David Henley

David Henley (1963) is a geographer with a PhD from the Australian National University. Since 1993 he has worked as a researcher at the KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies), initially as a member of the EDEN (Ecology, Demography and Economy in Nusantara) project on the environmental history of Indonesia. The relationship between population and environment was the main theme of his EDEN research. Currently he is Southeast Asia coordinator for Tracking Development, a multilateral, international research project on the comparative development trajectories of Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa over the last 50 years. His other research interests include the institutional dynamics of colonial expansion. His publications include Fertility, food and fever; Population, economy and environment in North and Central Sulawesi, 1600-1930 (Leiden: KITLV Press, 2005) and Jealousy and justice; The indigenous roots of colonial rule in northern Sulawesi (Amsterdam: Free University Press, 2002). He is book reviews editor of the Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania) and a member of the editorial boards of two other international scholarly journals.