Armand Azra bin Azlira is a full-time PhD candidate at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. Armand obtained a BA (with hons) in Modern History with Economics from the University of Manchester and an MSc in Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation from ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. He has also done research with civil society organisations on topics such as public finance, governance, development, and migration in Malaysia. His PhD research topic focuses on the often-ignored anticolonial mass movements in Malysia and its relation to international politics and particularly Afro-Asian Internationalism and the Cold War. Armand's thesis is supervised by Dr Kirsten Schulze, an ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ expert in Indonesian regional history and Political Islam.
He was the co-convener of the HY509 International History Research Seminar from December 2021 to December 2022.
Provisional thesis title
The End of Anticolonialism in Malaysia: From the British Recolonisation of Malaya to the 1969 Race Riots, c.1945-1969