Dylan Renca

Matriculated September 2019

Research Interests

Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Java; religion; pluralism/multiculturalism

About

Dylan is a doctoral candidate in sociocultural anthropology at Boston University. Prior to beginning his doctorate at Boston University, Dylan completed a BA in English literature and religious studies at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont where he graduated magna cum laude in 2013. As an undergraduate, he participated in World Learning’s School for International Training (SIT) in Indonesia in 2011. After graduation, Dylan served with the Fulbright US Student Program as an English Teaching Assistant (ETA) in West Java, Indonesia.

Awards & Grants

• Boston University Center for the Humanities Graduate Dissertation Fellowship (Spring 2026)
• Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Pattana Kitiarsa Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper on Southeast Asia (2025)
• Society for the Anthropology of Religion Graduate Student Paper Prize (2025)
• Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Student Travel Award (2025)
• Boston University Graduate Writing Fellowship (Fall 2025)
• Boston University Institute on Culture, Religion, & World Affairs Fellowship (2024- 2025)
• Boston University Institute on Culture, Religion, & World Affairs Travel Grant (2024)
• Fulbright-Hays (DDRA) Doctoral Dissertation Research Award. (2022-2023)
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Javanese, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Summer 2021)
• Department of Anthropology Summer Research Grant. (2021)
• Department of Anthropology Summer Research Grant. (2020)
• Boston University (GRAS) Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Scholarship. (2020- present)
• Boston University Dean’s Fellowship. (Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Indonesian, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Summer 2019)
• Fulbright US Student Program English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) Award to Indonesia. (2014-2015)

Publications

• forthcoming