Past Fellows
Dr Emily Soon (PhD, King’s College, London)
Shakespeare and Singapore: 1900–1975
Emily Teo (PhD, University of Erfurt)
A Nineteenth-Century Melting Pot: A Cultural History of William Farquhar’s Natural History Drawings
Grace Teo (MA, Nanyang Technological University)
Certifying Conduct, Character & Competency: Advocate-Solicitors as ‘Qualified Person’ in the Straits Settlements
Dr Pow Jun Kai (PhD, King’s College, London)
Swing!: Filipino Innovations and Popular Music in Singapore, 1939–1959
Rebekah Lim (MA, Nanyang Technological University)
Sarong, Sari, Samfoo: Ethnic Dress as Daily Wear, Costume and Identity Maker
Kong Yen Lin (MA, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Dual Lives Entwined, on Camera and off: Portraying womanhood and nationhood in the visual archives of Wu Sijing
Freya Schwachenwald (PhD candidate, Technical University of Berlin)
Transcultural landscapes of Singapore and Southeast Asia
Yu Xian Jee (PhD candidate, Royal Holloway, University of London)
Donations, Schools and National Salvation: Humanitarian Activity within the Chinese Migrant Community of Colonial Singapore, 1937–1951
Chen En Jiao (MA Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
If Letters Home Could Sing
Yao Jiang (MA, University of Virginia)
Another Plantation Economy: recovering sedimented pineapple (hi)stories in the first half of the 20th century, Singapore
Dr Lilith Wilson Lee (PhD, University of Edinburgh)
Social Ontologies and Their Representations in and around the Straits Philosophical Society: Constructions and Contestations of Race, Gender, and Aesthetics for the Straits Chinese community in Singapore at the Turn of the 19th Century.