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- 2008 (Creation)
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1 typed file and 1 digital file
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William Augustus Collins is an anthropologist, scholar/teacher, development specialist and programme administrator. He was a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his MA in Southeast Asian Studies in 1967 and PhD in Anthropology in 1979. From the 1990s through the 2010s, he was involved in various educational and legal projects in southeast Asia, primarily in Cambodia, authoring papers and books in connection to those projects. His previous major roles include President of the Center for Advanced Study at Phnom Penh in Cambodia (1997-2000); Country Director for The Asia Foundation in East Timor (2002-2003); UNICEF educational consultant, based in the Ministry of Education in Cambodia (2004-2006); scholarship consultant for the World Bank (2005); UNICEF technical advisor to the Cambodian Education for All National Secretariat (2006-2007) and Academic Dean for Asia and the Pacific at World Learning, SIT Study Abroad (2008-2012).
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Draft publication entitled 'The Muslims of Cambodia', which explores the early and modern history of the Cambodian Muslim community, their ethnic and religious identity, as well as the ethnic relations among Cham, Vietnamese and Khmer in Cambodia after World War II. The document is 122 pages long and a digital version is available in PDF. The report was later published in 'Ethnic Groups of Cambodia' by the Center for Advanced Study in Phnom Penh in 2009.