Rianne Subijanto

Rianne Subijanto is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York. Her research interests include communication infrastructures, universal emancipation, social and environmental justice, and the history of colonialism and imperialism in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Her book project currently under review, “Communication against Capital: Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia,” examines the communicative sociotechnical systems of resistance produced by ordinary lower-class people in the early communist anticolonial struggles in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1920s. She is a Junior Fellow of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography and has received grants and fellowships, among others, from Fulbright, the American Association of University Women (AAUW), and CUNY Research Award Program. She works closely with Southeast Asian activists and scholars in her involvement as an editor of Indoprogress.com, Indonesia-based alternative media for progressive thought and politics.