Aldo W. Foe
PhD Candidate
About
Aldo Foe is a researcher for the Center for the Recovery and Identification of the Missing (CRIM) at UIC. He completed his Scientific Recovery Expert (SRE) training in 2019 and participated in a DPAA led joint-recovery mission in Vietnam. He has since conducted recovery field missions in Laos and Palau alongside historical research on World War II MIAs in the Philippines. As a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at UIC, Foe’s research focuses on large scale religious and social change in Early Modern Period Indonesia. His dissertation examines the introduction and subsequent adoption of Islam in Java and its effects on macro-scale settlement patterns and economic systems. His academic research has been funded by the Fulbright Fellowship program, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) research grant, and internal awards from UIC.