Victor T. (Terry) King has been teaching and undertaking research in the sociology and anthropology of South East Asia since the early 1970s when he completed his Master’s degree at the School of Oriental and African Studies and then undertook field research in Kalimantan, Indonesia for his doctoral degree in social anthropology at the University of Hull. Most of his career was spent in the Centre for South-East Asian Studies and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Hull. He was appointed to a Professorship there in 1988 and at various times served as Director of the Centre for South-East Asian Studies, Dean of the School of Social and Political Sciences, Director of the University Graduate School and Pro-Vice-Chancellor. He joined Leeds University in 2005 and became Executive Director of the White Rose East Asia Centre (WREAC) in 2006. From August 2010 he took early retirement from the University but continues on a part-time basis as Director of WREAC.
He has also served as Secretary of the British Academy’s Management Committee for its British Institute in South-East Asia from 1983 to 1986 and then its London-based Committee for South-East Asian Studies from 1986 to 1998 when he then served as Chair of the Committee until 2002. He now sits (ex officio) on the successor committee which has been incorporated into the Association of South-East Asian Studies in the United Kingdom (ASEASUK) as its Research Committee. More details at http://www.victortking.org
