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BA Hons (NUS); PhD (ANU)
Tel: (65) 6516 5096
Office: AS1 05 - 42
Mark Emmanuel is an historian of Malaysia and Singapore. His primary research focuses on Malaysian intellectual thought in the pre-war period and he is especially interested in Malaysian print culture. To that end, he has recently completed together with Timothy P. Barnard, the Jawi Transliteration Project, an extensive database of romanised Malay language newspaper texts from 1930-41, which will be released in a beta form in 2009. He is currently preparing his thesis on print culture during the Depression years for publication. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL) based at Northern Illinois University.
Dr Emmanuel teaches a wide variety of courses from Southeast Asian history to Historiography to Popular Culture. Outside the university, he is regularly contacted by government agencies to conduct lectures about Singapore and Malaysia, and is involved in consultancies concerning issues in contemporary Malaysia and Singapore.
He is the First Year Coordinator in the Department and also looks after Alumni affairs and Internship matters.
He is currently serving as a Resident Fellow at Eusoff Hall, which is a campus residence for undergraduates.
PHD
THESIS:
Print as Pulpit: An Epistemic Community and the Formation of a New Malay Economic Discourse in Malay Newspapers and Magazines in Malaya During the Great Depression, 1930-35
TEACHING AREAS:
Malaysian History
Asia and the Modern World
Historiography: Theory and Archive
Popular Culture and National Identity
CURRENT RESEARCH:
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Malay (Jawi-text) newpapers in the pre-war period including the Jawi Transliteration Project (JTP) for Malay newspapers (1930-41) |
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Crime and punishment in colonial Malaya and post-colonial Malaysia and Singapore |
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Colonial notions of sport – the Malaysia Cup and the shaping of a national identity |
PUBLICATION:
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“Rethinking the Re-Merger Debate: Possibility of Economic Integration between Malaysia and Singapore” in Malaysia, Singapore and ASEAN in an Age of Globalisation, edited by Khairulmani Osman Salleh and Lily Kong. Kuala Lumpur: UM Press, 2002. |
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Mark Emmanuel, "A Life Unrecognised: Muhammad Yusuf Ahmad and Majalah Guru", in Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World, eds. Jan van der Putten and Mary Kilcline Cody (Singapore: NUS Press, 2008), pp.164-176. |
RESEARCH GRANTS:
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Jawi Transliteration Project (together with Timothy P. Barnard), awarded $47,900, completed 2007. Currently working on e-publication with NUS Press.
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