• PhD Political Science, University of British Columbia
• MA Comparative Politics, University of British Columbia
• BA Comparative Politics and Southeast Asian History, University of Victoria

• State & Society (INTS/POLI 365)
• Democratization (INTS/POLI 305)
• Introduction to the Pacific Basin
• Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies (INTS 150)
• Introduction to European Studies (INTS 140)
• Political Islam (INTS 381)
• Political Buddhism (INTS 382)
• Armed Conflict in Southeast Asia (INTS 450)
• Learning Cluster 2023: Self-Government in Wales (travel)
• Learning Cluster 2019: Indigenous Development in Sabah (travel)
• Learning Cluster 2018: Southeast Asia America
• Learning Cluster 2017: Multiculturalism in Asia
• Learning Cluster 2016: Liberal Arts Education
• Learning Cluster 2015: Politics of Coffee in Aceh, Indonesia (travel)
• Learning Cluster 2014: Sex Tourism in Southeast Asia
• Learning Cluster 2013: Mass Transit on the West Coast (travel)
• Learning Cluster 2012: Childhood in Sumatra (travel)

• Politics in Asia, especially Southeast Asia
• Armed conflict, conflict resolution, civilians in war
• Political institutions and electoral systems
• Subnational politics, federalism, autonomous regions

Books and Monographs

• Fighting Armed Conflicts in Southeast Asia: Ethnicity and Difference (Cambridge University Press, Elements Series on Politics and Society in Southeast Asia, 2020).
• Internal Migration: Challenges in Governance and Integration, co-edited with William Ascher (Peter Lang, 2019).
• The Pacific Basin: An Introduction, co-edited with Michael Weiner (Routledge, 2017).
• Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic and Protestant Colonizers (Palgrave, 2015).
• Civilian Strategy in Civil War: Insights from Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines (Palgrave, 2014).
• Neither Wolf, Nor Lamb: Embracing Civil Society in the Aceh Conflict (Bangkok: Forum-Asia, 2004).

Journal Articles

• “The Partisans: Civilian Support & Indirect Violence,” Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence 1:2 (forthcoming)
• “Odd Couple, Strange Marriage: Party Alliance Juxtaposition in Japan,” Asian Survey 62:3 (2022); 385-412 (with Shunji Fueki)
• “Indonesian Autonomies: Explaining Divergent Self-Government Outcomes in Aceh and Papua,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 52:1 (2022); 55-81 (with Hipolitus Wangge)
• "Rethinking Territorial Autonomy", Regional Studies 52:2 (2018); 298-309
• “Civilian Strategy across Southeast Asia,” Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 12:3 (2017); 98-103
• “Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh,” Journal of Resistance Studies 3:1 (2017); 181-209
• “Dangerous Fieldwork in Southeast Asia,” Comparative Democratization Newsletter 15 (Fall 2017); 21-24
• "Ummah or Tribe? Islamic Practice, Political Ethnocentrism, and Political Attitudes in Indonesia," Asian Journal of Political Science 25:1 (2017) (with Nathan W. Allen); 45-67
• “Coffee: An Indian Ocean Perspective,” International Journal of Area Studies 11:2 (2016); 61-81
• “Zones of Control and Civilian Strategy in the Aceh Conflict,” Civil Wars 17:3 (2015)
• “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Second-Order Minorities in the Aceh Conflict,” Asian Ethnicity 16:2 (2015); 152-165
• “Second-Order Minorities in Asian Secessionist Conflicts,” Asian Ethnicity 16:2 (2015); 123-135 (Guest Editor)
• “Strife of the Soil? Unsettling Transmigrant Conflicts in Indonesia,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 46:1 (2015) (with Isabelle Côté); 60-85
• “Area Studies, Asian Studies, and the Pacific Basin,” Geographical Review 105:1 (2015); 105-119
• “Shrouded: Islam, War, and Holy War in Southeast Asia,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 53:1 (2014) (with Ian Zatkin-Osburn); 187-201
• Rejoinder by Isak Svennsson, "Conceptualizing the Religious Dimensions of Armed Conflicts: A Response to Shrouded: Islam, War, and Holy War in Southeast Asia," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 55:1 (2016); pp. 185-189.
• Response by Shane Joshua Barter and Ian Zatkin-Osburn, "Measuring Religion in War: A Response," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 55:1 (2016); pp. 190-193.
• “State Proxy or Security Dilemma? Understanding Anti-Rebel Militias in Civil War,” Asian Security 9:2 (2013); 75-92
• “Unarmed Forces: Civilian Strategy in Violent Conflicts,” Peace & Change 37:4 (2012); 544-571
• “Strong State, Smothered Society: Explaining the Forms of Violence in Thailand’s Deep South,” Terrorism and Political Violence 23:2 (2011); 213-232
• “The Free Aceh Elections? The 2009 Legislative Contests in Aceh,” Indonesia 91 (2011); 113-130
• “Ulama, the State, and War: Community Islamic Leaders in the Aceh Conflict,” Contemporary Islam 5:1 (2011); 19-36
• “Resources, Religion, & Rebellion: The Sources of Conflict in Aceh,” Small Wars & Insurgencies 19:1 (2008); 39-61

