracy]
Position: Principal investigator on economic education and policy reform in the areas of Cambodian tax reform, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Aspects of ASEAN membership for Cambodia.
Position: Principal investigator on a study for the Democracy and Governance office on the dynamics of dispute resolution and administration of justice for Cambodian villagers. Analysis of the quasi-legal position of the commune chief as mediator of disputes at the grassroots level.
1996
Position: Consultant to the Highland Peoples Project to design a training curriculum for members of the Cambodian Inter-Ministerial Committee for Highland Peoples Development to assist them to formulate a development policy for the minority peoples of Northeastern Cambodia.
1995-1996
Position: Team Leader on an ethnographic study of minority groups in Cambodia (Cham, Chinese, Vietnamese, Lao, Highland Peoples), and their relations with the majority Khmer population, in the context of the formulation of a Nationality Law by the legislature.
Principal investigator on the study of the Cham Muslim minority in Cambodia.
1991-1995
Research Associate at the
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Completion of a study of the Besemah oral
epic discovered in the bardic form and collected in the highlands of South
Sumatra, Indonesia. The text and
translation of an epic were supplemented with copious notes and commentary on
the linguistic and cultural context of the story. The volume was published in 1998 by the Royal
Institute of Anthropology and Linguistics in Leiden, the Netherlands.
1994
Project Funding: University of California, Berkeley, Extension.
Position: On-site Coordinator for an Advanced Management Program for Indonesian executives. Interpreter and liaison for Extension instructors and advisor for the Indonesian trainees.
1993
Project Funding: Trans-Union and Fair-Isaac International (USA) and P.T. Ometraco (Indonesia)
Position: Consultant on an effort to introduce centralized credit data management and credit risk analysis to the credit card industry in Indonesia. Liaison with the banking sector and the Ministry of Finance to assess the Indonesian market for these services.
1991-1992
Position: Consultant on an effort to establish a Center for Continuing Education in Jakarta. Analysis of the market for private English, Business and Computer courses at the tertiary and professional level.
1988-1991
University of California, Education Abroad Program,
Founding Resident Director, Indonesian Study Center, at Universitas Gadjah
Mada, Yogyakarta. Established
the Center in the Faculty of Letters; Created, with local faculty, a “natural
approach” language and culture curriculum for American students learning
Indonesian; Defined, with local faculty, courses that would meet University of
California standards for student credit; Supervised student independent study
courses; Managed Study Center finances; Processed student course reports,
petitions, financial aid documents; Assured compliance with home campus
requirements; Arranged student housing; Arranged student visas, permits;
Advised students on academic and personal adjustment matters in the education
abroad experience.
1987-88
Position: Principal investigator on an oral history project among the Cham Muslim refugee community from Cambodia living in Orange County, California and in Kelantan, Malaysia.
1982-86
Lecturer, Department of South
and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Taught courses on the Civilizations of
Mainland and Insular Southeast Asia; Southeast Asian Belief Systems.
1979-1981
Position: Principal investigator of Middle-Malay folk epic performances from the highlands of South Sumatra and Bengkulu; field collection and transcription of texts.
1979
Lecturer, Department of South
and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Taught course on Civilizations of Southeast
Asia.
1978
Lecturer, Department of
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. Taught course on
Peoples and Cultures of Indonesia.
1974-1977
Lecturer, School of Comparative
Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. Taught courses on: Introductory Anthropology,
[in English and Malay]; Nusantara Malay Ethnology,[in English and Malay];
History of Sociological Theory; Anthropological Field Methods.
1970-1973
Position: Doctoral research in the archives in Leiden, Netherlands and ethnographic study in South Sumatra, Indonesia. A study of Besemah concepts of authority, law, order, and magic.
1968-1970
Position: Graduate studies in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
1967-1968
Project
Funding: Tavistock Institute,
London, England
Position: Depth interviewer of couples for a study entitled “Women in Top Jobs.” (Principal Investigators, Robert and Rhona Rappoport.)
Selected Publications, Exhibitions and Presentations
1966 "Dacoity: robber gangs in Burma and Siam in the late XIXth century, a comparison and contrast,” Seminar in Southeast Asian Politics, U.C., Berkeley.
1967 An Investigation into the Division of the Chams into Two Regions, Cambodia and Vietnam. MA Thesis, U.C. Berkeley.
1969 "Latah, a psychoneurotic syndrome peculiar to the Malay world," Seminar in Psychological Anthropology, U.C. Berkeley.
1969 "The founding of the École Française d'Extrême-Orient" and "The establishment of the Année Sociologique," Seminars in the History of Anthropology, U.C. Berkeley.
1970 "Cambodia data paper: The social and cultural background," in A Handbook on the War in Asia. Boalt Hall Law School, U.C. Berkeley.
1970 "Cham Art," in Indochinese Art and its Status in the Present Crisis as of June 8, 1970, Committee to Save the Cultural Heritage of Indochina, Berkeley.
1973 "Politics in a South Sumatran Village," Seminar in Anthropology, Harvard University.
