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Jennifer Gaynor, Assistant Professor office: 553 Park Hall email: jlgaynor@buffalo.edu phone: (716) 645-2181 ext. 553

Education: Ph.D., Michigan, 2005

Courses:

HIS 182: Asian Civilizations II
HIS 306: Culture, Memory and the Uses of the Past
HIS 403: Folk Heroes and Historical Martyrs
HIS 549: Approaches to Maritime History

Fields: Southeast Asia, Indonesia, maritime

Hubs: Culture and Society, Knowledge, Transnational Developments

Research Interests: social and cultural history of modern Indonesia and maritime Southeast Asia, historiography and the intersections of history and anthropology

Current Research: memory, popular practice and the production of the past among coastal Sama people in Indonesia

Selected Publications:

"Maritime Ideologies and Ethnic Anomalies: Sea Space and the Structure of Subalternity in the Southeast Asian Littoral," in Jerry Bentley, Renate Bridenthal and Kären Wigen, eds., Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures and Transoceanic Exchanges (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007).