My research interests include images and visual culture, media and mediation, memory and violence, specifically in Indonesia. I recently completed Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation and Image-Event in Indonesia (Duke University Press, 2020), a book on the work of images in Indonesia’s post-authoritarian public sphere. I look at range of images—from political campaign stickers, to street art, to documentary photography, to contemporary art work, to youtube videos and selfies—that circulate in public giving form to people’s imaginings of Indonesia’s troubled past, its democratic transition, and its uncertain and contested future. My first book, Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java (Duke University Press, 2010) examined the role of popular photography in the making of national subjects and postcolonial Java. A current project explores visuality, violence, and the ethnic Chinese minority in Indonesia. I am interested in how contemporary artists are giving visual form to memories that have been otherwise excluded from public discourse and official historical narratives. I teach at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.