Fulbright US Student Program Edition
Emilie Rose Coakley, a PhD candidate in music at the University of Pittsburgh, was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at Pondok Pesantren Al Uruwatul Wutsqaa, Sidrap, South Sulawesi in 2011-2012. She arrived in Indonesia for the second time under the Fulbright program this January to start her student research project on “Catholic Music in Indonesia:.. Read More.
Indonesia’s rich biodiversity have attracted Fulbright Student Researcher Eric Gulson to come to the country. Despite having no prior experience of living in Indonesia, Eric braced himself to stay near the Popoyato-Paguat Forest in Gorontalo for his Fulbright project. His research, “Providing Artificial Nesting Cavities in Sulawesi: Opportunities for People and Birds,” aims to gather information of the.. Read More.
Gavin Ryan received his master’s degree in Music Performance from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2013. He received the Fulbright Student Research grant to complete a project on “Ethical Performance Practice of Sacred Gamelan Music.” He was working with Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar. He was also under the tutelage of Balinese artist.. Read More.
Genie Yoo received a Fulbright US Student Research award for her dissertation project tentatively titled “Wars and Wonders: Imperial Wars, Natural-Cultural Expeditions, and Textual Production in Island Southeast Asia.” Genie is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Princeton University specializing in the early modern and modern history of island Southeast Asia. She has conducted archival.. Read More.
Gillian Irwin will conduct research entitled “A Moral Music Education: Indonesian National Values in Javanese Music Classrooms” which take place in Jakarta and Yogyakarta. Gillian has been a student of ethnomusicology at UC Davis since Fall 2014. Before coming to Davis, she studied music and English at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA) and served as a Fulbright.. Read More.
Hannah Standiford, US-based Orkes Keroncong Rumput singer, received a Fulbright US Student Research award for a project called “Keroncong: Keeping Traditions Alive.” Hannah wants to study two Indonesian music styles i.e. keroncong and stambul fajar, respectively at Solo and Belitung. Hannah wants to learn more about the popularity of these traditional music within the youth community in the.. Read More.
Jenna Davidson, a PhD student in Biological Sciences at University of Notre Dame, is conducting a research on “Using Vector Bionomics to Inform Arboviral Intervention Strategies.” She will be doing laboratory works at Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar, studying mosquito samples already collected by local researchers from various sites in Sulawesi. Her study will characterize unknown disease transmission systems,.. Read More.
Joss Whittaker is a doctoral candidate in anthropology (archaeology) at the University of Washington, Seattle. His Fulbright project, “Trade and Power in Northwest Aru,” examine how engagement with long-distance trade networks has changed life in Ujir, a small community in eastern Indonesia’s Aru Islands, over the past thousand years. Although remote even today, Ujir’s changing.. Read More.
Justin D’Agostino will be living deep in Taman Nasional Gunung Leuser for research project “Effects of anthropogenic noise on the natural calling behavior of wild siamang.” until July 2018. The PhD student at Southern Illinois University will be studying the flexibility of primate vocal responses to anthropogenic noise that opens the door for an evolutionary.. Read More.
Kathrine Lee received Fulbright US Student Research award for a research project “Anthropogenic Influences upon Water Quality and Reef Health in Bali, Indonesia.” Katie, who has a BS in Environmental Science and Health from University of California, Los Angeles has arrived in the Island of the Gods to start her project, while simultaneously learning Bahasa.. Read More.
