Adam Harr (Ph.D. University of Virginia)  I am a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist who studies contemporary intersections of ritual practice and political discourse in eastern Indonesia. My book project, Marginal Centers: The Culture of Local Politics in Eastern Indonesia, examines the constitution of local political voices as the Indonesian state undergoes democratizing and decentralizing reforms. Focusing an ethnographic lens on a local election on Flores island, this project traces the concrete events—the stump speeches, party rallies, and spectacular feasts—that translate national policies into lived reality. I have also conducted over two years of participant-observation in village councils in the highlands of central Flores, exploring the interplay among language ideologies, theory of mind, and processes of building consensus. Some of my findings in this vein appear in the journal Language and Communication Volume 33:3 (2013).