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About Faizah Zakaria
I am presently assistant professor of history at Nanyang Technological University. I completed my PhD in History at Yale University in 2018 and I hold a B.Sc. (Hons), double majoring in Mathematics and English, along with an M.A in Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore. Previously, I have held postdoctoral positions at the International Institute for Asian Studies at Leiden University and the Mario Einaudi Centre for International Studies at Cornell. I research on issues of environmental sustainability, indigeneity and ecological justice in Southeast Asia.Faizah Zakaria is assistant professor of history at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. You can find her website at www.faizahzak.com or reach her on Twitter @laurelinarien.
NBN Episodes hosted by Faizah:
September 15, 2021
Language Ungoverned
Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 (Cornell UP, 2021) explores a fascinating archive of Sino-Malay texts – writin…
August 16, 2021
Tuberculosis - the Singapore Experience, 1867-2018
Tuberculosis: The Singapore Experience, 1867-2018 (Routledge, 2021), co-written by Dr. Loh, a historian and Dr. Hsu Li Yang, a medical doctor offers a…
May 14, 2021
Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia's Early Independence Period
There has been a resurgent global interest in the origins and formation of authoritarian regimes as many states around the world drift away from liber…
March 15, 2021
Decolonizing Extinction
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation (Duke University Press, 2018) presents a multi-species ethnography of orangutans…
January 15, 2021
Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories
Cambodia’s troubled history has often been depicted in terms of conflict, trauma and tussles between great powers. In Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Me…
November 20, 2020
Singapore
Singapore’s history has generally been represented through a linear, upward trajectory “from Third World to the First,” in the words of the postcoloni…
June 30, 2020
Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution
As Indonesia nears the 75th anniversary of its proclamation of independence this year, the socio-political debates surrounding her birth as a nation-s…
April 16, 2020
The Pandemic Perhaps
Carlo Caduff’s The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger (University of California Press, 2015) is an ethnographic inquiry i…
March 6, 2020
Anthropogenic Rivers
Jerome Whitington's Anthropogenic Rivers: The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower (Cornell University Press, 2019) examines the dynamics and d…
February 28, 2020
Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom
In her book, Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699 (Cornell University Press, 2018), Sher Banu Khan provides a rare an…
February 7, 2020
Imperial Creatures
In Imperial Creature: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942 (National University of Singapore Press, 2019), Timothy Barnard explor…