M. C. Ricklefs
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Merle Calvin Ricklefs AM FAHA (17 July 1943 – 29 December 2019) was an American-born Australian scholar of the history and current affairs of Indonesia.[1][2]
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Born | (1943-07-17)July 17, 1943 Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States |
Died | December 29, 2019(2019-12-29) (aged 76) Melbourne, Australia |
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Occupation | Historian |
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Ricklefs was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on 17 July 1943[3] and died on 29 December 2019, aged 76.[4]
Ricklefs received his Ph.D. with his dissertation titled "Jogjakarta under Sultan Mangkubumi (1749-1792)" from Cornell University in 1973, under the supervision of O. W. Wolters.[1][5][6] He held positions at the School of Oriental and African Studies, All Souls College, Monash University, the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne. He retired from the professorship of Southeast Asian history at the National University of Singapore.[7] He was emeritus professor of history at both the Australian National University and Monash University.