Susan Rodgers received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1978, after conducting two and a half years of fieldwork in Sumatra on issues of ethnic identity construction, ritual oratory, indigenous print literatures, and minority/state relations. She taught at Ohio University from 1978 to 1989, when she came to Holy Cross to help found an anthropology program. She has returned to Indonesia numerous times, to explore issues of state power and indigenous arts. Translating modern print literature from the two languages she uses in fieldwork (Indonesian and Angkola Batak) is a special interest. Her articles on art and power issues have appeared in such journals as American Ethnologist, Indonesia, and Journal of Asian Studies and her recent book is Sitti Djaoerah: A Novel of Colonial Indonesia (a translation, 1997, U. of Wisconsin SE Asia Series). At Holy Cross, her courses include ones on Southeast Asia, the anthropology of religion, anthropology of art, gender in cross-cultural perspective, and psychological anthropology.