Paige Johnson Tan CV Resume

Paige Johnson Tan, Ph.D.

Department of Public and International Affairs

257 Leutze Hall, 601 S. College Road

University of North Carolina Wilmington

Wilmington, North Carolina 28403-5607

Phone: 910-962-3221, Fax: 910-962-3286

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2003-present

Teaching: undergraduate classes in Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Thought, and Public Administration. Courses taught: 111: Introduction to Global Politics (and an Honors version), 218: Ethics in International Affairs, 222: Contemporary Political Issues (Taught as Political Parties and Democracy), 292: Model United Nations, 308: Introduction to Public Administration, 317: Asian Political Thought, 339: Asian Politics, 427: International Organizations, 494/592: India Study Abroad (trip webpage). Additional directed independent studies and honors theses (including chair). Advise departmental majors on degree progress and course selection.

Research: Current interests include Indonesian political parties, transitional justice, democratization, foreign policy, and the role of internet in politics. On-going interests in one-party dominant regimes in Asia, Asian political thought, Asian women, US foreign policy in Asia, and Southeast Asian-Chinese-Indian foreign relations. Developing interest in comparing Indonesian and Indian political parties and democracy. Publish articles on Southeast Asian topics in Asian Perspective, Indonesia, Contemporary Southeast Asia, the Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, Education about Asia, and Inside Indonesia. Contribute book chapters, book reviews, op-eds, and encyclopedia entries.

Service: (Society) Consulting with the World Bank office, Jakarta, Indonesia (2005), invited presentations to the Wilmington branch of the American Association of University Women (2009), the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the US State Department and National Intelligence Council (2008), United Nations Association of the Coastal Carolinas (2007, 2004), and the Drug Enforcement Agency (2004). Board Member and Program Committee member, United Nations Association of the Coastal Carolinas (2007-present). Outside expert, Cambodian asylum case (2009). Media appearances on WWAY TV 3 (2008) and WAAV Radio 980 (2008, 2004). (Profession) Review manuscripts and books for publishers such as Cambridge, Oxford, Palgrave, Rowman & Littlefield, and Continuum and journals such as Party Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Education about Asia, International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands), and African Journal of History and Culture. Served as Program Chair, Southeast Regional Conference, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, January 2005, Lexington, Kentucky. (University) Organize seminars and deliver lectures on international topics (such as at UNCW College Day 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2008; Pathways/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute 2009). Member, Information Technology Committee, Faculty Senate (2009-present). Serve as founding faculty advisor to UNCW Model United Nations Club (2004-present) and advisor for STAND, an anti-genocide organization (2007-present). Serve on Asian Studies Minor Faculty Committee (2004-present) and Faculty Senate (2003-2004). Small-group leader at Freshman Convocation (2008). Member for UNCW, South Asian Studies Network, Colonial Academic Alliance (2009-present). (Department) Coordinator, Study Abroad (2009-present), Peer Review Committee (Elected, 2007-2009, Distinguished Departmental Service Award), Undergraduate Assessment Committee (2009-present), Junior Faculty Colloquium (Spring/Fall 2008), Poli Sci Days organizing committee (2009, coordinate four events), PIA International Affairs and Undergraduate Faculty Subgroups (2006-present), new faculty search committees (2004, 2006-2007), and Active Learning Task Force (2006).

Project Assistant, Harvard Institute for International Development; Visiting Fellow, Public Policy Program (PPP), National University of Singapore (NUS), 1998-1999 (in residence in Singapore for ten months and in Cambridge for two months)

Served as liaison between the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard and the Public Policy Program at NUS. Teaching: Revised and co-taught year-long Policy Analysis Exercise Seminar. Revised and co-taught June Orientation Program for incoming students (introduced creative new projects and more public policy content). Tutored (TA'd) Macroeconomics and Cost-Benefit Analysis courses. Academic Support: Assisted other faculty with syllabus development for their courses. Developed, planned, and executed short courses and executive programs. With faculty, conducted curriculum review. Surveyed alumni and on-board students to improve program. Translated materials from Indonesian language for use in cases and faculty research. Delivered guest lectures on Southeast Asian politics and policy. Case Development: Encouraged development and adoption of Southeast Asian-based cases for teaching. This included co-authoring cases, developing an international relations simulation exercise, editing the work of others, developing interview questions, and conducting interviews. Publications: Designed brochures, advertisements, and newsletters.

