He received his B.A. from Yale University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Cornell University. His doctoral dissertation is an ethnographic history of a Sumatran community in the 19th and early 20th centuries that is the world's largest matrilineal Muslim society. His current research includes a history of Jews in the Malay world and an analysis of anti-Semitism and violence in modern Indonesia. Jeff teaches about the history and culture of Southeast Asia with a focus on Indonesia. He has held grants from Fulbright, the SSRC, Charlotte Newcombe, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and in 2000-01 was a visiting professor at the State Islamic University in Jakarta. In 2003-04 he will be a Townsend Center Fellow at Berkeley. Contact: hadler@socrates.berkeley.edu