Dr Nia Deliana
Dr Nia Deliana
Member, MEMOs

Nia Deliana earned a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Human Sciences, International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM). Her dissertation concentrates on precedent historical foreign relations between Indians and Indonesia. She has published on numerous issues. Her latest works include a chapter on the Rohingya during the Pandemic, in CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age (Univ. of Hawai’i Press) edited by Emily Zoe Hertzman, et all (2023).

Her research interest includes Indonesia’s classical and contemporary foreign affairs across the Indian Ocean and Indonesia, multilateralism between South India and the Malay Peninsula, and the making of race, knowledge and identity politics. Currently, Dr. Deliana is working on a research project on the shape of international affairs across the Indian Oceans before the colonial period. She teaches methods and theories in politics and international relations in the faculty of social sciences at Indonesia International Islamic University, Depok, West Java.