Dr. Nicolaas Warouw is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra, University of New South Wales, where he serves as the Program Convenor for Indonesian Studies. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the Australian National University, completed in 2004, based on ethnographic research examining manufacturing workers and modernity in western Java, Indonesia. After his PhD, he undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden, Netherlands, from 2009 to 2010. Before joining UNSW Canberra in 2013, he taught anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia. His academic career has been marked by a commitment to teaching and research in social sciences, particularly focusing on Indonesia.

Warouw's research interests center on industrial labour in Indonesia, including labour activism, working-class culture, labour politics, urban culture, the anthropology of climate change and natural disasters, and local politics. He is positioned within fields of research such as social and cultural anthropology and anthropology of development. At UNSW, he teaches a range of courses including ZHSS3505 Gender, Class, Society in Indonesia, ZHSS2506 Development Policies and Social Contexts in Indonesia, ZHSS2306 Special Studies 2: Civil-State-Military Relations in Indonesia, and introductory Indonesian language courses ZHSS1301/2 Indonesian 1A/B. He also supervises postgraduate students in areas like labour issues, local community and environment, and agency and local politics in post-authoritarian Indonesia. Notable publications include the 2018 book chapter "Women workers and urban imagination in Indonesia's industrial town" in the Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia; the 2016 journal article "Negotiating modernity: Women workers, Islam and urban trajectory in Indonesia" published in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations; the 2014 chapter "Working class revisited: Class relations in Indonesian provincial town" in In Search of Middle Indonesia: Middle Classes in Provincial Towns; the 2024 article "Design of BIPA learning based on short story “Basa-Basi” for understanding the phenomenon of chit-chat in Indonesian society" in BAHASTRA; the 2006 article "Community-based agencies as the entrepreneur's instruments of control in Post-Soeharto's Indonesia" in Asia Pacific Business Review; and the 2023 report "Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of Covid19 Outbreak On Construction Workers In Indonesia" co-authored with A. Suraji and P. Yeopanthong. Warouw's scholarship provides insights into the social dynamics of labour and urbanization in Indonesia.

Professional Email: n.warouw@adfa.edu.au