CONFERENCE PAPERS
2022. “Morality and the Digital Edge: Social Media, Gender, and Religious Authority in Indonesian Muslim Boarding Schools” Assoc. for Asian Studies Annual Conference. (March 2022)
2021. “Morality and the Digital Edge: Social Media, Gender, and Religious Authority in Indonesian Muslim Boarding Schools” American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) and Michigan State University Inaugural Virtual Conference.
2021. “Morality on the Digital Edge: Social Media and Religious Authority among Indonesian Muslim School Girls” Society for the Anthro. of Religion Annual Conference. Virtual.
2019. “On Fun and Freedom: Young Women’s Moral Learning in Indonesian Islamic Boarding Schools” American Anthropological Assoc. Annual Meetings. Vancouver, CA.
2019. “Hope and the Encumbered Self: Achievement and Piety in an Indonesian Islamic Boarding School for Girls.” Assoc. for Asian Studies. Annual Meetings. Denver, CO.
2018 “Friends Who Keep You on The Pious Path: Morality and Peer Learning Among Indonesian Islamic Boarding School Girls” Third Conference on Anthropology of Education: The Work of Education. Columbia University Teachers College. (Upcoming, October.)
2017. “Ethical, Familial, and Professional Exemplarity in an Indonesian Islamic Boarding School for Girls” American Anthropological Assoc. Annual Conference. Washington, D.C.
2017. “A Gate Around Your Heart: Freedom and Moral Education in an Indonesian Islamic Boarding School for Girls” Conference on Diverse Unfreedoms and Their Ghosts. Rutgers University-Camden, NJ.
2017. “The Moral Ambiguity of the City: Islamic Education and Ethical Learning in Urban Indonesia.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Toronto, Canada.
2016. “The Gate Around Your Heart: Freedom and Moral Education in an Indonesian Islamic Boarding School.” American Anthropological Association Annual Conference. Minneapolis, MN.
2016. “A Gate Around Your Heart: Ethical Subject Formation in a Traditionalist Islamic Boarding School in Indonesia.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Seattle, WA.
2015. “The Ambiguities of a Moral Life: Piety and Ethical Subject Formation in Indonesian Islamic Boarding Schools.” American Anthropological Association Annual Conference. Denver, CO.
2015. “Models of Achievement: Muslim Girls and Religious Authority in a Modernist Islamic Boarding School in Indonesia.” Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, KITLV) in Leiden, Netherlands. Conference on Female Islamic Authority in Comparative Perspective: Exemplars, Institutions, Practices.
2014. “When Down is Up: Ethnography and 'Studying Up' in an Elite Islamic Boarding School for Girls." American Anthropological Association Annual Conference. Washington, D.C.
2014. “Modeling Virtue: Piety and Femininity in Two Indonesian Islamic Boarding Schools." Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA.
2013. “Pedagogies of Piety: Indonesian Women Teachers and Religious Authority in a Modernist Islamic Boarding School for Girls.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.
2012. “Learning Virtue: Emulation and Agency in a Muhammadiyah Islamic Boarding School for Girls.” International Indonesia Forum, co-organized by Yale University and Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
2011. “Tempted By Other Selves: Islam, Gender, and Ethical Subject Formation in Indonesian Islamic Boarding Schools.” Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute Student Conference, UW- Madison.
2011. “Shaping Muslim Subjectivities: A Review of Contemporary Theories of Women's Islamic Subject Formation.” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference at Georgia State University.
INVITED LECTURES
2021. “Morality, Religious Authority, and the Digital Edge: Indonesian Muslim School Girls Online” Friday Forum Center for Southeast Asian Studies. UW-Madison. Madison, WI. (Watch the talk here.)
2021. “Morality on the Digital Edge: Social Media Usage and Religious Authority Among Indonesian Muslim School Girls” Wednesday Forum at the Center for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies. Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (Virtual.)
2020. “The Digital Double Edge: Women, Social Media, and Religious Authority in Indonesia” Indiana University-Bloomington. Islamic Studies Program. (Virtual.)
2020. “Model-Model Prestasi: Harapan Masa Depan Perempuan di Madrasah Mu’allimaat” International Conference on ‘Aisyiyah Studies (ICAS 2020). (Indonesia. Virtual.)
2019. Keynote Speaker. “Fun Matters: Young Women’s Moral Learning in Indonesian Islamic Boarding Schools” at Religion Matters: Rituals, Practices, and Texts. Students Organized for Religious and Cultural Exploration Conference. Florida State University.
