{"id":392,"date":"2020-09-16T02:50:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T02:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/sea\/?page_id=392"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:30:02","slug":"graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/sea\/graduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\t\t\tGraduate Students\t<\/h2>\n

\n\t\t\tPhD Students\t<\/h3>\n\t

\"\"<\/strong>DK SITI ZULAIKHA PG HJ ISHAK<\/strong><\/p>\nYear of Intake:<\/strong> 2021
\nEmail: <\/strong>zulaikha.ishak@u.nus.edu<\/a>
\nThesis Advisor:<\/strong> Dr Faizah Zakaria\n

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Zulaikha’s research investigates how a coastal village in Brunei sustains its\u00a0belacan<\/em>-making tradition through seasonal pulses shaped by unpredictability – when wind, shrimp, and memory momentarily align. In these brief openings, the community regathers around shared memory, labour, and place – countering official heritage scripts in what she frames as\u00a0Pulse Heritage.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"HIOE ZHI HUI JOANNA<\/strong><\/p>\nYear of Intake:<\/strong> 2021
\nEmail: <\/strong>joannahioe@u.nus.edu<\/a>
\nThesis Advisors:<\/strong> Assoc Prof Vatthana Pholsena & Dr Serina Rahman\n

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Joanna’s research focuses on the cumulative impact of slow violence and natural disasters on low-income coastal communities in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

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\"\"KYI KYI SEINN<\/strong><\/p>\nYear of Intake:<\/strong> 2021
\nEmail:<\/strong> kyikyiseinn@u.nus.edu<\/a>
\nThesis Advisors:<\/strong> Assoc Prof Vatthana Pholsena & Assoc Prof Maitrii Aung-Thwin\n

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Kyi Kyi’s dissertation explores how a series of contemporary crises in Myanmar, often framed through the notion of Ayedawbon<\/em>\u00a0(revolution), should not be understood as a single, unified national uprising. She argues that the 2021 Ayedawbon<\/em>\u00a0emerges as a fluid and contested collection of discourses and practices – produced and performed by different actors through both strategic and ad hoc responses, in pursuit of divergent aims and worldviews.<\/p>\n

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\"\"WANG XUN<\/strong><\/p>\nYear of Intake:<\/strong> 2022
\nEmail: <\/strong>wang_xun@u.nus.edu<\/a>
\nThesis Advisor:<\/strong> Assoc Prof Vatthana Pholsena\n

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Wang Xun is interested in how technology and industrial development have shaped society and the environment in post-1945 Vietnam. Her thesis examines the Th\u00e1i Nguy\u00ean Steelworks to explore the everyday experiences of workers and the broader social and ecological impacts of industrial development. Her research began and developed under the mentorship of Assoc Prof Gerard Sasges and is now carried forward under the guidance of her current advisor.<\/p>\n

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\"\"SHARMINI APHRODITE<\/strong><\/p>\nYear of Intake:<\/strong> 2024
\nEmail: <\/strong>sharmini.aphrodite@u.nus.edu<\/a>
\nThesis Advisor:<\/strong> Dr Faizah Zakaria\n

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Sharmini’s research project considers how elements of Kadazan-Dusun identity have historically developed and functioned as forms of resistance against Malaysian state hegemony.<\/p>\n

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\"\"MUHAMMAD MIRZA ARDI<\/strong><\/p>\nYear of Intake:<\/strong> 2024
\nEmail: <\/strong>mirzaardi@u.nus.edu<\/a>
\nThesis Advisor:<\/strong> Dr Faizah Zakaria\n

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Mirza’s research investigates how Muslim technocrats in Aceh, constrained by limited knowledge, resources, and political agency, navigated competing policy trade-offs in implementing the Green Revolution. At the same time, local elites, religious leaders, and communities produced alternative knowledges that challenged the dominant technocratic model through counter-narratives grounded in local beliefs and experiences.<\/p>\n

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\"\"RIZKI AMALIA AFFIAT<\/strong><\/p>\nYear of Intake:<\/strong> 2024
\nEmail: <\/strong>rizkiaffiat@u.nus.edu<\/a>
\nThesis Advisor:<\/strong> Assoc Prof Douglas Kammen\n

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Rizki’s research explores how women’s circular migration between rural and urban areas in Indonesia intertwines with capitalist development and agrarian change, as their labour – both paid and unpaid – helps sustain families, communities, and class structures. The case study is Lebak, in Banten Province.<\/p>\n

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\"\"ANGGA YUDHIYANSYAH<\/strong><\/p>\nYear of Intake:<\/strong> 2025
\nEmail: <\/strong>angga.y@u.nus.edu<\/a>
\nThesis Advisor:<\/strong> Dr Lin Hongxuan\n

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Angga’s research examines changing class relations in Indonesia’s palm oil sector by analysing how a particular conjuncture of the transmigration programme and the Oil Palm Nucleus Estate Scheme in Sumatra gave rise to rural cooperatives as central institutions of class formation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"\"YEW YING HAN<\/strong><\/p>\nYear of Intake:<\/strong> 2025
\nEmail: <\/strong>e1547383@u.nus.edu<\/a>
\nThesis Advisor:<\/strong> Assoc Prof Irving Chan Johnson\n

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Yew Ying Han currently focuses on research investigating how plants often dismissed as weeds, particularly lalang (Imperata cylindrica), shape human-environment relations in Southeast Asia. His work examines the intersections of crop cultivation, plantation economies, infrastructure, and indigenous communities with state-making and socio-political change.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tMA Students\t<\/h3>\n\t

\"\"CHU HAO PEI<\/strong><\/p>\nYear of Intake:<\/strong> 2024
\nEmail: <\/strong>e1374315@u.nus.edu<\/a>
\nThesis Advisor:<\/strong> Dr Lin Hongxuan\n

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Hao Pei’s research analyses how rice is visually mobilised through three key sites: politicians’ public engagements with rice, rice packaging designs, and representations in rice museums.<\/p>\n

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\"\"DANIEL ANDARA KALANGIE<\/strong><\/p>\nYear of Intake:<\/strong> 2024
\nEmail: <\/strong>dakalangie@u.nus.edu<\/a>
\nThesis Advisor:<\/strong> Assoc Prof Douglas Kammen\n

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Daniel’s research looks at the gap between official ethnic category used in the Indonesian census and how people identify themselves. Using data from the 2000 and 2010 censuses, he shows how political changes and migration have shaped the way ethnic identities are recorded in North Maluku province, Indonesia.<\/p>\n

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\"\"DARRYL LIM<\/strong><\/p>\nYear of Intake:<\/strong> 2025
\nEmail: <\/strong>darryl_lim@u.nus.edu<\/a>
\nThesis Advisor:<\/strong> Assoc Prof Irving Chan Johnson\n

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Darryl’s research considers the (re-)constitution of the social life and memory of a Gurdwara and the communities living around it in Peninsular Malaysia’s Northeast. Contextualised within multi-layered encounters of migratory flows, cultural exchanges, and embodied expression of identities, this ethnographic study will provide deeper insights into the relationship between communities and religious spaces as mediated by everyday practices.<\/p>\n

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