Graduate Student Bios

Alison Fong (she/her) is a PhD student in History at Rutgers University. Her interests include modern Southeast Asian history, women’s and gender history, and legal history, as well as East Asian history and transnational and comparative approaches. Alison earned a BA with honors, magna cum laude, in History, International and Global Studies, and Asian Studies from the University of Arkansas and an MA in History from Nanyang Technological University. Her research examines the relationship between gender, colonial law, illicit economies, policing, and decolonization in Singapore, Malaya, and Hong Kong from the late nineteenth century through the 1970s. Her article, “Behind the Canvas Curtain: Gender, Visibility, and Spectacle in the 1956 Semenyih Incident in the Malayan Emergency,” is forthcoming in Gender & History.