idleThinK

Rachel Leow

selected writings

updated periodically

Using DevonThink for History Research: A Series in Three Parts [I] [II] [III] (AHC, July 2011)

REVIEW: The Oceans Curated: A Review of "Shipwrecked" at the Singapore ArtScience Museum (HNN, 6 June 2011)

Sticks and Stones: The Allah Controversy in Malaysia (AHC, 13 January 2010)

REVIEW: Singapore: A Biography (HNN, 5 January 2010)

China and its Year of Résistance (AHC, 4 January 2010)

The Puntastic Poetics of Ho Chi Minh (AHC, 26 November 2009)

REVIEW: Yuri Dojc's Last Folio: An Exhibition (HNN, 22 November 2009)

Curating the Oceans: The Future of Singapore's Past (HNN, 14 July 2009)

Being an Unforgivably Protracted Debunking of George Bernard Shaw's Views of Islam (AHC, 3 December, 2008)

Only Collect (AHC, 26 November 2008)

The Idea of Southeast Asia (HNN, 18 September 2007)

on the web

Blog: A Historian's Craft

projects

Bookporn

in which I exhibit an unhealthy affection for books

&c.

THC21: The Historian's Craft in the 21st Century

An Informal Conversation about Technology & Research Methods

This is a series of discussions I'm convening at Harvard in 2011/2012 about how changes in technology are affecting historical research methods.

[Webpage] [Agenda]

The Marco Polo Map
in which I map the Travels of Marco Polo

View Travels of Marco Polo in a larger map

Mentoring

part of a distributed mentoring movement

I occasionally mentor people.

[Webpage]

New Liberal Arts

in which a few of us rethink (with at least 50% seriousness) the Liberal Arts

about me

My name is Rachel Leow & I'm ~~a PhD student in History, at the University of Cambridge, England~~ a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at Harvard University.

about my research

My PhD was a study of British Malaya's transition to independence and the legacies of colonial rule. My present research is broadly concerned with the social and intellectual history of interwar Asia. More details here.

about idleThinK

idleThinK has been, for many years, my home on the internet. Once upon a time the sole outlet for my writing, it's now an aggregator for the whole spectrum of my internet activity -- which, supposedly, looks something like this:

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