Nik Setiadarma

I’m a historian of modern and contemporary Indonesia and Southeast Asia with a broader interest in intellectual history, history of emotions, and gender and sexuality. I received my PhD from Northwestern University in Spring 2025 where I was an Arryman Fellow. My dissertation “The Craft of Care” is an intellectual and cultural history of care as a social idea and political thought emerging from the discourse of household in Indonesia in the first half of the twentieth
century.

With my best friend Pepe, we create a literary e-zine and manage a blog Terminal Bus.

If you have any inquiries about work, speaking engagements, guest teaching, or would like to request a meeting, please contact through email: niksetiadarma[at]gmail.com