Fulbright US Student Program Edition
Paperbark artist Lisa Miles is awarded a Fulbright Student Research Award for a project “Bark Paper, Plant Dyes, and the Book Arts in Indonesia.” As a book artist and papermaker, Lisa use beaten bark papers as the core of my art-making practice. Do you know how bark papers are made? They are made by beating.. Read More.
Matthew Libassi is a doctoral candidate in the department of Environment Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. He arrived in Indonesia in October 2017 to begin his research under the US Fulbright Student Research grant entitled “The History and Development of Small-scale Gold Mining Institutions in Indonesia.” Matt’s research explores the.. Read More.
Thao Nguyen received a Fulbright Student Researcher award for her project “Comparative Analysis of Co-Management in Wakatobi and Karimunjawa, Indonesia.” According to Thao, co-management, the sharing of knowledge, power, and responsibility, among government and local resource users in Indonesia are vital to the sustainability of the world’s oceans. Thao, who has an MA in Political.. Read More.
Can black soldier fly be used to recycle wasted food? Fulbright Student Researcher Tyler Butkus comes to Indonesia to find the answer by proposing a project “Optimization and Evaluation of Black Soldier Fly Recycling in the Indonesian Supply Chain.” This recycling system, which employs black soldier fly, converts organic waste to feed for poultry or.. Read More.
Adam de Boer is a painter from California, who is awarded with a Fulbright Student Research grant for his project called “Return Waves.” Adam, who earned his MA from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, UK, would try to incorporate methods of Javanese batik and woodcarving craft traditions into his current painting practices… Read More.
Aldo Foe is conducting research on a project entitled “The Origin and Spread of Islam in the Indonesian Archipelago: A Ceramics Perspective.” He is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He holds a master’s from said university and a bachelor’s from City University of New York (CUNY) Queens College,.. Read More.
Alex Laplaza received his bachelor’s of arts in International Studies with a minor in Economics from American University in Washington, DC in May 2016, where he specialized in Global Environmental Politics and International Development. Alex received a Fulbright Student Research grant for a project called “Community-Level Institutional Adaptation to Water Scarcity in Lombok.” He is.. Read More.
Christopher Foertsch holds a master’s in Applied Anthropology from Oregon State University. He arrived in Indonesia in December, 2016 to start his 9-month project under the US Fulbright Student Research grant entitled “Educational Migration in Indonesia: An Ethnography of Eastern Indonesian Students in Malang, Java.” Chris wants to study the experience of certain ethnic minority.. Read More.
Diana Parker is a PhD student at the Department of Geographical Science, University of Maryland. Her US Fulbright Student research project is entitled “The Wehea Forest Reserve: A Case Study of Successful Forest Protection in Indonesia.” She is trying to understand through her research what led to the creation of the Wehea Forest Reserve in.. Read More.
Florence Durney is a PhD student in the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona. She is the recipient of the 2016 US Fulbright Student Research grant on a project “Marine Protected Areas in East Nusa Tenggara: A comparative Cultural Study.” She had been staying for 3 months in Lamalera and Lembata, East Nusa Tenggara, studying.. Read More.
