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Dr Erica M. Larson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Religion and Globalisation Cluster.

 

Dr Larson has a PhD in Anthropology from Boston University. Her book Ethics of Belonging: Education, Religion, and Politics in Manado, Indonesia (2024, University of Hawai‛i Press), draws on ethnographic fieldwork in North Sulawesi to demonstrate how schools become important sites for deliberating the ethics and politics of religious coexistence.

 

Her current research focuses on the Indonesian diaspora in Singapore in terms of mobility and the construction of identity and belonging across various groups, including students and religious networks. She is also involved in long-term ethnographic research on Indonesian university students active in religious organizations. This research approaches young people’s attitudes and beliefs about corruption as a lens on normative state-society relations and related notions of ethics, piety, and responsibility