One of the fundamental questions in biology is the origin of species. Considerable insights into the processes that drive speciation have come from ancient lake systems. In this thesis, I present insights into speciation processes by investigating the species radiations of the a…
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Coastal fishery resources in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, are important because they not only provide food and income for coastal communities, but also generate revenue at the local, regional, and national levels. Attempts by the national government to impose centralized fishery r…
This dissertation, based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, combines perspectives from anthropology, science studies, cultural geography, and political ecology to explore the paradox of a multi-sited ethnography in a single locality—I examine the convergence of élite nation…
This dissertation is about indigenous coffee farmers who win state recognition of their ancestral territory. The story unfolds in a place called Katu that is tucked between the lush foothills of Indonesia's Lore Lindu National Park, on the island of Sulawesi. In 1995, an Asian D…
Questions about taxonomic diversity and biogeography of Eastern Tarsiers were addressed with mtDNA and recordings of vocalizations. A transect was plotted from the Sangihe Islands, north of Sulawesi, to the Togian Islands of Tomini Bay in the south. The transect was over 1000 km…
Modern political, social and economic forces are creating new contexts for human-nonhuman primate interaction, creating the possibility of cross-species pathogen transmission. This “hybrid” dissertation examines three facets of cross-species pathogen transmission on the Indonesi…
Liquid Territory examines Indonesian Sama people's engagements with maritime space and their representations of maritime spatial practices toward two ends. First, to illustrate alternative ways to approach the study of insular Southeast Asia from maritime perspectives, and secon…
This research explores the experiences of Indonesian women living in the conflict affected area of Poso, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. The aims of the research are to examine the experiences of Indonesian women not only as victims but as agents of violent conflict and as agents o…
This study explores how women in Central Sulawesi of Indonesia experience power and value transformations through self-employment. Based on the subjective experience of female fried onion producers and sarong weavers, this study suggests that the integration of women into home-b…
The general purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between educational input measures in an existing government data base and school achievement in South Sulawesi. The specific purposes were (1) to identify and develop school effectiveness predictors within th…