(Original article by Nancy Joseph, 9/2015, from “Perspectives”, UW College of Arts and Sciences) When Matthew Novak set foot on Tinjil Island in Indonesia this summer, it was a homecoming of sorts. Twenty years ago, Novak (BS, PhD, Psychology, 1993, 2002) participated in a month-long field study program on the remote island as a UW

Emily Peterson successfully defended her dissertation titled “Insularity and Adaptation: Investigating the role of exchange and inter-island interaction in the Banda Islands, Indonesia” on March 17. This is an innovative study of changes in social “connectedness” in these small and geographically isolated islands in eastern Indonesia, over the period from initial Neolithic occupation about 3500

UW Today featured an artcile about Professor Randy Kyes: “Since at least the 1970s, the population of critically endangered Sulawesi black macaques living in an Indonesian nature reserve has been dropping. But a new study by researchers at the University of Washington and in Indonesia shows that the population has stabilized over the past decade.

The Fulbright-DIKTI Indonesian Senior Scholar Recharging Program is an experimental program that allows selected Indonesian senior scholars to spend 10 weeks in the U.S. at a research university. The University of Washington was chosen as the first site for the program because of the excellence and quantity of scholars who specialize on Indonesia in Anthropology,

Comments from Laurie Sears, Director, Southeast Asia Center The highlight of the 2011-2012 year at SEAC was the book launch of the late and beloved Professor Emeritus Daniel S. Lev’s new book No Concessions: The Life of Yap Thiam Hien, Human Rights Lawyer. In the photo below, Professor Emeritus Benedict O’ G. Anderson and Yap