Graduate Instructor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, 1995-1998 and 2000-2001

Taught nine upper-level undergraduate courses on Southeast Asia and International Affairs, Comparative Politics in Southeast Asia, Chinese Foreign Policy, and Chinese Domestic Politics.

Association Dean and Assistant to the Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia, 1998

Served as dean for academic affairs for an "association" (several hundred undergraduates). Monitored students' academic progress. Administered faculty rules/college policies on all academic matters for students in the association. Counseled students. Spoke to groups of students on issues of concern.

Assistant to the Director, East Asia Center, University of Virginia, 1995-1997

Organized two conferences--"Asia to 2010" (November 1996; in cooperation with the Atlantic Council, Washington, DC) and "Hong Kong: Today and Tomorrow" (March 1997; in cooperation with the University of Virginia's Student Council). Created and maintained East Asia Center's web resources. Hosted and made arrangements for visiting speakers. Organized receptions. Publicized East Asia Center events. Assisted with administration of East Asia Center's M.A. program in East Asian Studies.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, 1993-1994

Taught four sections (approximately 75 students) of the introductory comparative government course. Countries included China, Russia, Italy, and the United Kingdom.

Analyst, China Branch, Center for International Research, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Spr./Sum. 1992

Co-authored study on population of Cambodia. Attended June 1992 conference on Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos as representative of the U.S. Census Bureau. Updated Chinastat (statistical database on China) and the International Database. Used spreadsheet programs for demographic analysis. Collected data from both Chinese- and English-language sources.

Other:

Office Assistant, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, UVa, 1992-1995

Grading Assistant, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, UVa, 1993-1995

Analyst, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C., Summer 1993

Intern, International Center for Development Policy, Washington, D.C., Summer 1990

Education

Ph.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2002

Degree awarded in Foreign Affairs with concentrations in Comparative Politics/Southeast Asia

Dissertation: Streams of Least Resistance: the Institutionalization of Political Parties and Democracy in Indonesia

The dissertation focused on the institutionalization of the party system in Indonesia, the reasons behind observed levels of institutionalization, and the meaning of the level of institutionalization for the consolidation of democracy in the country. Different levels of institutionalization along the different criteria proposed by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy Scully in their book Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America for evaluating party system institutionalization have created a uniquely bad outcome in Indonesia. The country's parties are at once strong and weak. And, they are strong in ways that make their weaknesses all the more dangerous. Particularly, party rooting produces a decidedly negative outcome rather than the positive one often highlighted by party system scholars. The rootedness of Indonesia's parties in the country's communal groups challenges stability, the legitimacy of the party system, and the legitimacy of democracy. See the final chapter.

M.P.A., Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California, 1991

Degree awarded in International Public Administration with a concentration in International Management and Chinese Language

Master's Thesis: The Chinese Bureaucracy in the Post-Mao Period: Revolutionary Change or a Return to Balance? An Analysis of the Administrative Problems, Political Issues and Social Dilemmas of the Chinese Bureaucracy

B.A., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1988

Major in Asian Studies with a concentration in Chinese Affairs

Special Academic Programs

Visiting Fellow, The Habibie Center, Jakarta, Indonesia, July 2004. Conducted research on Indonesian political parties, monitored Indonesia’s first-ever direct presidential elections.

Visiting Fellow, Institute for the Study of Economy and Society (LPEM), University of Indonesia (Salemba), Jakarta, Indonesia, 2000. Conducted dissertation research.

