Fulbright US Scholar Program Edition
Dr. Anne Rasmussen is an ethnomusicologist well-known for her works in Indonesia. Anne, a Professor in Music and Ethnomusicology, at the College of William and Mary is the author of several books including “Women’s Voices, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia” and “Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia.” She receives a US.. Read More.
Krisnawati Suryanata holds a PhD in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently working as Associate Professor of Geography Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She arrived in Indonesia in January 2018 to start her six-month teaching fellowship under the US Fulbright Scholar grant entitled “the political ecology of agricultural.. Read More.
Nancy Karraker holds a PhD in Conservation Biology from the State University of New York and is currently working as an Associate Professor at the University of Rhode Island. Nancy arrived in Indonesia in November 2017 to start her six-month project under the US Fulbright Scholar grant entitled “Assessing Populations of a Threatened and Heavily.. Read More.
Nancy I. Cooper holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has taught at the National University of Singapore, the University of California, and is currently affiliated with the University of Hawaii as an Adjunct Associate Professor. She arrived in Indonesia in May 2018 to begin her six-month project under.. Read More.
Patricia Ann Hardwick is an anthropologist, folklorist, who is currently Research Associate-in-Residence at Hofstra University. She holds a dual PhD in Folklore and Ethnomusicology and Anthropology from Indiana University, Bloomington. Under the US Fulbright Senior Scholar grant, Patricia carries out a 10-month project to investigate the historical and extant cultural flows between the Riau Islands,.. Read More.
Wendy is a Research Associate at Rutgers University. For her Fulbright Senior Scholar grant, Wendy works on a research project “Are the Long Calls of Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) Costly Signals of Male Health and Energy Status?” This research project is supported by Universitas Nasional (UNAS), Jakarta and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Yogyakarta, the latter.. Read More.
Dr. Jui-Ching Wang is an Associate Professor in the School of Music at Northern Illinois University. Dr. Wang, who has a Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Education from Arizona State University, is a recipient of the 2016 Fulbright Senior Scholar award. Under the grant, she conducts research entitled “The Development of Traditional Javanese Children’s.. Read More.
Julie plans to study how Suryodarmo’s body movement performance called “Amerta Movement” represents daily life and extra daily bodily movement in a broader Javanese and Indonesian context. Her project under the Fulbright Senior Scholar grant is entitled “Place Making Body/Body Making Place.” She is affiliated with the Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI) Surakarta. Julie.. Read More.
Dr. Richard Luke Daniels is the recipient of the US Fulbright Scholar award. The scholar received his PhD in Neuroscience from University of Southern California, LA. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, College of Idaho. Luke is a trained neurobiologist with extensive teaching experience in biomedical-related courses. He has also.. Read More.
Dr. Rupert Stasch receives grant under the US Fulbright Scholar program for a 7-month research project in Papua. Rupert, an Anthropologist who currently teaches at University of Cambridge, UK, has had a long research interest in the region. In 2009, he published a book “Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place.”.. Read More.
