Kajian Malaysia, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2018, 165–168

CONTRIBUTORS

Andrew K. G. Tan is Professor of Economics at the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. He is a regular blood donor hoping to hit the 50 bags mark by the time he is no longer allowed to donate.

Angeline Wong Wei Wei is pursuing her PhD in Ethnic Studies at the Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia. Her PhD thesis mainly examines the representations of inter-ethnic engagement and social cohesion in Malaysian films. She is also a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages, Faculty of Creative Industries, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia. Her research interests include ethnic identity, ethnic relations and cultural studies.

Carynne Loh is a tutor and research assistant at the Faculty of Education, SEGi University, Malaysia. She is currently a Master of Education candidate in SEGi University. She holds a Bachelor of Education (Hons), Dual Award, from SEGi University and University of St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth, England. Her research interests include early childhood workforce development, teachers' beliefs and practices, preschool children's voices and creativity in the early childhood classroom.

Gwee Sai Ling is a senior lecturer at DISTED College, Malaysia. She is also the Head of the School of Business and Administration. She attained her PhD and Masters degrees in Environmental Economics and Economics Management, respectively, from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. Her research interests include forest and resource conservation, ecotourism, green marketing and green consumers' behaviour.

Joseph Milton Fernando is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Malaysia. His areas of specialisation are Malaysian political and constitutional history, British imperialism in Southeast Asia and the modern history of Southeast Asia. He was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University in 2004–2005 and a Visiting Scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 2013.

Lee Yuen Beng is currently Chairperson of Postgraduate Studies and senior lecturer at the School of Communication, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. His research interests include gender, ethnic, horror and queer studies in cinema, cultural and media studies, and creative cities and industries. He is currently

© Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2018. This work is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). researching gender representations of the pontianak in Malaysian cinema and ethnic representations of Yasmin Ahmad's films.

Lim Mei Ling was a former student under the Bachelor of Economics program at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. She graduated in 2016 and is now a Premier Relationship Manager at HSBC. Her job entails building an in-depth relationship with premier clients from many countries and managing their wealth in order to achieve their financial goals and better retirement life in future.

Lydia Foong is the Head of Faculty of Education at SEGi University, Malaysia. She has over 26 years of experience in early childhood education and teacher education. She is currently a PhD candidate at University of Malaya, Malaysia. Her research areas include reflective practice, early childhood workforce development, early childhood policy and teacher education.

Mogana Dhamotharan is currently Professor of Education at SEGi University, Malaysia. She was Professor and Dean at Wawasan Open University, Malaysia (September 2008–February 2011). She was previously Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, University of Brunei Darussalam (2005–2008) and University of Malaya (1977–2005). She was Commonwealth of Learning Consultant to the Open University Sri Lanka (January–March 2004) and Visiting Fellow at the Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver (August 1994–January 1995).

Mustafa K Anuar, PhD, is an independent researcher. Formerly an academic at a Malaysian public university for more than 30 years. His research interests include media studies, culture, human rights and democracy.

Ng Miew Luan is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Communication and Creative Design, SEGi University, Malaysia. She is also a PhD candidate of the School of Communication, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. Her research interests include media education, journalism studies, media representation and political communication. She is currently researching on ethnic media and democratic transition in Malaysia.

Ong Puay Liu, PhD, Professor (Anthropology of Development) and Principal Fellow, Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia. Ong received her PhD in Sociology (2000) and MSc in Sociological Research Methods (1996), from University of Edinburgh, Scotland; MPhil in Sociology from University of Bristol, England (1987); Diploma of Education from UKM (1985) and BA Hons in Anthropology and Sociology from

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UKM (1984). Research interests include community development, ethnic relations, tourism matters, education for social inclusion. Her book, Packaging Myths for Tourism: The Rungus of Sabah, won the Publication Award Social Sciences and Humanities Category, UKM, 2009.

Palanisamy K. Veloo is a senior lecturer in education in the Faculty of Education, SEGi University, Malaysia. He holds a PhD from the University of Otago and a Master of Education (MEd) from University of Malaya, Malaysia. His research interests include mathematics teaching and learning, curriculum development, problem solving, number sense, bullying, teacher beliefs, classroom learning environment and early childhood education.

Quah Seok Hoon is a senior TESOL lecturer at the Institute of Teacher Education, Tuanku Bainun Campus in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and a Master in Education (TESOL) from Universiti Sains Malaysia and her research interests lie in the areas of TESOL, discourse analysis, systemic functional semiotics and multimodality. She is also interested in educational research particularly in blended learning and employing action research designs in the 21st century classroom.

Shanthiah Rajagopal obtained her PhD in History from the Department of History, University of Malaya, Malaysia. She is currently an independent researcher. Her areas of research interest include Malaysian political history, Malaysian Indian political history, ethnic relations in Malaysia, the Indian diaspora and the modern history of Southeast Asia. She was a Postgraduate Fellow at the Asian Research Institute at the National University of Singapore in 2011.

Shanthini Pillai is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, and Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia. Her research interests are anchored primarily in ethnic diversity, diaspora and transnationalism in literary and cultural texts with particular reference to the global South Asian diaspora. An emergent interest is in the cultural consciousness of Catholic diasporic Indians in Malaysia. She has held Research Fellowships at the University of Queensland, Australia and the Asia Research Institute, Singapore and is currently heading a research project on Malaysian Catholics and Transcultural Adaptability, in collaboration with the Catholic Research Centre of the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is author of Colonial Visions, Postcolonial Revisions: Images of the Indian Diaspora of Malaysia (2007) as well as numerous articles in various journals of Literary and Cultural Studies.

167 Thock Sheng Hui was a former student under the Bachelor of Economics program at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. He graduated in 2016 and is now a banker at Hong Leong Bank. His job involves marketing, expanding new markets, and car loan application processing.

Wang Xiaomei is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chinese Studies, Xiamen University Malaysia. She holds a PhD from City University of Hong Kong, a Master of Arts from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a degree of Chinese language and linguistics from Peking University. Her research interests include sociolinguistics (language maintenance and shift, language spread, multilingualism, linguistic landscape, language policy, etc.) and Chinese linguistics (Malaysian Mandarin).

Xu Daming is a Professor at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau, China. He holds a PhD in sociolinguistics from University of Ottawa. He is mainly known for his works in Chinese sociolinguistics, language strategies and language economics. Currently, he is the president of the International Association of Urban Language Studies.

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