Benedict Anderson

Professor Emeritus, Cornell University

Academic Status
Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor of International Studies, Emeritus, Cornell University

Educational Background
1957: B.A. (Classics) Cambridge University
1967: Ph.D. (Government) Cornell University

Professional Experiences include:

1967-2002: Government Department and Asian Studies Department, Cornell University
1983-1988: Director of Cornell’s Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University

Awards include
Association for Asian Studies (USA) award for lifetime contributions to Asian Studies (1999)
Fukuoka Prize for outstanding scholarship on Asia (2000)

Major Publications include

• Java in a Time of Revolution (Cornell University Press, 1972).
• Imagined Communitties: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Verso 1983, expanded editions came out in 1991 and 2005)
• In the Mirror: Literature and Politics in Siam in the American Era (Duang Kamon, 1984)
• Language and Power, Exploring Indonesian Political Cultures (Cornell University Press, 1990).
• The Spectre of Comparisons, Nationalism, Southeast Asia and the World (Verso 1998).
• Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-colonial Imagination (Verso 2003).
• Why Counting Counts: Changing Forms of Consciousness in Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo (Ateneo de Manila Universiy Press, 2008).