Apparently, genealogies matter.

So here’s a brief chronology of where I came from and who I have studied with academically.

Doctoral Candidate, PhD in History
University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2023-2029 (estimated)

• Main field: Southeast Asian history
• Committee Chairs: Leonard Y. Andaya, Ned Bertz
• East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellow 2023-2025

Master of Arts (History)
National University of Singapore, 2017-2019

• Academic Supervisor: Timothy P. Barnard
• Master’s Thesis: “Making Fish: Empire, Experiments, and the Fisheries Department of British Malaya, 1923-1942”
  • NUS Wang Gungwu Medal & Prize for Best Master’s Thesis in Humanities/Social Sciences, AY2019/2020
• NUS Graduate Teaching Fellow
  • NUS Graduate Student Teaching Honour Roll & Awards

Bachelor of Arts with Honours (Highest Distinction) in History
National University of Singapore, 2013-2017

• Academic Supervisor: Timothy P. Barnard
• Honours Thesis: “Nature Condensed: A History of the Singapore Zoological Gardens”
• University Scholars Programme
• NUS Merit Scholarship, 2013-2017