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Jennifer Gaynor, Assistant Professor of History and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology office: 553 Park Hall email: jlgaynor@buffalo.edu phone: (716) 645-8404

Education: Ph.D., Michigan, 2005

Courses:

HIS 182: Asian Civilizations II
HIS 335: Culture, Memory and the Uses of the Past
HIS 403: Folk Heroes and Historical Martyrs
HIS 395: Indonesia: from colonialism to dictatorship

HIS 419/552: International Piracy (meets with LAW 639)

HIS 549: Approaches to Maritime History

HIS 501 Historical Inquiry (Phd core course)

Fields: Southeast Asia, Indonesia, maritime

Hubs: Culture and Society, Knowledge, Transnational Developments

Research Interests: social and cultural history of modern Indonesia and maritime Southeast Asia, historiography and the intersections of history and anthropology

Current Research:

My research examines the constitution of maritime worlds, especially the spatial dimensions of the maritime, through the analysis of material practices and various forms of cultural representation. In my book (in progress) on sea people in Eastern Indonesia, I analyze a variety of sources that relate stories of the past focused on maritime migration, both before the advent of "Indonesia" as a nation and during its tumultuous early years.

Selected Publications:

"Flexible Fishing: Gender and the New Spatial Division of Labor in Eastern Indonesia's Rural Littoral," Radical History Review 107 (forthcoming).

"Maritime Ideologies and Ethnic Anomalies: Sea Space and the Structure of Subalternity in the Southeast Asian Littoral," in Jerry Bentley, Renate Bridenthal and Kären Wigen, eds., Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures and Transoceanic Exchanges (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007).

Fellowships and Awards:

2008-2009 Invited Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University Participant in the theme year on Water, A Critical Concept for the Humanities

2005-2007 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Public Goods Council, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

2005 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, with funds from the Luce Foundation