Fulbright US Student Program Edition
Joshua Kam holds a bachelor’s degree in History and the Classics from Hope College, Michigan in 2017. Joshua has spent fourteen years abroad in Southeast Asia, and continued to be fascinated by the complex relationship between the secular and the mystic in the larger Nusantara. Under 2018 US Fulbright Student Grant, his project, “Imagining Ratu.. Read More.
Rebecca’s project under the Fulbright US Student Research Program is “Gut Microbiomes, Health, and Nutrition in Wild Bornean Orangutans across Shifting Nutritional Landscapes” which brings her and her student counterpart from Universitas Nasional (UNAS) to the peat swamps of the Mawas Conservation Area in Indonesian Borneo to collect data from critically endangered orangutans. Rebecca’s research.. Read More.
Andrea Decker holds a Master’s degree in Ethnomusicology from University of California, Riverside. She arrived in Indonesia in October 2017 to start her 12-month project under the US Fulbright Student Research grant entitled “’Dangdut is the Music of My Country:’ Class, Genre, and Gender in Indonesia’s Most Popular Music.” She wants to study the relationship.. Read More.
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.
