Christian Jil Benitez
Department of Filipino, Ateneo de Manila University
Philippines

Associate Professor Anita Lundberg is a cultural anthropologist whose research engages people and places of tropical Southeast Asia. She leads the research cluster Living Cities:Tropical Imaginaries. The cluster is concerned with the creative lived experiences of cities including cultural and natural landscapes, aesthetics, urban myths, flanerie, everyday life, liminal and cyber spaces. Anita’s previous projects include ethnographies of higher education in the Malay archipelago, the phenomenology of a Malay house and its garden of trees, and of a whaling hunting village in Indonesia. Anita is especially interested in developing a research-teaching-engagement nexus and her projects often engage students in international philanthropic projects, public talks and exhibitions. She has received awards for outstanding teaching, research supervision and innovative research and has held numerous fellowships: LIA TransOceanik (CNRS, Collége de France, JCU); The Cairns Institute (TCI); Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cambridge University, UK; Guest Researcher, Maison Asie-Pacifique, Université de Provence, France; Visiting Fellow, Institute of the Malay World and Civilization, National University Malaysia. She has also been an Anthropologist-in-Residence at Rimbun Dahan.