1974 "The Notion of Ilmu (Magic, Knowledge, Authority)," Symposium on Indonesian Religions, 26th Annual Meetings of the Association of Asian Studies, Boston.
1974 "On the lookout for rezeki (profit, advantage)" in Proceedings of the Conference on Agricultural Development, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1976 "Indic script texts from South Sumatra concerning history, healing and magic." An exhibition in the Anthropology Museum, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang.
1978 "Textiles of South Sumatra," in Threads of Tradition, an exhibition of Indonesian fabrics in the Lowie Museum of Anthropology, U.C. Berkeley.
1979 Besemah Concepts, a Study of a People of South Sumatra, Ph.D. dissertation, U.C. Berkeley.
1981 "Historical and cultural background on the refugees from Indochina." A series of public lectures for University Extension, Sonoma State University.
1981 "Farmer-water authority interactions in small scale irrigation projects in California and Indonesia." Seminar for the Indonesia Studies Group, University Extension, U.C. Berkeley.
1984 "Sex and the single girl in the guritan folk epic of South Sumatra." First All U.C. Conference of Southeast Asia Specialists, Berkeley
1985 "Piagem Copper-plate manuscripts: history for the lowlanders, magic for the highlanders." Second All U.C. Conference of Southeast Asia Specialists, Berkeley.
1986 "Custom and Religion in Indonesia." in Indonesia, Insight Guides, APA Productions, Hong Kong.
1987 "The Megalithic Art of the Besemah." Public Lecture for the San Francisco Society for Asian Art, De Young Museum.
1989 An Overview of the History and Culture of Indochina. Zellerbach Family Fund and the University of California Graduate School of Education, New Faces of Liberty Series, San Francisco.
1993 "A Tour of Cham Monuments in Southern Vietnam" Cambodia and Vietnam Today, Public Lecture Series, University of California, Berkeley.
1993 "Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos: Lands of Complexity and Beauty" An address to the World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco.
1995 "Ethnic Group Research Project at the Preah Sihanouk Raj Academy," Cambodia Report, I,1 (December), 11-13.
1996 "Relations between the Cham and the Cambodian Highlanders" Cambodia Report, II,1 (Jan-Feb), 18-23.
1996 "The Chams of Cambodia" in Interdisciplinary Research on Ethnic Groups in Cambodia: Report on Research to United Nations Development Programme, Center for Advanced Study, Phnom Penh, pp 15-107. (UNDP)
1996 “Enhancing the Capacity of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Highland Peoples Development in the North-east of Cambodia.” Consultancy Report to the United Nations Development Programme, 41pp. (UNDP/UNV)
1996 Economic Education and Policy Reform Discussion Paper No. 1 “Taxation in Cambodia.” 8pp. (CIPE)
1997 Economic Education and Policy Reform Discussion Paper No. 2 "Business Arbitration in Cambodia." 12pp. (CIPE)
1997 "Dynamics of Dispute Resolution and Administration of Justice for Cambodian Villagers." 43pp (USAID)
1997 Economic Education and Policy Reform Discussion Paper No. 3 “Cambodia in ASEAN: Costs and Benefits.” 16pp (CIPE)
1997 “CNGO Governance Structures, a case study of Federation Ponleu Khmer.” 17pp (PACT)
1998 “Evaluation Study of the Project for the Improvement of the Road Construction Center in the Ministry of Public Works and Transport” 26pp + annexes (JICA)
1998 “Final Report: Baseline Survey of Voter Knowledge and Awareness,” CAS Occasional Paper No. 3, (June, 1998) 115pp. (DFID)
1998 “Survey Evaluation of Good Governance and Election Education Programs Conducted by the Cambodian Institute of Human Rights” 94pp, +Annexes. (TAF)
1998 The Guritan of Radin Suane: A Study of Besemah Oral Epic from South Sumatra. Biblioteca Indonesica Series. Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Leiden, (548 pp).
1998 “Grassroots Civil Society in Cambodia” 57pp. (Forum Syd and Diakonia)
1999 “The UNDP/CARERE Local Planning Process: Reinforcing Civil Society” 78pp. (UNCDF)
1999 “Local Non-Government Organizations: Selection Criteria Used by Funding Organizations” 25pp +Annexes (JICA)
1999 “Database of the Private Sector in Cambodia” (>4000 items Access Database) with subset: Firms with ³40 employees and ³51% Cambodian Ownership. (MPDF)
1999 “Evaluation of the Impact of CIHR Training for SEILA Participants in Principles of Management and Good Governance.” 141pp (UNDP/CARERE)
1999 “Medical Practitioners and Traditional Healers: A Study of Health Seeking Behavior in Kampong Chhnang.” 77pp (WHO)
1999 “Database of Business Associations in Cambodia” 25pp (MPDF)
2000 “Impact Survey of Voter Knowledge and Awareness,” CAS Occasional Paper No. 7, (March 2000) 112pp. (DFID)
2001 “Buddha Power and State Power in Cambodia: civil society reactions to development projects,” AAS Annual Meetings, March 2001, Chicago, Ill.
2002 “Preservation: The tension between heritage and culture” Workshop on Preservation and Heritage, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii, May 2002