Name Tan Yong | ||
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Education University of Cambridge |
Tan tai yong vice provost national university of singapore singapore
Tan Tai Yong, is a Professor of Humanities (History) at Yale-NUS College, Professor of South Asian history at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and current President at Yale-NUS College. He is also Director of the Institute of South Asian Studies, an autonomous university-level research institute in NUS. He previously served as Executive Vice-President (Academic Affairs) of Yale-NUS, Vice Provost (Student Life) at NUS, and Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS. Tan was also a former Nominated Member of Parliament.
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- Tan tai yong vice provost national university of singapore singapore
- Interview with professor tan tai yong director institute of south asian studies
- Biography
- Research
- Selected publications
- References
Interview with professor tan tai yong director institute of south asian studies
Biography
Professor Tan obtained his first two degrees - BA (Hons), 1986, and MA, 1989 - from the National University of Singapore. He then went off to Cambridge University, where he earned his doctorate in South Asian history in 1992, under the supervision of Anthony Low. He has been a faculty member of the Department of History at NUS since 1992 and served the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences as Sub-Dean (1994-1999), Head of the History Department (2000-2003), Vice-Dean (2001-2003) and Dean (2004-2009).
Research
Professor Tan's research interests are in the areas of Sikh diaspora, civil-military relations, social and political history of colonial Punjab, and the partition of South Asia. Lately, he has shifted his attention to Southeast Asia, and has been exploring issues of networks formation and the place of maritime cities in the region.