About Benjamin Goh

Benjamin Goh is a historian of education whose work examines how education policies are formulated and the social, cultural, and political contexts that shape them. His research spans the histories of sex education, history education, and the liberal arts, with broader interests in historiography, global history, and Southeast Asian history. He has published in History of Education Quarterly and Itinerario, and holds an MPhil in World History from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. with Highest Distinction from Yale-NUS College. Currently, he teaches History and Social Studies at a secondary school in Singapore, an experience that grounds his scholarly interests in the everyday realities of how history is taught, learned, and contested. He plans to pursue doctoral studies in the history of education after completing his service to the Singapore civil service. He is active on Twitter as @BenGohsToSchool.

Benjamin Goh is a global historian of education trained at the University of Cambridge and Yale-NUS College. At present, he is a secondary school History teacher in Singapore. All opinions are his own, and he tweets at @BenGohsToSchool.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Benjamin:

Moritz Mihatsch and Michael Mulligan, "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)

February 2, 2025

Shifting Sovereignties

Moritz Mihatsch and Michael Mulligan
Hosted by Benjamin Goh

Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025) explores practical manifestations of sovereignty from …

Chien-Wen Kung, "Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s" (Cornell UP, 2022)

March 3, 2023

Diasporic Cold Warriors

Chien-Wen Kung
Hosted by Benjamin Goh

From the 1950s to the 1970s, Philippine Chinese were Southeast Asia's most exemplary Cold Warriors among overseas Chinese. During these decades, no …

Anna Clark, "Making Australian History" (Random House Australia, 2022)

September 16, 2022

Making Australian History

Anna Clark
Hosted by Benjamin Goh

Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations of historians, writers, governments and public commentators, yet there…