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Dr Greg Fealy

Greg Fealy holds a joint appointment as fellow and senior lecturer in Southeast Asian politics at the University's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, and the Faculty of Asian Studies. His main research interests are Islam and post-independence Indonesian politics.

Greg gained his PhD from Monash University in 1998 with a study of the history of Nahdlatul Ulama, published in Indonesian under the title Ijtihad Politik Ulama: Sejarah NU, 1952-1967. He is the co-author of Joining the Caravan? The Middle East, Islamism and Indonesia (2005), and Radical Islam and Terrorism in Indonesia (2005). He is also co-editor of Expressing Islam: Religious Life and Politics in Indonesia (2008), Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook (2006), Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Decentralisation and Democratisation (2003) and Nahdlatul Ulama, Traditionalism and Modernity in Indonesia (1995).

Greg was the C.V. Starr Visiting Professor in Indonesian Politics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC, in 2003, and has been a consultant to AusAID, USAID, The Asia Foundation and BP. From 1997 to 1999 he was an Indonesia analyst at the Australian Government's Office of National Assessments.

Dr Greg Fealy
ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
T: +61 2 6125 2302
E: greg.fealy@anu.edu.au