“The Cultural Studies in Asia PhD Programme has deepened the scope of my work as an artist in Singapore. I particularly enjoyed taking a range of modules across the faculty, from anthropology, to geography to philosophy. A focus on aspects of culture and politics in Asia has enabled be to understand better the place of the arts and subaltern communities in Singapore.”

Felicia Low Ee Ping

The research interests undertaken by our candidates in the Cultural Studies in Asia programme range from politics of pop music, museum and nation building, documentary films of Thailand, political and intellectual biography of Indonesian revolutionary writer Toer, urban imaginaries of Dhaka, heritage spatial politics in Malaysia, community activism and dance in India, and aesthetic engagement with history among Southeast Asian visual artists. In these cases, supervisors for the dissertation research have been drawn from the departments of Southeast Asian Studies, Sociology, Geography, English Literature, Chinese Studies and School of Architecture. For more information, please refer to: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/soc/