Visiting Fellows

The KITLV hosts several international postdoctoral researchers (fellows). KITLV fellows are invited to present lectures, participate in seminars and cooperate in the institute’s research projects.

Cornelis Lay

Senior lecturer and head of the Department of Politics and Government, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Gadjah Mada University Indonesia, and former vice dean for research and collaboration at the same faculty. He obtained his Master Degree from International development Studies, St. Mary’s University, Canada in 1991; PhD candidate at UGM. He has conducted intensive research on Indonesian politics, especially on local politics during the last 20 years. He currently undertakes researches focuses on “CSOs-parliament linkages in Indonesia”, “asymmetrical decentralization in Indonesia”, and – as part of Middle Indonesia Project, on his experienced growing up in Kupang. He has published several books. His current publication is Against The State: Indonesian Democratic Party 1973 – 1986 (April 2010).

Joseph Errington
teaches linguistic anthropology at Yale University and for thirty years has studied sociolinguistic change in Indonesia.   His first research in Solo, Central Java, focused on the Javanese language and was reported in two books, Sociolinguistic change in Java and Structure and style in Javanese. A second, shorter period of fieldwork in a region northeast of that city dealt with the Indonesian language’s into Javanese village society, and was published in Shifting languages: interaction and identity in Javanese Indonesia.  In addition to some translations from Javanese to Indonesian, he has also written about the development of linguistics during the colonial period (Linguistics in a colonial world). His current research, part of the Middle Indonesia project, focuses on interaction between Indonesian and dialects of Malay in three Indonesian provincial centers (Pontianak, Ternate, and Kupang).

      

Jermy Imanuel Balukh
Born in 1977 in Kupang, Indonesia. He obtained his master degree in Linguistics at Udayana University, Bali (2005). He is now teaching linguistics at STIBA Cakrawala Nusantara (a Foreign Languages Institute) in Kupang, Indonesia. His research interests are in the areas of Descriptive Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, and Language Documentation and Revitalization. 
In 2008, he won an international grant from Endangered Language Fund (ELF), USA documenting folk tales and procedural texts of Dhao language. Currently, he is a research fellow at KITLV for the project of “In Search of Middle Indonesia”. While at KITLV with Prof. Joseph Errington, he is preparing a manuscript about sociolinguistic interpretation of Malay Variation in Eastern Indonesia that includes data from Kupang, Ternate, and Pontianak.

    

Rhoma Dwi Aria Yuliantri

Born in 1982, Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta. She obtained her master degree in history at Universitas Negeri Jakarta (2010). She is a correspondent  of Basis, a filosophy and culture magazine) and a journal editor of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, State University of Yogyakarta. She has also published several books. 
Right now she is doing research on Indonesia’s Cultural History 1950-1965: In Search of a Lost Legacy. This project takes place in colaboration with KITLV and NU 2009. The research focuses on the biography of one of the figures in Indonesia, namely Njoto (1927-1965). This research will look at Njoto's life's journey as someone who has influence in Indonesian politics, mass media, and culture from 1950-65.

Ana Dragojlovic

Dr. Ana Dragojlovic is Ernst Keller Fellow, at the Anthropology, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia-Pacific, The Australian National University.Her research interests are situated within the areas of critical migration and diaspora studies, gender and sexuality studies, cultures of relatedness, postcolonial and critical race studies, multiculturalism and nation formation, and the social production of historical memory.

She conducted fieldwork in Bali and the Netherlands and is interested in migration and citizenship; transnational aesthetics, masculinity studies, queer studies and feminist theory; critical race and postcolonial theory. Her current research concerns rethinking the concepts of culture, gender, identity, race, citizenship, the political imagination of 'foreignness' and the social production of historical memory as key phenomena of our time.

She is currently finalizing her book manuscript entitled Becoming a citizen: technologies of integration and ‘model minority in Dutch Postcoloniality’. She is also working on her post doctoral project ‘Tracing Indo-Dutch genealogies: rethinking cultural citizenship and forms of relatedness’.

Noorhaidi Hasan
Noorhaidi Hasan is an Indonesian scholar of political Islam who received his MA from Leiden University (1999), MPhil from the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (2000) and PhD from Utrecht University (2005), all in the Netherlands. He has been affiliated to Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, since 1995. Currently he is a research fellow at KITLV’s project 'In Search of Middle Indonesia', doing research on Islam, local politics, and lifestyle in Kebumen and Martapura. He has recently published Laskar Jihad: Islam, Militancy, and the Quest for Identity in Post-New Order Indonesia (Ithaca: New York: SEAP Cornell University, 2006).

