Dr. Victoria Kumala Sakti, 2018-2024
Curriculum Vitae
Victoria Kumala Sakti was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max
Planck Research Group, “Ageing in a Time of Mobility” of the Max Planck
Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, from 2018
until 2024. Since 2025 she is a research fellow at Münster University
and a guest at MPI-MMG. She holds a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural
Anthropology from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her doctoral
research was a multi-sited ethnography of how communities in Timor-Leste
deal with memories of violence and legacies of the Indonesian
occupation. She grounds her approach in psychological anthropology, with
research interests comprising emotion, memory, transnational and forced
migration, social relations, resilience, justice, and reconciliation.
Her experience working with displaced communities and survivors of
violence spans beyond academia, working on these issues since 2004 with
various non-governmental organizations in Indonesia and Germany. Her
work has been published in academic journals, such as The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Social Identities,
as well as in interdisciplinary edited volumes. She holds an M.A. in
Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex, United
Kingdom and a B.A. in Psychology from Atma Jaya Catholic University,
Indonesia.