# Connor Rechtzigel
**Source**: https://anthropology.cornell.edu/connor-rechtzigel
**Parent**: https://anthropology.cornell.edu/anthro-grad-students
### Overview
Connor is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at Cornell University whose research examines how value circulates in Indonesian state tourism initiatives. His dissertation, *Tourism without Tourists: State Performance and Regional Development in Indonesia*, draws on extended ethnographic fieldwork in Jakarta and on Lombok, a Muslim-majority island located between Bali and Sumbawa.