Cory Rogers OC ‘12

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Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia (2012-14)

Cory Rogers is a copy editor at the Jakarta Post in Jakarta, Indonesia. During his fellowship, Cory was quite busy inside and outside of the classroom. Cory’s jazz band, “Coriander and the Spice Cabinet,” played throughout the city and even performed a spontaneous happy birthday tune for Hamengkubuwono X, sultan and governor of Yogyakarta. Cory also published two articles in the Jakarta Globe that examined the situation of Indonesian chili farmers, and Islamic environmentalism, and became active in the local arts and film-documentary culture in Jogja. He graduated from Oberlin in 2012 with a double degree in Jazz Performance and History.

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Shansi Fellowship ... a carte blanche for probing new possibilities of self and community in Indonesia
Shansi Fellowship ... a carte blanche for probing new possibilities of self and community in Indonesia

Cory Rogers ‘12, Gadjah Mada University Fellow

The Shansi Fellowship is often imagined as an effort to “join worlds.” But this conception, as least as I understood it in the summer of 2012, fails to capture what made my personal experience in Yogyakarta formative and profound.