Panel Session 7
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mandy Sadan
Director of the Graduate Taught Programmes in Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick
Biography:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mandy Sadan is the Director of the Graduate Taught Programmes in Global Sustainable Development, School for Cross-faculty Studies, University of Warwick. Prior to that she was a Senior Research Fellow and affiliated with St Antony’s College, the University of Oxford.
After studying History at Oxford, Professor Sadan completed an MA (Art History & Archaeology) and a Ph.D. (History) at SOAS University of London. In 2008, she joined the History department at SOAS and spent 10 years there, during which time she taught and supervised students interested in history, anthropology, art history, politics, and the development of southeast Asia.Professor Sadan’s doctoral research built upon time spent living in Myanmar in the mid-1990s, working with local researchers from the Kachin State in the north of the country. This research was published by Oxford University Press and the British Academy in 2013 as Being and Becoming Kachin: Histories Beyond the State in the Borderworlds of Burma. It was awarded the inaugural EuroSEAS Nikkei Asian Review Prize for Best Book in the Humanities in 2015.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mandy Sadan
Director of the Graduate Taught Programmes in Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick
Biography:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mandy Sadan is the Director of the Graduate Taught Programmes in Global Sustainable Development, School for Cross-faculty Studies, University of Warwick. Prior to that she was a Senior Research Fellow and affiliated with St Antony’s College, the University of Oxford.
After studying History at Oxford, Professor Sadan completed an MA (Art History & Archaeology) and a Ph.D. (History) at SOAS University of London. In 2008, she joined the History department at SOAS and spent 10 years there, during which time she taught and supervised students interested in history, anthropology, art history, politics, and the development of southeast Asia.Professor Sadan’s doctoral research built upon time spent living in Myanmar in the mid-1990s, working with local researchers from the Kachin State in the north of the country. This research was published by Oxford University Press and the British Academy in 2013 as Being and Becoming Kachin: Histories Beyond the State in the Borderworlds of Burma. It was awarded the inaugural EuroSEAS Nikkei Asian Review Prize for Best Book in the Humanities in 2015.