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PhD Candidate, Political Science, York University

About Me

Hello! I’m Zhi Ming, a Ph.D candidate in Political Science at York University, Canada; specializing in Gender and Politics (Major), International Relations, and Political Ecology.

My dissertation examines clean energy projects in Southeast Asia and Canada, exploring global/regional relations constituted at sites of energy transitions through a decolonial IR lens. I also research and write about conflict-related gender based violence, and postcolonial movements across Asia. As an international scholar, my research has been awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS-International Stream), the Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award and the LA&PS Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship.

I am also the founder of Critical Malaya Studies (CMS) Research Group, supported by the York Centre for Asian Studies (YCAR) and the Canada-ASEAN initiatives.