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Christina Sunardi is a professor in the Ethnomusicology program at the University of Washington, teaching since 2008. Her research interests include performance, identity, spirituality, and ethnography in Indonesia, focusing particularly on the articulation of gender in music, dance, and theater in the cultural region of East Java. In 2020, she served as Chair of the Department of Dance. Her publications include articles in Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde, Asian Music, Asian Theatre Journal, and Ethnomusicology. She has also contributed reviews to the Journal Folklore Research Reviews and the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. Dr. Sunardi has been studying Javanese performing arts since 1997, both in Indonesia and the United States, and earned her Ph.D. in music from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. She has authored books such as "Stunning Males, Powerful Females: Gender Tradition in East Javanese Dance" (University of Illinois Press, 2015) and "Fashioning Femininities, Making Masculinities: Gender, Performance, and Lived Experience in Java, Indonesia" (Lived Places Publishing, 2024).
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