Jessica Soedirgo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on questions around the inclusion and often violent exclusion of ethnic and religious minorities, with a country focus on Indonesia. She also writes on qualitative methodology, particularly with regards to fieldwork. She has recently begun two projects: a NWO-funded Veni project on responses to forced assimilation in post-colonial Indonesia and a project on understandings of the colonial past on the part of the Dutch Moluccan community.

Research interests

• Ethnic minorities
• Religion
• Conflict
• Indonesia