John Solomon

Education

• PhD University of New South Wales (2010 — 2014)
• BA (1st Class Honours, University Medal, Ian Black Prize, History Prize) University of New South Wales (2006 — 2009)
• Diploma Temasek Polytechnic (2001 — 2004)

Companies

• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2015)
• Academic Tutor, Department of International Studies Macquarie University (2015 — 2015)
• Reseach Assistant UTS: University of Technology, Sydney (2014 — 2015)
• Student Support Officer Open Colleges (2014 — 2015)
• Student Services Team Think Education (2014 — 2014)
• Study Skills Mentor, Student Equity and Disabilities Unit (SEADU) UNSW Australia (2013 — 2014)
• Research Intern Greenpeace (2013 — 2013)
• Academic Research Assistant UNSW Australia (2011 — 2012)
• Academic Tutor University of New South Wales (2010 — 2012)

Skills

• Curriculum Design
• Higher Education
• University Teaching

Other

History, Public Speaking, Teaching, Copy Editing, Writing, Qualitative Research, Editing, Research

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• 'Caldwell's Dravidians: Knowledge production and the representational strategies of missionary scholars in colonial South India', Modern Asian Studies, FirstView (2022), 1-33
• 'Untouchables: the Persistence of Prejudice', in Arun Mahizhnan, Nalina Gopal (eds.), Sojourners to Settlers:Tamils in Singapore (Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies and the Indian Heritage Centre, 2019)
• 'Not Singaporean Enough? Race, Periodisation and Migration History in Singapore', in Eureka Henrich, Julian Simpson (eds.), Historians, Historians and the Immigration Debate: Going Back to Where We Came From (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
• A Subaltern History of the Indian Diaspora in Singapore: Gradual Disappearance of Untouchability 1872-1965, (New York: Routledge, 2016)(paperback published 2020)
• 'Coercion and Consent: Being ‘Indian’ in Malaya during the Japanese occupation' in The Pacific War: Aftermaths, Remembrance and Culture, eds. Ernest Koh and Christina Twomey (Oxon: Routledge, 2015), 133-51
• ‘The Decline of Pan-Indian identity and the development of Tamil Cultural Separatism in Singapore: 1856-1965’, South Asia: The Journal of South Asian Studies, 35, no. 2 (2012), 257-81

Book Reviews:

• ‘Indians in Singapore, 1819 -1945: Diaspora in the Colonial Port City’, by Rajesh Rai, South Asia: The Journal of South Asian Studies, 38, no.3 (2015), 536-8
• ‘Sikhs in Southeast Asia: Negotiating an Identity’, edited by Shamsul A.B. and Arunajeet Kaur, Asian Studies Review, 36, no.4 (2012), 591-3.