Hefner Elected President of American Institute for Indonesian Studies
On March 19, 2021, Robert Hefner, Professor of Anthropology and of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was elected to a three year term as President of the American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS).
AIFIS is the United States’ main sponsor and clearing house for research on and in Indonesia. Its main goals are to foster scholarly exchange between Indonesian and U.S. scholars, to promote educational and research efforts by U.S. scholars in Indonesia, and to facilitate visits by Indonesian scholars to the United States. AIFIS has opened research offices in Jakarta and at Cornell University in Ithaca New York.
Learn more about AIFIS on their website.
Robert Hefner has directed 19 research projects and organized 18 international conferences, and authored or edited nineteen books. He is former president of the Association for Asian Studies. At CURA, he directed the program on Islam and civil society since 1991; coordinated interdisciplinary research and public policy programs on religion, pluralism, and world affairs; and is currently involved in two research projects: “The New Western Plurality and Civic Coexistence: Muslims, Catholics, and Secularists in North America and Western Europe”; and “Sharia Transitions: Islamic Law and Ethical Plurality in the Contemporary World.” You can read more about Professor Hefner on his faculty profile.