Marquette University

Office of the Provost

Rev. Baskara T. Wardaya, S.J.

Rev. Baskara T. Wardaya, S.J. holds a Master’s degree (1995) and a Doctoral degree (2001) in History from Marquette University. In 2004-2005, he was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct postdoctoral research in the US on the history of US-Indonesian relations during the Cold War. In 2011-2012 he taught history at the University of California-Riverside as a Fulbright Scholar in Residence. Fr. Wardaya then received a grant from AIFIS (American Institute for Indonesian Studies) in 2014 to conduct archival research on the history of US-Indonesian relations. Among his works are Cold War Shadow (2007); Truth Will Out (2013); Beyond Borders (2017); Keeping Hope (2017); and Memori Genosida (2021).  He is currently on sabbatical from Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia where he teaches history.