About me

I am a lecturer at the Australian National University in Canberra. I am a historian specialising in the premodern history of Indonesia. I am especially interested in using indigenous Southeast Asian sources to rethink how history is practised. I have written widely on Southeast Asian history in leading history and area studies journals. I have written on my research for New Mandala, The Conversation, Inside Indonesia, as well as blogs of the British Library and Malay Heritage Centre. I have given public talks, seminars, and national radio interviews on my research, and I have an active outreach program on traditional and social media. I have previously held positions at the Ecole française d'Extrême Orient (Paris) and the University of Sydney.