Asia Society Australia Scholar-In-Residence Greg Barton is Research Professor in Global Islamic Politics in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI), Deakin University where, since August 2015, he has led research on Islam and civil society, democratisation, and countering violent extremism.

Greg has thirty-four years of experience researching Islam and social movements in Indonesia and broader Southeast Asia.  From 2007 to 2015 he was the Herb Feith Professor for the Study of Indonesia at Monash.  He taught at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu from 2006 to 2007, and at Deakin University from 1992 to 2006.  He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Strategic and Global Studies (SKSG), University of Indonesia, and a Senior Fellow with the UAE-based Hedayah Center in Abu Dhabi working on CVE.

Over the past three decades he has undertaken extensive research on Indonesia politics and society, especially of the role of Islam as both a constructive and a disruptive force.  He also has a strong general interest in security, international relations and comparative international politics.  The central axis of his research interests is the way in which religious thought, individual believers and religious communities respond to modernity and to the modern nation state.

His most recent book (co-edited and written with Matteo Vergani) is Countering Violent and Hateful Extremism in Indonesia: Islam, Gender and Civil Society (Palgrave 2022).  He is currently working on an ARC Linkage project on Appropriate International Development Intervention Responses to Address Violent and Hateful Extremism in Asia, researching hateful and violent extremism in Indonesia, the Philippines, Mozambique and Kenya; an ARC DP project on Religious Populism, Emotions and Political Mobilisation in Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan; and concluding work on another ARC DP project on Religious diversity in Australia: Strategies to maintain social cohesion.