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Robert Cribb grew up in Brisbane, Australia, and spent much time as a child wandering the bush and the Barrier Reef with his botanist parents. After completing his undergraduate studies in Asian History at the University of Queensland, he took his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, with a thesis on Jakarta during the Indonesian revolution, 1945-1949. After graduating, he taught at Griffith University and the University of Queensland (both in Brisbane) and as guest lecturer at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. He held research positions at the Australian National University, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, where he was also director for two years. He re-joined the Australian National University at the beginning of 2003.

Robert Cribb's research interests focus mainly on Indonesia, though he has some interest in other parts of Southeast Asia (especially Malaysia and Burma/Myanmar) and in Inner Asia. The themes of his research are: mass violence and crime; national identity; environmental politics; and historical geography. Current research projects include: the origins of massacre in Indonesia; historical atlas of Northeast Asia (with Li Narangoa); 'Wild Man from Borneo: a cultural history of the orangutan' (with Helen Gilbert and Helen Tiffin); and 'Puppet states revisited: Empire and Sovereign Subordination in Modern Asia' (with Li Narangoa).

After graduating, Robert Cribb taught at Griffith University and the University of Queensland (both in Brisbane) and as guest lecturer at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. He held research positions at the Australian National University, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, where he was also director for two years. He rejoined the Australian National University at the beginning of 2003 and he is currently Professor of Indonesian History in the ANUers"s College of Asia and the Pacific. He is also the immediate past president of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA).

LEAD: A 27-year-old Brooklyn man who had been arrested on burglary charges committed suicide in his cell at the 48th Precinct station house in the Bronx early yesterday by hanging himself with his sweatshirt, the police said. The body of the man, Robert Cribb, of 345 Dupont Street in the Greenpoint section, was found by a police officer at 12:47 ...