Gadis Arivia has over 20 years of teaching and applied research experience concerning a wide variety of social change issues with academia, communities, the private sector and government institutions in Indonesia and a wide range of other countries. She has developed a comprehensive blend of teaching, researching, and activism in the areas of gender equality and human rights. The Indonesian Press Association (AJI) awarded her the Tasrif Award for her work in the field of women’s rights and social justice in 2006, and the French Government did so in 2017 for her work on gender equality and human rights.
Between 1997 and 2017, Dr. Arivia was a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia, where she focused on Indonesian studies, philosophy, gender and social justice issues. She is currently an adjunct professor in Sociology and Sociology of Gender at Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
Dr. Arivia holds a master’s degree in social psychology from the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, France, and a doctorate degree in philosophy from the University of Indonesia. She is fluent in Bahasa Indonesia, English, and French.
John H. McGlynn translated the poems of Gadis Arivia. Originally from Wisconsin (USA), he is a long-term resident of Jakarta where, in 1987, he co-founded the Lontar Foundation, the only organization in the world devoted to the publication of Indonesian literature in translation. Through Lontar, he has overseen the publication of close to two hundred books on Indonesian literature and culture. McGlynn is the Indonesia country editor for Manoa, and a contributing editor to Words Without Borders, Cordite, and Asian American Writers’ Workshop. He is also a trustee of AMINEF, the American Indonesian Exchange Foundation, which oversees the Fulbright and Humphrey scholarship programs in Indonesia.
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Gadis Arivia has over 20 years of teaching and applied research experience concerning a wide variety of social change issues with academia, communities, the private sector and government institutions in Indonesia and a wide range of other countries. She has developed a comprehensive blend of teaching, researching, and activism in the areas of gender equality and human rights. The Indonesian Press Association (AJI) awarded her the Tasrif Award for her work in the field of women’s rights and social justice in 2006, and the French Government did so in 2017 for her work on gender equality and human rights.
Between 1997 and 2017, Dr. Arivia was a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia, where she focused on Indonesian studies, philosophy, gender and social justice issues. She is currently an adjunct professor in Sociology and Sociology of Gender at Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
Dr. Arivia holds a master’s degree in social psychology from the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, France, and a doctorate degree in philosophy from the University of Indonesia. She is fluent in Bahasa Indonesia, English, and French.
John H. McGlynn translated the poems of Gadis Arivia. Originally from Wisconsin (USA), he is a long-term resident of Jakarta where, in 1987, he co-founded the Lontar Foundation, the only organization in the world devoted to the publication of Indonesian literature in translation. Through Lontar, he has overseen the publication of close to two hundred books on Indonesian literature and culture. McGlynn is the Indonesia country editor for Manoa, and a contributing editor to Words Without Borders, Cordite, and Asian American Writers’ Workshop. He is also a trustee of AMINEF, the American Indonesian Exchange Foundation, which oversees the Fulbright and Humphrey scholarship programs in Indonesia.
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