Dr Elisabeth Kramer

Dr Elisabeth Kramer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, a Scientia Fellow and an ARC DECRA Fellow (2023). Her research focuses on the lived experience of politics and policy, examining how individuals navigate, experience and are shaped by political and policy systems. Drawing on her Indonesian heritage, her research focuses primarily on Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

Her DECRA fellowship examines the socio-political dynamics of tobacco policy in Indonesia, including cigarettes and vapes. Other current projects include an ARC Linkage project exploring therapeutic opioid governance and additional interests in palliative care and quality of life, corruption and accountability in government, and the politics of cat ownership and cats as political symbols. Elisabeth's first monograph, The Candidate's Dilemma: Anticorruptionism and Money Politics in Indonesian Elections (Cornell University Press, 2022) delves into how candidates experience the intersection of money politics, anticorruptionism, and electoral campaigning. She is a co-producer and co-host of the Talking Indonesia Podcast.

Elisabeth has held Visiting Fellowships at the Global Center for Tobacco Control at Harvard University, Chiang Mai University, University of Indonesia, the South East Asia Centre (SEAC) at the London School of Economics and The Centre for South East Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Kyoto University. She is currently an Associate at the Harvard University Asia Center and an Honorary Associate at the School of Languages and Culture at the University of Sydney.

Prior to academia, Elisabeth worked in the public service, international development, NGOs and ESL teaching.