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YEAR
2024

department of Southeast Asian Studies

RESEARCH INTERESTS
History, Nation-Building, Politics and Society
(Thailand and Southeast Asia)
Minorities in Southeast Asia (Identity, Rights,
Conflict and Governance)
Diversity and Multiculturalism (Southeast Asia)

RESEARCH KEYWORD
Thailand, south Thailand, conflict, governance,
human rights, Malaysia-Thailand borderlands,
diaspora and area studies.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

dr. Sathian, Mala R (2023). India-Malaysia Relations.
MALA RAJO @ SATHIAN Strategic Engagement in the Context of the Act
East Policy. pp. 103-113. In L. Ghosh and A. B. R.
malarajo@um.edu.my Chaudhury (eds.), India’s Relations with Neighboring
South and South East Asian Countries, Dynamics of
EDUCATION Asian Development, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-
981-99-4610-5_9.
PhD, (History) Sathian, Mala R. (2022). Memorializing Conflict
National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore and History in South Thailand through Museums, Art,
and Poetry. The Public Historian (2022) 44 (2): 7–
MA, (History)
Universiti Malaya (UM) 28. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.2.7
Sathian, Mala R (2021). Writing the Local,
BA, (History) Provincial and Public into Area Narratives. In Jérémy
Universiti Malaya (UM) Jammes and Victor T. King (eds.), Fieldwork and the
Self, Asia in Transition 12, Singapore: Springer
Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2438-
UMEXPERT LINK 4_14
https://umexpert.um.edu.my/malarajo.html
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
RESEARCHER ID
B-8926-2010 (Web of Science) Fulbright Scholar (2009-2010), Harvard University,
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2996-6864 US.
Thailand Research Grant (2018-2020), Royal Thai
SCOPUS ID Embassy, KL and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA),
Thailand.
56286205300 UM Staff Excellence Award (2021, 2016, 2015).

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