Book Chapters

• “Overcoming Civil Wars in the Asia-Pacific,” in The Politics of the Asia-Pacific: Triumphs, Challenges, and Threats, ed. Mark Williams (University of Toronto Press 2022); (with Mahesh Kushwaha, SUA student); 212-225
• “Disturbing the Peace: Paramilitarism across Southeast Asia,” in Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization: Political Violence, Elites, and Security, eds. Jasmin Hristov, Jeb Sprague, and Aaron Tauss (Routledge 2022); 235-254
• “Ethnic Conflict in Southeast Asia,” in Routledge Handbook on Race and Ethnicity in Asia, edited by Michael Weiner (Routledge 2021); 137-150
• “Travel Learning Clusters as Signature Pedagogies” in Signature Pedagogies in International Relations, edited by Jan Lüdert (Bristol: E-International Relations 2021); 84-96
• "State Violence and Religion," in Religious Violence Today: Faith and Conflict in the Modern World, edited by Michael Jerryson (ABC-CLIO, 2020); pp. 705-782. With SUA students Amanda Boralessa; Mahesh Kushwaha; Vassil Yorgov; Jaroslav Zapletal.
• "Southeast Asia: Unity in ASEAN," in Routledge Handbook of Politics in Asia, edited by Shiping Hua (Routledge, 2018); pp. 98-109 (with Amanda Boralessa)
• "The Rebel State in Society: Accommodation & Governance in the Aceh Conflict,” in Rebel Governance in Civil War, edited by Ana Arjona, Nelson Kasfir, and Zachariah Mampilly (Cambridge University Press, 2015); 226-245
• “Learning to Lose? Not if UMNO Can Help It,” in Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems, edited by Joseph Wong & Edward Friedman (Routledge, 2008); 211-230 (with Diane Mauzy)

Book Reviews

• “Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia, by Jacques Bertrand,” Pacific Affairs 95:2 (2022)
• “Rethinking Locality in Japan, edited by Sonja Ganseforth and Hanno Jentzsch,” IIAS Newsletter 92 (2022) (with Kenichi Ebisutani, SUA student)
• “The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan: The Realities of Power, by Koji Nakakita,” IIAS Newsletter 88 (2021) and Newbooks.asia (with Shunji Fueki, SUA student)
• “Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and Multiculturalism in Rural South Korea, by Minjeong Kim,” Asian Journal of Social Science 48:5-6 (2020) (with Nini Vo, SUA student)
• "Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia," by Ed Aspinall and Ward Berenschot, Pacific Affairs (2020)
• “Islam State and Society in Indonesia: Local Politics in Madura, by Pribadi Yanwar,” Asian Journal of Social Science 48:1 (2020) (with Nikita Sukmono, SUA student)
• “From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting, by Judith Brett,” Pacific Affairs 93:1 (2020) (with Ana Schugurensky, SUA student)
• “Familial Properties, by Nhung Tuyet Tran,” IIAS Newsletter (2019) (with Ha Chau Ngo, SUA student)
• "China’s Political System, by Sebastian Heilmann", IIAS Newsletter (2018) (with Jaroslav Zapletal)
• "Building Filipino Hawai‘i, by Roderick Labrador," IIAS Newsletter (2017) (with Rayen Rooney)
• "The Making of Middle Indonesia: Middle Classes in Kupang Town, 1930s-1980s," by Gerry van Klinken, Pacific Affairs 90:2 (2017)
• “Religious Diversity in Muslim-Majority States in Southeast Asia by Bernhard Platzdasch and Johan Saravanamuttu,” Asian Journal of Social Science (2016) (with Gabrielle Garfunkel)
• “The Roots of Terrorism in Indonesia, by Solahudin,” Pacific Affairs 88:4 (2015)
• “Political Change & Territoriality in Indonesia by Ehito Kimura,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 88:4 (2015)
• "Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma: Understanding the Foreign Relations of the Burmese Praetorian State" by Renaud Egreteau and Larry Jagan,” IIAS Newsletter 72 (2015) (with Yuko Nakajima)
• “Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand, edited by Patrick Jory,” IIAS Newsletter 69 (2014)
• “Violence and Vengeance: Religious Conflict and its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia by Christopher R. Duncan,” Sojourn 29:2 (2014)
• “From Colonization to Nation-State: The Political Demography of Indonesia by Riwanto Tirtosudarmo” IIAS Newsletter 67 (2014)
• “Regime Change and Ethnic Politics in Indonesia: Dayak Politics of West Kalimantan by Taufiq Tanasaldy,” South East Asia Research 22:3 (2014)
• “Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia by Dan Slater,” The Southeast Review of Asian Studies 35 (2013)
• “The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 44:04 (2011)
• “Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia by Edward Aspinall,” Pacific Affairs 83:2 (2010)
• “From Rebellion to Riots: Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo by Jamie S. Davidson,” South East Asia Research 18:1 (2010)
• “Zones of Peace edited by Landon E. Hancock and Christopher Mitchell,” Peace Review 21:4 (2010)
• “Realpolitik Ideology: Indonesia’s Use of Military Force by Leonard C. Sebastian,” Pacific Affairs 81:1 (2008)
• “Verandah of Violence: Background to the Aceh Problem edited by Anthony Reid,” Pacific Affairs 80:3 (2007)

