Associate Professor Kate McGregor is a historian of Indonesia. Her research interests include Indonesian historiography, memories of violence, the Indonesian military, Islam and identity in Indonesia and historical international links between Indonesia and the world.
She teaches in the areas of Southeast Asian history, the history of violence and Asian thematic history.
In February 2014 Kate commenced a four year Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on the project: Confronting Historical Injustice in Indonesia: Memory and Transnational Human Rights Activism.
Kate co-founded the Historical Justice and Memory Network and was part of the organising committee for the network's first international conference in Melbourne 2012. The network under the name Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory is now being run by Columbia University.
She has organised a range of workshops, conferences and events related to the 1965 Violence in Indonesia and is co-editor with Dr Jemma Purdey of the Translating Accounts of the 1965 Mass Violence in Indonesia Series sponsored by the Herb Feith Foundation. She is a member of the Herb Feith Foundation Working Group.
She has previously Convened The University of Melbourne's Indonesia Forum. She now co-ordinates with Dr Edwin Jurriens and Professor Thomas Reuter the Faculty of Arts Indonesia Initiative.
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FEATURED Journal article
Shifting from International to “Indonesian” Justice Measures: Two Decades of Addressing Past Human Rights Violations
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Regional Councillor for Southeast Asia, Asian Studies Association of Australia
Credentials
Positions
Associate Professor In Southeast Asian History
Historical And Philosophical Studies
Board Member
Asian Studies Association of Australia
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne