ELIZABETH F. DREXLER is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Michigan State University. For more than twenty years, she has conducted research on violence, human rights, transitional justice and impunity in Indonesia and Timor Leste. In ongoing research, she explores structural injustice and visual culture in the U.S. and globally.
Biography
Works
Drexler, Elizabeth F. Infrastructures of Impunity: New Order Violence in Indonesia. Cornell University Press, 2024.
Drexler, Elizabeth F. Infrastruktur Impunitas [Bahasa Indonesia translation]. Jakarta: GDN Publishers, January 2026.
Udasmoro, Wening, Elizabeth F. Drexler, and Mariana Lewier. 2025. “Language and Conflict De-Escalation: Preserving Peace in Ambon through Literature and Art.” Indonesia and the Malay World 53 (155): 16–35.
Udasmoro, Wening and Elizabeth F. Drexler “Theorizing the Selves: Hip-Hop and Subjectivity Among Ambonese Youth.” Forum for World Literature 17 no. 2 (June, 2025), 257-271.
Drexler, Elizabeth F. “Seeing Gaslighting: Photo-dialogues and Structural Injustice” Visual Anthropology Review, 39 (2023): 58-81.
Drexler, Elizabeth F. “Impunity and Transitional Justice in Indonesia: Aksi Kamisan’s Circular Time” International Journal of Transitional Justice 16, no. 3 (2022): 298-313.
Drexler, Elizabeth F. “Speaking truth to power in a post‐truth era: Multidimensional and intersectional justice.” Anthropology Today 36 (2020): 4-6.
Drexler, Elizabeth F. “Victim-warriors and iconic heroines: photographs of female combatants in Aceh, Indonesia, Critical Asian Studies 50, no.3 (2018): 395-421.
Drexler, Elizabeth F. Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Association of Third World Studies Cecil B. Currey Book–Length Publications Award for 2007‑08.
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