Jim Leibold
Dr Jim Leibold
Program Manager, Sidney Myer Asia CentreThe University of Melbourne
Dr Jim Leibold joined Asialink in July as Program Manager for the Sidney Myer Asia Centre - a new joint Asialink and Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies appointment aimed at harnessing the intellectual and outreach resources of both organisations in promoting the Sidney Myer Asia Centre as the premier location for Asia-related events and activities in Victoria.
A native of New York state in the United States, Jim recently completed a Ph.D in modern Chinese history from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where his dissertation research focused on the role of the "national minorities" (shaoshu minzu) within the construction of the Chinese national identity and disparate narratives of Chinese nationalism during the early twentieth century.
He has traveled extensively in Asia and spent the last seven years living and working in China and Hong Kong. Prior to migrating to Australia in early 2002 with his Melburnian partner Kate Axup, who is a solicitor with Allens Arthur Robinson, Jim served as a senior consultant to the Asia Society on its 2000 Shanghai Corporate Conference and as a program associate for the Asia Society Hong Kong Centre.