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Dr Stephen Dobbs
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Chair/Senior Lecturer
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Research Interests- Asian Studies
- Islam in Southeast Asia
- Singapore's history and role as a global maritime hub and trading centre
- Southeast Asian social, political and maritime history
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Stephen was awarded his Ph.D in 2000. He been involved in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students at Murdoch University, University of Adelaide and The University of Western Australia since the early 1990s. Key Research and ExpertiseStephen has a long standing research interest in the social and political history of Southeast Asia with a particular interest in Singapore and Malaysia.
Closely linked to this historical interest is his work on Southeast Asia's maritime history and development of port cities in the region. He has written extensively on the history and early development of the Port of Singapore and maintains an ongoing interest in the port’s role in contemporary Southeast Asia. Other ExpertiseStephen has a professional interest in contemporary Southeast Asian politics and society as well as in the social history of the region. He also maintains an interest in issues of historical practice and theory.Current ProjectsStephen is currently conducting research into the history of proposals over the past two hundred years to construct a shipping canal through the Isthmus of Kra which connects the Malay Peninsula and continental Asia.
Future ResearchStephen is collecting materials for a project examining the diverse histories of Islam in Southeast Asia.
MembershipsMalaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Asian Studies Association Australian
Fellow of the Asia Research Centre
PublicationsMonographs and Chapters:
"Entrepot of trade: Southeast Asia until the 1870s". in The Southeast Asian Handbook (Regional Handbooks of Economic Development). Editors, Patrick Heenan and Monique Lamontagne. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. United States. 2001.
Tuan Djek: A Biography. Times Academic Press. Singapore. 2002.
The Singapore River: A Social History 1819-2002. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2003.
Journals:
"Tongkang, twakow, and lightermen: a people's history of the Singapore River". Sojourn. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Singapore. Vol. 9. No. 2. 1994. pp. 269-76.
"The Singapore River 1819–1869: cradle of a maritime entrepot." International Journal of Maritime History. Vol. XIII, No. 2. December 2001, pp. 95-118.
"Urban redevelopment and the forced eviction of lighters from the Singapore River". Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. Special edition, "Forced Evictions in Tropical Cities". Guest editors Kris Olds and Scott Leckie. Vol. 23. Issue. 23. November 2002, pp. 288-310. LanguagesEnglish
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