Cornell University Department of Government
Assistant Professor of Government

Fall 2002-present

University of Washington   Ph.D., Political Science

August 2002

University of Washington   Department of Political Science, Ph.D. program.
Fields: comparative politics, Southeast Asia area studies, political theory.
Committee: Daniel S. Lev (chair), Christine Di Stefano, Laurie Sears, John Pemberton (reader).

1993-2002

University of Washington   Ph.C.  (Doctoral candidate), Political Science.

Fall 1997

University of Washington   M.A.   Political Science.   GPA: 3.91.

Spring 1995

COTI Advanced Indonesian Abroad Program    Sponsored by Cornell University in Manado, Indonesia.

Summer 1995

Brown University   B.A.   Development Studies & East Asian Studies. GPA: 3.95.

1988-1993

Middlebury Japanese Language School   Middlebury, Vermont
9 week intensive course in second year Japanese.

Summer 1989

Fellowship: 2006
Award: 2005

1999-2000

FLAS Fellow  Foreign Language Area Studies.

1999-2000

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellow

1997-1998

Ford Small Research Grant in Southeast Asian Studies

1997-1998

Charles F. Keyes Academic Achievement Award

1997

FLAS Fellow   Foreign Language Area Studies.

1996-1997

SSRC International Predissertation (IPFP) Fellow   Social Science Research Council.

1995-1996

FLAS Fellow   Foreign Language Area Studies.

1994-1995

 J. Allen Smith Fellow  University of Washington, Department of Political Science.

Winter 1994

Ph.C. cum laude  University of Washington, Department of Political Science.

1997

M.A. cum laude   University of Washington, Department of Political Science.

1995

B.A. cum laude    Brown University.

1993

Phi Beta Kappa

1993

Chinua Acebe’s Things Fall Apart. Cornell University 2005 New Student Reading Project.

August 2005

Government and Politics of Southeast Asia.  Undergraduate lecture course. (Govt 344)

Spring 2005
Spring 2004
Fall 2002

Colonialism and Postcolonialsim.  Mixed graduate/senior seminar. (Govt 426/625)

Spring 2005
Fall 2003

Criminality and the State.  Spring 2003: offered as a graduate seminar (Govt 647). Fall 2004: offered as a mixed graduate/senior seminar (Govt 400-5/647).

Fall 2004
Spring 2003

Militaries, Societies, and Rogues.  Fall 2004: offered as lecture course (Govt 337), Spring 2003: offered as writing seminar (FWS).

Fall 2004
Spring 2003

Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia.  Mixed graduate/senior seminar. (Govt 450/650)

Spring 2005
Spring 2004

Comparative Youth Politics and Culture. (FWS, Govt 100-7)

Spring 2005
Fall 2003

Guest Lectures.  Annual lecture in Asian Studies 208 on Indonesian Nationalism; Presentation in Allen Carlson’s class on transnational activism (Spring 2003), presentation in  Allen Carlson’s junior honors seminar on ethnographic and interpretive methods (Spring 2004)

2002-2005

Field Research in Jakarta and Medan, Indonesia.

Summer 2004
Summer 1999
1998

SSRC International Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Program (IPFP).   Exploratory research in Jakarta, Medan, and East Java, Indonesia.

Fall  1995-Spring  1996

Field Research in Chiapas, Mexico  Research for M.A. thesis.

Summer 1994

Teaching Assistant for Dr. Ruth Horowitz. Introduction to Political Theory.

Spring 1997

Teaching Assistant for Dr. Janice Thomson. Introduction to International Relations.

Fall 1993

Research Assistant forDr. Andrea Simpson.

Spring 1994

Ph.D. committee:  Andrew Phillips (Government; Peter Katzenstein, chair)

2004-present

Ph.C. A-exam committee:  Yew-Foong Hui (Anthropology; James Segal, chair).  Serve as examiner for the field of Southeast Asian studies.

2004-present

Dissertation defense external reader:  Dominique Caouette (Government, Benedict Anderson Chair)

2003-2004

Faculty Advisor: Amy Shivley (Government), Davina Wilner (Government), Kathryn Skillman (Asian Studies M.A. program)

2003-present

Undergraduate honors advisees:  2004: Nerses Setyan, 2003: Preeti Kundra, Ganesh Karunakaran

2003-2005

Undergraduate Advisees:  thirty.  Developed FileMaker database to track meetings with advisees.  (Available by request.)

2002-present

American Political Science Association Task Force on Inequality

2004-2005

Cornell Southeast Asia Program.  Faculty member.

2002-present

South East Asia Program Graduate Education Committee

2005

Government Department Joint International Relations / Theory Search Committee.  Hired Jason Frank and Karuna Mantena.

Fall 2003

Government Department Comparative A-Exam Committee

Fall 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003

Government Department Undergraduate Committee

2002-2003

American Political Science Association (APSA). Member.

1993-present

Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Member.

1993-present

AAS Southeast Asia Council. Member.

