MICRO-BIO

• I am a social anthropologist currently working on intimacy, cross-border marriage, and polygamy in contemporary Malaysia. I completed my PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and have experience in conducting ethnographic fieldw...More

  I am a social anthropologist currently working on intimacy, cross-border marriage, and polygamy in contemporary Malaysia. I completed my PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and have experience in conducting ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia and Southern Thailand. This involved court observations and archival research in the Shariah Courts of Kelantan (north of Malaysia bordering Thailand) and Kuala Lumpur, and interviews with Malay polygamous couples. I am currently based in the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), Leiden, where I am working on producing publications based on my doctoral research. 

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EXPERIENCE

• University of Cambridge

  • Postdoctoral Affiliate
  • Department of Social Anthropology
  • Present

EDUCATION

• University of Cambridge

  • PhD in Social Anthropology
  • October 2013 to December 2017

  Thesis Title: "Halal Intimacy": Love, Marriage, and Polygamy in Contemporary Malaysia

• University of Western Australia

  • BA (Hons) in Anthropology & French Studies
  • February 2009 to December 2012

  Honours Thesis Title: One Man, Many Wives: Polygyny in Contemporary Malaysia as a Patriarchal Institution

Links

• Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge