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Associate Professor Annie Pohlman is a leading scholar in Indonesian Studies at the School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland. With a research focus on Indonesian history, politics, comparative genocide studies, and gendered violence, she has worked closely with human rights NGOs in Indonesia to document gross human rights violations.
- Academic Affiliation: UQ since 2008
- Key Research Areas: 1965-66 Indonesian killings, torture systems, transitional justice, and mass violence complicity
Her work explores testimony studies and atrocities documentation, particularly through the Indonesia Torture Mapping Dataset. She has contributed to international tribunals and published extensively on sexual violence as torture, state impunity, and post-authoritarian reconciliation efforts.
Publications Trends include comparative analyses of genocide, interdisciplinary approaches to torture documentation, and psychological dynamics of civilian participation in violence. Her recent work (2022-2025) focuses on systematic torture patterns, post-conflict memory, and mass violence denial.
Supervision: Currently mentoring PhD candidates on Indonesian trauma narratives, postcolonial illegitimacy, and political biographies, with completed supervision on CAM practices and Roma genocide.
Key Collaborations: Jess Melvin, Katharine McGregor, and human rights organizations in Aceh and East Timor.