2002-present

AAS Indonesia and East Timor Studies Committee.  Member.

2002-present

Voice of the Cape Producer (South Africa) radio interview on Indonesian-Acehnese peace agreement.  Half hour interview. 

September 1, 2005

WILL-AM 580 (Chicago) radio interview on Indonesian politics and the tsunami.  One hour interview on the Focus 580 show with David Inge. 

January 27, 2005

The Great Tsunami of 2004: Short Term Costs and Long Term Implications.. Einaudi Center. Involved in organizing this event.

February 23, 2005

Political asylum case testimonials.  Wrote testimonial letters for three political asylum cases.

2003-2005

East Timor Action Network  Congressional Delegation to West Timor.
Delegation leader. Co-led a fact-finding mission of U.S. congressional staffers and international journalists to West Timor to assess militia involvement and conditions in refugee camps in West Timor.  Follow-up included congressional hearings and meetings with U.S. agencies in Washington, D.C. and a U.N. press conference.

April-May 2000

Campaign for Labor Rights' anti-sweatshop tour.   Translated for Harianto, an Indonesian Nike worker fired for labor activism, during a two week New England collegiate tour.

September 1999

A Mute's Soliloquy  book  launching.  Co-hosted and translated for Indonesian novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer during his New York visit for the launching of his memoirs (A Mute's Soliloquy)  published by Hyperion Press.

April 1999

East Timor Action Network.   Co-Founded the East Timor Action Network after the 1991 Santa Cruz cemetery massacre. Established the Providence, Rhode Island chapter and developed a national network of activists.  Organized speaking tours and coordinated lobbying efforts.

1991-1992

Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI), Jakarta.  Editorial intern.

Fall 1995

Asia Watch, New York City. Research intern.

Summer 1992

Institute for Food and Development Policy    San Francisco. Research intern.
Research on Indonesian political economy as an emerging NIC

Summer 1991

“Genealogies of Inequality,” report to APSA Task Force on Inequality.  Presented at the April 2005 Task Force meeting in Charlottesville, NC.

2005

From Succession on the Streets to Electoral Turf Wars,” SEAP Brown Bag Talk. May 2005.

2005

Reformasi Gangsters, Inside Indonesia 82, April-June 2005, p22-23.

2005

The Gangs of Jakarta. In Indonesia in the Soeharto Years: Issues, Incidents, and Images, edited by John H. McGlynn. Forward by President Jimmy Carter. Jakarta: The Lontar Foundation.

2005

Roundtable: Indonesia’s Elections, What Should We Expect?  Roundtable participant.  Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, March 2004.

2004

A Roundtable Discussion on Aceh and Papua: Civil-Military Relations, Human Rights and Prospects for Peace.  SEAP. Roundtable participant.  November 9, 2003.

2003

“Mercenaries and Privateers: Freemen in the Indies and Indonesia,” SEAP Brown Bag Talk. March 13, 2003.

2003

“Freeman, Mercenaries, and Nationalists in Indonesia.” Presented at the 2003 Association for Asian Studies Conference in New York

2003

“Youth, Gangs, and the State in Indonesia” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington.

2002

Pemuda Pancasila: The Last Loyalist Free Men of Suharto's Order? In Violence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia, edited by B. Anderson. Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications. (Reprint of the article of the same title listed below, with a new postscript.)

2001

“Medan Gets a New Mayor: A Tale of Two Cities, Part 1.” Inside Indonesia. No. 63,July-September 2000.

July 2000

"Scalpers and Destroyers: Pemuda Pancasila in Medan in the 1960s." Draft dissertation chapter, presented at the March 2000 Association for Asian Studies Conference in San Diego.

March 2000

“Infinite Unaccountability: Political Violence and the State of Law in Indonesia.” Presented at the 1999 Conference of the Western Political Science Association, Seattle.

March 1999

“Pemuda Pancasila: the last loyalist free men of Suharto’s Order?” Indonesia  66, (Cornell), Fall 1998.

1998

“The Morning After...” Inside Indonesia, October-December 1998. (Reprinted in Aspinall, Edward, and others, eds. 1998.  The last days of President Suharto. Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute.)

1998

“Political Gangsters.” Inside Indonesia, January-March 1998. (Published under a pseudonym.)

1998

“Preman as Freeman:  Street Gangs and Politics in New Order Indonesia.” Presented to the 7th Northwest Regional Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies Conference (NWCSEASC), April 26, 1997.

1997

“Of Cracks and Crackdowns: Five Translations of Recent Internet Postings.” Indonesia 62, October 1996. (Published under a pseudonym.)

1996

East Timor at the Crossroads, review article.  Indonesia 61, April 1996.

1996

“Pipedreams: Some Implications of the Zapatistas for Democratic Theory.” Unpublished M.A. thesis.

1995

“NGOs as Double-Agents of Development: Problems of Accommodation and Resistance.”  Presented to the 6th NWCSEASC, November 6, 1994.

1994