2013
EMEA Staff Exchange Mobility Scholarship from the Erasmus Mundus Foundation to
work on hunter-gatherer studies; attachment at the Department of Anthropology,
University College London, July-August.

Since 2010
Senior Lecturer, Anthropology and Sociology Section, School of Social Sciences,
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang

2007
Visiting Fellow, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

2003–2004
William F. Quillian, Jr., Visiting International Professor, Randolph-Macon Woman’s
College, USA

2001–2003
various short-term appointments, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

1998 - 2000
Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for
Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. Supplemented with a MONBUSHO
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (Tokubetsu Kenkyuin Shorei-hi ), Ministry of Education,
Government of Japan

Currently in prep. Flexible resilience: Batek 1993-2013

Currently in prep. Batek: A photographic journey

2013. Making friends in the rainforest: Reflections on “Negrito” adaptation to risk and
uncertainty. Human Biology 85 (1–3):417–444.

2011. A history of Orang Asli studies: Landmarks and generations. Kajian Malaysia: Journal of
Malaysian Studies 29, Supplement 1: 23–52

2011. “The wild and the tame in protected areas management, Peninsular Malaysia,” in Complicating conservation in Southeast Asia: Beyond the sacred forest. Ecologies for the 21st Century. Edited by Michael R. Dove, et al, pp. 37–61. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

2011. "Batek playing Batek for tourists2005. Migration and the social ecology of tropical forests. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press. Coeditor with Wil de Jong (primary) and Ken-ichi Abe.

2004. Changing pathways: Forest degradation and the Batek of Pahang, Malaysia. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. [Malaysian edition published in 2005 by SIRD, Petaling Jaya]