Rate My Professor Greg Fealy

Fealy's research specialises in Southeast Asian politics and history, with a particular emphasis on Indonesian politics, Islamic movements and parties, cultural and radical Islam, democratisation and Islamism, jihadist ideology and terrorism, transnational Islamist movements, and religious commodification in Indonesia. He has produced 81 research outputs, including highly cited works such as Expressing Islam: Religious Life and Politics in Indonesia (2008, 588 citations), Consuming Islam: Commodified Religion and Aspirational Pietism in Contemporary Indonesia (2008, 334 citations), Islamic Radicalism in Indonesia: The Faltering Revival? (2004, 333 citations), Ijtihad Politik Ulama: Sejarah NU 1952-1967 (2012), and Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook (2006). More recent publications include Jokowi in the Covid-19 Era: Repressive Pluralism, Dynasticism and the Overbearing State (2020) and Counterterrorism, Civil Society Organisations and Peacebuilding: The Role of Non-State Actors in Deradicalisation in Bima, Indonesia (2022). With 559 citations and an h-index of 9, his work has had substantial impact on the field of Islamic politics in Southeast Asia. In 2021, Fealy was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his significant service to tertiary education and Australia-Indonesia relations.