Ayu Rahmawati

PhD Student

University of Florida

Ayu Diasti Rahmawati is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Politics with a research focus on civil society, social movements, and regime change. Combining archival research and interviews, her dissertation project examines why pro-democracy civil society struggles to prevent autocratization despite its historical role during democratic transitions in Southeast Asia. Her broader research agenda includes the study of women autocrats and autocrats’ first ladies in the Global South, as well as the trajectory of democratic imaginaries, the politics of citizenship, and memory politics in Indonesia.