Loke (he/him) is a senior in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study whose interests span Anthropology, Comparative Literature, and New Media. He is aspiring to be an anthropologist, filmmaker, and historian of architecture.

His academic concentration “Thanatography and the ‘Tidalectical Archive'” concerns ethnographies of death and burial in contemporary sites affected by climate change. His thesis project seeks to coordinate the origin of contemporary submerged graveyard sites in West Java, Indonesia, to colonial histories of urbanism, ethnography, and forestry under the Dutch East Indies. Situated against these histories of extraction, contemporary graveyards were constructed precariously at sites which are growing increasingly vulnerable to flooding today. Retrieval and relocation of human remains from flooded burial sites has become increasingly common, and are introducing unprecedented disruptions to religious life and burial practices.

He is conducting this project in hopes of contributing scholarship on this urgent, understudied phenomenon. He is doing so in collaboration with Bandung-based artist and filmmaker Riyadhus Shalihin.