SYED MUHAMMAD HAFIZ BIN SYED NASIR

Year of Intake: 2017
Research Topic: (Dis)locating the Malay Artist from Singapore: A Critical Inquiry on Group and Discursive Dynamics
Thesis Advisors: Dr Suriani Suratman & Dr Azhar Ibrahim

 

 

CHABIB DUTA HAPSORO

Year of Intake: 2020
Research Topic: The Depoliticization of Indonesian Art in the New Order and the Contestation of Artists and Art Groups
Thesis Advisors: Dr Azhar Ibrahim & Dr Suriani Suratman

 

 

WAHYUDI

Year of Intake: 2020
Research Topic: Religious Networks and their Impact on Religious Authority in Indonesia: The Case of Muhammadiyah and Nahdatul Ulama (NU) in Post-New Order
Thesis Advisor: Assoc Prof Noor Aisha A. Rahman

 

 

LIAW PEY WEN

Year of Intake: 2021
Research Topic: Media Representation of the Monarch in Malaysia: Political Contest of the Johor Royalty after General Election of 2013
Thesis Advisor: Prof Syed Farid Alatas

 

 

ANNALIZA BINTE BAKRI

Year of Intake: 2022
Research Topic: Contested Narratives of Malay Women: A Study of Malay Writers from 19th-20th Century Published Literary Text
Thesis Advisors: Dr Azhar Ibrahim & Assoc Prof Noor Aisha A. Rahman

 

 

HAN JUN BEOM

Year of Intake: 2022
Research Topic: Unpacking the Myth of the "Super Divers": Different Narratives of the Bajau in Sabah
Thesis Advisor: Prof Syed Farid Alatas

 

 

LIAO BOWEN

Year of Intake: 2022
Research Topic: The Making of Malaysian Buddhism: Doing Religion in an Islamizing Nation, 1957-2020
Thesis Advisors: Dr Azhar Ibrahim & Assoc Prof Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied

 

 

NOORAINN BINTE AZIZ

Year of Intake: 2022
Research Topic: In-Group Perception of Malays
Thesis Advisor: Prof Syed Farid Alatas

 

 

MUHAMAD SYAFIQ BIN MARDI

Year of Intake: 2023
Research Topic: The Ottoman Relation with the States in the Straits of Malacca (19th - 20th Century)
Thesis Advisor: Prof Syed Farid Alatas

 

 

LIU YUXUAN

Year of Intake: 2024
Research Topic: Alam Melayu and Hua Xia: Diplomacy and Political Interactions in the Pre-Colonial Era
Thesis Advisor: Assoc Prof Sher Banu AL Khan

 

 

UMANG KOCHHAR

Year of Intake: 2024
Research Topic: India and the Malay World: Through Indo-Persian Writings of 16th-17th Century
Thesis Advisor: Assoc Prof Sher Banu AL Khan

 

 

ACMAL ZUHEYR IEFAN BIN ABDUL WAHID

Year of Intake: 2025
Research Topic: Inquiry into the Continued Resonance of Hadramaut (Yemen) Sufi Islam amongst Non-Hadrami Muslims in Singapore: A Critical Ethnography
Thesis Advisor: Assoc Prof Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied

 

 

AK AHMAD ZAWAWI BIN PENGIRAN HAJI ASMALI

Year of Intake: 2025
Research Topic: Mujahid-Mujaddid, Wira and Hero: A History of Heroic Phenomena in Malaysia
Thesis Advisor: Assoc Prof Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied

 

 

FRIAL RAMADHAN SUPRATMAN

Year of Intake: 2025
Research Topic: Haji Agus Salim and Islamic Modernism in Malay World (1884-1954)
Thesis Advisor: Assoc Prof Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied

 

 

NUR DIYANA BINTE ABDUL KADER

Year of Intake: 2025
Research Topic: Women as Subjects and Agents: Discourse on Malay Women in Hiboran and Other Early Malay Periodicals
Thesis Advisor: Dr Azhar Ibrahim