Syed Imad Alatas

Syed Imad Alatas is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His research interests include the sociology of religion, gender, and youth. His Masters’ thesis at the National University of Singapore (NUS) focused on female Muslim NGO’s in Malaysia and their discourses on women’s roles and gender relations. Prior to commencing his Masters’ studies, he worked at the Middle East Institute at NUS, where he oversaw the institute’s publications and was in charge of the internship program. He has written on anti-Semitism in Malaysia and Indonesia and adolescent masculinities for the Asia Pacific Social Science Review and the Southeast Asian Social Science Review, respectively. Alatas also contributed a chapter on interfaith harmony to the book, Budi Kritik (Math Paper Press, 2019), a collection of essays on intellectual life, religion, ethnic identity, and the political activity of Malays in Singapore. Outside academia, he has written for Malaysian online publications such as Free Malaysia Today and the Malay Mail.