Publications

Book

Sandra Khor Manickam, Taming the Wild: Aborigines and Racial Knowledge in Colonial Malaya. Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Southeast Asia Series. Singapore: NUS Press, 2015

Forthcoming publications under contract and accepted

  • 2027 Sandra Khor Manickam, "Tracing Din bin Brahim: (Re)constructing a life from the margins of Ivor H.N. Evans’s anthropological and colonial archives", Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (JSEAS)
  • 2027 Sandra Khor Manickam and Eona Bell, The Years Behind Me: Autobiography of Ivor H. N. Evans. GerakBudaya.
  • 2026-27a Sandra Khor Manickam, “The Negritos of Southeast Asia”, chapter under contract for The Cambridge History of the African Diaspora: Volume 1, Africans and Antiquities, eds. Solange Ashby; Dan-El Padilla Peralta and Eve M. Troutt Powell. 
  • 2026-27b Sandra Khor Manickam, “Race and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia”, chapter under present, eds. Robert Cribb, Miriam Stark, Leonard Andaya. 


Articles and Chapters


  • 2022 Sandra Khor Manickam, “Ando’s Ambiguities in Malaya: The life of a Japanese medical doctor between British and Japanese empires,” EASTS: East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 17, 3 (2022): 329-351.
  • 2018 Sandra Khor Manickam, “Wartime imaginings of an archipelagic community: Fajar Asia and the quest for peninsula Malayan and Indonesian unity”, 戰時的群島共同體想像：《亞洲的黎明》及其對馬來亞半島及印尼統一的尋索. Trans. Pik Ka Lau. 劉璧嘉. Renjian Thought Review, 17: 219-244.
  • 2017 Sandra Khor Manickam, “Wartime imaginings of an archipelagic community: Fajar Asia and the quest for peninsula Malayan and Indonesian unity”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 18, 3 (2017): 347-363.
  • 2014 Sandra Khor Manickam, “Bridging the Race Barrier: Between ‘Sakai’ and ‘Malays’ in the Census Categorisations of British Malaya”, Special Issue: Focus On Southeast Asia: Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Asian Studies Review 38, 3 (2014): 367-384.
  • 2014 Elena Govor and Sandra Khor Manickam [equal authorship], “A Russian in Malaya: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay’s Expedition to the Malay Peninsula and the Early Anthropology of Orang Asli”, Indonesian and Malay World 42, 123 (2014): 222-245.
  • 2012 Sandra Khor Manickam, “Situated Thinking: Or how the Science of Race was Socialised in British Malaya”, Journal of Pacific History 47, 03 (2012): 283-308.
  • 2009 Sandra Khor Manickam, “Common Ground: Race and the Colonial Universe in British Malaya”, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40, 03 (2009): 593-612.


Book chapters (refereed)


  • 2023 Sandra Khor Manickam, “Racialisation in the Malay Archipelago during the Asia-Pacific War" in Imagined Racial Laboratories: Colonial and National Racialisations in Southeast Asia, eds. Ricardo Roque and Warwick Anderson. Leiden: Brill, 2023, pp. 126-173.
  • 2017 Sandra Khor Manickam, “Solidarity in an oppressive world? The paradox of Malaysia-African interactions in Higher Education” in Education reforms, nationalism and neoliberalism: Policies and politics in Malaysian Education, eds. Cynthia Joseph & Rosemary Vitae. London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 144-164.
  • 2017 Elena Govor and Sandra Khor Manickam [equal authorship], “A Russian in Malaya: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay’s expedition to the Malay Peninsula and the early anthropology of Orang Asli” in Interpreting Diversity: Europe and the Malay World, ed. Christina Skott. London: Routledge, 2017, 222-245.
  • 2015 Sandra Khor Manickam, “Not Just Skin Deep: Ideas of Racial Difference in Genetic Studies on Orang Asli from the 1950s”, in Malaysia's 'Original People': Past, Present and Future of the Orang Asli, ed. Kirk Endicott. Singapore: NUS Press, 2015, pp. 79-98.
  • 2009 Sandra Khor Manickam, “Africans in Asia: The Discourse of ‘Negritos’ in Early Nineteenth Century Southeast Asia”, Responding to the West: Essays on Colonial Domination and Asian Agency, ed. Hans Hägerdal. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009, pp. 69-86.


Online publication and database

  • 2020 Sandra Khor Manickam, “Bridging the Race Barrier: “Sakai” and “Malay” in the British Malaya Census”, New Naratif (https://newnaratif.com/research/bridging-the-race-barrier-sakai-and-malay-in-the-british-malaya-census/ ), 22 January 2020
  • 2017 Sandra Khor Manickam and Iioka Naoko, Translation of Japanese Entries in the Bibliography on the Japanese Occupation of Malaya, Singapore and Northern Borneo, 1941-1945, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Library, March 2017. Including “Preface” and “Note on the Translation”


Other publications


  • 2023 Sandra Khor Manickam, et al. “On-going interventions: A conversation about support groups and change within academia”, Surviving and Changing the Culture of White, Patriarchal Higher Education: Personal Essays of Struggle and Hope, ed. Bobette Bouton (Kendall Hunt, 2023)
  • 2019 Book review by Sandra Khor Manickam of Takuma Melber (2017): Zwischen Kollaboration und Widerstand. Die japanische Besatzung in Malaya und Singapur 1942-1945 [Between Collaboration and Resistance: The Japanese Occupation in Malaya and Singapore, 1942-1945].” Bunron – Zeitschrift für literaturwissenschaftliche Japanforschung. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag.
  • 2018 Sandra Khor Manickam, A.A. van Stipriaan Luiscius, G. Oonk, eds. Histories of Encounters: History @ Erasmus. Rotterdam: ESHCC.
  • 2018 Sandra Khor Manickam, “Another Malay World: Dislocation and Dissonance between the past the present,” in Sandra Khor Manickam, A.A. van Stipriaan Luiscius, G. Oonk, eds. Histories of Encounters: History @ Erasmus. Rotterdam: ESHCC, 56-59.
  • 2017 Review by Sandra Khor Manickam of Racial Science and Human Diversity, by Fenneke Sysling, Journal of Pacific History, February 2017.
  • 2016 Sandra Khor Manickam, “Looking for Din after the War”, in End of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World, Edited by David P. Chandler, Robert Cribb and Li Narangoa, NIAS Press, pp. 208-9.
  • 2015 Review by Sandra Khor Manickam of Temiar Religion 1964–2012: Enchantment, 
  • Disenchantment and Re-enchantment in Malaysia’s Uplands, by Geoffrey Benjamin. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 88 Part 2 No. 309 (December 2015): 161-166.
  • 2005 Sandra Khor Manickam, “Textbooks and Nation Construction in Malaysia”, Asia-Pacific Forum No. 28 June 2005, Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan: 78-89.