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Staff

Head of School

  • Professor James Chin, Professor of Political Science

    Research areas: Political parties and elections, comparative politics, Pacific islands, Chinese diasporas

Senior Lecturers

  • Dr Sharon A. Bong, Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies and Creative Writing

    • Research areas: Feminist standpoint epistemologies; rights and sexualities in religions; qualitative researching and analyses using ATLAS.ti

  • Dr Helen E. S. Nesadurai, Senior Lecturer in International Studies

    • (on sabbatical 1 Jan- 30 June 2010)

    Research areas: Globalization and its governance, regional governance and ASEAN; Asia-Pacific regionalism

  • Dr Yeoh Seng Guan, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies

    • Research areas: Anthropologies of the city, media, religion, and gender; cosmopolitanisms; civil society & subaltern agencies; visual ethnography; regional focus on Southeast Asia.

  • Dr Andrew Ng Hock Soon, Senior Lecturer in Literature

    • Research areas: Gothic and horror literature and film, postmodern narratives, Asian literatures and critical theory

     

  • Dr Zakir Hossain Raju, Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies, Film and Cultural Studies

    Research areas: Cinema, Nation and Identity; Transnational Media and Cultural Translation; Digital Cinema across Asia; Media and Islam in South and Southeast Asia
     

Lecturers


  • Dr Julian C. H. Lee, Lecturer in International Studies (on leave until Dec 2009)

    Research areas: Malaysian politics, multiculturalism in Malaysia and Australia, and moral policing

  • Benjamin McKay, Lecturer in Film Studies

    • Research areas: S.E. Asian independent film, Malaysian film history, and cultural studies

  • Sheila Murugasu, Lecturer in International Studies

    • Research areas: political transnationalism in Southeast Asia, migration and refugee policy in Southeast Asia, identity politics

     

  • Wong Chin Huat, Lecturer in Jounalism

    • Research areas: elections and electoral systems, ethnic politics, quantitative textual analysis

     

  • Dr. Sony Jalarajan Raj, Lecturer in Journalism

    Research areas : Asian Media studies, Journalism, public sphere formation, qualitative textual analysis 

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  • Mr Callum Gilmour, Lecturer in Communications

    Research areas : Sports sociology, Space, Identity in sport