A cultural anthropologist with a Ph.D. from Princeton University, her work has focused on issues of violence, post-conflict social life, transitional justice, the politics of memory and identity, gender, and globalizing discourses of human rights and psychosocial repair. Her research on mass violence, transitional justice and post-conflict politics in Indonesia has been supported by a MacArthur Foundation International Peace and Security fellowship, a H.F. Guggenheim Foundation grant, and grants from the United States Institute of Peace. Her current project is a documentary film called “The American Road” that investigates life along the 150-kilometer highway funded by the United States Agency for International Development as the centerpiece of its post-disaster aid efforts in Aceh.