Hannah Loney is a final year PhD candidate in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis explores East Timorese women’s experiences, memories and perceptions of life under Indonesian rule (1975–1999). As well as undertaking research assistant work for the ‘Minutes of Evidence’ project, Hannah lectures in Southeast Asian and Pacific history at Victoria University and the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. Drawing upon her extensive oral history interviews with East Timorese women, Hannah has published in Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Oral History Australia and Oral History Forum/d’Histoire Orale on gender, nationalism, oral history and memory with reference to the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.

Author email: loneyh@unimelb.edu.au

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