AIFIS-CAORC Fellows for Research Travel to Indonesia, 2023
Blaine Billings, Ph.D. Candidate, Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Nasal Lexicography and Documentation.
Jacob Hakim, Ph.D. Candidate, Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, A Prosodic Description of Nasal.
Wayne Huang, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, The University of California, Santa Cruz, What is Islamic revival? Human and more-than-human dynamics in upland Sumatra.
Sorayya Khan, Author (unaffiliated), From Here to There and Back: Writing Concubinage (A Novel).
David Novak, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Irama Nusantara: Digitizing Popular Music Archives in Contemporary Indonesia.
Timothy Ravis, Ph.D. Candidate, Development Studies, Cornell University, The Tectonics of Power: Earth, Knowledge, and Politics in Indonesia
AIFIS-CAORC Fellows for Research Travel to Indonesia, 2022
Angela Achorn, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, Wooing Females or Warning Males? Investigating the Function of Scrotal Coloration as a Display Trait in Sulawesi Crested Macaques (Macaca nigra).
Joel Berends, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University, Restitusi dan Putar Balik: Artifacts Materializing in Indonesia.
David Borgonjon, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, Revolution’s Middlemen: Sinophone Media in Modern Indonesia.
Andrew Carruthers, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Migration, Mutuality, and the Problem of "Pengalaman" in the Indonesia-Malaysia Borderlands.
Elizabeth Drexler, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, Seeing Injustice in Indonesia: Visual Dialogues and Future Archives.
Joe Figel, Ph.D., Faculty Lecturer, Department of Environmental Science, Highline College, Human-Tiger Conflict Mitigation to Support Social-Ecological Conditions in Aceh, Sumatra.
Christopher Hulshof, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Central Java Connection: The Alliance that Ushered in the Suharto Regime, 1960-1966.
Christian Lentz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Reconfiguring Southeast Asia.
AIFIS-CAORC Fellows for Research Travel to Indonesia, 2020
Ryan Crewe, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado, Denver, The Seed of all Discord: The Spice Wars in Global History, 1520-1670
David Hanks, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Educational Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Eat, Pray, Love, Speak: The Commodification of Language Education for Tourism in Bali
Claire-Marie Hefner, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Religion – Islamic Studies, Florida State University, Gendered Exemplarity: Women Teachers and Ethical Modeling in Indonesian Islamic Boarding Schools
Joseph Klein, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology – Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Circuits of Credit and Debt in the Indonesian Live Coral Trade
Erica Larson, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hanover College, Inheriting a Religious and Corrupt Nation: Ethical Dilemmas of Indonesian Youth
Brian MacHarg, Ph.D., Director of Academic Civic Engagement, Department of Academic Affairs – Education/Civic Engagement, Appalachian State University, From Student Mobilization to Service-Learning: Kuliah Kerja Nyata in Indonesian Higher Education
Antonius Wiriadjaja, Visiting Lecturer as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Department of Film/TV – Animation, Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) Surakarta, Shadows of the Future: How New Technologies Can Integrate With Traditional Javanese Shadow Puppetry
Tyler Yamin, Ph.D., (Candidate) Herb Alpert School of Music – Ethnomusicology, UCLA, Listening to the Gibbons in the Anthropocene: The Politics and Poetics of Endangered Species Conservation
AIFIS-LUCE Fellows for Research Travel to Indonesia and the US, 2019-2020
Alissa Stern, JD of Law, Harvard University, Founder of BASAbali.org, How Digital Databases Can be More Effective at Engaging Communities in Revitalizing Local Languages
Marielle Butters, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Sundanese Language Description and the Impact of Urban versus Rural Environments
Anne Rasmussen, Ph.D., Dept. of Music and Ethnomusicology, the College of William & Mary, Monsoon Music: The Soundscape of Indonesian Islam in an Indian Ocean World
Rebecca Brittain, Dept. of Anthropology, Rutgers University, The effects of fluctuating nutrition on parasite infections in wild Bornean orangutans
