Position:

Laithwaite Fellow and Tutor in Modern History

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute / Trinity College

Email:

peter.carey@trinity.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Indonesia, Burma, East Timor
• Modern history and politics of East Timor

Current Projects:

• Completing an Oral History of the Indonesian Occupation of East Timor, 1975-99
• Completing a biography of Prince Dipanagara

Courses Taught:

• Europe and the wider world, 1818-1914 (in the Modern History Faculty)
• Imperialism and nationalism, southeast Asia 1830-1998

Recent Publications:

• The British in Java, 1811-1815. A Javanese account, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1992
• East Timor at the crossroads: the forging of a nation London: Cassell 1995
• Burma: the challenge of change in a divided society, Basingstoke: Macmillan 1997

Further Info:

• Guest lecturer and Member of Academic Committee, University of Dili, Dili, Timor-Leste