Other

• “Navigating Hard Times: Civilian Strategic Action Amidst Political Violence,” Journal of Oriental Studies 32 (2023); 4-25 (with Tetsushi Ogata)
• Featured in “Dr. Shane Barter: Reflections on His Experience as an Election Observer,” Soka Newsletter (2022)
• “困難な時代の道筋を探る-政治的暴力のただ中での民間の戦略的行為,” 東洋学術研究 [The Journal of Oriental Studies] 61:1 (2022); 41-68 (with Tetsushi Ogata)
• “A Fruitful Union of Fact & Theory: Diane Mauzy on Political Science in Southeast Asia,” CCSEAS Newsletter 15:1 (2022)
• Feature on co-authored book reviews and student mentorship, IIAS Newsletter 88 (2021)
• “Dangerous Fieldwork in Southeast Asia,” Comparative Democratization Newsletter 15 (Fall 2017); 21-24
• “Defending the Minorities of Minorities,” The Pearl (Fall 2017)
• “Intimate Economies: Sex Tourism in Southeast Asia,” Verge Magazine 4:2 (Spring 2014)
• “Strange Bedfellows: The Limits of Partai Aceh Loyalty,” Inside Indonesia 113 (September 2013)
• “Minor Threat? Cracking Down on Punks in Aceh, Indonesia,” CAPI Newsletter (Spring 2013)
• “Islam in Politics, not Political Islam in Indonesian Elections,” Sociology of Islam Newsletter 6 (2011)
• “Boxing Day in Cotabato, Mindanao,” Explorations Southeast Asia 9 (2009); pp. 113-114
• “A Deeper Look into the Recent Elections in Aceh,” Jakarta Post (28 April 2009)
• “Language and the Southern Thai Conflict,” Malaysiakini (17 October 2008)
• “Random Acts of Curiosity,” Verge Magazine (2008)
• “Notes from Indonesia,” CCHS Human Security Bulletin 9:4 (March 2008)
• Featured in “From the Ground Up,” by Tom Peacock, Verge Magazine 4:2 (Spring 2006)
• Featured in “Tsunami Response: One Year Later,” by Brian Lin, UBC Reports 52:1 (January 2006)
• “Reconstruction and Conflict Resolution in Aceh,” CANCAPS Bulletin (20 August 2005)
• “Peace Talks in Post-Tsunami Aceh,” Human Security Bulletin (August 2005)
• “Swedish Court’s Acquittal of Hassan and Accountability for Abuses in Aceh,” Jakarta Post (17 July 2004)

• Professor of Comparative Politics, SUA, August 2021-Present
• Director of International Studies, Soka University of America, January 2021-August 2023
• Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, SUA, 2017-2021
• Director, Pacific Basin Research Center, 2017-2019
• Associate Director, Pacific Basin Research Center, 2013-2017 
• Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, SUA, 2011-2017
• Instructor, University of British Columbia, 2010-2011 

• 2023 Summer Visiting Scholar, Centre for Welsh Governance, Cardiff University
• 2023 Visiting Scholar, Åland Islands Peace Institute (Ålands Fredsinstitut), Finland
• 2023 Nieves Grant for class abroad, ‘Self-Government in Wales
• 2022-23 PBRC Faculty Fellow, Soka University of America
• 2022 Faculty Merit Award, Soka University of America
• 2020 Athenaeum Address, Claremont McKenna College
• 2019 Visiting Scholar, Indonesia Project, Australian National University (ANU)
• 2019 Visiting Scholar, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI), University of Victoria
• 2019-20 PBRC Faculty Fellow, Soka University of America
• 2019 Faculty Merit Award, Soka University of America
• 2019 Special Issue Grant, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
• 2016 Artinian Fund for Publishing, American Political Science Association
• 2013-14, Co-recipient Best Professor Award, Soka University of America
• 2013, Best Paper Award, ISA-West Conference
• 2012, Visiting Scholar, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI), University of Victoria
• 2011, Leader of Tomorrow, St. Gallen Symposium, Switzerland
• 2010, Dr. Ronald Baker Doctoral Scholarship (Department of National Defense)
• 2010, Graduate Award, CASIS (Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies)
• 2010, Esterline Prize, best student paper at ASPAC (AAS Pacific Coast)
• 2009, Security and Defense Forum Fellowship (Department of National Defense)
• 2009, Liu Institute Scholar
• 2009, Kenneth Boulding Award, best graduate paper on Peace Studies at ISA
• 2008, Canadian Consortium on Human Security Fellowship
• 2007, DFAIT / CCHS Human Security Research Award
• 2006, SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship (CGS)