Contributors
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Sirojuddin Arif is a doctoral student in the department of political science at Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL). He also earned an MS degree in social anthropology from the University of Oxford. His main research interests focus on poverty, social protection, and the politics of development.
Joshua Barker is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is co-contributing editor for the journal Indonesia and co-edited the volume State of Authority: State in Society in Indonesia (Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2009). His research interests include urban anthropology and the social anthropology of new media.
Francis R. Bradley is assistant professor of history in the Department of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute. His research focuses on trans-regional Islamic knowledge networks in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean world, especially connections between Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He recently published an article in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, contributed a chapter to Patrick Jory's edited volume, The Struggle for Patani's Past: History Writing and the Conflict in Southern Thailand, and is presently preparing a book manuscript drawn from his dissertation.
Peter Carey is Fellow Emeritus in Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford. Since 2008, he has lived in Jakarta working for the UK disability charity, The Cambodia Trust, and assisting the Indonesian Ministry of Health to establish the Jakarta School of Prosthetics & Orthotics (JSPO). The Indonesian translation of his monograph, The Power of Prophecy: Prince Dipanagara and the End of an Old Order in Java, 1785–1855 (KITLV Press, 2007) was published in February 2012.
Amrit Gomperts is an independent scholar who publishes on Old Javanese and Javano-Sanskrit texts and Javanese archaeology. Trained as a physicist, he was a product manager for military GPS and GIS. He is a PhD candidate in Indonesian studies at Leiden University.
Arnoud Haag is an agricultural engineer with long-term experience in irrigation and drainage development in the tropics. Since 2006 he has been based in Jakarta where he works as a consultant in hydrology and agricultural water management. His academic interests are focused on the hydrological aspects of Southeast Asian archaeology.
Robert W. Hefner is professor of anthropology and director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University. [End Page 233]
Caroline Hughes is director of the Asia Research Centre and associate professor of governance studies in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Murdoch University. Her research focuses on aid, state-building, and governance in Southeast Asia, and she is the author of The Political Economy of Cambodia’s Transition, 1991–2001 (London: Routledge, 2003) and Dependent Communities: Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2009).
Tod Jones is a Targeted Research Fellow in the Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute in Perth, Western Australia. His research interests are Indonesian cultural policy, the social and cultural impacts of cultural enterprises, and sustainable tourism. His book, Culture, Power, and Authoritarianism in the Indonesian State: Cultural Policy across the Twentieth Century to the Reform Era, will be published in 2013.
Jeremy Kingsley is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He recently received his PhD in Law from the University of Melbourne. His dissertation is entitled, “Tuan Guru, Community and Conflict in Lombok, Indonesia.” As he is a formally trained lawyer, his work also draws extensively on anthropological and political science approaches. His research interests focus upon Muslim religious leadership, conflict management, militia, and the interplay between state and non-state actors in Indonesia.
Doreen Lee is an assistant professor of anthropology at Northeastern University. Her current work focuses on political, urban, and visual cultures in Indonesia.
Julian Millie is a lecturer/researcher in the anthropology section of the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Melbourne. He earned his PhD in 2006 from Leiden University. His research focuses on Islamic participation and mediation in West Java, and the Islamic cultures of Indonesia more generally. Julian’s latest book is Splashed by the Saint: Ritual Reading and Islamic Sanctity in West Java (KITLV Press, 2009).
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