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