Hannah Loney

Dr. Hannah Loney is Visiting Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna, with expertise in women's and gender history, transnational feminist activism, and twentieth-century Southeast Asian and international history. Her research focuses on gendered violence, oral history, memory, and nationalism, particularly during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.

Education:

• Bachelor of Arts (Degree with Honours), University of Melbourne
• PhD in Historical Studies, University of Melbourne (2017)

Her 2018 monograph, In Women’s Words, analyzes gendered violence through oral histories of East Timorese women. In 2020, she co-edited Gender, Violence and Power in Indonesia, exploring structural inequalities across colonial and postcolonial contexts.

Research Trends: Her recent work examines intersections of gender, violence, and power in Southeast Asian history, with a focus on visual documentation of torture, post-conflict women's movements, and transnational feminist networks. Articles highlight methodological innovations in oral history and critiques of nationalist historiography.

Collaborations: She contributes to the Timor-Leste Studies Association and co-edits conference proceedings. Her scholarship bridges academic-activist spaces, emphasizing women's roles in decolonization and social change.