Nurfadzilah Yahaya

Nurfadzilah YAHAYA is a legal historian of the Indian Ocean. She is currently Assistant Professor at the History Department, National University of Singapore (NUS). She was a Research Fellow at Asia Research Institute till June 2016, NUS. She is the Editor of the World Legal History Blog on Humanities and Social Sciences Online (H-net). She received her PhD in History from Princeton University in 2012, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Studies in Washington University in St. Louis till June 2015. Her book, currently under preparation and tentatively titled Fluid Jurisdictions, explores how members of the Arab diaspora utilized Islamic law in British and Dutch colonial courts of Southeast Asia. In her next project, she will explore colonial regulation of Islamic religious slaughter during the twentieth century. She has published journal articles in Law and History Review, Indonesia and the Malay World, and The Muslim World.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Princeton University (2006 — 2012)
• M.A. National University of Singapore (2004 — 2006)
• B.A. (Hons.) National University of Singapore (1999 — 2003)

Companies

• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2016)
• Research Fellow Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2015 — 2016)
• Mark Steinberg Weil Early Career Fellowship Washington University in St. Louis (2012 — 2015)

Skills

• Policy Analysis
• Grant Writing
• Theory

Other

Lecturing, Qualitative Research, Teaching, History, Research