NUS historian Asst Prof Jack Chia elected as Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

December 27, 2022

Assistant Professor Jack Chia (NUS History) has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS). The RHS is the foremost society working for historians and history in Britain, and the Fellowship is awarded to those who have made an original contribution to historical scholarship. Asst Prof Chia is the third member of NUS History to be elected, after Professor Naoko Shimazu and Associate Professor Peter Borschberg.

A historian of religion, Asst Prof Chia’s research centres on Buddhism and Chinese popular religion. In 2020, he published his first book, Monks in Motion, Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea, which won the prestigious 2021 EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize. Currently, Asst Prof Chia is working on two book projects: Beyond the Borobudur: Buddhism in Postcolonial Indonesia, and Diplomatic Dharma: Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia.