Ruizhi's Page

Aloha,

Welcome aboard! My name is Ruizhi. I am a Singaporean PhD candidate at the Department of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

I am interested in the environmental histories of Southeast Asia, particularly those of animals in island Southeast Asia.

You can find out more about my publications, academic background, and professional accomplishments here.

And yes, this is how I look like on a good day.

Selected Writings

  • AAS 2026: anyone going?

    Let me know if you are! I will be presenting on Saturday, 14 March: Panel 627: Saltwater Empires: Environment,Commodities, and Colonial Science inMaritime AsiaVCC, Room 203 8:30AM-10:00AM In many ways, I started this blog because I am presenting this year at the Association of Asian Studies Conference in Vancouver, Canada. Yes: I had the audacity…

  • New blog, new me?

    Aloha, welcome aboard (again)! [If you have taken TheBus enough in Oahu, you might recognize the automated salutation. If you didn’t… aiyah, why am I even explaining??] This is, I think, the third time I have started a blog. I had some fun running one until it became too difficult and stressful to sustain such…