Katia Chaterji
Assistant Professor | Asian and Asian American Studies | Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Biography
Dr. Katia Chaterji earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in history at the University of Washington, and her B.A. in anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of maritime Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean World, and she researches the shared histories between Islam and the performing arts in Sumatra, Indonesia. Her doctoral research was supported by Fulbright, among others, and contributed to understandings of mystical Islam in Sumatra and to ongoing debates around gender, piety, and performance. Prior to her doctoral research, Katia worked in archaeology and the historic preservation field in India and in the United States.
As a teacher and scholar, Katia is enthusiastic about mixed-method approaches to research questions. She engages oral history and performance ethnography in her work, and is an active dancer and musician. She is currently revising her dissertation for publication.
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 (6)
Andrew W. Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Reaching New Publics (professional)
2020-21
Fulbright-IIE Research Grant to Indonesia (professional)
2019-20
Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), University of Victoria (professional)
2018
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships, Indonesian (professional)
2017 (UW-Madison); 2017-18 (UW-Seattle)
Critical Language Scholarship, Indonesian
2016 (Universitas Negeri Malang)
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Malaysia (professional)
2012
Languages (4)
- English (native proficiency)
- Indonesian/Malay (advanced)
- Bengali (intermediate)
- French (reading proficiency)
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