Southeast Asian Summer Studies Institute, Madison, Wisconsin and Tempe, Arizona, 1994, 1997. Completed two intensive sessions of Indonesian language training.

Visiting Student, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 1991-1992. Attended courses on domestic politics and foreign policies of Singapore and the other Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) states. Research focus was Singapore's crafting of a "post-Cambodia" foreign policy. Recipient of Fulbright Scholarship.

Fellowships and Awards

Distinguished Departmental Service Award, Department of Public and International Affairs, UNCW, 2009

Faculty Travel Grant, UNCW Office of International Programs, for travel to India, May 2008

Named by one or more graduating students as the UNCW faculty member whose influence was most valued (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)

“Bleeding Paper Award” (light-hearted, for profuse commenting on student written assignments), UNCW Political Science Club, 2005

United Nations Foundation Mini-grant for US Foreign Policy Debate, 2003

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Indonesian Language Study, 1997

Mrs. Charles A. Bryant Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1996

Ellen Bayard Weedon Grant, University of Virginia, 1995

DuPont Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1994-1995

Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, 1994

Governor's Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1993-1994

Fulbright Scholarship, 1991-1992

Academic Publications

"Teaching about Development in China through Film: Up the Yangtze," October 16, 2009, submitted to Education about Asia. Status: under consideration.

Book review. Kathryn Robinson. Gender, Islam, and Democracy in Indonesia. London: Routledge, 2009, Pacific Affairs, Volume 83, No.1, April 2010 (forthcoming).

Book Review. Hong Lysu and Huang Jianli, The Scripting of a National History Singapore and Its Pasts, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008, Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 68, No. 1, February 2009, pp. 335-337.

"Teaching and Remembering." Inside Indonesia, Issue 92, April - June 2008. Available at http://insideindonesia.org/content/view/1077/47/.

"The Place of the Ghosts: Democracy in the Philippines," Education about Asia, Vol. 12, No. 3, Winter 2007, pp. 57-58.

"Navigating a Turbulent Ocean: Indonesia's Worldview and Foreign Policy," Asian Perspective, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2007, pp. 147-181.

"Party-Candidate Relationships in Indonesian Local Politics: A Case Study of the 2005 Regional Elections in Gowa, South Sulawesi Province," Indonesia, Vol. 84, October 2007(with Michael Buehler).

“With the Best of Intentions: Singapore Volunteers and Donors and the Tsunami Reconstruction,” Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, Vol. 5, No. 3/4, Winter 2006 (with Tay Keong Tan). Also published in an edited volume: Ngoh Tiong Tan, Allison Rowlands, and Francis Yuen, eds. Asian Tsunami and Social Work Practice: Recovery and Rebuilding, Binghamton, New York: Haworth Press, 2007.

“Khmer Rouge” and “Killing Fields,” in William A. Darity, ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Farmington Hills, MI: MacMillan Reference, 2008.

“Indonesia Seven Years after Suharto: Party System Institutionalization in a New Democracy,” Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 28, No. 1, April 2006.

“Arundhati Roy's The Greater Common Good: Dams, Development, and Democracy in India,” Education about Asia, Vol. 10, No. 2, Fall 2005.

“Indonesia,” in Tate, C. Neal, ed. Governments of the World: A Global Guide to Citizens' Rights and Responsibilities. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006.

“Missing in Inaction: Crisis of Leadership in the Republic,” “Power to the People (I am the People): Political Parties in Indonesia,” and “Confronting Kodrat: Political Views on Women in Contemporary Indonesia,” in Julia I. Suryakusuma, Sex, Power, and Nation, Jakarta: Metafor, 2004 (co-author of these three articles).

Book Review, Dwight King, Half-Hearted Reform: Electoral Institutions and the Struggle for Democracy in Indonesia, Westport: Praeger, 2003, Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 2, No. 1, March 2004, 175-176.

