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Heather Sutherland (historian)

{{Short description|Australian historian}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Heather Sutherland

| birth_name = Heather Amanda Sutherland

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1943}}

| nationality = Australian

| education = Ph.D. (1973)

| alma_mater = Yale University

| occupation = Professor of history

| employer = Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

| partner = Miriam Margolyes (1968–present)

}}

Heather Amanda Sutherland (born 1943) is an Australian historian and former professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She specialised in the history of Indonesia, and also researched that of other Southeast Asian countries.{{Cite book|last=Boomgaard|first=Peter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ruMtZCx_f5IC|title=A World of Water: Rain, Rivers and Seas in Southeast Asian Histories|date=2007|publisher=NUS Press|isbn=978-9971-69-371-8|location=Singapore|pages=355|language=en}} She is the long-term partner of British-Australian actress Miriam Margolyes.

Biography

Sutherland was born in 1943.{{Cite journal|date=1994|title=About the authors|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27864619|journal=Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde|volume=150|issue=4|pages=857–859|jstor=27864619}} She took up Asian studies at the Australian National University in Canberra,{{Citation|title=Short biography of Heather Sutherland|date=2008|url=https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004253995/B9789004253995-s017.xml|work=Linking Destinies|pages=253–257|editor-last=Boomgaard|editor-first=Peter|publisher=BRILL|doi=10.1163/9789004253995_017|isbn=978-90-04-25399-5|editor2-last=Kooiman|editor2-first=Dick|editor3-last=Schulte Nordholt|editor3-first=Henk|url-access=subscription}} obtaining an M.A. in 1967. Her dissertation was on the literary intellectuals of Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies.{{Citation|title=Bibliography of Heather Sutherland|date=2008|url=https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004253995/B9789004253995-s018.xml|work=Linking Destinies|pages=259–265|editor-last=Boomgaard|editor-first=Peter|publisher=BRILL|doi=10.1163/9789004253995_018|isbn=978-90-04-25399-5|editor2-last=Kooiman|editor2-first=Dick|editor3-last=Schulte Nordholt|editor3-first=Henk|url-access=subscription}} Her research about the Dutch history and visit to the Netherlands inspired her to work there for most of her later career. In 1970, she started her academic profession as a history teacher at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Learning of her research interest, Lance Castles from the University of Melbourne who had recently enrolled for Ph.D. under the supervision of Harry J. Benda at Yale University asked his supervisor to invite Sutherland to join their team.{{Cite web|last=Reid|first=Anthony|date=2020-09-14|title=Thoughts for Lance Castles|url=https://www.insideindonesia.org/thoughts-for-lance-castles|access-date=2021-11-05|website=Inside Indonesia|language=en-gb}}{{Cite web|last=Kartomi|first=Margaret|date=2020-09-21|title=Remembering Lance Castles, 5.1.1937 – 27.8.2020|url=https://asaa.asn.au/remembering-lance-castles-5-1-1937-27-8-2020/|access-date=2021-11-05|website=Asian Studies Association of Australia|language=en-AU}} Under Benda, Sutherland earned her doctoral degree in 1973 on the thesis titled "Pangreh Pradja: Java's indigenous administrative corps and its role in the last decades of Dutch colonial rule."{{Cite thesis|title=Pangreh Pradja: Java's indigenous administrative corps and its role in the last decades of Dutch colonial rule.|url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/72a89d04bfa0c3088cc33107c37d224e/1.pdf?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y|publisher=Yale University|date=1973|language=English|first=Heather|last=Sutherland|degree=Ph.D. Thesis|oclc=893239539}} She continued teaching at the University of Malaya for one year.

In 1974, Sutherland joined the faculty of the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Non-Western Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as a "lector" (equivalent to associate professor). She was officially inducted into the teaching position on 22 October 1976 as she delivered her inaugural lecture.

Sutherland met Miriam Margolyes in 1967 and they have been partners since then.{{Cite web|last=Peake|first=Amber|date=2020-08-07|title=Miriam Margolyes married: Is Miriam Margolyes married?|url=https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1320109/Miriam-Margolyes-married-partner-Heather-Sutherland-Miriam-Margolyes-Almost-Australian-BBC|access-date=2021-11-05|website=Express.co.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Paton|first=Maureen|date=2012-06-22|title=Miriam Margolyes: I had no secrets from my mother|url=http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jun/23/miriam-margolyes-gay-mother-stroke|access-date=2021-11-05|website=The Guardian|language=en}} However, they do not live together and spend sporadic periods in London, Tuscany, and Australia.{{Cite web|last=Peake|first=Amber|date=2020-07-31|title=Miriam Margolyes partner: Who is Miriam's partner Heather?|url=https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1317188/Miriam-Margolyes-partner-married-Heather-Sutherland-Miriam-Margolyes-Almost-Australian-BBC|access-date=2021-11-05|website=Express.co.uk|language=en}} Margolyes described Sutherland as an "introvert"{{Cite web|last=Pa|date=2020-04-28|title=Miriam Margolyes reveals challenge of being away from partner during lockdown|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/650773-miriam-margolyes-reveals-challenge-of-being-away-from-partner-during-lockdown|access-date=2021-11-05|website=The News|language=en}} and the secret to their lasting relationship as "not living together."

