Members of the Executive Committee

Syed Farid Alatas Singapore

Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore where he has been since 1992. A Malaysian national, he had his schooling in Singapore and obtained his PhD in Sociology from the Johns Hopkins University in 1991. He lectured at the University of Malaya in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies prior to his appointment at Singapore. Selected publications Democracy and Authoritarianism: The Rise of the Post-Colonial State in Indonesia and Malaysia, Macmillan, 1997. "The Study of the Social Sciences in Developing Societies: Towards an Adequate Conceptualization of Relevance", Current Sociology 49(2), 2001. "Teaching Classical Sociological Theory in Singapore: The Context of Eurocentrism, Teaching Sociology 29(3),2001, (with Vineeta Sinha). Life member, Malaysian Social Science Association; Life member, Indian Sociological Society; Member, Arab Sociological Association; Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences Malaysia; Research Associate, Women and Human Resource Studies Unit, Science University of Malaysia.

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