Annisa R Beta

An Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) fellow (2023-2025) and Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne. Her research is broadly concerned with youth, new media, and political subjectivity in Southeast Asia.

Before moving to Melbourne, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, from 2018 to 2019. She received her Ph.D. from National University of Singapore in 2018. While finishing her doctoral degree, she was also a Visiting Student Researcher at the University of California Berkeley in 2016. Her first book, Pious Girls (2024) , traces an emerging feminine and pious political subjectivity in Indonesia.