Katia Chaterji
Assistant Professor | Asian and Asian American Studies | Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
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Biography
Katia Chaterji is a PhD candidate of Southeast Asian history at the University of Washington. Her dissertation discusses the relationship between Islam and the performing arts in the making of regional Islamic histories in Sumatra, Indonesia. Her work engages with archival, oral history, and dance ethnographic methodologies.
Previously, Katia worked in the cultural heritage preservation field and in EFL instruction. She is trained in classical Indian dance, and has studied various Indonesian music and dance forms during her time at UW.
Education (3)
University of Washington: Ph.D., History 2023
University of Washington: M.A., History 2017
University of Chicago: B.A., Anthropology and South Asian Languages & Civilizations 2011
Areas of Expertise (7)
Cultural Studies
Religion
Empire and Colonialism
Dance History
Southeast Asia
Oral History
Performance Studies
Accomplishments (3)
Fulbright Research Fellowship to Indonesia, U.S. Department of State (professional)
2019-20
Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), University of Victoria (professional)
2018
Foreign Language Area Studies fellowship for Advanced Indonesian at Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI), U.S. Department of Education and University of Wisconsin-Madison (professional)
2017
Affiliations (4)
- Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative
- Association for Asian Studies
- Vernacular Architecture Forum
- George Wright Society
Languages (5)
- English
- Indonesian
- Malay
- Bengali
- French
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