Rate My Professor Greg Fealy

Gregory John Fealy, known as Greg Fealy, is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Political and Social Change at the Australian National University (ANU) College of Asia and the Pacific. He retired in late 2021 after 22 years of service, during which he served as Associate Professor and Senior Fellow in Indonesian Politics, and Head of the Department from 2013 to 2018. Fealy holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a PhD in History from Monash University, with his doctoral research focused on the traditionalist Muslim organisation Nahdlatul Ulama. Earlier in his career, he worked as an Indonesia analyst for the Australian Government from 1997 to 1999 and as a consultant on programs related to Indonesian civil society, elections, and Islamic education. He has held visiting positions including Professor of Indonesian Politics at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in 2003 and Lady Davis Trust Visiting Professor in Asian Studies and Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2019-2020. Currently, he chairs the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (DFAT) Australia-Indonesia Institute.

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.