Muhammad Suhail Mohamed Yazid, PhD

I am a historian of global and international history, currently serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center. My research examines the efforts of the Global South to reform the international system after 1945.

I completed my doctorate in history at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, as a Prince of Wales Student. My first monograph, 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. It explores the intersections of empire, class, and race in Singapore. I am currently finalizing my second book, which recovers mid-century Malaysian initiatives to reform the Commonwealth, the United Nations, and the wider Islamic world.

I welcome correspondence via email. Please, call me Suhail.

1. Asian Ethnicity

2. Asian Studies Review

3. Berita: Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group, Association of Asian Studies

4. Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (BKI)

5. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (JMBRAS)

6. Kajian Malaysia

7. Pacific Affairs

8. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History