Veronika Kusumaryati

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Studies

kusumaryati@wisc.edu

(608)262-6841

Veronika Kusumaryati is an assistant professor of anthropology and international studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She earned her PhD in Anthropology with a secondary field in Film and Visual Studies from Harvard University (2018). Her research has focused on indigenous politics, race and identities, and digital media in Southeast Asia and Melanesia with extensive field research in West Papua, Indonesia, the United States and the Netherlands. She is currently working on her first book manuscript that examines the idea of race, and how they have shaped Euro-American and post-colonial ideologies of racial hierarchy in West Papua. Her work has been published in the journal of Comparative Studies in Society and History, Critical Asian Studies, and American Ethnologist.