DPhil Student
Green Templeton College
Research: Fiona Asokacitta is researching Indonesian museum collections in the United Kingdom, mainly focusing on the British Museum, the Pitt-Rivers Museum, and the Ashmolean museum. Born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, she has a deep interest in contentious museum displays and the interrogation of visual materials of colonialism, violence, and contested memory. Her master's dissertation was on the Sacred Pancasila Museum and Monument in Jakarta, Indonesia, a controversial Cold-War era anti-Communist museum. Her undergraduate interdisciplinary honours thesis was on visual reconstructions of 'Java Man,' the first "missing link" fossil discovered. She has a professional background in museums and commercial art organisations, as well as research funding.
She also serves as Editorial Assistant at the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and a volunteer in the British Museum's Department of Asia (Southeast Asia division).
Aside from research, she is a miniaturist and ethical taxidermist.
Research keywords: museum anthropology, Indonesia, visual anthropology, colonialism, curation, decolonisation.
Email: f.asokacitta@gtc.ox.ac.uk
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-as/
Previous education:
MSc (Distinction) in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology, University of Oxford (2021-2022).
BA (dual hons.) in Asian and Middle Eastern History and Art History, minor in Anthropology, Northwestern University (2017-2021)
