Say Jye Quah

Thesis Title: Two Souls of Post-Colonial Socialism: Third World Modernity in Post-Bandung Southeast Asia

Say Jye is a PhD student at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Cambridge. His PhD dissertation seeks to theorise postcolonial socialism through the political thought of statesmen in Indonesia and Singapore. Say Jye competed his B.Soc.Sc (Honours) at the National University of Singapore, graduating with Highest Distinction, and holds an M.Sc in Asian Studies (Valedictorian) from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. His peer-reviewed work can be found in the American Journal of Political Science, Critical Asian Studies, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and the Review of International Studies.

He was recently selected for two awards from the International Studies Association (ISA) for his paper An anatomy of worldmaking: Sukarno and anticolonialism from post-Bandung Indonesia. You can read the story on our news page.