Nicole Yow
Early modern and modern Southeast Asian and Indian Ocean history; Malay literary and manuscript studies; intellectual history; Islamic history; philosophy of history
Nicole Yow Wei (family name: Yow) is a Ph.D. student in History and Early Modern Studies. She is interested primarily in the intellectual history of Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean; defined more pointedly as the historical inquiry of ideas, and of the epistemological and social orientations of thinking. These broad conceptual interests have led her to bring methods in book history and social history to bear on the study of Malay and Islamicate world texts.
Nicole grew up in Singapore, and subsequently earned an A.B. in History from Brown University, as well as an M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies from Chulalongkorn University.
Publications:
Yow, Nicole. “Unreading the Literary: The Hikayat Anggun Cik Tunggal and Malay Historical Tradition in an Age of Print.” (forthcoming in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies)
de Langis, Theresa, Nicole Yow Wei, Tara Tran, and Cindy Anh Nguyen. "Feminist Trouble in Southeast Asia: An Invitation." Verge: Studies in Global Asias 11, no. 1 (2025): 105-130.