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Global Health Program, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney

Benjamin Hegarty is a medical anthropologist and author of The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia (Cornell University Press, 2022). Currently, he is a Senior Research Associate in Global Health at the Kirby Institute at UNSW and Affiliated Researcher at the Center of Excellence on Health Policy and Social Innovation - AIDS Research Center, Atma Jaya Catholic University.

Experience

  • 2019–present
    Research fellow, Center of Excellence on Health Policy and Social Innovation - AIDS Research Center, Atma Jaya Catholic University
  • 2023–present
    Senior Research Associate in Global Heath, The Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales

Education

  • 2018 
    Australian National University, PhD, Anthropology

Publications

  • 2023
    Identity Cards, Semiotic Instability, and Signs of State Recognition for Indonesian Warias, Visual Anthropology Review
  • 2022
    The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia, Cornell University Press
  • 2021
    One Transgender Community's Experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic A Report from Indonesia, Transgender Studies Quarterly
  • 2021
    Governing Nonconformity: Gender Presentation, Public Space, and the City in New Order Indonesia, Journal of Asian Studies
  • 2021
    Chasing targets in a pandemic: The impact of COVID-19 on HIV outreach workers for MSM (men who have sex with men) in Jakarta, Indonesia, Global Public Health
  • 2021
    The Biosocial Body: HIV Visibility in an Age of Pharmaceutical Treatment in Indonesia, Ethos
  • 2020
    Understanding the challenges faced in community-based outreach programs aimed at men who have sex with men in urban Indonesia, Sexual Health
  • 2018
    Under the Lights, Onto the Stage: Becoming Waria through National Glamour in New Order Indonesia , Transgender Studies Quarterly

Professional Memberships

  • Australian Anthropological Society
  • Australian Studies Association of Australia

Research Areas

  • Social And Cultural Anthropology (160104)
  • Public Health And Health Services (1117)
  • Culture, Gender, Sexuality (200205)