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My research interests include images and visual culture, media and mediation, memory and violence, specifically in Indonesia. I recently completed\u00a0<\/span>Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation and Image-Event in Indonesia<\/span>\u00a0(Duke University Press, 2020), a book on the work of images in Indonesia\u2019s post-authoritarian public sphere. I look at range of images\u2014from political campaign stickers, to street art, to documentary photography, to contemporary art work, to youtube videos and selfies\u2014that circulate in public giving form to people\u2019s imaginings of Indonesia\u2019s troubled past, its democratic transition, and its uncertain and contested future. My first book,\u00a0<\/span>Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java (<\/span>Duke University Press, 2010) examined the role of popular photography in the making of national subjects and postcolonial Java. A current project explores visuality, violence, and the ethnic Chinese minority in Indonesia. I am interested in how contemporary artists are giving visual form to memories that have been otherwise excluded from public discourse and official historical narratives. I teach at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_accordion closed_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Research Focus” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”on”]<\/p>\n