James Francis Warren

James Francis Warren is an American historian born in 1942, specializing in modern Southeast Asian history, particularly ethnohistory and social history of regions like Singapore, the Sulu Zone, and North Borneo. He served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Sabah, Malaysia (1967-68) and became Professor of Southeast Asian Modern History at Murdoch University, Australia, where he also directed the Asia Research Centre and headed the Asian Studies program. An internationally renowned scholar, he earned a PhD from the Australian National University, received awards like the Centenary Medal of Australia (2003) and the Grant Goodman Prize (2013), and is now Emeritus Professor, with key publications including The Sulu Zone (1981) and Iranun and Balangingi (2001).[1][2][4]