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Dr Erica M. Larson commenced her appointment as Research Fellow in the Religion and Globalisation Cluster on 29 June 2022.

She has a PhD in Anthropology from Boston University and was previously Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Hanover College (USA). Her book manuscript, Ethics of Belonging: Education, Religion, and Politics in Manado, Indonesia (forthcoming, 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. Dr Larson’s current research focuses on Indonesian students seeking higher education in Singapore as a “digital diaspora”, examining the way in which social media usage is intertwined with academic aspirations, religious practice, and various forms of mobility. She is also launching a collaborative, multi-sited project researching Indonesian youth active in religious organisations.