The Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellowship on Contemporary Southeast Asia is now accepting applications until 31 January 2022.

Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford fellows spend three or four months at Stanford and two to four months at NUS, writing and conducting research on, or related to, contemporary Southeast Asia.

Dr Kate Imy (Assistant Professor of History, University of North Texas) was awarded the fellowship in 2020/21. The fellowship supported Dr Imy’s work on her second book project titled Hearts and Minds: War, Empire, and Military Culture in Singapore and Malaya, 1915-1960. The book explores how ideas about race and gender shaped the experience of war in colonial Singapore and Malaya from the First World War to the Malayan Emergency. During her visit to NUS, Dr Imy benefitted from having access to NUS Libraries’ rich collection of online and physical resources. She was also able to source for oral histories, photographs, and newspaper collections at the National Archives of Singapore and the National Library, and build connections with Singapore-based scholars of similar research interests.

Dr Enze Han (Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong) was the second recipient of the fellowship in 2020/21. Dr Han’s project Connectivity and Disjuncture: Borderland Transformations between China and Southeast Asia aimed to understand how China’s increasing connectivity with Southeast Asia impacts the individuals living in the borderland communities at the micro-level. Through informal discussions during his visit to NUS, Dr Han was able to receive feedback and exchange ideas about his project from scholars based in Singapore.

For more information on the fellowship and application process, please visit https://nus.edu/3p4Uori

Alternatively, you may contact Mr Andrew Chang at nusstanfordsea@nus.edu.sg with your queries.