Marchetti is a master’s student of cultural anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at NIU with an emphasis on Southeast Asian Studies. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from NIU. She is currently a FLAS fellow and a member of NIU’s Southeast Asia Club.Marchetti spent the summer studying Bahasa Indonesia at Gajah Madjah Mada University in Jogyakarta Indonesia.
Her master’s thesis concerns negotiating gender ideology in socioeconomic and religious contexts amongst Muslimah in contemporary Indonesia. She will return to Java island this winter to collect data.