About Jesse

Solong, Ulee Kareng, Banda Aceh

My full name is Jesse Hession Grayman. Hession is my mother’s maiden name. I was born in Schenectady, NY and grew up there and on Long Island. I first went to Indonesia as a high school exchange student in 1989, and lived in Yogyakarta. I did my undergraduate studies in Biological Anthropology at Harvard College, graduating in 1995. I got two Master’s degrees at the University of Michigan in 2001, an MA in Southeast Asian Studies, and an MPH in International Health Epidemiology. After spending a year working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, I started my PhD in Social and Medical Anthropology at Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2002. In June 2005, I started working and doing research in Aceh, six months after the tsunami devastated the province and two months before the peace agreement that ended 30 years of conflict between GAM (Free Aceh Movement) and the Indonesian government.  I worked on a number of projects in Aceh until mid-2010.  My graduate studies took a few more years than everyone else in my cohort because of these years spent in Aceh, but I finally completed and defended my dissertation, titled “Humanitarian Encounters in Post-Conflict Aceh, Indonesia” at the end of 2012.  In mid-2013, I moved to Singapore where I now teach at Nanyang Technological University in the Division of Sociology at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

I will work on this page over time, but for now it’s probably enough to list some of the places where I am parked on the internet. All of the Indonesia specific posts from this blog are reproduced on a mirror site “The AnthroLOLogist in Indonesia” as part of the Indonesia Matters blog platform in order to reach a wider audience of bloggers with an interest in Indonesia.

My facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/jesse.grayman

My twitter stream: http://twitter.com/kopyor

My flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/soekarno72/

My livejournal: http://kopyor.livejournal.com

My photo livejournal: http://fotofoto.livejournal.com (I’ve fallen way behind in updating this, but it’s like a best-of from my flickr account, with years of photos that pre-date flickr’s invention)

You can also google stalk my name and find lots. A search with or without my middle name yields different results. Over the years, I’ve accumulated a lot of internet detritus, including a LinkedIn page that I only update occasionally.  I even have an orkut page.

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