“JAKARTA: PROSPECTS FOR A SOUTHEAST ASIAN MEGACITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY" A WORLD CITIES FACULTY PUBLIC LECTURE BY SARAH MOSER Sarah Moser is currently the Paul E. Raether Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College where she is teaching a course on Religion and the City, and Globalization in Urban Southeast Asia. Sarah has a Ph.D. in cultural geography from the National University of Singapore and in 2008-09 held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sarah`s current research broadly investigates how political and religious ideology influences urban form in Southeast Asia and the Muslim world. She is presently working on an edited collection called New Cities in the Muslim World which investigates a variety of cities with Muslim-majority populations that have been recently built or are under construction in Africa, Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Sarah has studied, worked and traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, and has conducted research in Indonesia and Malaysia. |