DAHLIA GRATIA SETIYAWAN

B.A., History, University of Pennsylvania, 2000; M.S.Ed., Intercultural Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 2005; M.A., History, UCLA, 2008

Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: dsetiyawan@ucla.edu

Field

Modern Indonesia, Asian American History, Migration Studies

Research Interests

Master's Thesis: "Unity in Diversity: Identity Development and Community-Building among Indonesian Immigrants in Philadelphia"

Publications

“‘I Can Still Hear them Weeping’: The Short Story as a Source for Indonesian Conceptualizations of the 1965-66 Mass Killings.” Explorations, 7(1), University of Hawaii Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 23-35.

Grants and Awards

IIE Fulbright Award for research in Indonesia, 2008-2009

UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship Program Award, 2008

UCLA Department of History Travel Grant for study in The Netherlands, 2007

UCLA Department of Germanic Studies Book Award for Excellence in Dutch Language Study, 2007

UCLA Graduate Division Research Mentorship Program Award, 2006-2007

Fulbright-Hays Group Fellowship for advanced summer language study in Indonesia, 2006

Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship for summer language study in Indonesia, 2006

Eugene V. Cota Robles Fellowship, 2005-2009

Phi Beta Kappa, University of Pennsylvania, 2000

Advisors

Dr. Geoffrey Robinson
Dr. Valerie Matsumoto
Dr. Kelly Lytle-Hernandez
Dr. George Dutton

Conference Presentations

“Southeast Asia Beyond Borders: Prospects and Challenges of ‘Two-Shores’ Transnational Research.” The First International Symposium on Language, Culture, and Globalization in Southeast Asian Countries, Airlangga University, Surabaya Indonesia, December 2008.

"Days of Uncertainty, Nights of Terror: Anti-Communist Violence in Surabaya, 1965-66." The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Atlanta, GA, April 2008

“‘I Can Still Hear them Weeping’: The Short Story as a Source for Indonesian Conceptualizations of the 1965-66 Mass Killings.” Presented at the 9th Annual Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference, Cornell University, March 2007

"'VN Girls' and 'Kuta Cowboys': Tourism, Internet Communities, and the Consumption of Pleasure in the Global Economy." Presented at the 17th Annual Thinking Gender Conference, UCLA, February 2007

"Popular Culture as a Mediator of Identity, Film as a Force for Social Change: Kuldesak and Late-1990s Urban Youth in Indonesia." Presented at "Theory and Practice: Southeast Asian Cinemas and Filmmaking," the 3rd Annual New Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2006

"Suka-Duka di Amrik: Pengalaman Pekerja Pendatang WNI di Amerika Serikat." Presented at the Consortium for the Teaching of Indonesian and Malay (COTIM) Program Seminar, Sulawesi, Indonesia, August 2006

“A Case Study of Collectivism among Indonesian Patients at a U.S. Medical Clinic.” Presented at the 10th Annual Nordic Network of Intercultural Communication (NIC) conference, Göteborg, Sweden, November 2003


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