Nur Hidayah, Ph.D., Faculty of Economics and Business, Jakarta State Islamic University, Muslim Women’s (Economic) Rights in Contemporary Indonesia: Strategies for Survival, Transformation, and Empowerment
Yusuf Bahtimi Samsudin, Department of Climate Change, Energy and Low Carbon Development, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Reviewing the Changing Human - Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) Relationship in the Emerging Anthropocene Era
Abdul Hadi, Ph.D., Department of Soil Science, Lambung Mangkurat University, South Kalimantan, Consequences of the loss of biodiversity in wetlands of Indonesia caused by oil palm development
Thomas Triadi Putranto, Ph.D., Department of Geological Engineering, Diponegoro University, Impact Analysis of Land-Use Change to Groundwater in Semarang Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System
Anton Novenanto, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Brawijaya University, Malang, Moral Politics of the Powerless
Cungki Kusdarjito, Ph.D., Department of Agriculture, Janabadra University, Yogyakarta, Implementation of Critical Thinking to Counter Fake News from Social Media in New Democratic Country
Eka Nugraha Putra, Merdeka Malang University, Indonesia (Faculty of Law) and Indiana University Bloomington-Maurer School of Law, Criminal Defamation and Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age
Rochdi Mohan Nazala, Department of Global Affairs, Rutgers University, A Janus-Faced Policy: Explaining Indonesian Counter Diplomacy toward West Papua’s Quest for Nationhood
FELLOWS, 2018-2019
Darin Self (Luce), Cornell University; Government/Competing for Power: Identifying Institutional Influence in Authoritarian Regime
Andrew Weintraub (Luce), University of Pittsburgh; Music/Critical dimensions of music to collective memory of 1965-66
Francesca Pase (Luce), University of Georgia; Education/Navigating the Emotional Landscape of the Indonesian Early Childhood Classroom
Galen Stolee (Luce), Harvard University; Anthropology/The Mediators: Truth and Regulation in the Indonesian News Industry
Maho Ishiguro (Luce), Wesleyan University; Music/Srimpi Moncar: Analysis of the Chinese-ness through the lens of Javanese Aesthetics
Wendy Erb (Luce), Columbia University; Calls for Conservation: Bioacoustic Monitoring of Endangered Apes to Support Protection of a Threatened Bornean Landscape
Brent Luvaas (Luce), Drexel University; Project: Insta-nesia: Street Photography, Social Media, and the Indonesian Urban Imagination
Ika Nurhayani (Luce), Brawijaya University; Dayak Desa: A Dialect of Sanggau or a Separate Language?
Desi Adhariani (Luce), University of Indonesia; Eco Innovation of Indonesian Palm Oil Companies: Cost and Benefit Analysis
Silvester Pramadi Tjiptopradonggo (Luce); ISI Surakarta, The Dynamics of Surakarta Style Javanese Dance Outside the Keraton during the Decades from the 1940s to 2000s
Theresia Indira Shanti (Luce), Atma Jaya University; The Implementation of Mental Health Service among University and College Campuses
Benny Baskara (Luce), Halu Oleo University in Sulawesi; Religious Ecological View of the Bajo people in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
George Tawakkal (Luce), Brawijaya University, Malang; Meaning of Democracy and Vote Buying
Achmad Munjid (Luce - Indo); Gadjah Mada University; Interfaith Relations among Indonesian Diaspora in the U.S.
Desiree Simandjuntak (Luce), Small-scale tuna fishery governance and market access in Toli-Toli, Sulawesi
Eko Purnomo (Luce), University of Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta; The Challenges of Bureaucratic Inertia in Dealing with the Forest Fire in Indonesia
John Krebs (CAORC), Hendrix College, Department of Music, Gamelan Study through Performance and Listening
Michelle Bonati (CAORC), State University of New York, Plattsburgh, Amplifying Children’s Voices within Arts-Based-Service-Learning: Emerging Inclusive Education Practices in Indonesia
Aldo Foe (CAORC), University of Illinois, Chicago, Nagara and the Masjid: Mosque Construction and the Political Economy of Islamization in Early Modern Period Indonesia
Patricia Hardwick (CAORC), Hofstra University, Indonesian Tales, Transnational Histories: Inscribing Riau Mak Yong Narratives
Michael Miller (CAORC), Cornell University, Bread, Rice, Sago: Religious Division and Cohesion in Eastern Indonesia, 1880-1941
Emily O’Dell (CAORC), Yale University, Intersections of Gender and Spirituality in the Shadow Puppet Performances of Pak Purbo
Jessica Peng (CAORC), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Archipelagic “Potentials:” Infrastructure, Education, and Labor in Indonesia
Ann Marie Thornburg (CAORC), Notre Dame University, Vectors and Victims: Confronting Vulnerability and Valuing Life in Bali’s Human-Dog Communities
