Muhammad Suhail Mohamed Yazid, PhD

Hello, my name is Suhail. I'm currently a Fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center. I'm a Singaporean historian specializing in global/international history. My primary research explores Global South efforts to challenge the rules of the international system following the Second World War.

I received my PhD in History in 2025 from the University of Cambridge, where I was Prince of Wales Student at Trinity College. I also hold a BA with Honours (Highest Distinction) and an MA from the National University of Singapore (NUS). My first book, He Who is Made Lord: Empire, Class and Race in Postwar Singapore, was co-published by ISEAS Publishing and University of Hawai’i Press in 2023.

I'm now working on my second book project. Based on my PhD dissertation, it recovers Malaysian-led initiatives to reform key global institutions—namely the Commonwealth of Nations, the United Nations, and the 'Muslim World'—during the 1950s and the 1960s.

I'm mainly at Harvard, but I also have a courtesy appointment at the NUS Department of Malay Studies. You are welcome to contact me via email.

1. Tan, C.Y. 2025. "Review of He Who Is Made Lord: Empire, Class and Race in Postwar Singapore by Muhammad Suhail bin Mohamed Yazid." Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 98 (1), 141-143. doi:10.1353/ras.2025.a965201

2. Pang, Allan T. F. 2025. “Review of He Who Is Made Lord: Empire, Class and Race in Postwar Singapore by Muhammad Suhail Bin Mohamed Yazid, Singapore, ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023, 251 Pp., ISBN 9789815104301 (S$35.90, Pbk).” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 53(3), 713–716. doi:10.1080/03086534.2025.2487616.

3. Tan, Kevin Y. L. 2025. “Review of He Who Is Made Lord: Empire, Class and Race in Postwar Singapore by Muhammad Suhail Mohamed Yazid, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023, Xii, 260 Pp., S$35.90 (Paperback).” Asian Studies Review, April, 1–2. doi:10.1080/10357823.2025.2490260.