| Asst Prof (Adj) Loh Kah Seng
Adjunct Assistant Professor
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
Email: KSLOH@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)65141048
Office: HSS-03-35 |
| Biography |
| Loh Kah Seng is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, Singapore. He obtained his PhD at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, which examined the role of the 1961 Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire in the making of modern Singapore. Loh has published on little-studied subjects in the urban social history of Singapore and Malaysia, such as the Great Depression and labour and student activism. His book on leprosy in Singapore and Malaysia, Making and Unmaking the Asylum (SIRD, 2009), has just been published. Loh has also written on the official use of history, heritage, oral history, and social memory in contemporary Singapore. He was previously a history teacher in a junior college, and still speaks to students about the importance and challenges of researching the past. |
| Research Interests |
Singapore and Malayan history (postwar, colonial)
Urban social history
Squatters and slum dwellers
History of medicine (leprosy)
Fires in history
Oral history and memory
Student activism |
| Selected Publications |
- Loh Kah Seng. (2009). Making and Unmaking the Asylum: Leprosy and Modernity in Singapore and Malaysia. SIRD.
- Loh Kah Seng. (2009). History, Memory and Identity in Modern Singapore: Testimonies from the Urban Margins. Oral History Review, 36(1), 1-24.
- Loh Kah Seng. (2009). History, Memory and Identity in Modern Singapore: Testimonies from the Urban Margins. Oral History Review, 36(1), 1-24.
- Loh Kah Seng. (2009). Change and Conflict at the Margins: Emergency Kampong Clearance and the Making of Modern Singapore. Asian Studies Review, 33(2), 139-59.
- Michael Fernandez, Loh Kah Seng. (2008). The Left-Wing Trade Unions in Singapore, 1945-1970Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Postwar Singapore. Singapore: NUS Press.
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