Graduate Certificate Student in Women's and Gender Studies
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 work has been published in Gender & History.
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.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
'Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left-Wing Feminism and Anti-Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s' in Gender & History, Early View, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70057
Book Review
'Muhammad Suhail Mohamed Yazid. He Who Is Made Lord: Empire, Class and Race in Postwar Singapore. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023.' in Southeast Asian Studies, Early View, 2026, https://doi.org/10.20495/seas.br26023
Other Writings
“Modern Girls and New Women: Modern Chinese women in post-war Singapore,” Culturepaedia, Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, 2026.
