Luthfi Adam

Luthfi Adam is a historian of Southeast Asia and environmental history, with a PhD from Northwestern University. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Research at Monash University Indonesia, where he also teaches in the Master of Public Policy and Management program. Luthfi was previously a Fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, and an Arryman Fellow at the EDGS-Buffett Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern University. His first book project, Cultivating Power: Botany and Empire in the Dutch East Indies, is under contract with Cornell University Press.

Luthfi’s second book project explores the history of environmental degradation of colonial and postcolonial Greater Jakarta. The project seeks historical explanations of pressing environmental issues faced by the environment and population of Greater Jakarta, most notably deforestation, air, river, and marine pollution, urban development, waste problems, sinking lands, and climate change. It is tentatively titled “The Sinking Capital: An Environmental History of Greater Jakarta."