One of our PhD graduate students, Sarah Moser, who has recently completed her dissertation and who is now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in USA, sends us some post-US election photos. Granted this post is rather belated as she sent them a month ago after the Nov 4, 2008 election where President Elect Obama won the elections.
She wrote:
The elections were very exciting here… people went nuts when Obama won. Here are some photos of our evening after the results were announced:
http://picasaweb.google.com/michaelhendricks73/ElectionNight2008
Sarah is currently doing a postdoc at MIT, specifically examining the trend of ‘Islamicization’ in Malaysia and Indonesia and how it is manifested in new cities there (e.g. Putrajaya and Senggarang in Riau Islands). While it’s different from her Ph.D. research, it also draws on some of the same themes such as the construction of national identity in Southeast Asia.
Thanks Sarah! Hope you’re surviving the North American winter well after all these years in tropical southeast asia!