FELLOWS, 2017
Danielle Widman Abraham (CAORC); Harvard University/Ursinus College; Comparative Religion; The Tides of Memory: Mourning and Remembrance in Aceh's Mass Graves
Gillian Bogart (CAORC); University of California, Santa Cruz; Anthropology; Cultural Anthropology/Edge Effects: Salt Making Landscapes of Indonesia
Andrea Decker (CAORC); University of California, Riverside; Music; Indonesian Women at the Intersection of Islamic Revival, Popular Culture, and Erotics
Kristina van Dexter (CAORC); George Mason University; Environmental Science; Contentious Land-Use Change and Forest Governance: A Study of Oil-Palm and Shifting Cultivation in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Kevin Foley (CAORC); Cornell University; Government; Digitizing Historical Indonesian Texts for Computational Analysis
Gillian Irwin (CAORC); University of California, Davis; Music; A Moral Music Education: Indonesian National Values in Javanese Music Classrooms
Matthew Libassi (CAORC); University of California, Berkeley; Environmental Science; Mining Struggles and Stability: The Emergence of Informal Gold Mining Institutions in Indonesia
Moniek van Rheenen (CAORC); University of Michigan; Anthropology; Modern Migration, Language Habits and Youth Identity in Pekanbaru, Indonesia
Seth Soderborg (CAORC); Harvard University; Government; Political Intermediation in Indonesia
Tiffanesha Williams (CAORC); University of Missouri; Political Science;Heirlooms of Colonialism: Historical Statecraft and State Capacity in Post-Colonial States
Jenny Zhang (CAORC): University of California, Berkeley; Education; Local Language Ideologies in Nusa Tenggara Timor: An Investigation of Changing Perceptions and Behaviors
FELLOWS, 2016
Zachary Anderson (CAORC); University of Toronto; Geography and Planning; Pragmatism and Politics: Translating the Green Economy in an Indonesian Frontier
Katherine Bruhn (CAORC); University of California, Berkeley; Southeast Asian Studies; From Sanggar to Ekomoni Kreatif: West Sumatra in Indonesia's Art World
Walker DuPay (CAORC); University of Georgia; Anthropology; Towards a Political Ecology of Social Safeguards: Translating "Rights" Across an Indonesian REDD+ Project
Florence Durney (CAORC); University of Arizona; Anthropology; Co-management and Fishing Communities: A Study of Marine Protected Areas in Indonesia
Micah Fisher (CAORC); University of Hawai'i, Manoa; Geography; Re-mapping Indigeneity into the Plan: Landscapes and Livelihoods Along Indonesia's Frontier
Jonathan McLeod (CAORC); University of Arizona; Anthropology; Conservation, Climate Change and Coming of Age in West Papua, Indonesia
Rachel Thompson (CAORC); Harvard University; Anthropology; Jakarta, Sinking City: The Socio-Ecology of a Flood-Prone Metropolis
Emily Wright (CAORC); University of Hawai'i, Manoa; Geography; Opening Doors, Markets, and Waters: Seaweed Production Systems in Transition
Huda Darusman (Luce - Indo); Insitut Pertanian Bogor (IPB); Veterinary Medicine; Implementation of Behavioral Guidelines to Assess the Quality of Life of the Senile Non-human Primate
Anita Lie (Luce - Indo); Widya Mandala Catholic University; Education; Linguistic and Cultural Identity of Indonesian American Youths of Chinese Descent in the United States
Uus Saepuloh (Luce - Indo); Bogor Agricultural University (IPB); Primate Research; Characterization of Genome Sequences of New SRV Isolated from Indonesian Wild Macaca Fascicularis and Macaca Nemetrina
Turita Setyani (Luce _ Indo); University of Indonesia; Literature; Old Myth Transformation in Indonesia's Present Era: Nature Relations and Nusantara (Indonesian) Philosophy
FELLOWS, 2015
Kian Goh (CAORC); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Urban Studies and Planning; A Political Ecology of Design: Congested Visions of Urban Climate Change and Adaptation
Ronald Lukens-Bull (CAORC); University of North Florida; Anthropology
Adam Miller (CAORC); Planet Indonesia International; Conservation and Community Development; The Impacts of Wildlife Trapping and Trade on Bird Communities in Gunung Palung National Park
Thomas Seitz (CAORC); University of Wyoming; Political Science; Valuing Votes: Grassroots Development, Political Culture and Democratization in Indonesia
Kelli Swazey (CAORC); University of Hawai'i, Manoa; Anthropology;Symbolic Visitors: Resistance to Touristic-centered Development and Religious Relations on Banda Neira
Sarah Tucker (CAORC); Smith College; Biological Sciences; Improving Traceability and Identification in Eastern Indonesian Grouper Fisheries
Colin Cahill (Luce - USA); University of California, Irvine; Cultural Anthropology; Purity and Cleanliness on Indonesia's Civet Farms
