Grad Student Directory

Zahirah Suhaimi
  • Title
    • Doctoral Candidate
  • Division Social Sciences Division
  • Department
    • Anthropology Department
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Social Sciences 1, 233
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Biography, Education and Training

2016                M.A., Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

2013                B.A., Sociology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2007                Diploma, Biomedical Sciences, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore

Honors, Awards and Grants

Grants

2019

Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, USA

International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, New York, USA

2017

Summer Research Stipend, Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Aarhus University Research Foundation Grant, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

2016

Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, New York, USA

 

Awards

2019

Teaching Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

2017

Scientific Assistant Fellowship, Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Milam-McGinty-Kaun Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA\

2016

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA

2015

UC Regents Fellowship, University of California, California, USA

2014

UC Regents Fellowship and Non-Resident Tuition Fellowship, University of California, California, USA

2013

Anugerah Cemerlang, MENDAKI, Singapore

2012

MUIS-WAREES Scholarship, Lembaga Biasiswa, Singapore

2011

Max Lewis Scholarship, Max Lewis Scholarship Fund, Singapore

LBKM Scholarship, Lembaga Biasiswa Kenangan Maulud, Singapore, (declined)

2010

NTU President Research Scholar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore  

 

Honors

2016

Honourable Mention, Graduate Research Fellowship Program, National Science Foundation, USA

Teaching Interests

Political Anthropology

Environmental Anthropology

Anthropology of Infrastructures

Anthropology of Southeast Asia

Ethnographic research ethics and methods