Indonesia

Steven Abrams

Nutritional Science, Medicine

Steven Abrams' research focuses on the use of stable isotopes to determine mineral requirements and physiological turnover rates in infants and children. This includes mass spectrometric methods and analytical approaches allowing populations throughout the world to obtain critical data needed for food fortification strategies to be effective.

Richard Albert

Government, Law

Richard Albert's research interests are constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law, with specific focus on constitutional reform, constitution-making, and comparative constitutionalism.

James Austin

Institute for Geophysics

James Austin is a seismic stratigrapher and has worked on sedimented continental margins (both passive and convergent) around the world since the late 1970s. He has over the past 20 years taken surveys off the shores of Israel, the Antarctic, Mexico (Gulf of Mexico) and off the east coast of the U.S.

John Beavers

Linguistics

John Beavers' research areas are formal syntax and semantics, lexical semantics, and linguistic typology. He is primarily interested the nature of word meanings, including how word meanings are decomposed into more basic semantic primitives, how these primitives are interpreted truth conditionally, and how a word’s meaning correlates with and ultimately determines its grammatical behavior.

Adam Clulow

History

Adam Clulow is a historian of early modern Asia. His work is concerned broadly with the transnational circulation of ideas, people, practices and commodities across East and Southeast Asia.

Stephen Courter

Management

Stephen Courter's areas of interest include corporate diversification, mergers, acquisitions & divestitures, and venture capital.

Veit Erlmann

Musicology & Ethnomusicology

Veit Erlmann is a cultural historian, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. His areas of interest include music and popular culture in South Africa and Indonesia, sound studies, and the anthropology of intellectual property law.

Benjamin Gregg

Government

Benjamin Gregg's research focuses on social and political theory, bioethics of human genetic engineering, politics of artificial intelligence, and human rights.

Sean Gulick

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institute for Geophysics

Sean Gulick focuses on geophysical imaging at nested resolutions and scientific drilling to examine impact cratering, tectonic processes, climate interactions, catastrophism in the geologic record, and planetary habitability. Current foci are the Chicxulub K-Pg impact and terrestrial craters, impact hydrothermal systems and planetary habitability, Lunar/Martian geophysics, tectonic hazards, and hi-res imaging for sedimentary climate records.

Ward Keeler

Anthropology

Ward Keeler focuses on how hierarchy organizes social relations in Indonesia and Myanmar. Face-to-face encounter, politics, attitudes to sexuality and gender, religious activity, and the performing arts: all reflect hierarchical assumptions based on the notion that different roles assign people distinctive obligations and privileges. In contrast, discourse about human rights resonates very little as it disregards individuals' positionality.

Amy Liu

Government

Amy Liu's research interests focuses on ethnic politics, language policies, and migration politics, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

Ellen Rathje

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Ellen Rathje's research is focused on evaluating seismic hazards related to earthquake ground shaking and earthquake-induced ground failure due to slope failures and liquefaction. Rathje's group uses a wide range of approaches and tools, including computational simulation, statistical analysis, and artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Surya Santoso

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Surya Santoso's research lies in the broad area of power systems analysis, electric power quality, distributed energy resource integration, and time-domain modeling and simulation of electrical systems.

Stacey Sowards

Communication Studies, Radio-Television-Film

Stacey Sowards' research focuses on environmental, intercultural, and gender and communication in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the United States.

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