Andy Chang (Luce - USA); University of California, Berkeley; Sociology; Heroes of Globalization: Migration, Social Mobility, and Cultural Change in Taiwan and Indonesia
David Gilbert (Luce - USA); Stanford University; Anthropology; Identity, Place, and Plants: Sumatra's Forest Farmers
Lisa Kelley (Luce - USA); University of California, Berkeley; Geography
Jenny Zhang (Luce - USA); University of California, Berkeley; Education; The Logistics of Reform: Education, Literacy and Development Practices in Indonesia and the United States
Elizabeth Rukmin Goei (Luce - Indo); Atma Jaya Catholic University; Medicine; Peer Tutor: The Recruitment, the Development of Leadership Skills, and the Targeted Future of Faculty Members
Ratno Lukito (Luce - Indo); State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta Indonesia; Comparative Law; In Between the Two: The Trajectory of State and Religion Continuum in Indonesia and America
Azalia "Melody" Muchransyah (Luce - Indo); Bina Nusantara International University; Film; Using Film as a Social Marketing Strategy to Improve Acceptance of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Among HIV Infected Prisoners in Indonesia
FELLOWS, 2014
Jonathan Adams (Luce - USA); University of British Columbia; Ethnomusicology; Gamelan Gambang: Assessing the Resilience of Sacred Music
Ted Biggs (Luce - USA); University of California, Santa Cruz; Anthropology; Fine Line and Fluid States: The Interaction of Policy and Piracy in Maritime Southeast Asia
Elizabeth Drexler (Luce - USA); Michigan State University; Antrhopology; Human Rights and History in Indonesia: Narratives of East Timor and 1965
Matthew Minarchek (Luce - USA); Cornell University; History; Co-Producing Space: Territorialization Processes in the Highlands of Aceh Sumatra During the Mid-Late Colonial Period
Erin Riley (Luce - USA); San Diego State University; Ethnoprimatology; Life in the Forest-Farm Interface: Integrating Ecology, Primatology, and Ethnography to Mitigate Crop Raiding by the Endangered Moor Macaques in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Sumarsam (Luce - USA); Wesleyan University; Music; Expressing and Contesting Java-Islam Encournters in Performing Arts
Linda Uyeda (Luce - USA); University of Washington; Wildlife Science; Human Perspectives on the Water Monitor Lizard (Varanus Salvator) in Banten, Indonesia
Ansariadi (Luce - Indo); Hasanuddin University; Public Health; Evaluation of Air Pollution Impact on Birth Outcomes
Herman Hidayat (Luce - Indo); Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Forest Policy); In search of Sustainable Plantation Forestry: A Case Study of the United States
Daskara Wardaya (Luce - Indo); Sanata Dharma; History; US-Indonesian Relations During the Nixon Administration
FELLOWS, 2013
Jennifer Goldstein (CAORC); University of California, Los Angeles; Geography; Boondoggle or Benefit? The Commodification of Degraded Landscapes in Indonesia in the Age of Climate Change
John MacDougall (CAORC); Miles College; Social Anthropology; The Cultural and Social Antagonism Between Thieves and Clerics in Today's Lombok
Rebakah Daro Minarchek (CAORC); Cornell University; Creating Commodities in Gunung Haliman National Park, Indonesia: Changing Market Access and the Impact on Food Security and Gender Relations
Nicole Reisnour (CAORC); Cornell University; Ethnomusicology; Sounding the Immaterial: The Sonic Politics of Adat and Agama in Post-Authoritarian Bali
Anna Reynolds (CAORC); University of Hawai'i; Ethnomusicology; Shifting Embodied Practices; An Exploration and Examination of Movement, Expression, and Character Depiction in Contemporary Balinese Legong Choreographies
Terrence (Ma'aruf) Allison (Luce - USA); Loyola University; Sociology; Social Factors that Influence Muslim Activists' Choice in Health Care Treatment
Brian Arnold (Luce - USA); NYSCC at Alfred University; Photography/New Media Arts; Photography and Media Arts in the Art Markets and Art Academies of Indonesia
Ronnie Nataatmadja (Luce - USA); Northern Illinois University; Comparative Politics; Elite Turnover in Indonesia
Michael Price (Luce - USA); Stanford University; Anthropology/Archaeology; Local Scarcity of Sago Pattern Subsistence in East Indonesia
Ranjan Shrestha (Luce - USA); University of Montana; Development Economics; Evaluating the Health Insurance Program of Indonesia
Tony Rudyansjah (Luce - Indo); University of Indonesia; Anthropology; Analysis of Local Manuscripts from the Region of Buton, Southeast Sulawesi
Regina Yanti (Luce - Indo); Atma Jaya Catholic University; Linguistics; Documenting the Local Varieties of Malay in Sumatra