Teaching and Supervision

Assistant Professor, Department of History, ESHCC, EUR

  • CH3086 Bachelor Thesis Class: Medicine, Health and Empire (Coordinator)
  • CH2227 Qualitative Historical Methods (Coordinator)
  • CH2208 Historical Representation and Imagination (Coordinator)
  • CH2217 Rethinking History 2
  • CH2204 Capitalism and Inequality (Coordinator)
  • CH2206 Religion, Culture and Global Encounters
  • CH2100 Honour’s History (Coordinator)
  • CH1104 Heuristic Skills and Sources (Coordinator)
  • CH1101 Global History

 

Assistant Professor, History Programme, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • HH1008 Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia
  • HH2024 History of the Malay World: Present Identities, Past Histories
  • HH3022 World War II and Southeast Asia
  • HH4018 History and Fictional Representation

 

Junior Professor (W1), Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main

  • SKS 7.1/SOA 4.2 World War II in Southeast Asia
  • SEAS 3.2/SOA 19.3 Postgraduate Writing Skills (MA level)
  • MSEAS 1.2/SKS 5b.1 Newspapers in Malaysia
  • MSEAS 3.2/MEAS Representing Southeast Asia (MA level)
  • MSEAS 2.1/M-SOA 4.1 Theories and Methods (MA level)
  • SKS 4.1/SOA 7.1 Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies
  • SKS3.3 Minorities and Majorities in Southeast Asia


PhD Examiner

  • Jennifer Rachel Morris, NUS, Singapore, Department of History. Title: Museumizing Sarawak: Objects, Collectors and Scientific Knowledge-Production under the Brooke State, C. 1840-1940 (2020)
  • Dayana Mohamed Ariffin, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Title: American Imperialism, Anthropology and Racial Taxonomy in the Philippines, 1898-1946 (2019)


Topics supervised at the graduate level:

  • PhD, NTU: “China-Indonesia Foreign Relations Post-1965” (Co-supervisor)
  • PhD, NUS: “A comparison of object collection between Raffles Museum, Singapore and the Sarawak Museum” (Committee member)
  • PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt: “Sport and Society in Indonesia” (Supervisor)
  • MA, EUR: “Institutional heritage of British colonialism: India & Ghana” (Supervisor)
  • MA, EUR: “Of other contexts: A very tropical queer Brazilian urban future” (Supervisor)
  • MA, EUR: “Bulgarian Female Entrepreneurs in London” (Supervisor)
  • MA, Goethe University Frankfurt: “Memory, History and Politics: Post-1965 Indonesian exiles in Germany” (Supervisor)

 

Selection of topics supervised for undergraduate honours’ theses:

  • At EUR: Queer digital gaming (Dutch); Representations of history in Sid Meier’s Civilization (English); Everyday racism again Chinese in the Netherlands (Dutch); Trauma in memoirs by the Indische community (English); American First Peoples in Western Discourse and Travel handbooks (Dutch)
  • At NTU: Eurasian identity construction during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore; Changing perceptions of national vulnerability and Singapore’s National Service; Pop music and morality in independent Singapore; Prostitution, law and gender norms in colonial Singapore


Research internship supervisor:

  • Photography and Visual Legacies
  • Chinese in the Netherlands
  • Historical games and historical awareness
  • Medicine in Malaya
  • Heineken in Southeast Asia