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A/Prof. Howard Brasted,
Historian, Faculty of Arts.
Email: hbrasted@metz.une.edu.au
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Associate Professor H.V. Brasted is one of the most high profile and internationally recognised scholars of South Asia in Australia. His standing in the field arises from a combination of research, professional and teaching achievement.
Publishing in major international outlets he is a frequently cited authority on the dismantling of the British empire in South and West Asia, and the rise of new nation states - particularly India and Pakistan.
More recently he has initiated projects on "Child Labour in Asia" and "Islamic Change in Asia" - both leading to significant ongoing publications - and is Managing Editor of a Sage Publications [New Delhi] series: Studies in Contemporary South Asia, and Co-Editor of a new Macmillan monograph series on South Asia: History, Development and Change in South Asia.
He is currently engaged on a Wellcome Trust funded project on "Women Workers in Industrialising Asia" under the leadership of Professor Amarjit Kaur.
Professionally, since 1984 Associate Professor Howard Brasted has played a pivotal role in the promotion of South Asian studies and scholarship, both in Australia and overseas. This role has been performed in two quite distinct capacities: as Executive Director of the South Asian Studies Association [SASA], a professional academic organisation of 450 members, which is the effective liaising body with South Asianists in Australia and around the world; and as Editor of the international refereed journal, South Asia, the preferred journal (with Modern Asian Studies) for some of the best original research in the field.
To date he has edited over 35 issues of the journal. He also serves the profession as a foundation Board Member of the National Centre for South Asian Studies (Melbourne); and wrote the ARC Discipline Survey chapter on 'South Asian Studies' in D.A. Low (ed.), Strategic Review of Research in the Humanities (Academy of the Humanities, 1998).