kmw41 [at] cam.ac.uk

Kirsty Walker will take up her fellowship in July 2013. Her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge is concerned with processes of cross-cultural interaction and ideas of hybridity in colonial and post-colonial Asia, and explores family networks in Southeast Asia, c. 1850-1950. By focusing on mobile, culturally hybrid families, like Eurasians, whose ancestry can be traced across multiple countries and continents, she aims to add a fresh perspective to debates over diaspora, migration and the making of ‘plural societies’ in Asia, on the mobility of ideas and knowledge across empires, and on shifting ideas of ‘race’ in Southeast Asia.