Book Review, Vidhu Verma, Malaysia: State and Civil Society in Transition, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2002, Journal of Asian Studies, February 2004, 262-264.

Book Review, Kees van Dijk, A Country in Despair: Indonesia Between 1997 and 2000, Leiden: KITLV Press, 2002, Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 62, No. 1, February 2003, 357-359.

"The Anti-Party Reaction in Indonesia: Causes and Implications," Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol., 24, No. 3, December 2002, 484-508.

"Partai Politik dan Konsolidasi Demokrasi di Indonesia" (Political Parties and the Consolidation of Democracy in Indonesia), Panduan Parlemen Indonesia (Indonesian Parliament Guide), Jakarta: API, 2001, 117-146.

"Entrepreneurship, Information Technology, and Values: Future Directions for the Malay Professionals Organization," Master in Public Policy Program, National University of Singapore, Teaching Case, 1999 (with Tay Keong Tan).

"After the Nightmare: The Population of Cambodia," Ben Kiernan, ed., Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the UN, and the International Community, New Haven: Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 1993, 65-139 (with Judith Banister).

"International Law or International Politics? Recognition and Intervention: The Case of Cambodia," Monterey Review, Fall 1990, 35-44.

Contemporary Affairs Publications/Other

"Indonesia Isn't Really a Disaster," Op-ed, Wilmington Star News (Wilmington, NC), February 13, 2007.

“Information, Indicators, Incentives, and Integrity: Overcoming Obstacles to Effective Anti-Corruption Monitoring in World Bank-financed Projects in Indonesia,” December 15, 2005, Confidential (with Sea-Change Partners Consultants, Singapore report for World Bank Office-Jakarta, Indonesia). I served as project manager for the research and writing of the report.

“Unofficial Observations of the Indonesian Presidential Elections (Round 1),” web article for The Habibie Center, August 30, 2004.

"Evaluating Megawati's First Year of Leadership," Op-ed, Daily Yomiuri (Japan), July 26, 2002 (with Julia Suryakusuma).

"Leading Indonesia On," Van Zorge Report on Indonesia, Vol. IV, No. 10, June 3, 2002 (with Julia Suryakusuma).

"Better Parties Vital to Indonesia's Democracy," Op-ed, The Jakarta Post, March 5, 2002.

"A Reminder of Past Pledges," Two-part Op-ed, The Jakarta Post, September 26 and September 27, 2001 (with Julia Suryakusuma).

"Solving the Absence of Opposition," Op-ed, The Jakarta Post, November 26, 1999.

Conferences and Presentations

"Call Centers and Dowry: Opportunities and Constraints for Women in Contemporary India," American Association of University Women, Wilmington, North Carolina, October 10, 2009.

"Reining in the Reign of the Parties: Party System Institutionalization in Indonesia," Party and Party System Institutionalization in Asia, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, August 27-28, 2009.

"Assessing the Quality of Democracy in Indonesia on the Eve of the Third Post-authoritarian Elections," Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, March 26-29, 2009.

Attended: Colonial Academic Alliance Conference on India and Globalization, February 26, 2009, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

"Impunity after Authoritarianism in Indonesia: Issues and Explanations," Invited presentation to faculty research panel, Southern Regional Model United Nations, November 21, 2008.

Invited presentation to the Indonesia Workshop held by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the US State Department and the National Intelligence Council, Meridian International Center, Washington, DC, August 26, 2008.

"Transitional Justice in Indonesia," Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Hilton Head, South Carolina, January 18-20, 2008.

"Navigating a Turbulent Ocean: Indonesia's Worldview and Foreign Policy," International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, February to March 2007, Chicago, Illinois.

Project manager for a team of six academics/practitioners working with Sea-Change Partners Consulting (Singapore) preparing a report on anti-corruption monitoring in World Bank-Indonesia projects. “Information, Incentives, and Integrity: Overcoming Obstacles to Effective Anti-Corruption Monitoring in World Bank-financed Projects in Indonesia.” December 2005 (Report confidential).

