About
Yee Ting Leong is a PhD student in History, and a student in the Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Certificate program. She is interested in histories of gendered and sexual violence, and their intersections with race, class, and colonialism in modern Malay(si)a and Singapore.
Her Master’s thesis on Chinese-speaking left-wing women’s anti-colonial activism in Singapore has received the Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize for Best Master’s Thesis in the Social Sciences/Humanities from the National University of Singapore. She is also an International PhD Scholar at the Nanyang Technological University’s College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
Writings
“Modern Girls and New Women: Modern Chinese women in post-war Singapore,” Culturepaedia, Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, 2026.