2018. “Morality and the Public Space of the Internet: Social Media Usage Among Indonesian Islamic Boarding School Girls” Conference on Contemporary Media Practices and Religious Encounters at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna, Austria.
2018. “Fun, Freedom, and Muslim Femininity: Islamic Education and Ethical Learning in Urban Indonesia” Yale University Council on Southeast Asian Studies Brown Bag Series. New Haven, CT.
2017. “Fun, Freedom, and Muslim Femininity: Islamic Education and Ethical Learning in Urban Indonesia.” Dept of Religion and the Center for Peace and Global Studies. Haverford College.
2016. “Model-Model Prestasi: Harapan Masa Depan Perempuan di Dua Pesantren di Yogyakarta” Wenner-Gren Engage Anthropology Summer visit. Invited Lectures at:
Pesantren Krapyak Ali Maksum (Islamic Boarding School). Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Madrasah Mu’allimaat Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (Islamic Boarding School). Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Institut Agama Islam Negeri. Dinika Public Lecture Series. Surakarta, Indonesia.
Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kali Jaga. Department of Management of Islamic Education. Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Universitas Islam Negeri-Jakarta. Pusat Pengkajian Islam dan Masyarakat (Center for the Study of Islam and Society). Jakarta, Indonesia.
2015. “Women, Veiling, and Everyday Islam in Indonesia.” Northeastern University. Honors Program Department of Philosophy and Religion. Boston, MA.
2013. “Imagined Future Selves: Social, Educational, and Career Aspirations of Young Women of Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama in Two Islamic Boarding Schools.” Weekly Forum for the Faculty of Cultural Studies. Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
2012. “Learning Virtue: Emulation and Agency in a Muhammadiyah Islamic Boarding School for Girls.” International Research Conference on Muhammadiyah. Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang. Malang, Indonesia.
2012. “Dreams of Varied Selves: Gender, Education, and Social Ambition Among Young Kader in Madrasah Mu’allimaat Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta.” Wednesday Forum. Center for Cross-Cultural and Religious Studies (CRCS) at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
2012. “Proses Melakukan Penelitian Ethnographic di Sekolah Islam di Yogyakarta” (“How to Conduct Ethnographic Research in Islamic Schools in Yogyakarta”). Short Course on Socio-Religious Research Methodologies on Gender Issues. Center for Cross-Cultural and Religious Studies (CRCS) at Universities Gadjah Mada and the Directorate Pendidikan Tinggi Islam, Kementerian Agama Republik Indonesia. Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
CONFERENCE PANEL ORGANIZER/CHAIR
2022. Panel Chair and Organizer. “Islam, Religious Authority, and New Media in Indonesia.” Assoc. for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Honolulu, HI. (March 2022)
2021. Panel Chair. “Islam, Gender, and Religious Authority.” American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) and Michigan State University Inaugural Virtual Conference.
2019. Panel Organizer. “Hope, Education, and the New Asian Middle Class.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meetings. Denver, CO.
2018. Panel Co-Organizer. “Women, Expertise, and the Making of a Professional Persona in Contemporary Asia.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Jose, CA.
2017. Panel Chair and Organizer. “Exemplary Women and Everyday Islam.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.
2016. Co-organizer for Panel. “Learning Virtue: Morality And Freedom In Educational Settings.” Sponsored by Society for the Anthropology of Religion. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN.
2013. Chair and Organizer for Panel. “Articulating Authority: Women and Religious Leadership in South and Southeast Asia.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.
MEDIA PRESENTATIONS
2018. Profiled in Bangkit magazine online. “Peneliti Pesantren Krapyak Asal AS Mengagumi Kemandirian Para Santri” (US Scholar Impressed by the fortitude of Pesantren Students.” Published July 2018. (Find it here!)
2015. Radio Interview Profile (in Indonesian) with Voice of America (VOA)-Indonesia. On Study of Indonesian Arts and Field Research. Aired on CPP Radio Network and National Indonesian VOA Programing.
2015. Online Article Profile on Study of Indonesian Music and Dance. “Kesenian Indonesia Membuat Warga AS Jatuh Cinta” (Indonesian Arts Make American Fall in Love [with Indonesia]) by Dhania Iman and Dewi Sulianti on Voice of America-Indonesia. (Find it here!)