Herb Feith Centre Community

The program connects scholars whose research areas of interest intersect with Indonesia from across the university and beyond, to create a collaborative community of interest.

Associate Professor Brook Andrew

Associate Professor, Fine Arts

Area of expertise: art, contemporary art, Aboriginal, first nations, monuments.

Dr Misita Anwar

Assistant Lecturer, IT

Area of expertise: information systems, Community informatics, development informatics.

Professor Harry Aveling

Professor (Adjunct Appointment), Indonesian Studies

Area of expertise: classical and modern Malay literature, modern Indonesian literature, translation theory and practice.

Associate Professor Becky Batagol

Associate Professor, Law & Monash Sustainable Development Institute

Area of expertise: gender and social inclusion, law, family law and family violence, transdisciplinary studies.

Professor Edward Buckingham

Director, Engagement, Monash Business School

Area of expertise: strategy, entrepreneurship, international business and change management. He has extensive experience in executive education and has taught in French, Indonesian and Mandarin as well as English.

Dr Raqib Chowdhury

Senior Lecturer, Teach Edu Language Arts & Prof Learning

Area of expertise: TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and ELT (English Language Teaching) in Indonesia, curriculum and pedagogy, higher education policy and reform, sociolinguistics, bilingualism.

Associate Professor Sharyn Davies

Director of the Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre

Area of expertise: gender, sexuality, security, surveillance, health, social justice, anthropology.

Dr Alice De Jonge

Senior Lecturer, Business Law & Taxation, Monash Data Futures Institute

Area of expertise: aspects of comparative law and governance, with a focus on China and Southeast Asia.

Dr Anita Dewi

Research Learning Coordinator, Sir Louis Matheson Library

Area of expertise: Librarianship, applied linguistics, translation studies.

Professor Andreas Ernst

Professor, School of Mathematics, Monash Data Futures Institute; Senior Research Fellow with the Australia Indonesia Centre

Area of expertise: scheduling and optimisation for large-scale industrial applications, including high-performance combinatorial optimisation algorithms, parallel metaheuristics, network optimisation.

Dr Naomi Francis

Research Fellow with RISE Water for Women

Area of expertise: WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene), gender, social inclusion, international development, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea.

Dr Xin Gu

Senior Lecturer, Master of Cultural and Creative Industries

Area of expertise: cultural and creative industries, cultural policy, culture and sustainable development, creative economy.

Ariel Heryanto

Emeritus Professor

Area of expertise: cultural studies, media studies, postcolonial studies.

Professor Emerita Margaret Kartomi

Musicology Ethnomusicology

Area of expertise: Music-cultures of Indonesia and Southeast Asia, Baghdadi Jewish music-cultures, performing arts archives, historical ethnomusicology, organology, performativity, public arts policy, children's music, youth orchestras.

Yacinta Kurniasih

Assistant Lecturer, Indonesian Studies

Area of expertise: language and gender in Indonesia, applied linguistic, TESOL, teaching Indonesian/Javanese Language and Studies.

Professor Karin Leder

Professor (Research), Planetary Health

Area of expertise: infectious diseases, public health, epidemiology, travel medicine, waterborne disease

Dr Petra Mahy

Senior Lecturer, Dept of Business Law & Taxation, Monash Business School

Area of expertise: comparative law, empirical socio-legal and/or regulatory research projects, particularly projects based in Southeast Asia or Australia.

Dr Howard Manns

Lecturer, Director, Master of Applied Linguistics

Area of expertise: sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, youth, social media, mass media, second language acquisition.

Andrew McIntyre

Associate Professor, Fine Arts

Area of expertise: art, contemporary art, Aboriginal, first nations, monuments

Professor Julian Millie

Professor, Indonesian Studies

Area of expertise: anthropology of Indonesia, ritual, religion, Islamic culture and Society, cultures of Indonesian Islam.

Professor Daniel Prajogo

Professor, Department of Management

Area of expertise: quality management, operations and supply chain management, innovation management, and sustainability management.

Dr Jemma Purdey

Research Fellow at Monash University in the Faculty of Arts and the Australia Indonesia Centre

Area of expertise: Indonesian politics and contemporary history and Australia-Indonesia interactions.

Professor Diego Ramirez-Lovering

Professor, Department of Architecture; Centre to Impact Antimicrobial Resistance

Area of expertise: urban environments including climate change, resource limitations and rapid population growth with a key focus on the Global South.

Dr Max Ritcher

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Organisational & Social Informatics, Faculty of IT, Monash University

Area of expertise: senior research fellow on an Australia-Indonesia Centre Energy project, and Academic Coordinator (Indonesia) in the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Monash University.

Associate Professor Briony Rogers

Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences and Project Leader, CRC for Water Sensitive Cities

Area of expertise: economics, planning, governance, transitions, urban modelling, urban design, urban heat, urban metabolism, groundwater management.

Professor Amrik Sohal

Professor, Department of Management

Area of expertise: manufacturing/ operations strategy, technology/information management, quality management, supply chain management, lean/agile production systems, electronic business.