Associate Professor Annie Pohlman
Associate Professor

Annie Pohlman

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Background

Annie Pohlman is an Associate Professor in Indonesian Studies at The School of Languages and Cultures, St Lucia campus, UQ. Her research interests include Indonesian history and politics, comparative genocide studies, torture, gendered experiences of violence, and testimony studies. For 2027-2031, she is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, investigating predatory forms of law and order in Indonesia. She also works with human rights NGOs in Indonesia on the documentation of human rights abuses.

Availability

Associate Professor Annie Pohlman is:
Available for supervision

Fields of research

Asian history Historical studies History, Heritage and Archaeology Language, Communication and Culture

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Indonesian Studies

  • Indonesian politics

  • Genocide

  • Indonesian history

  • Torture

  • Sexual Violence

  • Perpetrators of mass violence and atrocity

  • Complicity in mass violence and atrocity

Research impacts

Indonesia faces the critical challenge of how to deal with its entrenched culture of impunity for past--and ongoing--mass atrocities and other gross human rights violations. The impact of Pohlman's research relates to her investigation and documentation of gross violations in the Indonesian past, and their ongoing practices.

Search Professor Annie Pohlman’s works on UQ eSpace

81 works between 2004 and 2026
All (81) Book (9) Journal Article (37) Other Outputs (6) Conference Publication (3) Book Chapter (24) Newspaper Article (2)

81 - 81 of 81 works

2004

Journal Article

A fragment of a story: Gerwani and Tapol experiences

Pohlman, Anne (2004). A fragment of a story: Gerwani and Tapol experiences. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, 1 (10).

A fragment of a story: Gerwani and Tapol experiences

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2027
    Suharto's enablers? Social complicity in the Indonesian killings of 1965-66 (ARC Discovery Project administered by ANU)
    The Australian National University
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2017 - 2021
    How does torture become normal? Indonesia's New Order regime, 1965-1998
    ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
    Open grant
  • 2015
    Violence and detention during the New Order regime in Indonesia (1965 - 1998): Reading stories of torture and ill-treatment
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2013
    Torture and the New Order State in Indonesia (1965-1998): Stories from East Timor
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Availability

Associate Professor Annie Pohlman is:
Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • Indonesian history and politics

  • Comparative genocide studies

  • sexual violence, particularly as part of mass violence

  • Torture

  • Southeast Asian history

  • Mixed qualitative and quantitative mapping of mass violence

  • Complicity in, and perpetration of, mass violence and atrocity

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Gender and learner identity in non-formal Englishlanguage learning contexts

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Obaid Hamid

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Women, trauma, and memory writing in post-New Order Indonesian novels

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Amy Hubbell

  • Master Philosophy

    Shaping Teacher Professional Learning: A case study in Indonesia public high school

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ravinder Sidhu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Improving Human Resources through the Establishment of Education Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Indonesia

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ravinder Sidhu

Completed supervision

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