Michael Hitchcock

Background

Michael was born on December 16, 1954, in Nelson, England, United Kingdom. He is the son of M. D. (a university lecturer) and Mary (a teacher; maiden name, Reeves) Hitchcock.

Education

Michael studied at Queen’s University, Belfast and received a Bachelor of Arts (with honors) in 1978. He also attended Oxford University and got his Doctor of Philosophy in 1983.

Career

Michael started as an employee at IGB, Leiden, Netherlands during 1978-79. Then, he worked at Liverpool Museum, Liverpool, England as a curator in Ethnology Department during 1983-84. He worked as an assistant keeper of ethnography at Horniman Museum, London, England during 1984-89.

He began as a lecturer at the University of Hull, Hull, England, then became a senior lecturer in development sociology during 1989-95, a director of Institute of Pacific Asia Studies during 1994-95. He became a professor of tourism and heritage at the University of North London, London, England from 1995.

From 1991 he was the United Kingdom representative at European Colloquium on Indonesian and Malay Studies; the ERASMUS representative at South-East Asian Studies Network during 1993-95. He was a trustee at J. H. Green Charitable Trust from 1997.

Achievements

• Michael Hitchcock is known as the author of such popular works as Indonesian Textiles, Islam and Identity in Eastern Indonesia, Images of Malay - Indonesian Identity and others. Besides, he has been a contributor of articles and reviews to professional journals, including Pacific Asia Tourism Review, International Journal of Tourism Research, Indonesia and the Malay World, SOJOURN, Indonesia Circle, and Journal of Museum Ethnography.

Works

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  • Images of Malay-Indonesian Identity

    (This book examines the ways in which certain national pol...)

    1997
  • Bali: The Imaginary Museum: The Photographs of Walter Spies and Beryl de Zoete

    (This beautiful book contains a photographic record of the...)

    1995
  • Tourism, Development and Terrorism in Bali

    (This book investigates tourism as a form of globalization...)

    2012
  • Building on Batik: The Globalization of a Craft Community

    (The word ’batik’ is possibly of Malay origin from the wor...)

    2000
  • Race and Ethnicity in East Africa

    (Race and ethnicity continue to be important, if unwelcome...)

    2000
  • Indonesian Textiles 1991
  • Islam and Identity in Eastern Indonesia 1996
  • Souvenirs: The Material Culture of Tourism 2000

Interests

• heritage conservation

Connections

Michael has a wife named Daina. They married in 1981.

Father:

M. D. Hitchcock

Mother:

Mary (Reeves) Hitchcock

Spouse:

Daina Hitchcock

coworker:

K. Teague

coworker:

W. Nuryanti

coworker:

P. Forster

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 184
  2000