Daniel P. S. Goh

Short Biography

Daniel P. S. Goh's research interests include state formation, cultural studies, religion, and environmentalism. His doctoral dissertation approached the comparative–historical study of state formation in British Malaya and American Philippines from the angle of cultural studies and postcolonial theory. He has published papers on the sociological relationship between colonial ethnography and government in Comparative Studies of Society and History and International Journal of Cultural Studies. He has extended the insights of cultural studies into postcolonial state formation and environmentalism in Singapore in forthcoming articles in Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique and Biodiversity and Human Livelihoods in Protected Areas: Case Studies from the Malay Archipelago (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Current research involves the extension of cultural studies into the theoretical and empirical research on Chinese religiosity in Malaysia and Singapore. He has held fellowships from Michigan's International Institute, Michigan's Rackham Graduate School and the National University of Singapore's Overseas Graduate Scholarship. Goh is presently Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. He holds a Bachelor of Social Science (Honors) and Master of Social Science from the National University of Singapore and completed his PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2005.