Yuyun Sri Wahyuni is studying for a PhD in global gender studies at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Her doctoral research will be on Indonesian Muslim working women among trends of globalization, neoliberalism, and an upsurge of Islamic populism in Indonesia.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in Aqidah and Islamic thought from Darussalam Gontor Islamic Institute, in East Java and a joint master’s in religious and cross-cultural studies and Southeast Asian studies from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta and Ohio University.

Yuyun is a lecturer at Mulawarman University, in Samarinda, East Kalimantan.