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Daniel Lev papers, 1954-2005

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Lev, Daniel S.
Title
Daniel Lev papers
Dates
1954-2005 (inclusive)
Quantity
60.26 cubic feet (67 boxes)
Collection Number
5925
Summary
Daniel S. Lev was a scholar of Indonesia and a professor of political science at the University of Washington.
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

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Languages
English, Indonesian
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Biographical Note

Daniel S. Lev was a scholar of Indonesia and a professor of political science at the University of Washington. He wrote several seminal books and articles on Indonesian courts and politics, and worked alongside lawyers, scholars and dissidents to improve a dysfunctional legal system during the Suharto regime.

Lev was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1933, and was a Golden Gloves boxer as a teen. He graduated from Ohio's Miami University in 1955, married his wife Arlene, and began his doctoral studies at Cornell University. In 1957 he joined the Modern Indonesia Project at Cornell University (CMIP) under the leadership of George McTurnan Kahin. In order to study Indonesian politics, Lev lived in Indonesia under a Ford Foundation scholarship 1958-1961. His dissertation was titled "The Transition to Guided Democracy: Indonesian Politics 1957–1959" and analyzed Sukarno's Guided Democracy principles.

After moving back to the United States, Professor Lev taught at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1970 Lev joined the faculty at the University of Washington where he taught until his retirement in 1999. Lev also served as a longtime member of Human Rights Watch's Asia division advisory committee. At the time of his death, Lev was writing a biography of Chinese Indonesian lawyer and human rights advocate Yap Thiam Hien. The work was completed by his fellow scholar and friend Benedict Anderson and was published in 2011 as "No Concessions: The Life of Yap Thiam Hien, Indonesian Human Rights Lawyer" by the University of Washington Press.

Daniel Lev died on July 29, 2006 at the age of 72.

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Content Description

Research notes and files, correspondence 1956-1985, Indonesian law student survey data set, VHS tapes, photographs, manuscript materials, records of the "Yap" case, interview notes, notebooks and index cards, transcripts and audio tapes, Indonesian newspaper clippings; correspondence; case files and subject files concerning Indonesian law, politics, and human rights.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Organized into 2 accessions.

  • Accession No. 5925-001, Daniel S. Lev papers, 1959-2004
  • Accession No. 5925-002, Daniel S. Lev papers, 1954-2005

Acquisition Information

Lev, Daniel 8/11/2005; Judith Henchy 12/11/2007; "Records of the Yap case" 1/12/2015; Arlene Lev via Judith Henchy 2/6/2015, 6/25/2015; Arlene Lev via Judith Henchy, UW Libraries International Studies 12/23/2015

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

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Subject Terms

  • University Archives/Faculty Papers (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Yap, Thiam Hien, 1913-1989

Other Creators

  • Corporate Names

    • University of Washington. University Archives


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