Clare Selgin Wolfowitz (born November 1945) is an American anthropologist with a specialism in

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

. She currently works at the IRIS center at the

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in the Governance Institutions Group, primarily on its projects in Indonesia and with the Programs and Policy Coordination office of

USAID The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. With a budget of over $27 bi ...

. She also currently serves as a board member for Health In Harmony, a

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based in

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that supports environmental conservation and health projects in Indonesia. Her first stay in Indonesia was as an

American Field Service AFS Intercultural Programs (or AFS, originally the American Field Service) is an international youth exchange organization. It consists of over 50 independent, not-for-profit organizations, each with its own network of volunteers, professiona ...

(AFS) exchange student in the summer of 1962. In 1968 she married

Paul Wolfowitz Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is an American political scientist and diplomat who served as the 10th President of the World Bank, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, and former dean of Johns Hopkins SA ...

, who became

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(2001–2005) and subsequently President of the

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. They had met while they were studying together at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

in the mid-1960s and co-residing in the

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. There are conflicting reports of their marital status. They have been reported as divorcing in 2002. They have three children. She is the half-sister of author, playwright, and illustrator

Peter Selgin Peter Selgin (; born 1957) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, editor, and illustrator. Selgin is Associate Professor of English at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. Biography The son of ...

and economist

George Selgin George Selgin (; born 1957) is an American economist. He is Senior Fellow and Director Emeritus of the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, where he is editor-in-chief of the center's blog, ''Alt-M'', Professor Emeritu ...

Books

* ''Language Style and Social Space: Stylistic Choice in Suriname Javanese'' (University of Illinois Press, 1991)

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