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: Representation, Identity Formation, and Community Building.”  Her research deals with how music is used to create and navigate religious identity at local, national, and global levels.  As an ethnomusicologist and ethnographer, Emilie is grateful to be able to work with Catholic communities through Java, North Sumatra, and Flores, as well as to connect with community musicians from various religious backgrounds in each location.  Through her work, Emilie hopes to explore that ways in which Catholic music is in dialogue with broader musical and religious trends in Indonesia, while at the same time working towards mutual understanding among members of different religious communities.  Her research is supported by the Institut Seni Budaya Indonesia (ISBI) Bandung until November 2018.