Jessica Rahardjo

Email: jessica.rahardjo@ames.ox.ac.uk

Postdoctoral Researcher, SOAS University of London
Leverhulme Trust-funded project: Naskah Sumatra: Mapping Sumatra's Manuscript Cultures

Education:
 

2024: DPhil in History, University of Oxford
Supervisors: R. Michael Feener and Alan Strathern
Thesis Title: The Batu Aceh tombstone tradition: A vernacular Islamic funerary material culture in maritime Southeast Asia (15th–19th centuries)

2018: MPhil in Islamic Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford – with Distinction
Supervisor: Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay and R. Michael Feener
Dissertation Title: Royal funerary material culture of Bima, Indonesia

2016: BA History of Art (Asia, Africa & Europe), SOAS and University College London – with First Class Honours
Supervisor: Professor Scott Redford
Dissertation Title: La face lumineuse d’Islam: Musée du Louvre’s Department of Islamic Art Galleries

Research Interests:

• Art and material culture of Islamic Southeast Asia
• Codicology
• Funerary material culture