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Tsuchiya, Kisho

Kisho Tsuchiya is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. He earned an M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies and a PhD in History from the National University of Singapore. In his PhD thesis, he researched the historical construction of communal identity and representation of space in Timor Island from the nineteenth century to the contemporary time. He won the Pattana Kitiarsa Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper on Southeast Asia (2017) and the Indonesia & Timor-Leste Studies Committee’s Best Student Paper Prize (2018) of the Association for Asian Studies.