Dr Amrita Malhi is a Visiting Fellow in the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University. Amrita is a Historian of Southeast Asia, with a primary interest in Islam, shifting identities and identity conflict in colonial Malaya and contemporary Malaysia. Amrita is working on a book on the allure of the Caliphate in Southeast Asia with a focus on a remote uprising in Malaya in 1928, and some of her work on this topic has been published in the Journal of Peasant Studies, The Muslim World, and an edited volume published by the British Academy. Amrita is also a regular public commentator on Malaysian politics, and her work appears on New Mandala, East Asia Forum, Inside Story and The Conversation.
Experience
2017–present
Visiting Fellow, The Australian National University
2016–2016
Visiting Fellow, The University of Adelaide
2011–2015
Research Fellow, University of South Australia
2010–2010
Research Fellow, National Library of Australia, Minerals Council of Australia
2007–2010
PhD Candidate and Project Coordinator, The Australian National University
2003–2007
PhD Candidate, Tutor and Research Assistant, The Australian National University
Education
2010
The Australian National University, PhD in History
2002
The Australian National University, B Arts/B Asian Studies (Hons)
Publications
2017
Intercultural Futures: The Fraught Politics of Multiculturalism, Griffith Review, vol. 55: State of Hope, pp. 192-200
2015
''We Hope to Raise the Bendera Stambul': British Forward Movement and the Caliphate on the Malay Peninsula, In Andrew Peacock and Annabel Teh Gallop (ed.), From Anatolia to Aceh: Ottomans, Turks, and Southeast Asia, British Academy and Oxford University Press, London, pp. 221-239
2015
Like a Child with Two Parents: Race, Religion and Royalty on the Siam-Malaya Frontier,1895-1902, The Muslim World, vol. 105, no. October, pp. 472-495
2013
Malaysia's 2013 Election: The Nation and the National Front, Berita, Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group, Association for Asian Studies (US), Autumn, pp. 14-20
2011
Making Spaces, Making Subjects: Land, Enclosure and Islam in Colonial Malaya, The Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 727-746
2009
Sex, Race and Religion Still Political Weapons in Malaysian Politics, In Barbara Nelson & Andrew MacIntyre (ed.), Capturing the year 2009: Writings from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, pp. 204-207
2003
The PAS-BN Conflict in the 1990s: The Politics of Islamic Modernism, In V Hooker & N Othman (ed.), Malaysia: Islam, Society and Politics, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, pp. 236-265
2003
Subversion and the Trappings of Royalty in Hikayat Pelanduk Jenaka and Hikayat Hang Tuah, Jurnal Filologi Melayu, vol. 11
Grants and Contracts
2015
InterculturAdelaide: Cultural Adaptivity for the Asian Century
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Department of Premier and Cabinet, Government of South Australia
2013
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research: Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Social Science Research Council, supported by funds provided by the Andrew J. Mellon Foundation