معرفی
Luthfi Adam is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Research, Monash Indonesia, and a former fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University (2022-2023). He holds a Ph.D. in History from Northwestern University (2020), where his dissertation won the Harold Perkin Prize. His work focuses on modern Southeast Asian and environmental history, colonial botany, and the socio-political dimensions of environmental issues in Indonesia.
- Affiliations: Monash Indonesia, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard), Northwestern University (visiting scholar until 2023).
Research Interests: Environmental degradation in Jakarta, colonial botanical practices, political ecology, disaster history, and Science and Technology Studies. His first book project examines colonial botanic gardens and empire-building in the Netherlands East Indies, while his second addresses environmental crises in Greater Jakarta (deforestation, pollution, urbanization).
Grants & Projects: Leading the 'Reimagining Disaster Management in Indonesia' (RDMI) project (2023–2024) and contributing to the 'ASEAN Disinformation Index' (MDFI) project (2024–2025). Supported by grants from the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University.
Awards: Harold Perkin Prize (2020).