Publications

= Key research papers =

  • {{cite journal|last1=Sutherland|first1=Heather|date=1968|title=Pudjangga Baru: Aspects of Indonesian Intellectual Life in the 1930s|journal=Indonesia|volume=6|issue=6|pages=106–127|doi=10.2307/3350714|jstor=3350714|hdl=1813/53440|hdl-access=free}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Sutherland|first1=Heather|date=1973|title=Notes on Java's Regent Families: Part I|journal=Indonesia|volume=16|issue=16|pages=112–147|doi=10.2307/3350649|jstor=3350649|hdl=1813/53565|hdl-access=free}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Sutherland|first1=Heather|date=1974|title=Notes on Java's Regent Families: Part II|journal=Indonesia|volume=17|issue=17|pages=1–43|doi=10.2307/3350770|jstor=3350770|hdl=1813/53573|hdl-access=free}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Sutherland|first1=Heather|date=1975|title=The Priyayi|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3350702|journal=Indonesia|volume=19|issue=19|pages=57–77|doi=10.2307/3350702|jstor=3350702|url-access=subscription}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Sutherland|first1=Heather|date=1994|title=Writing Indonesian history in the Netherlands: Rethinking the past|journal=Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde|volume=150|issue=4|pages=785–804|doi=10.1163/22134379-90003071|jstor=27864616|s2cid=161431322 |doi-access=free}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Sutherland|first1=Heather|date=1995|title=Believing Is Seeing: Perspectives on Political Power and Economic Activity in the Malay World 1700–1940|journal=Journal of Southeast Asian Studies|volume=26|issue=1|pages=133–146|doi=10.1017/S0022463400010535|s2cid=143872540 }}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Sutherland|first1=Heather|date=2000|title=Trepang and wangkang: The China trade of eighteenth-century Makassar c. 1720s-1840s|journal=Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde|volume=156|issue=3|pages=451–472|doi=10.1163/22134379-90003835|jstor=27865648|doi-access=free}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Sutherland|first1=Heather|date=2001|title=The Makassar Malays: Adaptation and Identity, c. 1660-1790|journal=Journal of Southeast Asian Studies|volume=32|issue=3|pages=397–421|doi=10.1017/S0022463401000224|s2cid=55948675|url=https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/0f50a354-293c-45c8-938c-766f57142587}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Sutherland|first1=Heather|date=2003|title=Southeast Asian History and the Mediterranean Analogy|journal=Journal of Southeast Asian Studies|volume=34|issue=1|pages=1–20|doi=10.1017/S0022463403000018|s2cid=55467229|url=https://research.vu.nl/ws/files/1903744/157026.pdf}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Sutherland|first1=Heather|date=2004|title=The Sulu Zone Revisited|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/article/abs/sulu-zone-revisited/43CD55B90D8362A086FFD74819608DD0|journal=Journal of Southeast Asian Studies|language=en|volume=35|issue=1|pages=133–157|doi=10.1017/S0022463404000074|s2cid=55710142}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Sutherland|first1=Heather|date=2007|title=The Problematic Authority of (World) History|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079450|journal=Journal of World History|volume=18|issue=4|pages=491–522|doi=10.1353/jwh.2008.0004|jstor=20079450|s2cid=141817893|url-access=subscription}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Sutherland|first1=Heather|date=2009|title=Treacherous Translators and Improvident Paupers: Perception and Practice in Dutch Makassar, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries|url=https://brill.com/view/journals/jesh/53/1-2/article-p319_12.xml|journal=Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient|language=en|volume=53|issue=1–2|pages=319–356|doi=10.1163/002249910X12573963244566|url-access=subscription}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Sutherland|first1=Heather|date=2011|title=Whose Makassar? Claiming Space in a Segmented City|journal=Comparative Studies in Society and History|volume=53|issue=4|pages=791–826|doi=10.1017/S0010417511000417|s2cid=145715220}}

= Books =

  • {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2PiJAAAAMAAJ|title=The Making of a Bureaucratic Elite: The Colonial Transformation of the Javanese Priyayi|date=1979|publisher=Asian Studies Association of Australia|isbn=978-0-7081-1814-6|language=en}}
  • {{cite book|title=Locating Southeast Asia Geographies of Knowledge and Politics of Space|date=2005|publisher=Brill|isbn=9789004434882|editor1-last=Schulte Nordholt|editor1-first=H. G. C.|location=Leiden|chapter=Contingent Devices|pages=20–59|doi=10.1163/9789004434882_003|editor2-last=Raben|editor2-first=R.}}
  • {{cite book|url=https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004254015/B9789004254015-s003.xml|title=A World of Water: Rain, Rivers and Seas in Southeast Asian Histories|date=2007|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-25401-5|editor-last=Boomgaard|editor-first=Peter|language=en|chapter=Geography as destiny?: The role of water in Southeast Asian history|pages=25–70|doi=10.1163/9789004254015_003}}
  • {{cite book|chapter=5. Money in Makassar: Credit and Debt in an Eighteenth-Century VOC Settlement|date=2009|isbn=9789812308474|editor1-last=Henley|editor1-first=D.|pages=102–123|doi=10.1355/9789812308474-007|editor2-last=Boomgaard|editor2-first=P.|title=Credit and Debt in Indonesia, 860-1930}}
  • {{cite book|url=https://brill.com/view/title/23420|title=Monsoon Traders: Ships, Skippers and Commodities in Eighteenth-Century Makassar|date=2021|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-48691-1}} (with Gerrit Knaap)
  • {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IdGXzQEACAAJ|title=Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, C.1600-c.1906|date=2021|publisher=NUS Press|isbn=978-981-325-122-9|language=en}}

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