Marije Plomp

Chris Brown
Chris Brown is an anthropologist oriented towards urban subjects in Indonesia. His previous research has focused on people who make a living on the streets of Surabaya. While one of the key figures through which this world is explored is the street child [anjal], his approach emphasizes ways in which street kids, despite efforts to marginalize them, in fact share a great deal with and are more central to Surabayan society than is generally acknowledged. To this end, the research attends to myriad players on urban streets, from vendors to becak drivers, pickpockets, commuters, and even police, to sketch a complex scene with relevance far beyond any single class. As a fellow at KITLV, Chris will extend his work on urban youth to several provincial towns in connection with the In Search of Middle Indonesia group, with a particular focus on the visual imagescapes of contemporary Indonesian youth. Chris has taught anthropology at Universitas Surabaya, the University of Washington, and Seattle University; some of Chris’s photographic projects can be accessed at <seeingsubjects.org>.

Frank Okker

Frank Okker (1951) obtained his Ph.D. in the year 2000 with the biography of the Dutch East-Indian writer and journalist Willem Walraven (1887-1943), Dirksland tussen de doerians. In May 2008 he published a book about the life and works of the famous Dutch East-Indian author Madelon Székely-Lulofs (1899-1958), Tumult, which was reprinted in February 2009.Apart from these two biographies he published a number of books, both non-fiction and fiction, and also a large quantity of articles in various newspapers, (literary) magazines and contributions to compilations or standard works, mostly on literary subjects. Together with his assistant Anna Kruip MA, he is now gathering and arranging the documentation for the biography of the great scholar dr. Gerret Pieter Rouffaer (1860-1928), founding father of the collections of the KITLV.

 

Nicolaas Warouw 

Nicolaas Warouw teaches at Department of Anthropology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia . He obtained his doctorate degree in anthropology from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2004. His research interests include the impact of modernization on Indonesia’s manufacturing labourers, lifestyle of urban workers, and the multilocality of rural-urban subjects. He also has research interests in labour movement and new social movement. As a KITLV Fellow he will be undertaking the state-of-the-art study on class and industrial workers in contemporary Indonesia. His recent publication entitled "Industrial Workers in Transition; Women’s Experiences of Factory Work in Tangerang" is published as chapter contribution in Ford and Parker’s Women and Work in Indonesia (2008).

 

Howard Stein

Howard Stein is a Professor in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS) and also teaches in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. He is a development economist educated in Canada, the US and the UK who has taught in both Asia and Africa. His research has focused on foreign aid, finance and development, structural adjustment, health and development, industrial policy and rural property right transformation. His latest volume is entitled Beyond the World Bank Agenda: An Institutional Approach to Development (University of Chicago Press, 2008). The book examines the evolution of the World Bank agenda aimed at explaining the failure of their policies in regions like sub-Saharan Africa. The book also generates an alternative approach based on institutional economic theory and applies it to the areas of state formation, financial development and health care.

Deasy Simandjuntak

Deasy Simandjuntak is completing her PhD dissertation entitled Who Shall Be Radja?”: Local Elites Competition during the Decentralization process in North Sumatra, Indonesia at the University of Amsterdam. The dissertation looks into the behavior of elites within the new local politics during the democratization process in Indonesia, with a  focus on the province of North Sumatra, in which, -as elsewhere throughout the archipelago-, district level governments have been bestowed with a greater autonomy in local policy-making.  Deasy is affiliated with the KITLV as a Project Assistant in the Audio-Visual Project. She is currently doing a preliminary editing for a new documentary film on “The Image of Authority in Indonesia'.

Joan Ricart

Joan Ricart is a PhD student in the Political Science Department at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He graduated in Political Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has contributed to the political science magazine Sistema with several book reviews related to Indonesia's ethnic conflict and has given presentations on Indonesia's transition to democracy in Dublin and Madrid. He is interested in party politics and the transition to democracy processes. He is in KITLV, as an associated research fellow with a scholarship from the Agencia Española para la Cooperación Internacional y el Desarrollo (AECID). He is currently working on his PhD thesis on the Indonesian transition to democracy process with a special focus on the role of political parties.