Graduate Students
Masters
MYSARA BINTE MOHAMAD ALJARU
Year of Intake: 2018
Research Topic: Silenced Minority: Studying the Portrayal of Shi-ites in Mainstream Media
Thesis Advisor: Prof Syed Farid Alatas
DIYANAH NASUHA BINTE OMAR BAHRI
Year of Intake: 2019
Research Topic: Re-(art)iculating the (His)tories of the South Seas Oeuvre
Thesis Advisor: Dr Suriani Suratman
NUR SYAFIQAH BINTE MOHD TAUFEK
Year of Intake: 2021
Research Topic: Fatwa in Post-Independent Singapore: Agencies of Change or Mismatch? A Study on Orientations behind Selected Fatwas and its Impacts
Thesis Advisor: Assoc Prof Noor Aisha A. Rahman
MOHAMMAD RASHIKIN BIN RAJAH
Year of Intake: 2021
Research Topic: Retelling Hikayat in Contemporary Times: The Perception of Beauty and the Correlation between Esthetics and Morality in Selected Malay Texts
Thesis Advisor: Dr Azhar Ibrahim
FAN SHIYU
Year of Intake: 2022
Research Topic: Work-Family Identity of Women in Singapore
Thesis Advisor: Assoc Prof Maznah Mohamad
FARIS BIN RIDZUAN
Year of Intake: 2022
Research Topic: Self-Help Social Services for the Malays of Singapore: The Malay Intelligentsia's Role and its Impact on the Community
Thesis Advisor: Assoc Prof Noor Aisha A. Rahman
MUHAMMAD ILYIA BIN KHAMSANI
Year of Intake: 2022
Research Topic: From a Dissenting to a Consenting Icon: A Study of A. Samad Ismail's Intellectuality and Oeuvre
Thesis Advisor: Dr Azhar Ibrahim
SAKINAH ARIF LIM
Year of Intake: 2023
Research Topic: The Reasons for the Over-Representation of Malays in Rental Flats
Thesis Advisor: Assoc Prof Noor Aisha A. Rahman
PhD
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
OKKY PUSPA MADASARI
Year of Intake: 2019
Research Topic: The Creation of an Imposter Nation: A Study of Silencing, Censorship and Knowledge Production in Contemporary Indonesia
Thesis Advisor: Dr Azhar Ibrahim
CHABIB DUTA HAPSORO
Year of Intake: 2020
Research Topic: Depoliticization in the Cultural Field during the New Order: Decenta and Indonesia-ness Identity
Thesis Advisors: Dr Azhar Ibrahim & Dr Suriani Suratman
WAHYUDI
Year of Intake: 2020
Research Topic: Mediatization of Islam: New Media, Religious Authority, and Contestation
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
NOORAINN BINTE AZIZ
Year of Intake: 2022
Research Topic: In-Group Perception of Malays
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
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
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
Jointly-Supervised Students Malay Studies / Southeast Asian Studies Department
FADIAH NADWA BINTI FIKRI
Degree: PhD
Year of Intake: 2020
Research Topic: Anticolonialism: Connections and Travelling Ideas of Freedom, Liberation, and Human Rights in Malaya and Beyond
Thesis Advisor: Assoc Prof Maznah Mohamad
SAZA FARADILLA BINTE ZAINI
Degree: MA
Year of Intake: 2022
Research Topic: Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in Singapore: Complexities and Resistance
Thesis Advisor: Assoc Prof Maznah Mohamad