“Parties and Pestas: An Analysis of Indonesian Democratization after the 2004 Elections through the Lens of Party System Institutionalization,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2005.

Program Chair, Southeast Regional Conference Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Lexington, Kentucky, January 2005.

“Discussion Notes: On Party System Institutionalization,” Roundtable: Indonesia’s Elections: What Should We Expect? Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, March 2004.

“The Politics and Thought of Amien Rais: Implications for Indonesian Democracy,” Southeast Regional Conference Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Gainesville, Florida, January 2004.

“Party Rooting, Political Operators, and Instability in Indonesia: A Consideration of Party System Institutionalization in a Communally Charged Society,” Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2004 (Chair and presenter).

"Prospects for Political Parties in the Legislative Elections: Golkar," Presentation to the conference on "Reformasi Part II: Gaming Election Scenarios in Indonesia in 2004" sponsored by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the State Department, Washington, DC, September 2002.

"Creating Indonesia Baru: The Political Parties and Views of Women in Contemporary Indonesia," Paper presented to the International Conference on Women and Crises in Indonesia, December 9-12, 2000, Leiden, Netherlands (with Julia Suryakusuma).

"Indonesia and East Timor," lecture to the Summer on the Lawn, Center for University Programs, University of Virginia, July 2000.

"Political Parties in Indonesia: People or Power-oriented?" Paper presented to the "The Third Sector: For What and For Whom?" Biennial Conference of the International Society for Third-Sector Research, Dublin, Ireland. Also presented to "East Timor, Indonesia, and the Region: Perceptions of History and Prospects for the Future," Institute for Study and Co-operation with East Timor, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, July 2000 (with Julia Suryakusuma).

"Globalization of the Democratic Ideal: Tensions in Elite and Popular Perceptions of Democracy in Post-Suharto Indonesia," Paper presented to the Conference on Globalization and Democratic Developments in Asia, Lund University, Sweden, May 2000.

Consulting with the API Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2000-January 2002. API was a non-governmental organization engaged in public education for democratic development.

Discussant on "Southeast Asia: The Continuing Search for Identity" at the Annual Meeting of the Southeast Regional Conference, Association for Asian Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia, January 1998.

"Towards One Southeast Asia," lecture to the International Relations Organization, University of Virginia, October 1997.

Speaker/Organizer for five departmental workshops on improving teaching methods, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, 1993-1997.

"Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst, A Region Made Whole" (on Asian international relations in the post-Cold War era), lecture to the Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia, January 1996.

Affiliations

United Nations Association of the Coastal Carolinas, board member and program committee member, 2007-present

American Political Science Association, 2001-2006

Association for Asian Studies, 2002-2006, 2008-present

Southeast Regional Conference, Association for Asian Studies, 2003-2006, 2007-2008

Organizations supported with charitable contributions: Human Rights Watch, National Geographic, World Wildlife Fund, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Nature Conservancy, United Way, and Wilmington Health Access for Teens.

Teaching Interests

Undergraduate courses: Introduction to Global Politics (CP/IR), Introduction to Comparative Politics (CP), Introduction to International Relations (IR), Introduction to Public Administration (PA), Asian Politics (CP), Asia in World Affairs (IR), Southeast Asian Domestic Politics (CP), Southeast Asia in World Affairs (IR), Chinese Domestic Politics (CP), Chinese Foreign Policy (IR), Indonesian Politics (CP), Indian Politics (CP), Politics of Developing Areas (CP), Model United Nations (IR), Use of Force in International Relations (IR), Asian Political Thought (PT), International Organizations (IR), Political Parties and Democracy (CP), Ethics in International Affairs (IR), and Development and Globalization in India.

Languages

Advanced proficiency in Indonesian/Malay and French.

Research ability in Mandarin Chinese and German.

References

Available on request.

Last updated October 16, 2009.

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