About Kate Rodger
Hello! I am a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University. I study cognitive science, with interdisciplinary interests in data science and across the social sciences.
As a Laidlaw scholar, I am working on a transdisciplinary project dealing with the socioecological impacts of Indonesia's national capital city relocation from Jakarta to Nusantara. Through the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, I assist in combining bioacoustic technology and ethnographic research methods to study human and "more-than-human" communities in East Kalimantan and how they are affected by Nusantara's construction. In the summer of 2025, I traveled onsite for my LiA to work directly with community partners at Mulawarman University and led the development of materials preserving the ecological and cultural heritage of this area amidst cultural change.
Outside of academics and research, you can find me paddling on Cayuga Lake, reading speculative fiction, or making art.
Please feel free to reach out to me here or at kcr53@cornell.edu!
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LiA Poster: Continuity & Change in Indonesia's New Capital
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Manager of Undergraduate Programs & International Experiences, Coordinator of the Laidlaw Program, Cornell University , Cornell University
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Very insightful Elliot, thank you for sharing!
So excited to be working with you this summer!
Looking forward to our time together as well!